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Offline leapingbare

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Getting rock
« on: January 17, 2010, 10:17:52 pm »
I had to climb this 40 foot cliff to get to the vain of dover chert, this is a pic of me on the cliff face spalling rock.

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Offline El Destructo

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Re: Getting rock
« Reply #1 on: January 17, 2010, 10:19:51 pm »
Cliff ....that aint no Cliff........ :P.....got bigger Cliff here in the Panhandle...and this is a Flat Desert.....with some Deep Holes.... >:D
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Offline FlintWalker

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Re: Getting rock
« Reply #2 on: January 17, 2010, 10:28:30 pm »
Well did ya get any good stuff?
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Re: Getting rock
« Reply #3 on: January 17, 2010, 10:35:00 pm »
got two 5 gal buckets.. nothing really of any size. it was cracked up bad.
 I am going to try another location tomarrow.
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Offline sailordad

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Re: Getting rock
« Reply #4 on: January 17, 2010, 10:52:24 pm »
i am afraid of heights
but to get rock i would climb that and then some ;)
good luck on your rock hunt
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Offline bryan irwin

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Re: Getting rock
« Reply #5 on: January 17, 2010, 11:15:04 pm »
good haul. i went to day and got two 5 gallon buckets of rhyolite
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Re: Getting rock
« Reply #6 on: January 18, 2010, 10:17:59 am »
jesse i have to drive three hrs and dig next to a prison and hope i dont get shot at.  ;D
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Re: Getting rock
« Reply #7 on: January 18, 2010, 10:47:04 am »
That looks like fun Jesse! Wish I had about a week to come up and hang out with ya. I have a buddy that's an MSHA inspector. He's located a quarry down around Temple, TX that's got a mountain of perd cobbles ten inches or bigger. Gonna go check that out - he says it's about useless for anything but we know what it's useful for ;D. Goes for about $8.00 a ton ::).
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Re: Getting rock
« Reply #8 on: January 18, 2010, 07:30:55 pm »
I went way south today and got a little horse creek.. my creek was flooded so i did not get much.. i tried to find Buffalo river and dover on the way home but just got lost in the T.N back woods... dirt roads and no road signs that was intiresting.
 Hope it works out Cowboy!
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Offline Outbackbob48

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Re: Getting rock
« Reply #9 on: January 18, 2010, 07:57:34 pm »
Jesse, I ,m jealous short sleeve shirt an bare ground an rock. It,s warmed up some but still probably 18" snow cover an I , haven,t seen bare ground since about  Thanksgiving. I guess it doesn't matter much only kinda rock we got is leaver rocks an lots of them. Later Bob
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Re: Getting rock
« Reply #10 on: January 18, 2010, 08:00:29 pm »
Quote from: leapingbare on January 18, 2010, 07:30:55 pm
I went way south today and got a little horse creek.. my creek was flooded so i did not get much.. i tried to find Buffalo river and dover on the way home but just got lost in the T.N back woods... dirt roads and no road signs that was intiresting.
 Hope it works out Cowboy!

nobody stop and asked you to squeel like a pig did they?  ;) ;D

i was looking at a post of HC over on PP,that sure is pretty stuff and makes awesome looking points
you sure are  a lucky guy to be able to go and collect your own rock like that.
good luck on your rock hunting


i hear ya bob,same same here.too much snow and leaverite for rocks too.
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Re: Getting rock
« Reply #11 on: January 18, 2010, 08:35:03 pm »
Here is some of what i got today.. Tim its not as easy as you think.. I'm always worried about walking up on someones moonshine steels or pot field and getting shot when i am out collecting this stuff.

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Re: Getting rock
« Reply #12 on: January 18, 2010, 10:13:52 pm »
Man, that hc is some pretty stuff. Maybe I'll come up for two weeks ;D.
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Re: Getting rock
« Reply #13 on: January 18, 2010, 10:35:23 pm »
jesse, never thought of the shine and weed beds
ya you might wannsa be carefull. i would imagine that either of them types shoot first and then ask why your there

man that is pretty rock
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Re: Getting rock
« Reply #14 on: January 18, 2010, 11:22:26 pm »
 That Horse Creek is some pretty stuff. We need to try and plan another run into Ga. ;D
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