deepsouth
fully equipped rock polisher
He who rocks last rocks best
Member since January 2004
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Post by deepsouth on Jun 23, 2004 6:39:16 GMT -5
Hi All, My name is Jack Geerlings and I live in the far south of New Zealand. I am a dairyfarmer, mostly retired now and have a love for the land..what's on it and under it. I have had a hunkering for stones for a long time , but not had the time to follow this great hobby until i retired from active farming. 2 of our sons are now running the show which leaves me enough time on my hands to rock and roll. There is quite a variety of rocks to be found here on the beaches and in the rivers. I have bought one lortone 6lbs tumbler and borrowed a double tumbler..brand unknown, but it works..fulltime  I only bought my tumbler last december and still feel very new . Thanks to this great site I have learned a lot and try to follow all the usefull hints. There are times that the stones turn out rather dull and sometimes it can be fixed by 4 days in soap.. I use a bar of sunlight soap. Tonights lot came out pretty good , whic was a mix of beach stones futher north than my normal area.and some others as many in the first grit were no good to carry further yet. I still hope to get another tumbler and I will have to return the borrowed one one of these days. I use one for polishing and soap only. I also invested in a second hand big slabsaw 24" blade. And I managed to get a diamond and Pacific flatlap vibrator , imported from the US of A. With my wife I look after a big garden and she is the one with the good eyes for colour as I am colourblind  So one day we hope to make something pretty with all those pretty stones . Stones to be found nearby are agate, sapphire, grossular-garnets petrified wood etc etc Can some-one tell me how to get a picture attached? I will post it as soon as I have mastered thatone haha. Greetings Jack |
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bschultz
starting to spend too much on rocks
Member since March 2004
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Post by bschultz on Jun 23, 2004 9:37:14 GMT -5
Hi Jack, welcome to the board and congradulations on your retirement. I still have about 7 yrs. before I can retire but I am looking forward to it. If you want to post pictures on the board I would suggest that you go to photobucket.com and become a member. It's a free picture hosting service and very easy to use. Once you get your photo uploaded to photobucket you can post the url in your message and the photo will appear in place of the text that you put in the message. As your writing your message you will notice two rows of buttons to the right of where it says "Add Tags". Where ever you want your picture to appear in your message just hit the icon on the second row, 4th icon to the right. Like this ![]() . Replace the URL in the middle with the URL address under your photo over on the photobucket site by copying and pasteing. It's easier if you open two browser windows so that you can be on the photobucket site and this site at the same time. Hope this helps and have fun on the board. Everybody here is very pleasant and helpful. Bob |
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donwrob
has rocks in the head
Member since June 2003
Posts: 509
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Post by donwrob on Jun 23, 2004 10:59:31 GMT -5
Hey Jack! Welcome to the RTH site, great place huh? You are deep south..hehe, probably starting winter now isn't it? Bob pretty much nailed the pic posting but if you still have trouble speak up, most all of us had fits posting our first pics. Or, if you don't have a place on the net to link to like photo bucket, you are welcome to send them to my e-mail addy and I can put them up for you. Again, welcome & talk to you later, Don from Ohio
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Post by krazydiamond on Jun 23, 2004 15:31:25 GMT -5
welcome to this site, Jack!
sounds like you jumped in with both feet, way to go! look forward to seeing some of those beach rocks!
cheers,
KD
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Post by cookie3rocks on Jun 23, 2004 18:59:27 GMT -5
Hey, you made it. Welcome aboard! lots of great advise and good people too  See ya on the boards cookie |
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bwalters
has rocks in the head
Member since March 2004
Posts: 557
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Post by bwalters on Jun 23, 2004 19:26:54 GMT -5
Welcome, Jack! I'm looking forward to hearing more from you and also to seeing some of your rocks. Can't wait to see what you can do with that 24" saw!
Barbara (from Texas)
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RiverOtter
spending too much on rocks
Member since January 2004
Posts: 339
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Post by RiverOtter on Jun 23, 2004 23:08:53 GMT -5
Pics, cool can't wait. We're all a sucker for pics of rocks. (If you hadn't already noticed!) Anyway, welcome to the board!
Otter (from Indiana)
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Post by hi all on Jun 24, 2004 0:07:19 GMT -5
Thanks to all of you for your fast reply ;D It is great to be on board. I have been to photobucket and will post some of the pics here. ![]() Here I am sitting with 2 of my grandchildren on Bluff Hill, Can't go much further south in New Zealand. I had better show some rocks too ![]() and with a bit of luck you get some more here ![]() How many fotos should one post at anyone time? Greetings to you all. Jack from the deepsouth |
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Post by rockyraccoon on Jun 24, 2004 1:08:51 GMT -5
welcome jack! i can't see the pics  but i want to ;D. you can't post too many pics for me - i like them! kim |
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bschultz
starting to spend too much on rocks
Member since March 2004
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Post by bschultz on Jun 24, 2004 9:00:17 GMT -5
Hey Jack, are you sure you are doing a copy and paste of the URL. There are 3 things to chose from under your pictures at photobucket. I believe the URL is the first one.
Bob (from Texas)
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Post by sandsman1 on Jun 24, 2004 9:54:59 GMT -5
WELCOME JACK---you cant post to many pics for me thats the most fun of all seeing rocks from everywear (too cool) and it sounds like you got real good pickins so post away ,,and dont get frustrated it took me acouple weeks to get it all down before any of my pics showed hahaha thanks to ron it finaly sunk in, ok seeya and dont be a stranger come back often
johnny sands---philly pa,---the concrete jungle --hahaha
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shorty
spending too much on rocks
Member since December 2003
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Post by shorty on Jun 24, 2004 12:56:12 GMT -5
;D ;D hi jack welcome hope to see a lot of pic. shorty from michigan and con grats on retirement.
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deepsouth
fully equipped rock polisher
He who rocks last rocks best
Member since January 2004
Posts: 1,256
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Post by deepsouth on Jun 24, 2004 17:37:13 GMT -5
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Post by forgot to login on Jun 24, 2004 18:38:15 GMT -5
A bunch of great rocks, Jack! Also, nice to meet ya'! Now, if you want to post those pics on the Member's photographs forum, you just click on the 4th little square on the bottom row, the image icon, then delete URL between the ![]() brackets and paste in the URL of your pics and you get this  It took several tries before I got it right and I am so proud to be able to tell someone else how to do it! ;D Now I gotta go login! llana (from the Great State of Texas) |
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deepsouth
fully equipped rock polisher
He who rocks last rocks best
Member since January 2004
Posts: 1,256
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Post by deepsouth on Jun 24, 2004 19:13:27 GMT -5
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deepsouth
fully equipped rock polisher
He who rocks last rocks best
Member since January 2004
Posts: 1,256
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Post by deepsouth on Jun 24, 2004 19:14:57 GMT -5
Hmm , this was no good , once more...  |
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tarylina
noticing nice landscape pebbles
Member since May 2004
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Post by tarylina on Jun 24, 2004 19:15:30 GMT -5
Llana - I'm so jealous! Those are beautiful!! I hope someday I can get a batch like that...
Jack - New Zealand, WOW!! That's one of my dream countries to visit and/or live in - the other is Canada. My Grandma toured most of the world, and said that New Zealand was the most beautiful country she had ever seen.
Lucky you! Please take pictures of your country and post them. Please?
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llanago
fully equipped rock polisher
Member since January 2004
Posts: 1,714
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Post by llanago on Jun 24, 2004 19:18:26 GMT -5
You got it, Jack! Tary, those are Jack's rocks, not mine! But, thanks anyway!  |
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tarylina
noticing nice landscape pebbles
Member since May 2004
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Post by tarylina on Jun 24, 2004 19:24:33 GMT -5
Oh, sorry. Jack, great job! I'm jealous...
Those are some beautiful stones, Jack. I say gather a bunch and sell them on e-bay (OMG I love e-bay!)
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Post by sandsman1 on Jun 24, 2004 19:28:31 GMT -5
DAM jack you found and polished some realy great rocks those are way cool lookin, you got some there i havent been able to top and i buy most all mine hahaha im jealous haha, i see you got some jr rockhounds to hunt with startum young haha, my daughter is 15 she dont live with me but she was here fathers day and she left with about 25lb of rock and my new lortone QT-66 tumbler so i think shes hooked on rocks hahaha ok seeya and keep the pics commin seeya ---john
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but i want to ;D. you can't post too many pics for me - i like them!
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