What is the advantage and disadvantage of using Mackintosh Probe test?

Advantages:
 The size of a small, lightweight device causing easily handled and speed work.
 Tests performed earlier than tests of other sites before a project underway.
 Information and data were obtained more quickly, easily and save time.
 The cost of handling, equipment and the use of relatively cheap.

Disadvantages:
 Use limited in terms of the impact energy is too limited
 Bearing capacity of soil foundation design is a development known only
superficial.
 Unable to penetrated into medium strength soil and gravelly ground.

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mackintosh probe test

mackintosh probe test is one of the most common types of probing test. The
Mackintosh prospecting tool consists of rods which can be threaded together with
barrel connectors and which are normally fitted with a driving point at their base,
and a light hand-operated driving hammer at their top. The tool provides a very
economical method of determining the thickness of soft deposits such as peat. The
driving point is streamlined in longitudinal section with a maximum diameter of
27mm. The drive hammer has a total weight of about 4kg. The rods are 1.2m long
and 12mm dia. The device is often used to provide a depth profile by driving the
point and rods into the ground with equal blows of the full drop height available
from the hammer: the number of blows for each 150mm of penetration is
recorded. When small pockets of stiff clay are to be penetrated, an auger or a core
tube can be substituted for the driving point. The rods can be rotated clockwise at
ground level by using a box spanner and tommy bar. Tools can be pushed into or
pulled out of the soil using a lifting/driving tool. Because of the light hammer
weight the Mackintosh probe is limited in the depths and materials it can penetrate
(Clayton C.R.I., Matthews M.C. and Simons N.E., 1995).