themax
having dreams about rocks
Member since April 2005
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Post by themax on Nov 1, 2006 12:42:49 GMT -5
It starts off innocently enough. You pick up a few rocks here and a few rocks there. Some small, some not so small. Then you need a tumbler. Then friends start giving you interesting things they find. Then what's a few more rocks. Then you have to move it all. Wow!!! Where'd I get all these freakin' rocks. I had them stashed everywhere. I've thinned down a bunch but still have a 5-gallon bucket full waiting for the tumbler. There's no telling how many I have polished because they're stashed here and there in jars or cans or just laying around as decorations. I felt guilty about the ones I culled. Rocks need good homes too. The stash also includes a western Kansas Post rock that's probably 8 or 10 inches square and probably 4 to 4.5 feet long, not to mention a couple of marble monument type pieces from a local quarry with our names on them. Also countless fossils of differing varities that I have found over the years plus a little petrified poo. All in all, i wouldn't be surprised if my little collection weighed over 500 pounds. I know that's probably a pretty light collection compared to some of yours.
We haven't even been moved two weeks yet and my In-Laws brought me a double handfull of stuff they picked up on their vacation that they just knew I'd love. Which I did.
Fortunately and best of all, I have a very understanding wife who tolerates my addiction.
What's in your collection that you would have to move?
Later,
The Max
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chassroc
Cave Dweller 
Rocks are abundant when you have rocktumblinghobby pals
Member since January 2005
Posts: 3,586
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Post by chassroc on Nov 1, 2006 12:50:35 GMT -5
I think you already know the answer, everything moves with you except the junk.
csroc
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Post by cina on Nov 1, 2006 13:03:47 GMT -5
I have 200# in storage atm and still have I don't know how much at the house and when I move it all goes with I just can't see any of my little friends with out a home  |
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Post by rockyraccoon on Nov 1, 2006 16:14:57 GMT -5
I wish I had gotten a picture of Sands driving off to put here. He was pointing kind of upwards lol.
kim
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Post by docone31 on Nov 1, 2006 18:12:25 GMT -5
I am gonna brag. Last week, I recieved a fossil. A museum was selling out a lot of their valuable fossils. Interest had waned on certain things. They had a buyer for the piece, the offer was 25,000$. The museum knew about me. The museum did not like the buyer, no matter what he offered. He was like my wife's brother. They cancelled the sale and gave it to me. They knew I would never sell it. No matter what.
It weighs 100lbs and contains a jaw from the predecessor of the megladon. It is one of five pieces known to exist.
I have it in the front of my shop. I let people touch it. I let them take pictures, stare, and some of the elder boomers even flash to get Jerry Beads. Yuck, I am not that hard up.
What would I keep? That one for sure. When I get a photo taken, I will find someone on here to post it for everybody to see.
I share these treasures to the world. I just protect them from damage and abuse.
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AgateChaser
starting to spend too much on rocks
Member since March 2006
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Post by AgateChaser on Nov 1, 2006 20:50:09 GMT -5
What would I move? Probably all of my little Rockpups rocks and stones that she collects on a daily basis. All the ones she leaves in my washing machine, in our car, in her wagon, in her drawers, in her bed! I'm not kidding! This kids collection is mostly Leaverite but, to her, it's worth millions and that's about the weight I'd be moving! LOL!
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Post by Tweetiepy on Nov 2, 2006 15:25:35 GMT -5
I just moved and I moved it all - all except the 20# of apatites & non-specimen worthy minerals I had collected small pieces that fall apart in the tumbler but kept the larger, maybe-I-can-do-something-with-them-later pieces. I have a puny amount of rock compared to anyone else, I have maybe 50# - not even, but I just last night finished labelling them - gotta get a shot of those.
Hubby offered to put up shelves, I told him I need those heavy duty shelves.. Not wall shelves...
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stefan
Cave Dweller
Member since January 2005
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Post by stefan on Nov 2, 2006 17:47:44 GMT -5
It all moves- Everything from the 60# tourmaline encrusted Mica Boulder- down to the little bits of trilobite fossil- I moved it into the house- and if I ever move out- it goes with me- ALL OF IT!!! )probably close to 2000 lbs (good thing the shop is in the basement- oh wait that means it would all have to be carried up stairs!)
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WarrenA
fully equipped rock polisher
Member since November 2003
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Post by WarrenA on Nov 3, 2006 20:32:17 GMT -5
I would move all of it. all 1,500+ lbs plus all the equipment even if it doesn't work right now
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