RWA3006
Cave Dweller
Member since March 2009
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Post by RWA3006 on Mar 6, 2019 19:33:31 GMT -5
I still struggle by picking up too much leaverite.
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Post by miket on Mar 6, 2019 19:40:41 GMT -5
I still struggle by picking up too much leaverite. Yessir. It's a curse.
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quartz
Cave Dweller
breakin' rocks in the hot sun
Member since February 2010
Posts: 3,340
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Post by quartz on Mar 6, 2019 22:56:42 GMT -5
The workaround for the leaverite problem is to call them stowaways. Look dumb, shrug shoulders, and say "geez how did that get in there". Absolves a person of guilt for picking up junk, especially when hunting with spouse or good friends.
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Post by miket on Mar 7, 2019 10:20:28 GMT -5
The workaround for the leaverite problem is to call them stowaways. Look dumb, shrug shoulders, and say "geez how did that get in there". Absolves a person of guilt for picking up junk, especially when hunting with spouse or good friends. Stowaways. I'll have to lose that one, I have plenty of junk. My son loves to throw rocks in my backpack when we're out hunting. He usually says "This will be a good one to tumble" and tosses it in, making my load that much heavier. Although he's usually right, I don't get why he doesn't put it in his own.
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Post by fernwood on Mar 8, 2019 6:29:03 GMT -5
I always have many stowaways. When I wash everything off on my deck, I often wonder "how did that get in the pail?" I am certain that random rocks are jumping in my pail, lol. The stowaways end up in one of my rock gardens. Since they wanted to come with me so bad, I do not have the heart to return them from where they came.
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Post by miket on Mar 8, 2019 10:51:56 GMT -5
I always have many stowaways. When I wash everything off on my deck, I often wonder "how did that get in the pail?" I am certain that random rocks are jumping in my pail, lol. The stowaways end up in one of my rock gardens. Since they wanted to come with me so bad, I do not have the heart to return them from where they came. I think you're right Beth. They jump in on they're own because they know you'll give them a good home!
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Post by nowyo on Mar 8, 2019 19:49:49 GMT -5
Mike, those look fine. Really nice polish on those. Self collected rocks in the north are bound to have some fractures. Lots of my tumbles have fractures. Getting a little more selective on what I put in the tumbler and more selective culling, I do have some pretty nice driveway gravel. Have decent sized chunk of Lysite in coarse right now, I wanted to slab it but it is just way too fractured to bother. You've got some pretty rocks there, keep on doing what you're doing.
Russ
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Post by miket on Mar 8, 2019 20:10:02 GMT -5
Mike, those look fine. Really nice polish on those. Self collected rocks in the north are bound to have some fractures. Lots of my tumbles have fractures. Getting a little more selective on what I put in the tumbler and more selective culling, I do have some pretty nice driveway gravel. Have decent sized chunk of Lysite in coarse right now, I wanted to slab it but it is just way too fractured to bother. You've got some pretty rocks there, keep on doing what you're doing. Russ Thanks Russ, I appreciate the compliment. I like self-collected stones, someday I may jump in and buy some. I'll get better with time I know.
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Post by nowyo on Mar 8, 2019 20:17:31 GMT -5
About 90% of the rocks I've done have been self collected. It's nice to throw in a few fancy ones once in a while but I get a lot more satisfaction from the stuff I've drug home myself. That's just me.
Russ
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