Earth Electrical Energy Datalogging Experiments

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The trench is finally ready for the next stage, but first we need to do something that is vert important

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I mentioned the sifting of soil, you need to do this because it is difficult to poor clumps of ground into a 1/2 inch tube.
I got three sives, and I found the middle size one was suitable, the fine graded siv took far too long to pass ultra fine graded soil through it and it blocked quickly.

The next size was jut what the doctor ordered, and it worked a treat.

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Playing in dirt, there is nothing like it.lol

OK what is the best way to handle a siv? I found out by trial and error, grab the sive with the handle, put the soil in it, DONT bump it up or down, that action will only compact the soil, BUT, gently flick the wrist, left to right, left, right, left, right.
This produces a fine soil pile and very quickly at that.

Take a look at the video I made of this arm action.
Notice how the flow of the top of the soil proceeds into the middle of the sive and goes down.

It seems I am having trouble with this video so will post it at the end if I can get it off the phone.

The EB Cells are brought to the site with the pile of fine soil

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The EB Cells are next placed into their final resting places, each cell has about 1 inch to 1.5 inches spacing between the one next to it.

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Back filling the earth battery cells was tricky, they had a tendency to lean over until I could get more soil to the back of the cells and move them upright, a jig would be great for this but I hadn't thought of this remedy until now.

The small brown shovel/spade is one I made back about 1985, about 25 years ago, I made it to do a bit of gem fossicking up at the "willows" gemfields, there is sapphire there.
Its been a beauty.