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Post by rockdunker on Apr 23, 2018 0:04:40 GMT -5
I managed to get the flip flops out during a bass tournament last weekend on Lake Powell. It was a rough trip I tell yah. Cold beer, sunshine and some ferocious bass. Glad to hear you're toughin out those miserable weather conditions . No need for the flimsy flippy flop things here , pac boots are the preferred footwear . Beer is all froze so have to wait for some of that global warming to hit . Surely no need for sunglasses today , someone pulled the shade over the sun again . As for the feisty bass , we take a different approach around here . No need for one of them fancy high buck bass boats and all the expenses that come along with them . An ice auger is our weapon of choice to get us to the fish , grocery store as a backup plan . We ustacould ice fish around here before all of the cloud seeding programs brought the temps up. Darn mild winter and someone maybe the wife threw out my auger. No hurt feelings here though. I am beginning to enjoy northern Arizona when it's cool around here. Made a few cuts on some pigeon blood today, sure is pretty and fractured.
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Post by rockdunker on Apr 18, 2018 0:54:07 GMT -5
I managed to get the flip flops out during a bass tournament last weekend on Lake Powell. It was a rough trip I tell yah. Cold beer, sunshine and some ferocious bass.
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Post by rockdunker on Apr 5, 2018 11:17:12 GMT -5
Hey at least when the snow clears the wind will blow! Hope it clears pretty soon , added another 8-9 inches today . Might be able to hit the river banks and gravel pits in a month or three . Dang that's rough, I wanted to wear flip flops and shorts yesterday and had to put on socks and long pants!
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Post by rockdunker on Apr 3, 2018 9:42:25 GMT -5
Hey at least when the snow clears the wind will blow!
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Post by rockdunker on Apr 3, 2018 9:38:39 GMT -5
Looks pretty sweet there Mr. Now if you just patent that and make a couple hundred thousand you might be Rich. Wait you're already Rich ha ha
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Post by rockdunker on Mar 5, 2018 22:55:58 GMT -5
Definitely agree on keeping motors and other equipment reasonably cool. I have way too big of a fan on the motor I'm running but the thing will burn your hand without it. Working around electric motors in oil and gas we see heat as a major issue with the things you mentioned. Bearing grease being the number one.
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Post by rockdunker on Mar 1, 2018 21:48:28 GMT -5
I like the bottom one the best!
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Post by rockdunker on Feb 27, 2018 11:24:35 GMT -5
I needed one recently, found an agate boulder the size of a Volkswagen beetle and just wanted the corner piece. 30 minutes later and a few near misses I had that thing. Probably would have been easier with that slide hammer.
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Post by rockdunker on Feb 19, 2018 12:13:31 GMT -5
DogStar it looks like a quartzite but it is hard to tell from pics. It is a texture thing. Is the lower part of the first image metalic inclusions? if so are they silvery like arsenopyrite? 2 for Quartzite, looks like some stuff I have found around Paradox and Naturita!
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Post by rockdunker on Feb 3, 2018 15:19:10 GMT -5
People walk around our town at times with At-15's. It hasn't been a big deal. Just got back from martial arts class with my son and several of the dads and moms were comparing pistols in the bleachers. The plate carrier is strange, seems if that dude was serious about firing some shots he would have when the police showed up. Unless he's one of those loonies that targets gun free zones.
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Post by rockdunker on Sept 20, 2017 21:04:19 GMT -5
Good call Ann. Figured it had to be. www.quartzpage.de/smoky.htmlIt's still common practice to artificially irradiate colorless quartz and sell it as smoky quartz. On big fairs, dealers are obliged to clearly label that quartz accordingly, but it's impossible to tell whether the source of the irradiation was natural or not just by looking at the crystals, so some dealers don't do that and get away with it. In the U.S.A. a lot of produce gets irradiated with gamma rays as a means of sterilization, and a box of white quartz just needs to be put on the same conveyor belt as the tomatoes for a couple of times. Often the dealers overdo it and the crystals turn out suspiciously black.
The only hints to tell if a specimen was irradiated are its origin and the geological environment it grew in. The latter requires a piece of matrix. Deeply colored, almost black quartz usually only occurs in igneous rocks. Gangue quartz is rarely black (at least I have never seen it), so you should raise your eyebrows over black quartz along with galenite or pyrite.
The location is often more helpful. A typical example is Arkansas. There is natural smoky quartz from Arkansas, but it is rare, and thus will not be sold by the lot on a fair. Anything smoky you get from Arkansas is irradiated. The specimen to the right probably was a little cloudy inside, and it also has a lot of little crystals grown on the prism. So it received some treatment, and voila, what a nice piece you get. Occasionally there's a picture of a "smoky quartz" from Arkansas in a book to serve as an example for a typical smoky quartz.ETA: Now about what to call a bunch of trilobites ... I would call 2 boxes of trilobites gifts for people. Especially children. I have a flock of kids that when their parents come to the nursery to buy plants , shrubs, flowers, etc, make a beeline for either the lake or the truck rock pile to hound my piles. Smile.. I have several kids who bring me rocks at times and several moms who get badgered by their kids to bring them over just to see rocks and I always give them something. Used to be polished rocks but some have gotten bored with that so I need new material to further their interests. Giving the Arkansas hint was too much and several people saw it quick. Smart bunch on here. fantastic5 No one mentioned in the fluorite crystals picture that the consistent shape and also the color of a couple was an amethyst color. grin. Busy today so wasn't on. Noah spent the day and we always go out and do things. Today was a tour of a pot growing facility, tasting last years plum wine..mmm., picking out some bourbon for Noah's tastes, tbone, and then a rummage thru my rock piles and talking rocks. Was hard to keep Noah from busting up my fav collected septarian..
That septarian is in deep doo doo when the appropriate equipment is gathered. Plumb wine, green walnut booze and whiskey make me wanna open it up with a 308. Telling the postman what his mother in law said about him still has me in stitches. "No I don't actually know her but could 500 men be wrong" lmao. Too much for TV. Anyhow it was a good time, we just need to fish more I think. I can't believe I I didn't try to buy that bucket of Madagascar agate or make a run for it. That's some pretty material, can't wait to see what cleaned up looks like.
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Post by rockdunker on Sept 18, 2017 1:03:40 GMT -5
This is a darn funny thread. Funny?? Funny?? Were old, not gay.. Honey.. How's the world and the wife treating you? Got your buck all cut up and wrapped? Ole wigglinrocks hasn't even cleaned his gun yet I bet. Know he won't use a rock on one. A rock is too precious. When you headed back to North Dakota? Need to get those books, give you something to read on those long Dakota nights. Did that carnelian come in or are you still playing with it? hehehe
Wife is you know, drinking alcohol and switching personalities by the hour. Buck got more ice thrown on it. I think Tuesday morning would work best for me to come out.Went out to the garden and dug up some carrots, horseradish, onions, basil, pasilla/ jalapeno chilies and some mint. Grabbed a couple nice chunks of backstrap and tossed a couple good sized pieces of oak brush on the charcoal in my Weber. Buddy brought over a case of beer and you know, we had us a good old fall harvest feast. Fried buck heart, grilled strap, horseradish carrots, and pan seared onions and chilies. Got two boxes of rocks in the mail. Almost got them opened up and had to fix the neighbor kids inner tube. Headeed back to ND Tuesday afternoon. Can't wait to see if more rock has been revealed or if its all mud now. can't wait to check out those books. Hoping to be down in the Odessa/ Midland area this winter. Maybe I can go find some of those nice agates in that area. Speaking of cleaning guns I need to get my but down and clear the chamber on the muzzle loader and swab it out
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Post by rockdunker on Sept 17, 2017 18:56:10 GMT -5
This is a darn funny thread.
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Post by rockdunker on Sept 8, 2017 22:35:04 GMT -5
Git R Done,we have rain here...So its coming your way too (Hopefully).............Remember start talking to the local Oldtimers,they can get you into the door faster (Rock stashes) than a dog on a bone!! I need to get my butt over there and find those old timers. I drive right by a house advertising agate for sale every time I head down to pick rocks. I want to stop in but then again I usually have about 1 hour of daylight left. So I just head down to the river and get after it. I've located a couple other common places to hound. Sure would like to find some old timer with private shore access and a big gravel bar in his backyard. I might just come back up here for a few days in the spring when the ice dams get done moving out and before the big run off.
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Post by rockdunker on Sept 8, 2017 0:27:12 GMT -5
Hit the river again last night. Had a tough time finding the big Montanas but did find quite a few golden moss, some nice looking pet wood and limb cast. Water dropped below gravel and most of the bank is mud. Lots of rock piles from other people high grading. Hitting a different spot tomorrow.
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Post by rockdunker on Sept 5, 2017 8:50:10 GMT -5
Man that is a bummer. I was looking at some issues a friend was having with his rock saw and was surprised that he was cutting agate with a mechanical auto feed. I couldn't be more of a newbie and really don't know the rock cutting business. But I still couldn't understand forcing something that hard into a saw blade. The blade had actually been bending back and forth causing a wavy cut on the slabs. We are removing the mechanical linkage and adding an adjustable weight system to let the rock cut at it's own rate. Should give him some better blade life as well.
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Post by rockdunker on Sept 4, 2017 10:47:41 GMT -5
Might have to be a bit more cold hardy for a tropical lily to make it here... brr winters. that why I like Florida and Mexico after October till April.. brrr. Here's a site that you must have been to. Stopped there many times over the years. oregonstateparks.org/index.cfm?do=parkPage.dsp_parkPage&parkId=81
Are you going tp sell tropical lilies online now? might be a really good market for a guy who know what he's doing and is an efficient producer. Give you something interesting to do also.
The first lily picture is on a mountain lake at 10,000 ft elevation. Only other water plants to speak of that high are water hyacinths. The other two pictures are from a private pond at 6,000 ft. All are winter hardy and must have good genes for cold hardy. Another one grows on the nursery property down by the river in a large pond below the main lake. Yellow flower, common weed down there I am sure. Duck weed common name??
Well that's my favorite Colorado weed. It sure makes good habitat for large mouth bass. They sure do like that topwater frog twitched through there.
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Post by rockdunker on Sept 4, 2017 10:07:55 GMT -5
Got your cookout all planned Cliff ? Heck no Boys.. No cookout for me.. Maybe rockdunker will save us a wiener. Heard he was having Asian wieners today.. I'm eating salad.. shudder...
LMAO, I may identify as a hotdog eater at times. Doesn't mean I have to do that all of the time. Those are cool weenie roasters. I'd get one but it might give the wife some bad ideas.
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Post by rockdunker on Aug 31, 2017 11:32:04 GMT -5
Ha ha yeah shoot I still haven't figured out what to do with the rocks. Trying to focus on collecting while I'm in the area and figure out what to do with them once I'm not.
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Post by rockdunker on Aug 30, 2017 23:28:54 GMT -5
Hit the Yellowstone this evening. Picked some nice rocks. Pics are garbage, need Cliff's camera.
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