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Post by MrMike on Apr 9, 2017 19:39:09 GMT -5
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Post by MrMike on Apr 9, 2017 18:08:27 GMT -5
Got a dwarf Alberta spruce & all the bottom branches were dead. Wife says "You need to cut those off & trim it up". Got the chainsaw & did as instructed. Now it's "Ewww, will branches grow back?" Told her yes but it takes a while.....
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Post by MrMike on Apr 9, 2017 11:19:21 GMT -5
Hell,our gas is $2.63 already!!! Geez, I'd like to see Trump tell the OPEC cartel to stick it & use the resources we have to make us energy independent.
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Post by MrMike on Apr 8, 2017 22:42:02 GMT -5
Heck, MrMike , they look as good as most of mine. Mostly tumble self collected rocks so a lot are fractured from freeze/thaw. Some of them with pits will ground down to mud before all the pits are gone. After about so long in coarse if they're still pitted they go out to the gravel driveway. Nicce selection of colors in there. Russ Thanks Russ
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Post by MrMike on Apr 8, 2017 22:13:04 GMT -5
MrMike Some of those fractures are tough to deal with, but you got a shine on them anyway. I really like that 6,7,8 run. Montana's are always a favorite. Keep 'em coming. Thanks Randy, the bottom Montana came from you, it has the parallax effect, need to do a short vid of it.
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Post by MrMike on Apr 8, 2017 22:10:24 GMT -5
Can't recall if that's one I got from GRocker or found at the river.
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Post by MrMike on Apr 8, 2017 21:22:07 GMT -5
Well, 12 hours of smoking has been finished and here is the final product. This will get wrapped up and stored in the fridge for 5 or 6 days to let the smoke mellow out a bit. I'll slice it up and vacuum seal a bunch of bags and then it's off to the freezer. Now them are some purdy slabs Dave.
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Post by MrMike on Apr 8, 2017 20:51:42 GMT -5
Awww, Thanks guys! So far so good, cut up some more of that Lavic jasper today. Happy birthday Susan !!!
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Post by MrMike on Apr 8, 2017 20:47:32 GMT -5
4/8/2017 On the way back home after eating out
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Post by MrMike on Apr 8, 2017 19:39:59 GMT -5
7 looks like some pet wood that I roll, and I see your reflection in it. 90% of the rocks that I roll are given away. Today there was a car wash garage sale fund raiser for AVID (a college preparatory program for underrepresented students). I sold small snack filled zip lock bags full of these rocks for $2. I bet $50 was raised. People even came back with kids to dig through the buckets. Point is that although we're hyper critical, most people groove on the things we reject. Nice group. I like the greenish one. Gather no moss, Colin Thanks Colin!!!!
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Post by MrMike on Apr 8, 2017 19:37:02 GMT -5
Did you roll those in the inclined tumbler ? Yes, had good slurry & lots of smalls but you could have a point.
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Post by MrMike on Apr 8, 2017 14:46:19 GMT -5
I really like the black & gold one in the first photo, bottom-center at the 6:00 position. What is it? Peace, Rich I think it's flint Rich
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Post by MrMike on Apr 8, 2017 14:39:52 GMT -5
Tumbling is a 'what you put in is what you get out affair'. Cab grade material will make the best tumbles. The tricky part is to find excellent material. Some rock varieties lend themselves to being clear and clean and hard stone. Those rocks look like a normal batch. Good and bad. Mostly good and about what I get most of the time. In collecting Rio stones for only tumbling many many were rejected for pits cracks and other type defects. It was a challenge to find super solid stone. Take coral from Florida for example, 10-30 pound chunks all day long that have near zero cracks. It never froze and it never got rolled down a white water river, no glacier molestation, no meteor impact damage. Pampered it the slow moving tropical enviro of Florida. Yep, I continue to prove the GIGO rule...
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Post by MrMike on Apr 8, 2017 11:05:33 GMT -5
Too many pits & fractures 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12
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Post by MrMike on Apr 5, 2017 19:44:40 GMT -5
Garage Rocker Randy, I've run out of superlatives for your batches. Feeling a little inadequate at the moment....
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Post by MrMike on Apr 5, 2017 19:33:20 GMT -5
Looks like a great day, love the pic of your dog at sunset!
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Post by MrMike on Apr 5, 2017 19:26:27 GMT -5
Great pics, thanks for sharing James.
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Post by MrMike on Apr 5, 2017 19:23:03 GMT -5
Great batch 👍👍really like the jasper with the black dendrites
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Post by MrMike on Apr 4, 2017 15:50:01 GMT -5
Mike those are crazy cool tumbles! The colors are everywhere on the chart! AWESOME!!! Thanks Mike
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Post by MrMike on Apr 4, 2017 5:59:56 GMT -5
Petrified peanut Thought they were only found in Georgia...
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