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Post by coloradocliff on May 15, 2017 11:41:19 GMT -5
Not big earthquakes. My 500 lb girl friend is coming to visit me. Grin... Going to get cold in a few days Sweating the plants I have outside. Busy.. have to hook up and hunt some rocks when the weather gets better and I have a day to rest. . Like the tumble. Did good with that material and learned tons. Patience little brother. I do the easy stuff. hehehe..
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Post by coloradocliff on May 15, 2017 11:42:03 GMT -5
Oh Didn't say you weren't crazy... s..
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Post by Fossilman on May 15, 2017 16:59:59 GMT -5
Nice looking batch of material,liking the variety.....
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ryan
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Post by ryan on May 15, 2017 18:51:23 GMT -5
Not big earthquakes. My 500 lb girl friend is coming to visit me. Grin... Going to get cold in a few days Sweating the plants I have outside. Busy.. have to hook up and hunt some rocks when the weather gets better and I have a day to rest. . Like the tumble. Did good with that material and learned tons. Patience little brother. I do the easy stuff. hehehe.. Hahaha, I got out in the woods today n found some good pieces flic.kr/s/aHskWVUN29
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Post by petrifried on May 16, 2017 2:42:11 GMT -5
very beautiful granite! Rockhounding builds character and always teaches us something new about geology and nature. Granite forms deep underground when volcanoes die and the magma in the chamber slowly cools allowing the feldspar and quartz crystals time to line up with the Earths magnetic field eh.? Why is that granite there? Was it formed locally or brought in from somewhere else via glaciers or tectonic movement? What is the bedrock composed of where you are at? Just curious
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Post by MrMike on May 16, 2017 4:52:28 GMT -5
Great batch Ryan
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Post by ryan on May 17, 2017 13:00:57 GMT -5
very beautiful granite! Rockhounding builds character and always teaches us something new about geology and nature. Granite forms deep underground when volcanoes die and the magma in the chamber slowly cools allowing the feldspar and quartz crystals time to line up with the Earths magnetic field eh.? Why is that granite there? Was it formed locally or brought in from somewhere else via glaciers or tectonic movement? What is the bedrock composed of where you are at? Just curious Thanks again! And this area might be a mixture of both locally formed and glacial deposit granites, I have no degree and only been houndin for 3 years but I've learned a lot from the good people on this site and the thread metamorphic gems has the area pegged as an "andesitic volcanic tuft" n I'm starting to envision the area before the big upward movement that created the current mountain chain as like Yellowstone National Park with hydrothermal activity. Here's an example of variety from the area flic.kr/s/aHskVF3X4G
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Post by coloradocliff on May 17, 2017 14:14:34 GMT -5
Ryan You're working with some of the rocks that got me interested at first. You're doing a good job on a wide variety of material and many of them hard to polish. I like the natural look without cutting or anything. Doesn't have to be a fancy show girl for me to love em. Following granddads foot steps is a very good thing. Bet he's smiling at you. Get any guitar time in.
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Post by ryan on May 17, 2017 16:08:02 GMT -5
Ryan You're working with some of the rocks that got me interested at first. You're doing a good job on a wide variety of material and many of them hard to polish. I like the natural look without cutting or anything. Doesn't have to be a fancy show girl for me to love em. Following granddads foot steps is a very good thing. Bet he's smiling at you. Get any guitar time in. May 17, 2017 13:14:34 GMT -6 coloradocliff said:
Ryan You're working with some of the rocks that got me interested at first. You're doing a good job on a wide variety of material and many of them hard to polish. I like the natural look without cutting or anything. Doesn't have to be a fancy show girl for me to love em. Following granddads foot steps is a very good thing. Bet he's smiling at you. Get any guitar time in.
I agree, the more natural the better (most all my collection is natural or opened with a hammer n chisel) I'd love to show you the geology up here if you got some time it takes me about 2 to 3 hours to get around 60 lbs gathered n the hike is 20 mins at 30 to 40% grade...
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Post by coloradocliff on May 17, 2017 18:04:54 GMT -5
That chunk is going to be hard to get into a tumbler... hehehee Bet you'll even do a good job on the una types.. hehehe Cold down valley too. Covered thousands of flats of lowers, veggies and perennials outside 22 degrees is what the man is saying.. brr Catch you later bro.. Fill that tumbler back up... grin..
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Post by ryan on May 17, 2017 19:26:35 GMT -5
That chunk is going to be hard to get into a tumbler... hehehee Bet you'll even do a good job on the una types.. hehehe Cold down valley too. Covered thousands of flats of lowers, veggies and perennials outside 22 degrees is what the man is saying.. brr Catch you later bro.. Fill that tumbler back up... grin.. Think maybe n old water heater would be big enough? ha it just hailed pretty bad, I'm hoping for rain (erosion=stone) the forests up here started dying like 20 yrs ago (blue spruces survived and are re populating) and the trees died standing and are now being blown over so there are hundreds of holes created by the root balls comin up and all I do is check them holes for whatever it produces:) n I can clean up a hole n come back next spring n erosion will have revealed new stones ryan
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Post by coloradocliff on May 17, 2017 20:02:08 GMT -5
That chunk is going to be hard to get into a tumbler... hehehee Bet you'll even do a good job on the una types.. hehehe Cold down valley too. Covered thousands of flats of lowers, veggies and perennials outside 22 degrees is what the man is saying.. brr Catch you later bro.. Fill that tumbler back up... grin.. Think maybe n old water heater would be big enough? ha it just hailed pretty bad, I'm hoping for rain (erosion=stone) the forests up here started dying like 20 yrs ago (blue spruces survived and are re populating) and the trees died standing and are now being blown over so there are hundreds of holes created by the root balls comin up and all I do is check them holes for whatever it produces:) n I can clean up a hole n come back next spring n erosion will have revealed new stones ryan Ryan you're too smart.. Thanks for the tip. Saes a lot of digging when nthe forest does it for you. Those tree killing beetles aren't such a bad thing after all. .Snowing, wet , cold brr.. Did you se that tumbling rig that Belinda had put together? It so rules.. 4 barrel rock tumbler, I motor.' Little hassle. Maybe you need extra capacity so you aren't impatiently waiting. Instead you're up every morning and every night you're changing something.
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Post by ryan on May 17, 2017 21:06:47 GMT -5
Think maybe n old water heater would be big enough? ha it just hailed pretty bad, I'm hoping for rain (erosion=stone) the forests up here started dying like 20 yrs ago (blue spruces survived and are re populating) and the trees died standing and are now being blown over so there are hundreds of holes created by the root balls comin up and all I do is check them holes for whatever it produces:) n I can clean up a hole n come back next spring n erosion will have revealed new stones ryan Ryan you're too smart.. Thanks for the tip. Saes a lot of digging when nthe forest does it for you. Those tree killing beetles aren't such a bad thing after all. .Snowing, wet , cold brr.. Did you se that tumbling rig that Belinda had put together? It so rules.. 4 barrel rock tumbler, I motor.' Little hassle. Maybe you need extra capacity so you aren't impatiently waiting. Instead you're up every morning and every night you're changing something.
I haven't told anyone else about that method, it's like a guy in a row boat that decides to put up a sail and use the winds effort so instead of having to labor and row his way around he sits back and enjoys the ride it works are there any dead or blewd over trees in your area? If so check it out n hell yeah that chics tumbler was pretty beast... I wouldn't mind 1 or 2 more barrels rollin sometime down the road when I get better at this stuff. Check out this crazy brother foo!
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Post by ryan on May 17, 2017 21:12:01 GMT -5
Think maybe n old water heater would be big enough? ha it just hailed pretty bad, I'm hoping for rain (erosion=stone) the forests up here started dying like 20 yrs ago (blue spruces survived and are re populating) and the trees died standing and are now being blown over so there are hundreds of holes created by the root balls comin up and all I do is check them holes for whatever it produces:) n I can clean up a hole n come back next spring n erosion will have revealed new stones ryan Ryan you're too smart.. Thanks for the tip. Saes a lot of digging when nthe forest does it for you. Those tree killing beetles aren't such a bad thing after all. .Snowing, wet , cold brr.. Did you se that tumbling rig that Belinda had put together? It so rules.. 4 barrel rock tumbler, I motor.' Little hassle. Maybe you need extra capacity so you aren't impatiently waiting. Instead you're up every morning and every night you're changing something.
Has any of your orders come in? U gotta tumbler?
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Post by Deleted on Jun 14, 2017 12:12:04 GMT -5
They are so pretty. I am jealous that you were able to collect them yourself.
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