A little Geotech humor from 1960+

[emmgjld]

These have been on a wall at my office for a long time, originally my Father obtained the first one in the winter of 60/61 from Jim Warne, Engineers Testing Laboratory, Phoenix.

This was always my favorite.

 

[emmgjld]

And this

 

[emmgjld]

And this 1
Is there an easier way to load these?

 

[JAE]

I like the 3rd one the best.

Reminds me of the surveyor who drove by the site and stated confidently, "the site is flat".

 

[Ron]

emm....good ones...all. Time has unfortunately proved them to be more true than we'd like!

 

[emmgjld]

For the concreters

 

[Mccoy]

I too like particularly the 3rd one, maybe because too many a times it still happens unfortunately, even though at lower altitudes. Does the copyright still holds?
The first one is reminiscent of a story (probably true alas) about a structural engineer seriously testing the soil by the heel of his shoe. he was male, so my spontaneuos thought is that he might have reached a deeper depth by using more adequate tools: