A soil sampler with depth stops

February 15, 2026

Jon Lobenstine sent me a post-GCSAA Conference note informing me about a Turf-Tec adjustable soil sampler that I hadn't seen before. From the Turf-Tec website:

The Turf-Tec Tubular Soil Sampler with Adjustable Foot extracts a core sample at various depths up to 12 inches deep by 3/4 inches wide.

This sampler might make it a lot easier to collect OM246 samples. The "adjustable foot" can be set at 2 cm, allowing you to collect multiple samples to a 2 cm…