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Post by jamesp on Apr 18, 2015 14:48:35 GMT -5
This stuff will make your mother lynch you. wife too. Dug out of a sand free vein in a bank for tumbling slurry.  Best wash feet before heading in the house.  Higher sand content on left from another location  mud ball dropped from 4 feet  |
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Post by Deleted on Apr 18, 2015 16:43:40 GMT -5
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Post by jamesp on Apr 18, 2015 16:54:48 GMT -5
I have made a living with mud for 25 years. strange life Scott. |
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Post by Fossilman on Apr 18, 2015 17:03:44 GMT -5
Reminds me of a place in Montana,they call "Gumbo Ridge"..Went it even starts to look like rain,you get the heck out of that area! Or your not going anywhere till it dries again...LOL
Slicker than snot!!!!!!!!!!!
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Post by jamesp on Apr 18, 2015 17:08:47 GMT -5
Reminds me of a place in Montana,they call "Gumbo Ridge"..Went it even starts to look like rain,you get the heck out of that area! Or your not going anywhere till it dries again...LOL Slicker than snot!!!!!!!!!!! I have heard of places like that out west. Add your steep hills and the gumbo will stop you in your tracks. |
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Post by orrum on Apr 18, 2015 17:19:52 GMT -5
Got stuck in downtown Crawford Nebraska in caliche/gumbo mud in the middle of a city street! Was driving on a dirt back street, lots of towns out there have dirt streets. Anyway was driving along and thought the GPS thingy was wrong so I stopped right in the middle of the street to consult the Rand McNally map and suddenly the passenger side of the truck went down to the frame!!! Got out to look and the road on that side was like walking on shifting pudding. A cowboy came by in his truck heading to a branding and stopped and pulled me out! He said he would have to pull me out backwards, I asked why and found out everybody in town knew that side of the road was caliche. You were supposed to get over and go fast through that area. Just my luck, a whole town of dirt roads and I so in the only bog! His name was Sam, thank ye Lord for cowboys named Sam!!!
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Post by rockpickerforever on Apr 18, 2015 18:08:44 GMT -5
Bill, leave it to you to find slime pits! Hooray for Cowboy Sam!
James, you probably enjoy tracking that hot red mess all over the place, lol.
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Post by bhiatt on Apr 18, 2015 18:50:29 GMT -5
Me plus another laborer and an operator set the foul ball posts at this baseball complex. They had red clay trucked in from Georgia. It looked much brigher orange when I was there. I am a big fan of circle track dirt racing and the tracks with that Georgia clay look insane. Where I live the ground has clay like you mentioned but it is not the cool looking orange just gray.  |
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Post by jamesp on Apr 18, 2015 19:04:15 GMT -5
I see clay experience is a part of life in other lands. Clay cowboys and construction masters. Glad orrum and bhiatt have had clay enter their life. May the clay make their day. |
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Post by bhiatt on Apr 18, 2015 19:17:28 GMT -5
also back in 2010 I was working with guardrail crew. We were taking out old guardrail which had been there 30 years. The ground was clay. When they pulled the I beams out of the ground the steel still looked brand new. Also the old 30 year old steel in my opinion was better than the brand new I beams they re installed. Wasted money if you ask me. Did miles of it just east of St Louis along interstate 55-70.
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Post by jamesp on Apr 18, 2015 19:17:58 GMT -5
Bill, leave it to you to find slime pits! Hooray for Cowboy Sam! James, you probably enjoy tracking that hot red mess all over the place, lol. I always regretted not marrying a mud wrestling champion. "Saturday I drove to East Dublin to witness something that only the south could spawn, the Redneck Games. The Redneck games were started in East Dublin in 1996 while the Olympics were in Atlanta. Its basically a giant gathering of blue-blood rednecks, good ol’ boys, white trash, and those who come to watch. There are games like the mud pit belly-flop contest, the arm-pit serenade, seed spitting contest, bobbing for pigs feet, well you get the idea."  |
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Post by bhiatt on Apr 18, 2015 19:24:43 GMT -5
Golden Isle Speedway is in Georgia and that is where the dirt track late models start their season off at. They bring these brand new high dollar cars in and that Georgia clay practically welds itself onto everything on the car.
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Post by jamesp on Apr 18, 2015 19:25:28 GMT -5
also back in 2010 I was working with guardrail crew. We were taking out old guardrail which had been there 30 years. The ground was clay. When they pulled the I beams out of the ground the steel still looked brand new. Also the old 30 year old steel in my opinion was better than the brand new I beams they re installed. Wasted money if you ask me. Did miles of it just east of St Louis along interstate 55-70. Most lake dams are of clay around here. They dig out the sand and mud and refill with clay. Drive over it many times till it is packed. Rarely does a clay dam leak. Never knew it preserves iron. probably keeps the oxygen sealed out to prevent oxidation. My neighbors plow their fields with 36 and 42 inch deep sub soiled plows to increase soil drainage. Takes a serious tractor to pull those plows. |
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Post by jamesp on Apr 18, 2015 19:29:00 GMT -5
Golden Isle Speedway is in Georgia and that is where the dirt track late models start their season off at. They bring these brand new high dollar cars in and that Georgia clay practically welds itself onto everything on the car. There is a lot of dirt tracks around. It is a big past time. big tires on the outside, little ones on the inside. Gobs of HP. |
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Post by bhiatt on Apr 18, 2015 19:32:49 GMT -5
I don't know a whole lot about if clay preserves iron or not, I would of thought maybe some pitting or something in the iron after 30 years of being in the ground. None at all.
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Post by jamesp on Apr 19, 2015 8:42:25 GMT -5
I don't know a whole lot about if clay preserves iron or not, I would of thought maybe some pitting or something in the iron after 30 years of being in the ground. None at all. The ability to seal off oxygen and if clay had a neutral ph also could stop rust Brad. Old dirt bikes covered in mud sitting in a barn are often with fine paint jobs after washing them. Even keeps the sun from fading the paint. good excuse to never wash your car  |
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Post by cpdad on Apr 19, 2015 13:15:25 GMT -5
our local red clay dirt track closed...they were building a motocross track there also...was gearing up for that...then it all fell apart...not sure what happened. i hate our red clay when i have to remove it from something ...but at times love it...specially when i can race on it....raced all over georgia and south carolina...but i got old...stuff is now sold...or wrecked . i have a good friend that has made 100k...this year...with his son driving...on the way to 150k...in dang go karts...can you believe that.but...i had fun....and won a few...kev.  |
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Post by jamesp on Apr 20, 2015 7:24:07 GMT -5
You da man cpdad. Wicked machine. How much weight and how much HP Kev ? Man that looks fun, can hear it clean across the state |
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Post by gingerkid on Apr 20, 2015 10:37:17 GMT -5
James, you probably enjoy tracking that hot red mess all over the place, lol. ROFL!! I always regretted not marrying a mud wrestling champion."Saturday I drove to East Dublin to witness something that only the south could spawn, the Redneck Games. The Redneck games were started in East Dublin in 1996 while the Olympics were in Atlanta. Its basically a giant gathering of blue-blood rednecks, good ol’ boys, white trash, and those who come to watch. There are games like the mud pit belly-flop contest, the arm-pit serenade, seed spitting contest, bobbing for pigs feet, well you get the idea." omg, scary, lol, jamesp! |
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Post by jamesp on Apr 20, 2015 11:39:55 GMT -5
I am sure they had impacted clay in every orifice gingerkid. Cotton and red clay do not get along. I think that stuff can stain plate glass. As boys we used to slide down giant clay slopes in a deep erosion gully back in the woods. Mom would kill us. Worth the whippin. |
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