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Gem screen I was using was a cooking screen you put over your pan. I cut the handle off and taped it, I wouldn’t recommend using it that thing sucked haha. I ended up giving it to the host of the Airbnb at the house I was staying at for the work trip I was on. Their kid loved it. I would get a nice stainless steel one made completely out of metal, as far as the screen size I’m unsure.

Heck yeah! I imagine you built yours properly too lol. That keg is an awesome idea I might have to steal that, now to find one is the hard part. Have the pvc barrels lasted you a long time? I had to soundproof my shed I was worried the neighbors would file a complaint haha

@@mudbrothersrocks I made the PVC barrels out of cellular core pipe because that's what I had on hand. They have lasted for four months but you can see where the inner shell has worn through in spots. I'm going to make the next barrel from solid PVC well casing and see how long that lasts. The beer keg has also had some issues. First of all it's SUPER LOUD! I have to wear hearing protection to be near it running. At first, when I started running the keg, the rocks seemed to tumble fine but after a week or so you could hear them starting to slide around in there. Some rock were tumbling but some were sliding. I let it run for a couple of weeks just to experiment but when I took the rocks out many of the larger rocks had curious facets that matched the inner curve of the wall of the keg. So now I have the weird funky gems with curved facets. On the plus side, the keg has a big port hole that's almost six inches across, Like 5-7/8 inches, so I can put a beer mug sized rock in there. I welded up a 16 gauge stainless sheet metal collar and flange and I used a piece of an aluminum street sign for the port cover. It took 16 bolts and a rubber gasket to keep it from leaking. An eight bolt pattern leaked pretty bad but probably due to my poor chicken shit welding. To keep the rock from sliding, I'm going to epoxy some small brass flat bars, about 1/4" x 3/4" x6", in there with J-B weld. Tumble On.

I bet if you coated the inside with some rubber it would deaden the sound and make it last a lot longer, pvc and keg. I got an industrial parts deburring machine, just a large vibrating metal vat, and I had to replace the rubber cuz I ran it too long and it all got ripped out. When it was rock on metal it was loud as well, the rubber makes a huge difference. I gotta learn how to weld better, I’ve just been using an old Lincoln electric stick welder

@@mudbrothersrocks Ha! I tried a rubber liner. I put five layers of Rustoleum truck bed liner in the keg. It took ten days to cure. The rocks tumbled perfectly, at first. After about two weeks I could hear the rocks starting to slide again. When I opened the portal it was as if I had never put it in there. The inside was perfectly clean and the black liner was reduced to black dust! I had a bit better luck with the PVC barrels. I put a thick coating of clear Flex seal liquid rubber in a 6 inch PVC barrel but I mixed the Flex Seal 1 : 1 with 60 grit silicon dioxide crystals. I saw a guy on TH-cam using clear flex seal mixed with Silicon grit to make a soft lap to make cabochons. He said it lasted a very long time. I just opened that barrel the other day after eleven days of tumbling and about 85% - 90% of the coating survived. Wherever the coating was thin it wore through but it looks promising, After a lot of pondering and brain sweat I am thinking that an old tire would be the best tumbler barrel of all. Super cheap, very resistant to abrasion and big enough to hold 10 lb rock. I have seen several very well made car tire tumblers on You Tube made from a used treadmill and some caster wheels. They used plywood to cover holes with a porthole in one side. There is a museum that made a nice multi-tire unit and one guy even uses a Pilates ball inflated in the center of the tire! Used treadmills are often free on Craigslist. I got one a couple of weeks ago and there were several free treadmills to chose from. Last week I took an old tire from my neighbor's junk pile so I am half way there. Tumble on!

I haven’t yet lol, I have a 4Runner at home with 4wd and much better clearance than that van. Next time I’m in Montana I’ll have something better, all my coworkers and I got banned from going off-road haha

Love that 💎👈👈👑👈👈⭐👌🦅

Off road driving love that ♥️👍

What minerals do you collect over there?

I will give them away as gifts for holidays and special occasions, my family and friends love them as much as me!

I was on a work trip and wasn’t aware of anything else around. I saw the Ruby reservoir on a map and looked it up and found out it had garnets. Next time I’m up there I’ll have to go search for all the other goodies

I’m pretty sure the rollers create some friction on the outer surface of the barrels. The black rubber dust gets on my hands any time I touch them. Room isn’t sealed either so that doesn’t help. I try to just blast through changing them, I keep the inner rim clean at least so it seals but other than that I haven’t spent much time maintaining their outer appearance.

@ makes sense if there’s an external source of dirt. When I cycle barrels, it’s almost hard not to rinse the outside when I’m cleaning the edges, so this all struck me me as odd. The only times I’ve ended up with really silty outer barrels is when I’ve had a blowout.

@copasetic1 I have had that happen a few times lol. What might be happening is some overspray from me oiling the bearings and the black dust is sticking to the metal? I should probably give them a good rinse anyway it may be the reason the outsides are wearing so much

@@mudbrothersrocks I’ll bet that’s it. A little oil overspray is going to be like a magnet for rock dust and dried slurry!

I mostly stayed near the main road but if you do go up that smaller road remember everything on the right (south) is private property. Stay north of the smaller road.

Hope to get there next summer, back in MI now. I have a claim on Barton Gulch road I am need to prospect. Thanks

Everything at ruby reservoir was small, I was told there are sapphires near there as well. Make sure you bring lots of warm clothes and some snow chains it snows a LOT up there

@@mudbrothersrocks oh, it won't be until June 1. I grew up in Missoula so I know the deal. -40 degrees at school recess, ect...

@MinesAndMountains oh you know the drill lol. I’ve lived in southern Utah my whole life, gotta work my way up to colder environments

Hey thank you! With how much I rigged that thing I’m surprised it’s still working. I’ll make version 2.0 out of real parts this time

Make sure you use real parts and not junk from the backyard. Makes it a whole lot easier

It’s a great one! Shame I only got a couple from Montana when I was up there. I’ll have to head back up eventually and get more

The magic spinning device can magically remove fingers if they get too close haha

Thank you! I’ve seen so many videos from places all over the world of the different geology, hopefully one day I can collect them all lol

I didn’t know what it was at the time but now that I do I regret not stopping. That stuff polishes so well

I noticed that, they got caught on the rocks of the hill while the fine dirt got washed down. Next time I’m there I’m going to try scraping the surface and see the difference in material I find. Thanks for the tip

Would you expect to find the same success at a reservoir? I'm wondering if the differences in hydrology would alter the natural stratification. With rivers/streams, there's a constant flow of water even if it's slow. The water at a reservoir would probably be more stagnant, and it definitely would not follow a consistent and uniform current. I don't know if anyone has an answer. I studied marine science, so I'm often a bit extra curious about these kinds of things.

There is actually a huge band of the garnets at a certain level around the whole reservoir. I couldn’t get to it since the water was so high but in the summer when the water drops it reveals that layer. Unsurprisingly all the property around the reservoir was private so I could only check at the water itself and miles away up river. The garnets were all very small everywhere I went I never got anything bigger than pea size

Thank you! I mostly made it to remember what it all looked like for the future. It’s come a long way from where it was. Good luck with yours!

Thanks! I did try to find some with no luck. The area I was in does have gold but a very tiny amount. The lady at the sport store told me that they don’t like the garnets because of all the work it adds sorting through them while panning

About 1707 meters or 5600 feet above sea level.

Thanks man! I had no idea, it was in a factory my dad works at in the scrap pile so he got permission to take it home. Those rollers came from there too. The keyed shaft was super sloppy and it had no gear oil in it but that thing has been running for almost a year now with an 1800 rpm 1hp motor going to town on it. I have another one with a 1:20 reduction, this one is 1:10

the question you asked at 4:14/13:30

That makes sense actually, I found it in a spot next to a bunch of garnet bearing gneiss so I was hoping I found the mega garnet lol. It had a cool wood shape to it too

Started a GIANT Worldwide Hammered Copper Genre

If Montana doesn’t exist then where do all the retired cowboys go?

Thanks man I’ll bring some out next time you’re around. They’re small but cool

Hell yea​@@mudbrothersrocks

Close toed shoes on the sharp rhyolitic flows are preferred but hot sweaty feet are one of my least favorite sensations. No toes were harmed in the making of this video lol.

Jealous as hell! Take me with you next time!

No one will ever know, you’ll get some looks but even if they catch you they’ll be too weirded out to say anything

Thanks for filling me in! I learned about vugs recently when I was looking for topaz in northern Utah. I’m going to go out today and look for garnets by where I live, I don’t imagine I’ll find any but there is a lot of metamorphic activity in one of the mountains I live by so I’m gonna go pan underneath it and see what I can find.

I was talking with one of the locals and they said they don’t like the garnets because they have to pan through them in order to get gold

Thanks, it’s been working surprisingly well. My uncle told me the metal legs were parts of his old gym set from 40 years ago. He found that to be quite funny

@@mudbrothersrocks That is funny, they should last another 40 then 🤩🙂

With my welds? We will see lol

So is that electric jet ski! I just sold my Yamaha xa1200 when the engine died. I should have modified it for EV use that would have been awesome. Killer idea man

I’ll have another video out soon of making cabochons out of that exact rock. It was huge I got a bunch out of it. I can’t remember where I found it but the stuff is crazy.

It’s now the super oily dusty work of art. That room is exposed to the dirt outside and gets blasted every day.

Holy cow, that would have been good to know a few months ago lol. I’ll definitely plan another trip up there. This time I’ll stay longer and bring the right tools to get the biggest haul I can. Thanks for the tip!

You’re lucky! I stayed out in ennis it’s a wonderful area I had a blast. Virginia city with cool with all of the old buildings too.

Heck ya thanks! Next time I’m up there I’ll keep you in mind, I live in southern Utah so that was my first time up there for a work trip. It may be a while before I head back up

Not sure, I picked it out of a list of random ones and it sounded good

It’s a nice reservoir, not many people went by that area I enjoyed the solitude

That’s what I ended up doing but it was so boring I decided not to film it. It was cool watching the heavies settle down and all the regular sand sit on top and get swirled off by the water.

Surprised me as well, I got the right ones after that. I didn’t know it was rated for 6000 that’s crazy. The ends of that thing had to have been CRANKING. The angle grinder spins at 12000 rpm and if I had an 8 inch wheel on there then the edge would have been spinning at 286 mph. Yeah definitely not doing that again haha

Somehow lol. I had to fix it because the mounts broke and it started spinning and shaking around and broke some stuff but she’s back up and crankin. It’s been going since the video was posted. I made a few tweaks but it’s been working great!

Heck yeah! The road I was on was a dirt road south of Ruby reservoir, just stumbled upon it while looking for agates. Mostly blm land but there is a property on the right side of the road you have to be mindful of. There is good agate, garnet and wonderstone in the area it was heaven 45.08165° N, 112.21426° W

@@mudbrothersrocks helo so check this on the other end of the res before you get to it there's a small quarry right back behind it is some garnets decent, maybe not as good as where you where at 45.26341, -112.08574 and on the same side but lil further down I think I just found rhodacrocite and rose quartz but I need tires on my rig before I go out again ...your welcome to explore the new find with me if you wanna make planes for .... montana will be getting snow again soon...

@@mudbrothersrocks do you like VERY colorful river rocks? I have some great spots in 3 forks I could take ya to as well and there is pet wood and agates there too

Heck yeah thanks for sharing! I live in southern Utah so once I head back up that way I’ll let you know! It’s an 11 hour expedition to get up there. I don’t have much quartz down here that’ll be awesome

@@mudbrothersrocks Greeting there Zak, found a slightly better spot few miles from that spot , hit me up and I'll send ya coordinates by email the ground is reddish color

They can be used as an industrial abrasive or turned into jewelry. I haven’t done much with them yet, I’ll run them through the tumbler to shine them up and after that it’s up in the air

I was quite surprised for my first time. Now every experience after won’t be as much of a haul lol.

@@mudbrothersrocks I hope you are wrong lol. Would be nice to know there is plenty out there! Great video!

@patriciabock4299 thanks! I hope to go up there again soon. I may have found a spot near me that has them as well but still need to test and find out. Garnets are my new favorite thing right now I have to find as many as i can!

Montana is literally the opposite of southern

@SavageBRUH66_fn I found cactuses up there while hiking and mentioned I thought cactuses were only a southern thing. I’m from southern Utah so that little discovery was neat

@@SavageBRUH66_fn it’s on the bottom part of the US, it’s def the south

It broke once but was just some clamps, the sketchy thing has been running non stop for over 8 months I’d say that’s a win!

It's almost more fun when every time you check on your tumbler you hear Han Solo in the back of your head saying, "Come on, baby, hold together".

@kengensjewelry I always say I’ve got a bad feeling about this every time it makes a funny noise lol

I’m from Utah but was up there for a work trip around the Ennis/Alder area just on the other side of the mountain from big sky. Absolutely gorgeous scenery and wildlife. I was slinging brown and brooke trout out of the river as much as I could, they were delicious! I hiked around random streams, I didn’t have a good fly setup so the Madison was too shallow for me and my worms

@@mudbrothersrocks I've spent some time in the Ennis country. I hunted elk and mule deer near Ennis. Good fishing too.