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Cutting fluid ? Rv anti-freeze? Mar 25, 2020 21:01:53 GMT -5

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Post by woodman on Mar 25, 2020 21:01:53 GMT -5

I was using water on a diamond bladed drag saw and it sort of worked with the softer materials, but when i got some harder materials it would stop cutting real quick, I switched to using diesel and it cuts like a champ. I know a number of high volume cutters that use diesel. some add oil some don't, they don't get in hurry to open the saws tho.

woodman driving up their electric bill If you cannot explain something in simple terms, you do not know enough about it. Member since December 2014 Posts: 2,710	Video of assorted wood! Mar 25, 2020 11:14:50 GMT -5 miket and RocksInNJ like this Quote Select Post Deselect Post Link to Post Member Give Gift Back to Top Post by woodman on Mar 25, 2020 11:14:50 GMT -5 this is the hole that small limb came from or real close to it.
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Bleaching Mar 25, 2020 11:08:22 GMT -5 fernwood and RocksInNJ like this

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Mar 25, 2020 9:42:13 GMT -5 fernwood said:

I might need to try this with some pet wood I have.

It does not work on all types of petrified wood, but give it a try and see what you get. before and after photo's are a must!

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Mar 25, 2020 10:37:17 GMT -5 fernwood said:

Perseverance at its finest. Love the survival style sled you made.

I could have walked hours in those small hills. It looks like a beautiful area.

I have walked for hours in those hills and wish that I still could, now I go back and look at the photo's that I took and remember the good times we had there. I am glad I carried a camera with me all the time. It is good to remember!

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Cutting fluid ? Rv anti-freeze? Mar 25, 2020 9:20:53 GMT -5 1dave likes this

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Mar 25, 2020 2:15:13 GMT -5 jamesp said:

Mar 24, 2020 17:52:46 GMT -5 woodman said:

I use diesel in my 30 inch saw and Used ATF in my 18 and 24. oven to cook out the oil.

What does the oven do woodman ?

Ah, an oven to cook the oil out of the sawn rock.
A month or two of summer Georgia sunshine on a black rubber mat works here lol.

Diesel cooks out pretty good if left in the sun, but i have enough laying around as it is and like to keep moving the process along a bit quicker. Have to be careful with some material as heat will change it, sometimes for the better and sometimes for the worse.

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Bleaching Mar 25, 2020 9:18:14 GMT -5 fernwood and RocksInNJ like this

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Mar 25, 2020 8:39:18 GMT -5 RWA3006 said:

Does plain old bleach work the best? What about peroxide?

plain old bleach right out of the jug, give it shot and show us your results. I only submerge the face I want bleached.

woodman driving up their electric bill If you cannot explain something in simple terms, you do not know enough about it. Member since December 2014 Posts: 2,710	Cutting fluid ? Rv anti-freeze? Mar 24, 2020 17:52:46 GMT -5 NRG and RocksInNJ like this Quote Select Post Deselect Post Link to Post Member Give Gift Back to Top Post by woodman on Mar 24, 2020 17:52:46 GMT -5 I use diesel in my 30 inch saw and Used ATF in my 18 and 24. oven to cook out the oil.

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Video of assorted wood! Mar 24, 2020 16:58:40 GMT -5 fernwood, MsAli, and 1 more like this

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Mar 23, 2020 8:06:39 GMT -5 hummingbirdstones2 said:

Thanks for the IDs on your great wood specimens.

Knowing the long limb piece is Stinking Water is really helpful. Had never seen one from there in person, but have some limbs from Virgin Valley here. Now I'll be more open minded when I see limbs in the future.

Small limbs are rarely found at stinking water, this one I found well outside of the normal digging area, It eroded out of a piece of what we call bog wood that probably formed at the bottom of a small lake. We brought home a large piece and after ten years on the surface it stared to fall apart and this was hidden on the inside.

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This mornings Video attempt Mar 23, 2020 13:27:15 GMT -5 MsAli, RocksInNJ, and 1 more like this

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Mar 23, 2020 13:11:36 GMT -5 RocksInNJ said:

Wow, how do you pump these out so fast?

From boredom!! they really do not take very long at all. Might have to dig thru my stash to find more to do!!

woodman driving up their electric bill If you cannot explain something in simple terms, you do not know enough about it. Member since December 2014 Posts: 2,710	This mornings Video attempt Mar 23, 2020 13:01:39 GMT -5 RWA3006, RickB, and 6 more like this Quote Select Post Deselect Post Link to Post Member Give Gift Back to Top Post by woodman on Mar 23, 2020 13:01:39 GMT -5 More Stinking water Petrified Wood!!

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Bleaching Mar 23, 2020 11:18:16 GMT -5

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Mar 23, 2020 10:28:39 GMT -5 roy said:

some do well other's not i had one teeter ranch sycamore Bleach out just perfect the other not but i always bleach pre polish

You say pre polish, assume that is after lapping and sanding? I don't see any loss in the polish the way I do it, but then I am half blind!!

woodman driving up their electric bill If you cannot explain something in simple terms, you do not know enough about it. Member since December 2014 Posts: 2,710	Bleaching Mar 22, 2020 22:14:35 GMT -5 Fossilman, RWA3006, and 5 more like this Quote Select Post Deselect Post Link to Post Member Give Gift Back to Top Post by woodman on Mar 22, 2020 22:14:35 GMT -5 I placed the polished end of this small piece of Eden valley Petrified wood in bleach for two days. Not as good a result as I was hoping but it did get better. Maybe longer would help.

woodman driving up their electric bill If you cannot explain something in simple terms, you do not know enough about it. Member since December 2014 Posts: 2,710	Oak Sphere video Mar 22, 2020 22:11:10 GMT -5 RocksInNJ and knave like this Quote Select Post Deselect Post Link to Post Member Give Gift Back to Top Post by woodman on Mar 22, 2020 22:11:10 GMT -5 Mar 22, 2020 21:10:50 GMT -5 RWA3006 said: Bob, have you set up your own personal museum yet? Looking pretty good. Naw, I just have rocks sitting all over. The wife says the house is sinking!

woodman driving up their electric bill If you cannot explain something in simple terms, you do not know enough about it. Member since December 2014 Posts: 2,710	Elm video Mar 22, 2020 22:09:47 GMT -5 RocksInNJ and knave like this Quote Select Post Deselect Post Link to Post Member Give Gift Back to Top Post by woodman on Mar 22, 2020 22:09:47 GMT -5 Mar 22, 2020 21:17:35 GMT -5 RWA3006 said: That rotating specimen reveals a super polish at certain moments. That was the idea of having them rotate, shows the polish a lot better than just a still photo.

woodman driving up their electric bill If you cannot explain something in simple terms, you do not know enough about it. Member since December 2014 Posts: 2,710	Brazilian Agate Mar 22, 2020 17:43:55 GMT -5 MsAli and RocksInNJ like this Quote Select Post Deselect Post Link to Post Member Give Gift Back to Top Post by woodman on Mar 22, 2020 17:43:55 GMT -5 Mar 22, 2020 6:34:06 GMT -5 MsAli said: Beautiful! How does it look back lit? It is one half of the nodule, little thick to back light!!

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Video of assorted wood! Mar 22, 2020 10:00:07 GMT -5 RocksInNJ likes this

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Mar 22, 2020 8:56:28 GMT -5 hummingbirdstones2 said:

Back to school time for me.

Dark one Hubbard Basin?

Long one Virgin Valley?

Smaller chunk Blue Forest?

On an oak round? Did you do a video of a Stinking Water oak a while back?

I don't mind guessing wrong on something like this. There's pet wood all over the world, and more just in this country than I could ever remember.

Yes a number of Oak rounds on video, the Blue one is Hubbard Basin, the small long one is from Stinking Water as is the Oak slab. The white and brown one is from from the Blue Forest in Wy, and is is a partial cast with the brown area being pet wood.

woodman driving up their electric bill If you cannot explain something in simple terms, you do not know enough about it. Member since December 2014 Posts: 2,710	Elm video Mar 21, 2020 22:27:00 GMT -5 fernwood, MsAli, and 1 more like this Quote Select Post Deselect Post Link to Post Member Give Gift Back to Top Post by woodman on Mar 21, 2020 22:27:00 GMT -5 These photos are from a number of years ago. what we dug up, transport of the wood and where we ahd to take them. I will dig no more!!!
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Elm video Mar 21, 2020 17:23:02 GMT -5 RocksInNJ and knave like this

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Mar 19, 2020 23:00:36 GMT -5 oldschoolrocker said:

Mar 19, 2020 20:30:45 GMT -5 RocksInNJ said:

Sounds like New Jersey. Went out last week to check out a few places I scooped out on google Earth and everywhere I went there were no trespassing signs post al over.

Yeah, it's hard to imagine with how big Texas is that there isnt large swaths of land open to the public. And sad that many of the best fee based rockhounding private ranches have closed to the public. So it's a GOOD thing that this site exists so can get our fill of looking at awesome rocks and the creations of the amazing artists that are members here!

OXmap.com program show all property ownership, both private and public, well worth the cost if you get out a lot.

woodman driving up their electric bill If you cannot explain something in simple terms, you do not know enough about it. Member since December 2014 Posts: 2,710	Elm video Mar 21, 2020 12:26:35 GMT -5 fernwood and RocksInNJ like this Quote Select Post Deselect Post Link to Post Member Give Gift Back to Top Post by woodman on Mar 21, 2020 12:26:35 GMT -5 We carried a 200 lb chunk about a mile down that creek bed. used a burlap sack and two rakes to make a litter. One old man, one wife, one strong 16 year old kid and one friend with bad knee.