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Post by fantastic5 on Feb 8, 2018 12:32:58 GMT -5
goatgrinder I just read your avatar caption. I would love to see some of your tumbled Summerville. I have a lot of self collected lace from there, but I've never tried tumbling it. Please post some pictures! And one of the best pieces I've seen come out of Summerville, belongs to a friend of mine
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Post by aDave on Feb 8, 2018 13:24:20 GMT -5
Ann fantastic5, there's something "different" about that first photo. Tilt shift perhaps? If it is, I've never played with it. Is it in your camera, or was it put through some type of post-processing? Neat rock photos too! Dave
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Post by fernwood on Feb 8, 2018 14:00:34 GMT -5
That is beautiful stuff. Love the large one in the middle of photo.
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Post by fantastic5 on Feb 8, 2018 14:38:06 GMT -5
Ann fantastic5, there's something "different" about that first photo. Tilt shift perhaps? If it is, I've never played with it. Is it in your camera, or was it put through some type of post-processing? Neat rock photos too! Dave Taken with my cell phone summer 2016. Not sure why it looks wierd. We are up on a cleared bench on the hillside where they are mining the rock for gravel. Maybe that is distorting the perspective.
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Post by fantastic5 on Feb 8, 2018 14:41:12 GMT -5
That is beautiful stuff. Love the large one in the middle of photo. Thank you fernwood. I fear that was destined to become gravel. It was imbedded so hard in the road I gave up and left it behind. The man who owns the company is nice to rockhounds. He doesn't lock the gate and we can collect on Sundays. We just have to respect the mine and his equipment.
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Post by aDave on Feb 8, 2018 14:54:01 GMT -5
Ann fantastic5 , there's something "different" about that first photo. Tilt shift perhaps? If it is, I've never played with it. Is it in your camera, or was it put through some type of post-processing? Neat rock photos too! Dave Taken with my cell phone summer 2016. Not sure why it looks wierd. We are up on a cleared bench on the hillside where they are mining the rock for gravel. Maybe that is distorting the perspective. Interesting. It really does have the appearance of a "tilt shift" photo (3D effect). I wonder if that's somehow a setting in your phone's camera.
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Post by fernwood on Feb 8, 2018 16:22:55 GMT -5
fantastic5Nice gravel pit. Nice owner. Someone who realizes that not everything there should become gravel. I have had less success with the gravel companies here. No one is allowed into any of their pits. Locked gates and constant police monitoring. The pits are loaded with agates, fossils and jaspers. Also some other interesting items. Not everything becomes gravel, as some ends up as landscape rock. Sorry to hear about the one you left behind. Back in the day, lol, when my husband and I frequented a local, abandoned gravel pit, we back packed in. Tools of the trade were, at least 2 gallons of water, dandelion root diggers, two small trench dogging shovels, garden trowels and a couple of large screwdrivers. Plus 5 gallon pails to carry out and smaller containers to fit in backpacks. If we had left behind something special, we brought more specialized equipment for removal. Had backpacks on frames for the 200 yard trek to get to the pit from parking. Since the pit was 1/4 mile down the road from us, sometimes hiked it.
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Post by fantastic5 on Feb 8, 2018 21:31:01 GMT -5
fantastic5Nice gravel pit. Nice owner. Someone who realizes that not everything there should become gravel. I have had less success with the gravel companies here. No one is allowed into any of their pits. Locked gates and constant police monitoring. The pits are loaded with agates, fossils and jaspers. Also some other interesting items. Not everything becomes gravel, as some ends up as landscape rock. Sorry to hear about the one you left behind. Back in the day, lol, when my husband and I frequented a local, abandoned gravel pit, we back packed in. Tools of the trade were, at least 2 gallons of water, dandelion root diggers, two small trench dogging shovels, garden trowels and a couple of large screwdrivers. Plus 5 gallon pails to carry out and smaller containers to fit in backpacks. If we had left behind something special, we brought more specialized equipment for removal. Had backpacks on frames for the 200 yard trek to get to the pit from parking. Since the pit was 1/4 mile down the road from us, sometimes hiked it. Well Summerville spoils up, that one was just outside the truck door. We just drive all the way to the top of the hill to collect. There is so much like that one, it just wasn't worth the effort. My DH want in that trip or he likely would have dug it up for me. He mostly brings home the large yard rock sized chunks. If the weather is nice this weekend I'll try to get a picture of one in the front flower bed.
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Post by Sabre52 on Feb 8, 2018 22:39:55 GMT -5
Wow so nice! That's an agate we don't see much here in the west....Mel
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Post by jamesp on Feb 9, 2018 7:59:34 GMT -5
Looks like the photo is downhill plus the scale of the rocks and the machinery are quite deceptive.
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Post by MsAli on Feb 9, 2018 10:37:48 GMT -5
Wow that is pretty
That would be a blast to dig around in and a good man to let you in
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Post by broseph82 on Feb 21, 2018 9:23:48 GMT -5
Just a note, this stuff tumbles beautifully! Cabbing not so much. It’s softer than normal lace agate. I have some that needs to be tumbled so maybe I’ll get off my butt and do so and report back.
Cheers
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Post by jamesp on Feb 21, 2018 9:26:50 GMT -5
Just a note, this stuff tumbles beautifully! Cabbing not so much. It’s softer than normal lace agate. I have some that needs to be tumbled so maybe I’ll get off my butt and do so and report back. Cheers "I’ll get off my butt" Talk is cheap. When are you going to get off your butt ?
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Post by broseph82 on Feb 21, 2018 10:08:25 GMT -5
Just a note, this stuff tumbles beautifully! Cabbing not so much. It’s softer than normal lace agate. I have some that needs to be tumbled so maybe I’ll get off my butt and do so and report back. Cheers "I’ll get off my butt" Talk is cheap. When are you going to get off your butt ? Need a larger rotary. Looking into a QT12. My HF 3lbers just aren’t doing it anymore.
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Post by jamesp on Feb 21, 2018 10:33:19 GMT -5
"I’ll get off my butt" Talk is cheap. When are you going to get off your butt ? Need a larger rotary. Looking into a QT12. My HF 3lbers just aren’t doing it anymore. Bigger bigger bigger, glad to hear business is thriving.
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Post by goatgrinder on Feb 21, 2018 19:30:30 GMT -5
Hey fantastic, good to hear your voice again. Took a bunch of pictures but cannot get them to load on my work computer to send to this page. Dang! Anyway I was at the mine just this past Sunday. Only one there all day long. Have plenty of lace agate so went after the red/purple/pink/white jasper that does indeed tumble easily and finishes to a high bright shine in no time. I'd heard that hard rock was being found but I didn't see it until I was ready to leave. So I filled a bucket with the darker red stuff and some black with bright red streaks stuff. And I filled another bucket with that beautiful creamy light violet stuff that I still have not identified. Would love to show everyone what I have but.... Maybe its my talkie machine thing. Dunno.
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Post by fantastic5 on Feb 26, 2018 12:23:56 GMT -5
Hey fantastic, good to hear your voice again. Took a bunch of pictures but cannot get them to load on my work computer to send to this page. Dang! Anyway I was at the mine just this past Sunday. Only one there all day long. Have plenty of lace agate so went after the red/purple/pink/white jasper that does indeed tumble easily and finishes to a high bright shine in no time. I'd heard that hard rock was being found but I didn't see it until I was ready to leave. So I filled a bucket with the darker red stuff and some black with bright red streaks stuff. And I filled another bucket with that beautiful creamy light violet stuff that I still have not identified. Would love to show everyone what I have but.... Maybe its my talkie machine thing. Dunno. When I was at the mine last, maybe a year ago, we were just finding the harder material with the bright red with black. It was up on the bench and it appeared that they had just gotten down to the layer that would be producing. A good friend of mine goes every few months and he had only been seeing it recently at that point. If you have a smart talkie machine thingie, you could try downloading TapTalk. It really is the easiest way I have found to get pictures to the forum from a cell phone. After that, the next best option for me has been Facebook. Would love to see what you have if you can get it to work!
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Post by fantastic5 on Feb 26, 2018 12:29:27 GMT -5
Just a note, this stuff tumbles beautifully! Cabbing not so much. It’s softer than normal lace agate. I have some that needs to be tumbled so maybe I’ll get off my butt and do so and report back. Cheers I've definitely had mixed results trying to cab. I've tried several times to get a small round out of one of those ringed stalagmite looking fingers. Hopefully, I will find one hard enough to pull it off. The brecciated raspberry color in white cabs beautifully. A great shine! Oh, in fact I put a couple of slabs of that material in the traveling box. They are the two in the middle.
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Post by goatgrinder on Feb 26, 2018 20:25:07 GMT -5
YES! That's what I'm talking about. Your pictures are waaaaay better than mine. So, yes I will look into taptalk; sounds real useful. The reds and darker (brownish) reds that I found the other week were not this bright but maybe now I can get some pictures out. And I found all of it on the middle bench to the right of the entrance.
Thanks all.
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Post by broseph82 on Feb 27, 2018 9:37:05 GMT -5
fantastic5I haven’t had such luck. It seems every piece I’ve tumbled has come out beautifully even the softer stuff. Cabbing was a different story. The white in the breccia pieces I had undercut badly, but maybe that was just my stuff. I’m sure you have better stuff! I need to get back out there. Haven’t been hounding since 2016 and need to get back out.
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