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Silver City NM/ Rock Run - by Billy

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donwrob has rocks in the head Member since June 2003 Posts: 509	Silver City NM/ Rock Run - by Billy Jun 16, 2004 21:36:41 GMT -5 Quote Select Post Deselect Post Link to Post Member Give Gift Back to Top Post by donwrob on Jun 16, 2004 21:36:41 GMT -5 Hey guys, Billy sent me a couple of pics to post from a rock hunting trip he made. Some pretty agate that looks nice and creamy. I bet it will polish up nice Billy, talk to ya later, Don

rockyraccoon no longer being taken for granite Member since December 2003 Posts: 7,980	Silver City NM/ Rock Run - by Billy Jun 16, 2004 21:51:24 GMT -5 Quote Select Post Deselect Post Link to Post Member Give Gift Back to Top Post by rockyraccoon on Jun 16, 2004 21:51:24 GMT -5 nice find billy - just can't imagine going out and picking up great rocks what must it be like? kim

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Silver City NM/ Rock Run - by Billy Jun 17, 2004 1:20:19 GMT -5

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Post by sandsman1 on Jun 17, 2004 1:20:19 GMT -5

hey billy looks like you had a fun day hunting i swear one of these days im goin on a trip somewear wit good rocks and when i get there im gonna take two or three back pills and go find me some,, just so i can say i did it hahahaha nice find--seeya --john

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krazydiamond Global Moderator Nobody knows where you are, how near or how far. Member since June 2004 Posts: 9,636	Silver City NM/ Rock Run - by Billy Jun 17, 2004 15:55:43 GMT -5 Quote Select Post Deselect Post Link to Post Member Give Gift Back to Top Post by krazydiamond on Jun 17, 2004 15:55:43 GMT -5 great find! how did you break those up so (seemingly) uniformly? i always suffer a lot of wastage when i try breaking rock up with the hammer...any tricks to it? (mind your thumbs), KD
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lotarocks43 no posts Member since February 2005 Posts: 0	Silver City NM/ Rock Run - by Billy Jun 17, 2004 18:46:53 GMT -5 Quote Select Post Deselect Post Link to Post Member Give Gift Back to Top Post by lotarocks43 on Jun 17, 2004 18:46:53 GMT -5 hey KD I just brock them up with my hammer but Im going to cut some with a rock saw I thank they will be real pretty when I get them polished

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Silver City NM/ Rock Run - by Billy Jun 17, 2004 18:58:36 GMT -5

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Post by cookie3rocks on Jun 17, 2004 18:58:36 GMT -5

Billy, those are Yummy. Like Sandman, I can't imagine beeing some where that I could just look down and find cool rocks.

KD, I get alot of waste too trying to get the right size pieces. My last Tree agate I gave up on the last big piece, it was just splintering. Plus I broke my hammer.

If you hit the speed bumbs really fast, you hardly feel them at all.

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Silver City NM/ Rock Run - by Billy Jun 18, 2004 11:37:20 GMT -5

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Post by rollingstone on Jun 18, 2004 11:37:20 GMT -5

KD, you probably already do this, but just in case not...try to find the natural planes of weakness in a stone (sometimes obvious, often guesswork, and sometimes they just don't exist). Use a rock chisel to direct the force of the hammer right into the plane of weakness. It helps to keep your chisel reasonably sharp (easily sharpened on a grindstone) in order to maximize the force of the hammer into the smallest possible area of the rock. If a rock doesn't give where you think it should, try a different spot to see if it will yield somewhere else. Keep breaking the pieces up until they end up the size you want. Try to not make them too uniform, because a mixed-size load will tumble better than a uniform load.

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Silver City NM/ Rock Run - by Billy

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