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Another nice specimen. Do you just go out and find these things? I couldn’t imagine ever stumbling across such a huge chunk of pet wood. Or do you go to some kind of pay site or something? Things are so different here on the east coast it’s hard for me to picture.
Another nice specimen. Do you just go out and find these things? I couldn’t imagine ever stumbling across such a huge chunk of pet wood. Or do you go to some kind of pay site or something? Things are so different here on the east coast it’s hard for me to picture.
Most of the wood I show is self dug, with the exception of Hubbard Basin. I have never been there. This piece of elm I got out of an old hole that still had wood in it. Lot of work. I no longer do any digging like that. Too hard on the old body. When we left it there was still wood in the ground, but would have took a lot of work to get it out, it was hard enough for what we got. We can dig on public land with restrictions. basic rule is 25 lbs per day plus one piece not to exceed 250 pounds in a year.
This is what the country looks like where I did most of my digging.
Hiking up and down those hills must really get to you after a long day. On the other hand I bet a 25 or 30 pound piece must feel like 200 pounds after climbing 5 or 6 of those hills. Nice country though
Any agate is fun to cut and polish, I would post some pictures of the stuff I have finished but unable to post pictures nor can I add any posts also have a sweet geode I recently cut. So I put this up to see if I can add to profile nothing else will.
Post by dreamrocks on Mar 18, 2020 13:09:34 GMT -5
Do you find them already exposed on the surface or is it a game of chance and just start digging a hole and hope there’s something worth digging for
Any agate is fun to cut and polish, I would post some pictures of the stuff I have finished but unable to post pictures nor can I add any posts also have a sweet geode I recently cut. So I put this up to see if I can add to profile nothing else will.
Do you find them already exposed on the surface or is it a game of chance and just start digging a hole and hope there’s something worth digging for
look for chip trails coming down the hill, follow them up until they run out and start digging. sometimes you get lucky. in the lower photo we found four places to dig and got some good wood out of all of them.
Another nice specimen. Do you just go out and find these things? I couldn’t imagine ever stumbling across such a huge chunk of pet wood. Or do you go to some kind of pay site or something? Things are so different here on the east coast it’s hard for me to picture.
Most of the wood I show is self dug, with the exception of Hubbard Basin. I have never been there. This piece of elm I got out of an old hole that still had wood in it. Lot of work. I no longer do any digging like that. Too hard on the old body. When we left it there was still wood in the ground, but would have took a lot of work to get it out, it was hard enough for what we got. We can dig on public land with restrictions. basic rule is 25 lbs per day plus one piece not to exceed 250 pounds in a year.
Hey thanks for the info. How do you go about finding places to look for the wood. I’m guess it’s different in your neck of the woods than it is here, but am wondering if there’s anything like that around me and how to find it,
Most of the wood I show is self dug, with the exception of Hubbard Basin. I have never been there. This piece of elm I got out of an old hole that still had wood in it. Lot of work. I no longer do any digging like that. Too hard on the old body. When we left it there was still wood in the ground, but would have took a lot of work to get it out, it was hard enough for what we got. We can dig on public land with restrictions. basic rule is 25 lbs per day plus one piece not to exceed 250 pounds in a year.
Hey thanks for the info. How do you go about finding places to look for the wood. I’m guess it’s different in your neck of the woods than it is here, but am wondering if there’s anything like that around me and how to find it,
i FIRST found about this place from a book of rock hounding sites in Oregon. It got us in the general location and we went from there. there may be something for your area.
Hey thanks for the info. How do you go about finding places to look for the wood. I’m guess it’s different in your neck of the woods than it is here, but am wondering if there’s anything like that around me and how to find it,
i FIRST found about this place from a book of rock hounding sites in Oregon. It got us in the general location and we went from there. there may be something for your area.
Mystery solved. Many thanks again my friend and wish you the best while out hunting.
Post by oldschoolrocker on Mar 19, 2020 16:06:13 GMT -5
So cool to be able to dig for treasure like that! I love Texas but very much dislike that some 98% of land is private owned. While I can find an abundance of pet wood pieces in local river gravel theres not much bigger than Cpl inches long. Always enjoy seeing your work!
So cool to be able to dig for treasure like that! I love Texas but very much dislike that some 98% of land is private owned. While I can find an abundance of pet wood pieces in local river gravel theres not much bigger than Cpl inches long. Always enjoy seeing your work!
Sounds like New Jersey. Went out last week to check out a few places I scooped out on google Earth and everywhere I went there were no trespassing signs post al over.
So cool to be able to dig for treasure like that! I love Texas but very much dislike that some 98% of land is private owned. While I can find an abundance of pet wood pieces in local river gravel theres not much bigger than Cpl inches long. Always enjoy seeing your work!
Sounds like New Jersey. Went out last week to check out a few places I scooped out on google Earth and everywhere I went there were no trespassing signs post al over.
Yeah, it's hard to imagine with how big Texas is that there isnt large swaths of land open to the public. And sad that many of the best fee based rockhounding private ranches have closed to the public. So it's a GOOD thing that this site exists so can get our fill of looking at awesome rocks and the creations of the amazing artists that are members here!
We carried a 200 lb chunk about a mile down that creek bed. used a burlap sack and two rakes to make a litter. One old man, one wife, one strong 16 year old kid and one friend with bad knee.
Sounds like New Jersey. Went out last week to check out a few places I scooped out on google Earth and everywhere I went there were no trespassing signs post al over.
Yeah, it's hard to imagine with how big Texas is that there isnt large swaths of land open to the public. And sad that many of the best fee based rockhounding private ranches have closed to the public. So it's a GOOD thing that this site exists so can get our fill of looking at awesome rocks and the creations of the amazing artists that are members here!
OXmap.com program show all property ownership, both private and public, well worth the cost if you get out a lot.
Yeah, it's hard to imagine with how big Texas is that there isnt large swaths of land open to the public. And sad that many of the best fee based rockhounding private ranches have closed to the public. So it's a GOOD thing that this site exists so can get our fill of looking at awesome rocks and the creations of the amazing artists that are members here!
OXmap.com program show all property ownership, both private and public, well worth the cost if you get out a lot.
That rotating specimen reveals a super polish at certain moments.
If we were able to carry the love and tolerance shown here into the world as a whole and get anyone to follow the example set, who knows what could be born from that? Stonemon RIP
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