69beeper
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Post by 69beeper on Aug 3, 2005 17:44:33 GMT -5
Never really thought too much about tumbling petwood before.. but after all the petwood pics of late, and having a ton of it just laying around here, i think I'm getting the bug... besides, it's the only other thing i've found around here besides quartz that takes a polish.  Here's a few i found on the side of the driveway: Ahh.. what is this...  Look like petwood...  WHACK!! (28oz hammer).. splinters like petwood.   Another one...  and the back side..  Here they are wet...  Walked down to the gravel pit and came back with these...      Mostly browns greys and shades of white, but did see touches of blues and reds here and there Man, I reeaaaally need to get another tumbler. ;D ;D Thanks for looking Jimmy |
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walrusleather
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Post by walrusleather on Aug 3, 2005 18:02:57 GMT -5
drool drool drool,, that stuff cabs nice also, need that 30 lbs tumbler if ya ask me!
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Post by Cher on Aug 3, 2005 18:13:46 GMT -5
Get out of here, you just walked around for awhile and found all that? Wow, do you live in the petrified forest? *smile* Very nice looking stuff, best get that other tumbler soon.
Cher
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Post by cookie3rocks on Aug 3, 2005 18:18:45 GMT -5
The wood I got from Pho appeared to be mostly brown, tan and white, but once tumbled, Man, it was som beautiful stuff!
cookie
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69beeper
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Post by 69beeper on Aug 3, 2005 18:28:45 GMT -5
Get out of here, you just walked around for awhile and found all that? Wow, do you live in the petrified forest? *smile* Very nice looking stuff, best get that other tumbler soon. Cher pretty neat, eh.. find 'em just like this:  yepper.. i picked up that blue rock too  Jimmy |
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Debs
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Post by Debs on Aug 3, 2005 18:52:45 GMT -5
Wow lucky you! How much luckier can you get to walk around a little and find all of that. Where do you live that you can find all that in such a short time? Not fair...sigh! LOL!!! Nice haul and I really love that blue rock. Any idea what it is?
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chassroc
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Post by chassroc on Aug 3, 2005 19:07:19 GMT -5
Jimmy,
Too bad you only have Pet wood, seriously it looks like nice stuff to tumble
csroc
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ArkieRockhound
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Post by ArkieRockhound on Aug 3, 2005 19:16:46 GMT -5
Wow! Where do you live? Can I come spend the rest of the summer at your house? That all looks fantastic!
Trish
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tinman
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Post by tinman on Aug 3, 2005 20:49:53 GMT -5
you lucky dog you share the bone ha ha need to find rock like that I live in fl no rock here
Tinman
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Post by Cher on Aug 3, 2005 21:10:57 GMT -5
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Post by joe on Aug 4, 2005 0:42:50 GMT -5
Wow, you find those in your yard? No fair, I want a new yard. If you don't have enough tumbler space you can always consider the "networked tumbler" concept. This is where you send ten lbs. of rock to each member to tumble... Joe |
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Post by rockyraccoon on Aug 4, 2005 3:40:33 GMT -5
where are you jimmy? you are finding some great rocks and pet wood. what are those little french fry looking things on the ground?
kim
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deepsouth
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Post by deepsouth on Aug 4, 2005 5:04:15 GMT -5
Wow , cool to have that much just lying about the place .
Wish you well with the tumbling .
Jack
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69beeper
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Post by 69beeper on Aug 4, 2005 10:53:44 GMT -5
where are you jimmy? you are finding some great rocks and pet wood. what are those little french fry looking things on the ground? kim im up north in the interior of alaska.. those are fallen spruce tree needles. |
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stefan
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Post by stefan on Aug 4, 2005 11:18:32 GMT -5
Damn Lets go to ALASKA!!!! French Fries on the ground and Pet wood in the tumblers (LMAO) Nice Haul!
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Tonya
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Post by Tonya on Aug 4, 2005 11:23:09 GMT -5
WOW, wish I could find stuff like that round here, some nice lookin rocks there. What is that blue rock? thats looks kinda cool
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textiger
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Post by textiger on Aug 4, 2005 23:49:38 GMT -5
This gives whole new meaning to driveway gravel. Alaska is the largest state in the union, after all.
Seriously, that is some beautiful rock. Seeing that and the other neat stuff you've been picking up makes me wonder just how big a pile of rocks have you got?
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deepsouth
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Post by deepsouth on Aug 5, 2005 17:35:55 GMT -5
Hi Beeper , I hate to be the bearer of bad news , but I have a feeling that your " Petwood" might turn out to be a rock called " Schist". It looks so very much like the rocks we find here in the South Island of New Zealand. Some will tumble OK and others won't.
It flakes a lot which is so typical of schist. It is a metamorphic rock and filled with layers of quartz, which could contain gold.
Jack PS it might pay to pan the slurry after tumbling, for gold.
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69beeper
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Post by 69beeper on Aug 6, 2005 13:00:38 GMT -5
hopefully not, but probably so... There is lots of that layered schist type rock around here.. and I do see pieces that have been naturally smoothed and rounded that look very similar to this, but i thought it seemed to be lighter, and easier to break/crumble with a scatering of mica throughout. -don't tumble worth beans. speaking of layered quartz, i was at a river a couple weeks ago and seen up to one inch layers of quartz running through layers of what i believed to be a wall of schist or some slate type material. unfortunately i left the camera in the car. I did dig out a few pieces of quartz though.. heh oh well, i'll start a batch of this stuff on monday and see what happens thanks, jimmy |
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Post by Cher on Aug 6, 2005 13:26:00 GMT -5
Jimmy, did any of it look like it had rings in it? Hard to believe that isn't pet wood, it looks so much like it.
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