Post by Sabre52 on Oct 24, 2011 13:19:46 GMT -5
Howdy folks,
Been working pretty hard with all the brush cutting and trail clearing lately, so yesterday I took me a day off. Went for a nice ride on Hopper in the AM and in the afternoon, I had me an appointment to visit an old timer's rock collection a couple of towns away and hunt me some rocks in his piles. Man I was like a horse in tall clover. Had me a great old time and brought back as much as I had money for, about 150# of primo material, mostly petrified wood from Texas. Here are a few pics of about 1/3 the lot, mostly the small stuff. About twenty pounds is tumble stuff I don't even have to crack up and a lot of it is palm and moss agate.
Group pic of 1/3 the lot. The big white checkery looking hunks are shrinkwood ( hexagonally fractured petrified wood). All Texas stuff and a lot of it is palm fiber. Most has a whiter or black coating so hard to tell what will be inside.
Nice hunk showing hexagonal fracturing:
Another hunk of shrinkwood:
George West type mossy wood replacements:
Shrinkwood but with lots of mossy inclusions too:
Just a tiny amount of the shrinkwood from this lot:
Been working pretty hard with all the brush cutting and trail clearing lately, so yesterday I took me a day off. Went for a nice ride on Hopper in the AM and in the afternoon, I had me an appointment to visit an old timer's rock collection a couple of towns away and hunt me some rocks in his piles. Man I was like a horse in tall clover. Had me a great old time and brought back as much as I had money for, about 150# of primo material, mostly petrified wood from Texas. Here are a few pics of about 1/3 the lot, mostly the small stuff. About twenty pounds is tumble stuff I don't even have to crack up and a lot of it is palm and moss agate.
Group pic of 1/3 the lot. The big white checkery looking hunks are shrinkwood ( hexagonally fractured petrified wood). All Texas stuff and a lot of it is palm fiber. Most has a whiter or black coating so hard to tell what will be inside.
Nice hunk showing hexagonal fracturing:
Another hunk of shrinkwood:
George West type mossy wood replacements:
Shrinkwood but with lots of mossy inclusions too:
Just a tiny amount of the shrinkwood from this lot:
