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Post by Jugglerguy on Oct 9, 2017 15:58:16 GMT -5
fantastic5, that cave picture is awesome. Do you know why the ceiling is so round?
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Post by melhill1659 on Oct 9, 2017 16:18:44 GMT -5
ETA Ann you make that yellow suit look hott! Rock it girl! LOL - not my first time asked to wear a yellow suit! Years ago I was acting as a sherpa for a photographer who wanted to be the first person to light and photograph the Rotunda Room in Camps Gulf Cave (largest underground room east of the Mississippi). We made it to the second room with all his gear. This was before LED lights. So we were carrying in car batteries (yes multiples), tripods, huge lights, lap tops. Hundreds of pounds of gear. We got him all set up, then I noticed him looking at me a little strange. I asked what was up and he said I would look better in the yellow suit than the guy who was supposed to do it. So I ended up being the model. Ended up with a framed photo for my troubles (the light poles were edited out in the final print). What was really strange is the lights he was using just flashed. So I couldn't see the room until the picture came. That room is 12 acres across. It would take me about 20 minutes just to get to the top of the break down pile. It is much further away and much taller than it appears in the photo. I could barely see the headlights of the rest of the crew. When your standing on top of the breakdown, our headlights wouldn't reach the walls. Very disorienting. Its called breakdown, because all that material used to be on the roof. When we visited the 3rd room on this trip there was a house sized block that had fallen since our last visit. That is amazing!!!!
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Post by jamesp on Oct 9, 2017 16:23:57 GMT -5
Certain that those diamond ropes have a slick connection fantastic5. I noticed that they mount them in a band saw configuration too. They were cutting curved slabs with them similar to and amphitheater back drop. I believe the table is computer controlled and moves the stone into the rope. I was curious if the cut with out deep scratches. Hard to beat the ole lapidary saw technique for a smooth polish-able cut. I have an 18 inch saw. For coral 24 is a minimum, a 30 inch would be way better. But I find plenty of coral heads that need to be cut with 36 and 48 inch saws. I have left many a+/- 18 inch size hollow coral in the river. That is 48 inch saw fodder. Just before the big lapidary import craze started about 2005 I could have paid for a 36 inch saw with 10 nice specimen grade coral head halves. Recently the big import specimens in the form of sawn halves have gone way up in price. I still think I could pay off a 36 or 42 inch saw selling to the high end interior decorators in Atlanta. You need to visit Adac in Atlanta.[$$] They recently allow the public, used to only allow the trade. Similar to an LA or NYNY interior design mall. there are many designers that sell serious mineral and sawn specimens that would knock your socks off. The decorating trade has picked up since the crash in 2008. You never know what suits their fancy though. Coral may not float their boat. And they gotta have polished faces. I have some decent specimens, I should take them down there and ask them if they would like the coral in basketball sizes. Me a bit uncomfortable dealing with some of those folks in that business lol, namely the male variety. Serious flaming issues ha. I don't judge till they start getting flirtatious, then I'm pissed. One of them walked up behind me and put his arm around me and I almost decked him. I got sick of that bunch(the males). The lady shop owners were fine. Anyway, it is the highest price mineral specimen outlet that you will ever find. adacatlanta.comOne of their vendors rondierdesign.photoshelter.com/gallery/Mounted-Minerals-Crystals/G0000ptrYPYktBRQ
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Post by Deleted on Oct 9, 2017 16:29:33 GMT -5
Certain that those diamond ropes have a slick connection fantastic5. I noticed that they mount them in a band saw configuration too. They were cutting curved slabs with them similar to and amphitheater back drop. I believe the table is computer controlled and moves the stone into the rope. I was curious if the cut with out deep scratches. Hard to beat the ole lapidary saw technique for a smooth polish-able cut. I have an 18 inch saw. For coral 24 is a minimum, a 30 inch would be way better. But I find plenty of coral heads that need to be cut with 36 and 48 inch saws. I have left many a+/- 18 inch size hollow coral in the river. That is 48 inch saw fodder. Just before the big lapidary import craze started about 2005 I could have paid for a 36 inch saw with 10 nice specimen grade coral head halves. Recently the big import specimens in the form of sawn halves have gone way up in price. I still think I could pay off a 36 or 42 inch saw selling to the high end interior decorators in Atlanta. You need to visit Adac in Atlanta.[$$] They recently allow the public, used to only allow the trade. Similar to an LA or NYNY interior design mall. there are many designers that sell serious mineral and sawn specimens that would knock your socks off. The decorating trade has picked up since the crash in 2008. You never know what suits their fancy though. Coral may not float their boat. And they gotta have polished faces. I have some decent specimens, I should take them down there and ask them if they would like the coral in basketball sizes. Me a bit uncomfortable dealing with some of those folks in that business lol, namely the male variety. Serious flaming issues ha. I don't judge till they start getting flirtatious, then I'm pissed. One of them walked up behind me and put his arm around me and I almost decked him. I got sick of that bunch(the males). The lady shop owners were fine. Anyway, it is the highest price mineral specimen outlet that you will ever find. adacatlanta.comOne of their vendors rondierdesign.photoshelter.com/gallery/Mounted-Minerals-Crystals/G0000ptrYPYktBRQDont get pissed, be flattered they think you are hott. Lol i recently had a customer buy a roof and proposition me. Im flattered this old man was “built” enough for him. Haha! Needless to day jeannie was flattered too. She thinks the same! Confirmation never hurts..... haha!
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Post by Garage Rocker on Oct 9, 2017 16:36:49 GMT -5
It must have been your orange short-shorts, @shotgunner.
Oh wait, that's Hooters, not Home Depot.
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Post by fantastic5 on Oct 9, 2017 16:49:40 GMT -5
fantastic5, that cave picture is awesome. Do you know why the ceiling is so round? Most of the large room have roundish ceilings. I used to think it was swirling water, but it must be how the limestone breaks.
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Post by Deleted on Oct 9, 2017 18:15:20 GMT -5
fantastic5, that cave picture is awesome. Do you know why the ceiling is so round? Most of the large room have roundish ceilings. I used to think it was swirling water, but it must be how the limestone breaks. Conchoidal fracture.
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Post by Deleted on Oct 9, 2017 18:16:43 GMT -5
It must have been your orange short-shorts, @shotgunner. Oh wait, that's Hooters, not Home Depot. Hmmm... I was wearing shorts that day. My well defined gastrocnemius is what he was commenting on. Interesting observation..... No they weren't tight or orange
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Post by Jugglerguy on Oct 9, 2017 20:30:22 GMT -5
fantastic5, that cave picture is awesome. Do you know why the ceiling is so round? Most of the large room have roundish ceilings. I used to think it was swirling water, but it must be how the limestone breaks. Sure is cool, whatever the reason.
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Post by jamesp on Oct 10, 2017 4:44:36 GMT -5
Sinkhole map. Winter Haven Florida rated 0 to 10, 10 to 30, 31 to 60, 61 to 200, larger than 200 feet. Karst aquifers. Some sinks are in large lakes. Kingsley Lake Florida. 90 feet deep, 1.75 miles across. One of the oldest lakes in Florida. Stable.
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Post by captbob on Oct 10, 2017 13:18:53 GMT -5
Just out running errands (picked up my new shotty!) and came back through my neighborhood a different route. Found a house about 1/2 mile from me with more coral heads than I could fit in my truck in two trips! Whole front, corner lot, is landscaped with them. Gonna have to go back and visit when I have some time to see just what he has. not like I really need any more coral, but what the heck ... it's about the only freakin' kinda rock around here. location location location
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Post by Fossilman on Oct 10, 2017 14:16:01 GMT -5
ETA Ann you make that yellow suit look hott! Rock it girl! LOL - not my first time asked to wear a yellow suit! Years ago I was acting as a sherpa for a photographer who wanted to be the first person to light and photograph the Rotunda Room in Camps Gulf Cave (largest underground room east of the Mississippi). We made it to the second room with all his gear. This was before LED lights. So we were carrying in car batteries (yes multiples), tripods, huge lights, lap tops. Hundreds of pounds of gear. We got him all set up, then I noticed him looking at me a little strange. I asked what was up and he said I would look better in the yellow suit than the guy who was supposed to do it. So I ended up being the model. Ended up with a framed photo for my troubles (the light poles were edited out in the final print). What was really strange is the lights he was using just flashed. So I couldn't see the room until the picture came. That room is 12 acres across. It would take me about 20 minutes just to get to the top of the break down pile. It is much further away and much taller than it appears in the photo. I could barely see the headlights of the rest of the crew. When your standing on top of the breakdown, our headlights wouldn't reach the walls. Very disorienting. Its called breakdown, because all that material used to be on the roof. When we visited the 3rd room on this trip there was a house sized block that had fallen since our last visit. HOLY TOLEDO Klinger!!!!! That's a cave,for sure,for sure!!!
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Post by Fossilman on Oct 10, 2017 14:17:25 GMT -5
Excellent adventure James! Thank you for sharing the adventure with words and photos... NICE!!! Your gonna go with me one of these days. You'd have a riot. Hope the leaches don't favor Dakota flesh. LMAO... ND was leach country,pick them off and keep going-just like I did ticks.....
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Post by jamesp on Oct 10, 2017 17:04:42 GMT -5
Your gonna go with me one of these days. You'd have a riot. Hope the leaches don't favor Dakota flesh. LMAO... ND was leach country,pick them off and keep going-just like I did ticks..... Tougher than a ten cent steak, rock on Fossilman. I was collecting water lilies neck deep in a local swamp one summer till it got dark. Stood up and was very uncomfortable with what I saw. There was about about 200 of them on me. A few here and a few there no problem, but that episode over loaded me. Too creepy. too too much so.
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Post by jamesp on Oct 10, 2017 17:08:53 GMT -5
Just out running errands (picked up my new shotty!) and came back through my neighborhood a different route. Found a house about 1/2 mile from me with more coral heads than I could fit in my truck in two trips! Whole front, corner lot, is landscaped with them. Gonna have to go back and visit when I have some time to see just what he has. not like I really need any more coral, but what the heck ... it's about the only freakin' kinda rock around here. location location location A buddy bought some old stock Tampa Bay hollows. The man had cut and polished them. cream of the crop. those were the finest I had ever seen. Maybe 40 of the bunch were off the chart. Guessing they were his pride and joy. You live right there in coral territory. The prettiest comes from around Tampa and 60 miles in my opinion.
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Post by fernwood on Oct 10, 2017 18:58:09 GMT -5
Thanks for sharing.
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Post by 1dave on Oct 11, 2017 6:27:08 GMT -5
For diamond wire, just make a large reciprocating hack saw.
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Post by Garage Rocker on Oct 11, 2017 9:47:03 GMT -5
His new toy.
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