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Post by brybry on Oct 16, 2022 17:38:44 GMT -5
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Post by hummingbirdstones on Oct 16, 2022 17:44:40 GMT -5
Holy smokes, no wonder you guys were toast! That's a lot of rocks. Looks like you found some real nice material. Now I think you deserve a beer and a nap!
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Post by brybry on Oct 16, 2022 18:17:09 GMT -5
The Summerville stuff is hit or miss. Some is soft and very fracture prone. If you tap with a hammer,the weak stuff falls off. Some things I picked will be decorative yard rocks.
There was still areas we hadn't gotten to. We're ready to go back. AFTER a long soak in a tub and some sleep. Even my buttcrack is sore, lol.
The quarry has their own rock crusher so there are piles of various sizes all over to dig through. Very little actually wasn't surface float. We did very little digging.
Sissy got 3 buckets, a few bigguns and a sandbag full to clean up to put around her flower beds.
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Post by brybry on Oct 17, 2022 15:08:46 GMT -5
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Post by jasoninsd on Oct 17, 2022 17:22:13 GMT -5
It looks to me like Porcus is going to be pigging out for quite awhile! LOL Nice haul...and super great you were able to spend time with your sis!
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Post by brybry on Oct 17, 2022 17:31:12 GMT -5
Running face cuts already I'll pick it back up tomorrow. Some of this material is weird so should be an interesting education.
We had a blast and really want to go back. Give it a month for fresh material and go again.
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Post by quartzilla on Oct 18, 2022 21:22:15 GMT -5
Wow that’s a lot of rock. I don’t even think Flinstone and Rubble moved that much around in a day at the old quarry.
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Post by brybry on Oct 19, 2022 9:59:27 GMT -5
Wow that’s a lot of rock. I don’t even think Flinstone and Rubble moved that much around in a day at the old quarry. Could have gone all day but I don't sleep when I visit. Takes a couple days to get used to my surroundings. Next trip I'll either go solo or pick her up on the way.
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Post by brybry on Jan 8, 2023 19:28:21 GMT -5
Back story ....
Sissy, we adopted each other as kin, better than my blood family, Sissy has a memorial in her yard outside of the kitchen window. The rocks she's been hounding has Ben used to decorate the memorial. The clay is so compacted that nothing will grow. Soooo, Sissy needed more pretty rock so off we go at 6:30 am to get us both more pretty rock.
An hour out it started raining. Nothing hard, just a good, solid heavy drizzle. Don't care, I'll have 3 hrs one way in time and 3/4 tank of gas, Bry is doing this s###! Ex-infantry baby, slept in the rain, capped in the rain, trained in the rain. Rockhounding in the rain, IF it was ever going to be on a bucket list of mine is now a done deal.
It quit raining by the time we pulled in BUT WAIT, there's more, 😉. We start on the bottom deck with a drive around and stopped at the only pile on that level. Within 10 minutes it started raining again. We didn't care, it was a light sprinkle so carried on. We hit anything good and cruised up the 2nd level. Nothing there but mud and water, so off to the top level we go. At this point I was patting myself on the back for having the new ally terrain tires put on before our trip. ONLY reason we made it up the steepish, wet & slippery ,, fairly steep clay road. Was a bit of lightly, judicious got pedal involved.
So cruise a circle and park where there is enough gravel down the truck didn't sink. We broke out and started looking but no piles like last time. We were gonna have to this the hard way. Got about 20 minutes into it and it started drizzling again. 20 minutes later, Sissy broke for the truck. I, on the I other hand, kept going cuz its only water and high 40s-low 50s.
I have a couple types of rocks there I purposely look for and after an hour I found a veritable motherlode of my favorite. Sissy popped out here and there to pick more rocks and check on me. By the time we called it a day, I had to drive around in the truck to pick up my piles. The clay was Apollo sticky, I was over 6ft tall for a bit and the extra weight was wearing me down. As I picked up my pile, I mourned for not having enough energy to fish the hill I was on. We start going down the hill carefully but we were dragging just enough that the rear end was plowing the high center of the road. Trackhoes and the other equipment left some wide ruts that we had to use. No harm done. I realized what it was when got down to the middle level.
Couple swallows to Dr Pepper and I was good enough for 1 more bucket. Sissy was cool hanging out for a few so I hit the bottom of the hill. Damn it man! I packed a t gallon bucket and almost shed a tear over having to leave. The mother love could've filled 2 more buckets easily off of surface collecting. I was spent, burnt toast done, even my ass hurt. So we proceeded to head to w more piles so I could 1 good sized near black rock and a few pieces of sandstone. We decided to drive over the scale and ended the day with the truck just shy of 5940 pounds
I left with 6-7 large rocks and the equivalent of 10 1/2 5 gallon buckets. Sissy got 3 5 gallon buckets and 14 largish rocks to border the memorial. Give me a day or 2 and I'll get the rocks sprayed off and get some pics.
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Post by brybry on Jan 10, 2023 16:21:06 GMT -5
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Post by jasoninsd on Jan 10, 2023 16:36:49 GMT -5
Loved reading the story brother! You definitely got quite the haul!!!
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Post by brybry on Jan 10, 2023 16:48:19 GMT -5
The majority is fist sized or smaller.. Did get some that'll go in the tile saw. Got a couple to stash off for an eventual flower bed border. Had a blast, another 8 buckets of tumble rough, lol. Whatever sucks gets to decorate the driveway.
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Post by brybry on Jan 10, 2023 16:55:43 GMT -5
I forgot to mention that I did find HUGE nodules but they were more opalish stuff than good stuff. I even found clay nodules that were buried in the regular clay that gave a good idea how the modules formed and solidified. Found a couple small clay nodules that had an agate center about the size of a dime or smaller. Was cool finding those.
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Post by jamesp on Jan 12, 2023 5:16:23 GMT -5
Glad you found this spot. Check out Kingston Ga too.
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Post by brybry on Jan 12, 2023 7:57:33 GMT -5
What's in Kingston?
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Post by hummingbirdstones on Jan 12, 2023 10:06:28 GMT -5
I just saw this so thought I'd post it. See bottom of page 2 for jamesp's post here.
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Post by jamesp on Jan 12, 2023 11:04:53 GMT -5
The big 4 laner from Cartersville to Rome. 411 or 441 ? There is a main road turning 90 degrees north to the town of Kingston. Must be 4 to 6 miles. About half way up is a large power line cut N to S. I turned left thru a subdivision to get to the easement. Years back it was covered with jasper. But any dirt road or graded area or the power line cut in that area is rich in jasper. 2019 GE, but 2022 GE shows a massive clearing along power cut of small subdivision dead center in sat shot Two miles to the west is arrowhead city so to speak. The big semicircular plowed field is now(or was) closed to public. Note Etowah River encompasses it. There is 5 artifact rich Native camps in that field, 3 to 4 fish weirs (VV)(double or single 'V' shaped rock piles across the river)0, go to GE and zoom in, they are readily visible). The weirs adjacent to the camps. You can fill shoe boxes with broken arrowheads and find many whole ones in that field. There were once mounds there but the farm boys bulldozed them flat long ago. along with many burials, unfortunately human teeth are fairly common too. Many black flint arrowheads, hand tools, flint hairpins and tiny bird points. west camp in plowed field is mostly later Mississippian culture occupation, bird points there: Almost any plowed field in that area has points, lots of Native man there. Stomp around there brybry, lots of cool rock/artifacts. I think it is oolitic jasper.
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Post by brybry on Jan 12, 2023 13:39:36 GMT -5
I just saw this so thought I'd post it. See bottom of page 2 for jamesp's post here. I saw his post when I had to head to work. Thanks for making it easier to find, 🤗 Next time I'm up that way I'll have to check it out. Thank you for the heads up.
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Post by pebblesky on Jan 12, 2023 14:56:22 GMT -5
Sounds an exciting and fruitful trip. The banded agates look sweet. Have you had any chance tumbling/cabbing some? Curious to see how they hold up.
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Post by brybry on Jan 12, 2023 15:23:09 GMT -5
I have batch in the tumbler now. Next time I clean it out I'll post some pics. So far very little undercutting.
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