No, just fingers. You can do it using instruments, but they are slow and expensive.
If you want ‘accurate’ texture, you have to take the soil, put it in a cup of water, blend it up with a milkshake machine, and then measure it with a hydrometer over 24 hrs. If you’re lucky, you’ll get with in 15% of the actual value for that particular sample. The thing is, though, soils vary drastically even over short distances (or depths).
No, just fingers. You can do it using instruments, but they are slow and expensive.
If you want ‘accurate’ texture, you have to take the soil, put it in a cup of water, blend it up with a milkshake machine, and then measure it with a hydrometer over 24 hrs. If you’re lucky, you’ll get with in 15% of the actual value for that particular sample. The thing is, though, soils vary drastically even over short distances (or depths).
This is why I drink.