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Main Discussion Area => Flintknapping => Topic started by: leapingbare on January 17, 2010, 10:17:52 pm

Title: Getting rock
Post by: leapingbare 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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Title: Re: Getting rock
Post by: El Destructo 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
Title: Re: Getting rock
Post by: FlintWalker on January 17, 2010, 10:28:30 pm
Well did ya get any good stuff?
Title: Re: Getting rock
Post by: leapingbare 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.
Title: Re: Getting rock
Post by: sailordad 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
Title: Re: Getting rock
Post by: bryan irwin on January 17, 2010, 11:15:04 pm
good haul. i went to day and got two 5 gallon buckets of rhyolite
Title: Re: Getting rock
Post by: jamie 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
Title: Re: Getting rock
Post by: cowboy 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 ::).
Title: Re: Getting rock
Post by: 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!
Title: Re: Getting rock
Post by: Outbackbob48 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
Title: Re: Getting rock
Post by: sailordad on January 18, 2010, 08:00:29 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.
Title: Re: Getting rock
Post by: leapingbare 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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Title: Re: Getting rock
Post by: cowboy on January 18, 2010, 10:13:52 pm
Man, that hc is some pretty stuff. Maybe I'll come up for two weeks ;D.
Title: Re: Getting rock
Post by: sailordad 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
Title: Re: Getting rock
Post by: mullet 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
Title: Re: Getting rock
Post by: Hillbilly on January 18, 2010, 11:25:44 pm
Cool rock, Jesse. That's why now is a good time to hunt rock-dope won't grow in the winter and it's too cold for barrels of mash to work and ferment. ;D
Title: Re: Getting rock
Post by: leapingbare on January 18, 2010, 11:33:52 pm
Good point hillbilly :)
 Eddie i'll pm you.
Title: Re: Getting rock
Post by: StevenT on January 19, 2010, 03:54:25 pm
Man, if you have your own source of Horse Creek, you are one lucky SOB. If you try to buy that stuff, it goes for about 5 bucks a pound. And I've seen what you can do with it. Great stuff.
Title: Re: Getting rock
Post by: DanaM on January 19, 2010, 08:21:31 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

I hear ya bob snow and ice and the only rock is quartzite that will break yer wrists :'(

Thanks for sharing the pics Jesse, I'm jealous of the short sleeves, although last saturday it was so warm ice fishing I had
to take my jacket off, it got all the way up to 36 ;D Freakin heat wave, needed da suntan lotion ;)
Title: Re: Getting rock
Post by: mullet on January 19, 2010, 08:35:34 pm
 Swampbow and Parnel were at the house this weekend. Parnel and I were in Flip-flops Sunday with maple leaves falling like it was Fall.
Title: Re: Getting rock
Post by: DanaM on January 19, 2010, 08:36:37 pm
Leaves dead from the freeze eddie? Sure hope yer greens survived :)
Title: Re: Getting rock
Post by: mullet on January 19, 2010, 10:15:16 pm
  Yep, the freeze. Collards made it and the mustards just got spanked a little. The Pineapples didn't fair so well, though.
Title: Re: Getting rock
Post by: Hillbilly on January 20, 2010, 01:42:17 pm
  Yep, the freeze. Collards made it and the mustards just got spanked a little. The Pineapples didn't fair so well, though.

Durnit. I was looking forward to some more of those at the next gathering you made it too. You grow some killer pineapples.
Title: Re: Getting rock
Post by: Outbackbob48 on January 20, 2010, 06:04:51 pm
The only thing green in this part of the country is evergreens.   ;D