Patent ID: 8613234

Claim:
A soil sampling system for collecting and retaining multiple soil samples, comprising: a) a mobile platform for traversing a region from which soil samples are to be periodically extracted; b) a hollow, cylindrical drum supported upon and rotatively connected to said mobile platform, said drum having a central perimeter bearing a removable, outwardly projecting soil probe thereupon, said probe being communicative with an interior region of said hollow, cylindrical drum, said cylindrical drum having at least one mixing blade disposed on an interior perimeter thereof, and an opening in a vertical side thereof to allow selective entrance of a distal end of a soil collection chute into an interior region of said cylindrical drum; c) means for automatically removing a collected, blended soil sample from an interior region of said hollow, cylindrical drum supported upon said mobile platform and disposed adjacent a side of said hollow, cylindrical drum; d) means for receiving and individually retaining a plurality of said collected, blended soil samples disposed adjacent said means for automatically removing a collected soil sample.