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Experimental Methods<br />

Soil Surface<br />

Fishing Hook pushed in<br />

soil with rod<br />

Figure 11: Fishing hook method<br />

Before After<br />

Length above Benchmark<br />

Remaining Hole with<br />

tightened fishing line<br />

Ph.D. Thesis Dirk Ansorge (2007)<br />

Rut<br />

Length above Benchmark<br />

Half excavated fishing<br />

hook after pass with<br />

tightened fishing line<br />

View in Travel Direction of Machine<br />

Finally the fishing hook method with triple headed fish hooks was selected as filling the<br />

holes with sand to a known depth seemed too challenging regarding field conditions with a<br />

hole of a diameter not bigger than 5-10 mm in order to minimize soil disturbance. Earth<br />

worm holes and other cavities of similar size to the sand hole are able to pick up sand dur-<br />

ing, but more importantly, after being filled and in the first steps of compaction, hence<br />

causing errors to the changes in the depths of the boundaries of the color layers.<br />

The fishing hook method was verified in soil bin experiments against the talcum powder<br />

line measurements and gave good agreement as shown in Figure 12. The slope was similar<br />

and only the offset varied slightly. This is not significant as only 7 fishhooks were com-<br />

pared to approximately 120 talcum powder points.<br />

Depth (mm)<br />

0<br />

100<br />

200<br />

300<br />

400<br />

500<br />

600<br />

700<br />

y = -7,3506x + 374,65<br />

R 2 = 0,9731<br />

Movement (mm)<br />

0 20 40 60 80 100 120<br />

y= -7,6821x + 417,77<br />

R 2 = 0,9933<br />

Movement of Fishhooks<br />

Movement of Talcum<br />

Powder<br />

Linear (Movement of<br />

Figure 12: Movement of talcum powder and fishhooks in the soil bin under the same<br />

experiment<br />

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