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Post by snuffy on Feb 2, 2016 19:46:12 GMT -5
Absolutely an outstanding haul!
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Post by snuffy on Feb 2, 2016 19:14:20 GMT -5
Hate to hijack your thread,but I ran across this photo of my Grandson and some carrots I grew last year! I had thinned these. snuffy
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Post by snuffy on Feb 1, 2016 19:56:12 GMT -5
Thanks all! Nice! Yep,carrots take a couple weeks to come up.Need light to germinate.I always plant too thick,never getting around to thinning.I'm munching on turnips,greens,cabbage. snuffy Do they grow okay without being thinned? From what I read radishes won't do so well being crowded. I kinda figured carrots being a 'root' would be the same way. Need to thin to grow properly,too thick,just skinny roots! snuffy
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Post by snuffy on Jan 30, 2016 10:20:39 GMT -5
Nice! Yep,carrots take a couple weeks to come up.Need light to germinate.I always plant too thick,never getting around to thinning.I'm munching on turnips,greens,cabbage.
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Post by snuffy on Jan 30, 2016 9:41:53 GMT -5
*L* Be careful what you wish for Snuffy. Martin colonies of which we have several here on the ranch, are noisy! The little suckers never shut up. Chatter incessantly all the time and if you have a big colony, it can be a little annoying.....Mel Exactly what I'm hoping for Mel!!!
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Post by snuffy on Jan 30, 2016 8:47:45 GMT -5
Very cool project! Nice work. I thought those purple martins lived in those condo looking bird houses. Will they live alone or are you hanging these all in one area? Hope you get the birds you want and not killer bees or wasps. I'll mount 8 to a group on the top of the pole
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Post by snuffy on Jan 30, 2016 8:45:01 GMT -5
Ready for spring eh snuffy ? Will you hang those high on a pole ? They have a reputation of getting your bugs. Yeah James,Got some long antennae poles.Scout Martins show up in February,with the rest showing up weeks later.I always wanted to have them,before I go to the great garden and rockpile in the sky! There is a misconception about them eating mosquitos.Studies have shown only about 3% of their diet is mosquito.Due to the martins only feeding in daytime high in the sky when mosquitoes are laying low.
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Post by snuffy on Jan 30, 2016 8:10:35 GMT -5
I planted some purple martin gourds in my garden last year.Had a good crop and the last couple days I made these. Artificial gourds can be purchased,but something about the growing these from seed and making them is very satisfying.I would love to have a colony of the birds,had a group of them show up late last year,stayed a few weeks,apparently juveniles.Hope they come back! Curing them after painting.This isn't their final location. Spring around the corner,cant get here fast enough! snuffy
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Post by snuffy on Jan 29, 2016 23:14:48 GMT -5
I will be passing close on the way in and out. Maybe I can stop and take a look. What part ya headed for Mark? snuffy
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Post by snuffy on Jan 27, 2016 18:11:43 GMT -5
The Brazos is my neck of the woods and contains the same material as my area.I think a person would have to think out of the context of present day rivers and imagine great rivers eons ago,great floods and mighty rivers washing all the stuff to the Gulf of Mexico. snuffy
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Post by snuffy on Jan 27, 2016 13:12:09 GMT -5
I have 4 kids! Kinda got tough when I had 6 vehicles in the driveway and 4 teenaged drivers on my insurance,then 3 in college at the same time. But lived through it,no empty nest syndrome here!
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Post by snuffy on Jan 27, 2016 11:59:34 GMT -5
Mel,I find it very puzzling too! A half century of hounding a little above this area and no hint of some of these kinds of material! snuffy Snuffy, not sure if you ever get down this way, but I would love to get you out to these gravels. I haven't spent much time looking, but have you posted any photos of material you find in the Brazos Gravels? I would like to get an Idea of what you typically find up there. - Jeremy Jeremy,I'll have to lookup pics of some of my finds.I always concentrated on pet wood,which we have in great abundance. In fact I had only planned to tumble pet wood until I found this site about 8 years ago,then of course had to get every kind of rock there is!! I live on the Catahoula geological formation,runs through Brazos County,Huntsville,Livingston,east into Louisiana.I'm about 60 miles from Conroe as the crow flies. In my research in ancient times great rivers flowed bringing material off the east side of the emerging Rocky Mountains down towards and into the Gulf of Mexico.I could see a scenario where the San Jacinto cut into one of the earlier ancient flows and formations such as the Catahoula formed later overrunning these.We have no deep canyons or rivers to cut that deep to show earlier material.Who knows what happened over millions of years.One only needs to check out the different oil formations to see how these stacked up thousands of feet over the eons! snuffy
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Post by snuffy on Jan 27, 2016 8:30:03 GMT -5
Some day when I retire, I'm going to have to visit Texas. I'm a teacher, so I have summers off, but I doubt that's a good time to visit. I'd love to find rocks like those! If I could outrun you I would take you to the Rio Rob. That way the cartel may nab you instead. Yes, summer is brutal. Yeah,its a shame that an area of Texas that rich in wonderful rocks is unsafe to rockhound in.Just need to rely on Mel to have the pebblepups supply them. snuffy
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Post by snuffy on Jan 26, 2016 20:54:49 GMT -5
Snuffy, Yep, a real head scratcher. Aside from a couple of pet wood articles, I can find nothing written at all on the San Jacinto gravel beds. Tx's pics represent some pretty odd and interesting types of agate too. I do have to keep reminding myself though, that the George West triangle wood zone has a lot of limb casts that show agate characteristics only and no internal wood grain at all. I've got tubes, and fortifications, moss,plumy stuff etc that from the exteriors are plainly wood but, if the exteriors were removed by stream action, you'd just say moss agate or tube agate and never guess they started out as wood. Matt Dillon has a lot of agates from that region too. Since all the area around the San Jacinto is a good wood region, I find myself wondering how many of these agate types are simply the worn down interiors of what was originally pet wood where no internal wood structure remains. As exampples, these are all actually agate pet wood casts....Mel Much wood found! However,in this region it is highly silicified,have not found any agatized that I recall.
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Post by snuffy on Jan 26, 2016 20:16:24 GMT -5
Nice ones!
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Post by snuffy on Jan 26, 2016 19:32:22 GMT -5
Mel,I find it very puzzling too! A half century of hounding a little above this area and no hint of some of these kinds of material!
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Post by snuffy on Jan 21, 2016 8:28:00 GMT -5
Grit will settle immediately on the bottom if you take it off and sit it upright.There is no way in my opinion that grit is settling on the bottom with the barrel turning. Will settle on the side of the barrel if not turning.
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Post by snuffy on Dec 23, 2015 17:47:34 GMT -5
After years of use I have worn a hole in the bottom of a 12lb Lortone barrel. Is there any way to do a repair on these? Anyone know what kind of cement would glue rubber to rubber, or anything to rubber? I have nine of these running continuously, so more holes are certainly in my tumbling future. If I could extend their life, cool. I've repaired worn barrels using Plastidip spray. Works great. Tape the hole from the inside,and turn barrel upside down.You can rough up the bottom where you will spray. Spray in layers,letting each one dry.You can build up however thick you want it.Then I applied some to the inside bottom of the barrel after that.Let it cure a few days and roll away!Beats the heck out of buying new barrels! snuffy
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Post by snuffy on Dec 23, 2015 16:11:59 GMT -5
Merry Christmas to all. Had to turn the air conditioner on today,t-shirt weather.But it's gonna freeze sometimes I guess.
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Post by snuffy on Dec 22, 2015 20:41:59 GMT -5
I was shown by an 86 year old rock shop owner how he dresses his blades.He has a small metal roller,dont remember actual size attached to a metal rod with a metal plate on the end.He places the roller against the blade,puts the hood down and turns the saw on.Then pushes the rod with his hip,exerting pressure and the roller flattens the edge of the blade.Really quick. I have never tried it,but was amazed.
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