I'm Lazy Today . . . Sample Labels

[BigH]

G'Day friends,

I'm finding myself a bit lazy this afternoon - was on site again and found scheisse . . . Said to the CRE the other day that I was going to go to site and find what scheisse was going on . . . . response was "Oh, you'll find it!" - and I did.

Today was proving that I hadn't lost the touch in waxing up an undisturbed sample - guess they don't teach that anymore . . .

Does anyone have a sample tag to put on a field sample to go back to the lab - preferably for dam or highway - e.g., chainage, offset, elevation, date, sample number - etc. Just want one that has stood the test of time rather than putting one together myself and finding out I missed something . . . .

Would appreciate it . . . have attached a snap of our site (sssshhhhhhh)

 

[dgillette]

What's going on there, foundation cleanup and dental concrete in the background, and first few lifts of core in the foreground? (Or is that misc fill?) Looking upstream? Clean enough to eat off of, and in the tropical sun, probably hot enough to fry the hamburger.

Hi Big H.

 

[oldestguy]

Big H:

I think you can make up exactly what you want with Microsoft Word and the tools part for mail labels. Then, with the many Avery labels available, I would think you could make up a sample label and then have all printed the same. I was a Quartermaster for our VFW post and would regularly use that for a stick-on to post card mailing announcements, saving a lot of time.

In my latest computer I don't have that any more (Windows 7), but do have an Open Office word processor program from Sun or Oracle (freeware). A quick look at it and it seems that this can be done there also.

Easy to edit and make more any time.

 

[oldestguy]

Come to think of it, make up what you want in an e mail and send it to the main office. They can make up the labels and attach that file to an e mail which you print out on the job as you may need. You will need the stick-ons however.

 

[MRM]

If the chain of custody is an especially important goal for your specimens, perhaps model the tag or sheet after those used a lot in the environmental testing industry...

 

[BigH]

Thanks - was just trying to find if anyone had one they used . . . as I said I was lazy. Contractor is not doing a good job in labeling his field samples . . . they will be having an audit in the next week and I will push this . . . .

David - The photo:

In the foreground, we are placing a clayey blanket on the upstream. The "clean" concrete you see is dental concrete in the core of the dam. The rock is a mix of volcanic and sedimentary - actually in the intermix zone (forgot the fancy geological term). Have to put in concrete buttresses against vertical faces. In the midground on the left side you see a depression that is some 6 m lower than had been anticipated - after removal of alluvium. Closest to the bottom is still in the core. The background is a rock toe (formerly named downstream cofferdam) that we have extended upstream some 50 m due to irregular rock surface and easier to place rockfill . . . also needed more rockfill (for progress) due to every day raining (which now, thankfully, has stopped except a day a week or so). Hoping to get the core material placing started this week.