Wow that triplet concretion is huge 😮. That was interesting to see shells. I found this large concretion about the same size of the first one and busted it open, I found some what modern day leaves, maybe few hundred years old. I hope that one day you crack one of these open and get lucky with a crazy find.
Yours could always be older than that There is a dig site where below is all the petrified wood and just up a ways its more sandstone with leaves and such. Just part of the ancient beach long ago. So, you never know for sure!
I love rock hunting ! Enjoyed watching you crack open that neat rock ! “Like a box of chocolate Candy ,you never know what your gonna get !” from the movie 🎥? The name escapes my old brain ! (85yr old)
Loved ❤️this video! 👍 Love rock hounding ! I live in ARIZONA🌵 ,and have found interesting rocks 🪨over the years ! Soon as my daughter gets her Jeep running again we are going out to look for meteorites ☄️and rocks ! 🪨 Stay SAFE ! Love❤️ and Blessing’s 🙏 to you and each and everyone of you wherever you are on this Beautiful Planet 🌎🌍🌏👍🇺🇦👍
Very interesting video. But my knees were aching while watching you kneel unprotected on bare concrete while hammering those things? Those thick foam pads really don’t cost much of anything and they’ll save you a lot of pain the next day.
Funny you mention that! I had a foam pad but never used it! I've noticed that my knees aren't as tough as they used to be and have been using the foam pad more often.
The log in the back closer to the house I dug at a local petrified wood dig site. The other i dug out of Mcdonald Ranch in NE Oregon and the large limbcast came from that estate that your machines came from! I like to keep logs on that fireplace thing lol
Sounds weird but I've found for extra stubborn concretions soaking them in one part toilet bowl cleaner (containing small amount of hydrochloric acid) and one part water for a day then freezing it before hammering really helps soften the shale matrix and exploit any micro fractures with the ice expansion. The fossils themselves are unaffected and it really only takes a few light taps vs brute force which was my go to method for a few years. One broken I leave the fragments in the sun to completely dry out and over time pick away at the crumbling shale to discover all sorts of hidden gems.
I am just exploring all these things. Been a rock hound for ever but IDing any not really. Just hey a perty rock! My mom used to toss my coffee cans of rocks back into the driveway that I spent forever collecting walking to school and back and anywhere else. Now I have a giant sandstone with some crystals in the end of it i packed off the beach in spain, couple others that look like coral but just sandstone, a piece of granite from the crazy horse mountain they are carving and a good sized rock that fell off a castle in germany that is green looking. They are around somewhere. Had a house fire so they got scattered amongst boxes of stuff we salvaged. But as for these concretions, I was reading about "pudding stone"? My sister and I always thought that was actually chunks of concrete when kids. I had no idea til now that people actually collect it in MI. It's all over the beaches of oregon. Who would of thought. If I ever make it to the coast of oregon again I'm going to have to grab a couple of them and see what i see. Did you ever break this one up smaller to see if you might find that prize? I know this is an old video but had to ask!
Glad to see you wearing your safety sandals!😂 My grandfather was a rock hound and i always loved traveling the country all summer and looking for good finds, or setting up at craft fairs or flea market and telling everyone about all the different types of rocks! Maybe ill send you some samples from his hors to add to your collection. I only have a out 22,000 lbs left😅 yes, 11 tons. It took 4 semi truck loads to move them, not including all the rocks that the earth has reclaimed 😅
Just a heads up on shipping costs for rocks. usps priority flat rate shipping boxes are the most cost efficient. Weight limit is 70lbs. A lot can fit in a large flat rate box (up to 69lbs) for $23... medium flat rate (same weight limit) can probably fit one half for sure, cost is around $16 (with 8.25% tax comes to $19 and change).... Just sharing info, not trying to talk you into anything... I was shocked to find I would be able to ship out heavy orders without having shipping ruin any chance of a profit... Shoot, I'm sure most (like myself) would be happy to donate towards shipping cost, to receive such interesting and ancient finds! Thanks for sharing the video! Y And your right, they did look like a sack🤭 gigglesnort Ps Just for a better idea.. I get boxes of rough 10-15lb chunks, usually 2 that size with several more smaller 5ish lb.
I've considered offering the concretions up to anyone that just wanted to pay the shipping. Just haven't made a decision on what to do just yet. Shipping just went up for the holidays too :(
On the third piece, where there is shell on both sides, that looks like an oyster shell to me but i'm no expert. I like the ridged shell in both pieces of the middle concretion - I think that might be a scallop shell. some of the others look like clam shells. All of them are awesome and unique. Thanks for sharing.
Thanks for sharing the unveiling. Today is a good day to pop those babies open. I’m struggling with motivation, but will send you a quick message when I have something ready for you.
Hey bro, I found a stone knife embedded in a thick concretion. I am unable to find anything like it on Google. Just a metal hammer in concretion. Other artifacts seem to have corals that grew on them seemingly after the tool was made. Last but not least, I have concretion shaped like a 💀. Only the eyes are some type of crystal inclusions for the eyes which are transparent. If you would like to see just lemme know, would love to know if any of these are unique.
These artifacts show things were going good,but suddenly hit by a flood I guess because of the coral growing off the artifacts. And the concretion holding the knife has some many little snails and worms you can see his and died there, almost like they couldnt dig out.
Wouldn't have the foggiest idea but I can look it up in my free time. It might be a little difficult since I don't know where in the cliff wall it fell out of.
One of these times you will find a crab in the interior..... The fossil shells are on an average of 17 million years old, in Oregon.... I hound fossils in Montana and they get to be a bit older....
I still have yet to add a crab to my collection, I have an Australian mangrove lobster, a shrimp but no crab. If I crack a concretion and find a crab...I will be sooooo happy!
In co they have sand ball that are critter eggs that are fossils You break open and thing are inside them. Something later them in the same under water then the ocean bed was above the water for whatever reason and eggs turned to sand ?
im sure you know this, just be careful with the Hamer to Hamer action they tend to shatter instead of mushing like the tool temper in the chisels. shrapnel warning. I see you got yer eye gear on. thanks for a fun explore into the stone !
Oh yes, I'm aware. It's not just eyes. I once had a shrapnel of a thin piece of rock fly and hit my arm and since my arm was tight from hammering away, it cut my skin. It wasn't bad but it did draw a little blood.
The concretions are formed when organic matter is decomposing and it causes a chemical reaction to allow the sand to bind together to be more dense than the surrounding material. It can be weird, sometimes there is something inside and other times there isn't.
Nice, but honestly: use a chisel if you want to open concretions. The tip of a geologist´s hammer isn´t ment for this kind of work. Besides ruining the hammer there is always the danger of the tip or part of it to break. Use it if you want to lever something
@@WorldofRockhounds Just make sure not to hurt yourself, I´ve seen people getting injured by using the tip of a geologist´s hammer as a pick. Take care! 😉
I’m not a fan of the fossil collection but my wife Is, Still a cool video. So they don’t dissolve over time? I see you have got a few of them and they are in good condition. Thank for the video.
Most of the concretions I have broken have typically been pretty solid and they take a little longer to weather. The first one I broke (I called the snowman) was because the jointed area that held to the two sized together was starting to crack due to being weathered over a few years of being outside. Softer sandstone will tend to break down a bit faster. But more solid concretions can tend to last longer. Depending on the weather of course. I hope to find a crab concretion some day. It's been a goal to add one to the rock room.
A concretion is typically the remnants of organic material that had, in time, formed into a spherical shape through a chemical binding process. Sometimes there can be something in them and other times, there can be nothing. It all depends on the circumstances.
@@WorldofRockhounds si sabía que había dentro de ellas de niño coleccionaba fosiles marinos, aún se pueden encontrar tirados a plena vista pero ya no más en abundancia.
That is one tool that is high up there on my wish list. I'm all about learning new skills and I think fossil preparation is something that is right up my alley because of the amount of patience and eye for detail that it requires. Some day 🤞🤞
It still exists - Just at my house for the time being until I give it away to someone that further appreciate natures ability to preserve the life of the past. It probably wasn't on the beach for that long, maybe less than a year. The cliffs it comes out of are breaking down yearly. These erode out of the wall and either find a home with a rockhound or be buried in the sand to eventually break down that way.
It's a bad habit. Usually on my days off, I don't like wearing shoes at all. I only wear safety shoes when I go rock hounding. Sandals for when I'm at home.
![Another fossil skull - it could be the missing piece! [rare marlin fossil]](http://i.ytimg.com/vi/3zKm4dq8pN4/mqdefault.jpg)
Wow that triplet concretion is huge 😮. That was interesting to see shells. I found this large concretion about the same size of the first one and busted it open, I found some what modern day leaves, maybe few hundred years old. I hope that one day you crack one of these open and get lucky with a crazy find.
Yours could always be older than that
There is a dig site where below is all the petrified wood and just up a ways its more sandstone with leaves and such.
Just part of the ancient beach long ago.
So, you never know for sure!
Hell yea! Glad you went back for it.
I was expecting to be gone!
What a surprise seeing inside! Thank you
I hope to find more :)
@@WorldofRockhounds I hope you do too!
The cornucopia shaped shell in the small concreation is a slipper shell, also called a devil's toenail!
I love rock hunting ! Enjoyed watching you crack open that neat rock ! “Like a box of chocolate Candy ,you never know what your gonna get !” from the movie 🎥? The name escapes my old brain ! (85yr old)
That would be from Forest Gump :)
Loved ❤️this video! 👍 Love rock hounding ! I live in ARIZONA🌵 ,and have found interesting rocks 🪨over the years ! Soon as my daughter gets her Jeep running again we are going out to look for meteorites ☄️and rocks ! 🪨 Stay SAFE ! Love❤️ and Blessing’s 🙏 to you and each and everyone of you wherever you are on this Beautiful Planet 🌎🌍🌏👍🇺🇦👍
Good luck looking for the meteorites when you can make it out there!
Very interesting video. But my knees were aching while watching you kneel unprotected on bare concrete while hammering those things? Those thick foam pads really don’t cost much of anything and they’ll save you a lot of pain the next day.
Funny you mention that!
I had a foam pad but never used it! I've noticed that my knees aren't as tough as they used to be and have been using the foam pad more often.
World of Rock Hounds Yeah in recent years my knees have taken a turn for the worse. So when I see people do this invincible stuff, I feel it!
Hi liked seeing the shells 🐚 very awesome find.
Yup, those are shells. It's always fun cracking things open. You just never know what you're going to get
That's why I like cracking them open! Someday I will get something BIG. At least I can hope haha
I think that it is cool that shells can roll up into a ball like that. I couldn't help but notice that nice piece of pet wood on the side.
The log in the back closer to the house I dug at a local petrified wood dig site. The other i dug out of Mcdonald Ranch in NE Oregon and the large limbcast came from that estate that your machines came from!
I like to keep logs on that fireplace thing lol
@@WorldofRockhounds I ment the one on the table that you are working on for me. But those other ones are nice to.
Oh silly me! Yes, it turned out very nice indeed 🙂
Super cool to see the concretions come apart. Fun video!
Your energy is contagious love it!
Thanks!
Sounds weird but I've found for extra stubborn concretions soaking them in one part toilet bowl cleaner (containing small amount of hydrochloric acid) and one part water for a day then freezing it before hammering really helps soften the shale matrix and exploit any micro fractures with the ice expansion. The fossils themselves are unaffected and it really only takes a few light taps vs brute force which was my go to method for a few years.
One broken I leave the fragments in the sun to completely dry out and over time pick away at the crumbling shale to discover all sorts of hidden gems.
That's an interesting method! Thank you for sharing that! :)
I just subscribed. I like your energy. It was fun to watch you crack open the concretion. It's all a mystery and adventure. Thanks for sharing
Welcome to the channel! They are always a mystery when breaking them open. :)
Mission accomplished! Cool fossil shells. Be safe and stay healthy 😷⚒
I am just exploring all these things. Been a rock hound for ever but IDing any not really. Just hey a perty rock! My mom used to toss my coffee cans of rocks back into the driveway that I spent forever collecting walking to school and back and anywhere else. Now I have a giant sandstone with some crystals in the end of it i packed off the beach in spain, couple others that look like coral but just sandstone, a piece of granite from the crazy horse mountain they are carving and a good sized rock that fell off a castle in germany that is green looking. They are around somewhere. Had a house fire so they got scattered amongst boxes of stuff we salvaged. But as for these concretions, I was reading about "pudding stone"? My sister and I always thought that was actually chunks of concrete when kids. I had no idea til now that people actually collect it in MI. It's all over the beaches of oregon. Who would of thought. If I ever make it to the coast of oregon again I'm going to have to grab a couple of them and see what i see. Did you ever break this one up smaller to see if you might find that prize? I know this is an old video but had to ask!
Just Stumbled across your channel seems very interesting.
Glad to see you wearing your safety sandals!😂
My grandfather was a rock hound and i always loved traveling the country all summer and looking for good finds, or setting up at craft fairs or flea market and telling everyone about all the different types of rocks!
Maybe ill send you some samples from his hors to add to your collection. I only have a out 22,000 lbs left😅 yes, 11 tons. It took 4 semi truck loads to move them, not including all the rocks that the earth has reclaimed 😅
Thanks for the video. Subscribed. Let's get this man to a thousand!
You're welcome and thank you for the support! I'm nearly there! I'm excited to be able to use the community tab once I get there!
Just a heads up on shipping costs for rocks. usps priority flat rate shipping boxes are the most cost efficient. Weight limit is 70lbs.
A lot can fit in a large flat rate box (up to 69lbs) for $23... medium flat rate (same weight limit) can probably fit one half for sure, cost is around $16 (with 8.25% tax comes to $19 and change)....
Just sharing info, not trying to talk you into anything... I was shocked to find I would be able to ship out heavy orders without having shipping ruin any chance of a profit...
Shoot, I'm sure most (like myself) would be happy to donate towards shipping cost, to receive such interesting and ancient finds!
Thanks for sharing the video! Y
And your right, they did look like a sack🤭 gigglesnort
Ps
Just for a better idea..
I get boxes of rough 10-15lb chunks, usually 2 that size with several more smaller 5ish lb.
I've considered offering the concretions up to anyone that just wanted to pay the shipping. Just haven't made a decision on what to do just yet. Shipping just went up for the holidays too :(
Enjoyed watching
Salut,
That was a killer, though when I begin to think over it.... that thing seems like a tumor! Cheers and Blessings!
I'd like to find another here soon! Just need to make time to go out to look for more
WOW, that was interesting!
New subscriber and this is the first time I've seen one of these broken open. Very neat!
👍 so cool!!
On the third piece, where there is shell on both sides, that looks like an oyster shell to me but i'm no expert. I like the ridged shell in both pieces of the middle concretion - I think that might be a scallop shell. some of the others look like clam shells. All of them are awesome and unique. Thanks for sharing.
Great video!!! I would haveoved the large portion containing the Anadara shells. Anyway great video. Loved it!!!😊
Fascinating, how cool is that?
Thanks for sharing the unveiling. Today is a good day to pop those babies open. I’m struggling with motivation, but will send you a quick message when I have something ready for you.
You're welcome!
And no worries at all!
I get the struggles of motivation...some days are easy and others...not so much. Lol
Theo kellison might be able to tell you about the shells
I should see if he just wants them if he ever makes it out this way lol
Really cool
Hey bro, I found a stone knife embedded in a thick concretion. I am unable to find anything like it on Google. Just a metal hammer in concretion. Other artifacts seem to have corals that grew on them seemingly after the tool was made. Last but not least, I have concretion shaped like a 💀. Only the eyes are some type of crystal inclusions for the eyes which are transparent. If you would like to see just lemme know, would love to know if any of these are unique.
Anyone wanna see these bad boys?
I haven't found a single example of some of these artifacts, but nobody cares, because I'm a nobody
These artifacts show things were going good,but suddenly hit by a flood I guess because of the coral growing off the artifacts. And the concretion holding the knife has some many little snails and worms you can see his and died there, almost like they couldnt dig out.
I would like to see it. Why didn't you post a picture?
Looks like dinosaur eggs💓💓💓
If only they were!
How old do you think those shells are?
Wouldn't have the foggiest idea but I can look it up in my free time.
It might be a little difficult since I don't know where in the cliff wall it fell out of.
Fantastis👍👍👍
Cool! 🐚
hey Kyle this is your neighbor Mehmet the bead maker down the street! I like the Video. Maybe i find something like that in the desert!
One of these times you will find a crab in the interior.....
The fossil shells are on an average of 17 million years old, in Oregon....
I hound fossils in Montana and they get to be a bit older....
I still have yet to add a crab to my collection, I have an Australian mangrove lobster, a shrimp but no crab.
If I crack a concretion and find a crab...I will be sooooo happy!
You could still do it as a give away as long as the recipient knows they are paying for the shipping charges.
how old are those shells?
Why do the concretions become round?
It's due to a chemical process that occurs during decomposition of the organic material that surrounds it and binds the material that surrounds it.
In co they have sand ball that are critter eggs that are fossils
You break open and thing are inside them. Something later them in the same under water then the ocean bed was above the water for whatever reason and eggs turned to sand ?
That's interesting!
Shells are sweet!
im sure you know this, just be careful with the Hamer to Hamer action they tend to shatter instead of mushing like the tool temper in the chisels. shrapnel warning. I see you got yer eye gear on. thanks for a fun explore into the stone !
Oh yes, I'm aware. It's not just eyes. I once had a shrapnel of a thin piece of rock fly and hit my arm and since my arm was tight from hammering away, it cut my skin. It wasn't bad but it did draw a little blood.
The shells are fossilised , fascinating how they ended up in a geod like that .
The concretions are formed when organic matter is decomposing and it causes a chemical reaction to allow the sand to bind together to be more dense than the surrounding material. It can be weird, sometimes there is something inside and other times there isn't.
outstanding
Nice, but honestly: use a chisel if you want to open concretions. The tip of a geologist´s hammer isn´t ment for this kind of work. Besides ruining the hammer there is always the danger of the tip or part of it to break. Use it if you want to lever something
I'm aware that it isn't what it's meant for but it's what I have available to me at the moment.
If it wears down and breaks, it's 100% on me.
@@WorldofRockhounds Just make sure not to hurt yourself, I´ve seen people getting injured by using the tip of a geologist´s hammer as a pick. Take care! 😉
I’m not a fan of the fossil collection but my wife Is, Still a cool video. So they don’t dissolve over time? I see you have got a few of them and they are in good condition. Thank for the video.
Most of the concretions I have broken have typically been pretty solid and they take a little longer to weather.
The first one I broke (I called the snowman) was because the jointed area that held to the two sized together was starting to crack due to being weathered over a few years of being outside.
Softer sandstone will tend to break down a bit faster. But more solid concretions can tend to last longer. Depending on the weather of course.
I hope to find a crab concretion some day. It's been a goal to add one to the rock room.
@@WorldofRockhounds I hope you do to That way we all get tosee it.
Sliders and heavy rocks, chisels and lump hammers. What could go wrong?
The world may never know :)
"A" for effort !
😊😊😊😊
This is like you found a mummy and then unraveled it leaving a naked mummified King.
channeling your inner Mamlambo!
We can all agree that his finds are WAY cooler :)
did dinosaurs have a set of those ? giggle giggle ; )
Considering there was a third lump....I would hope not! haha
what is a concretion???????
A concretion is typically the remnants of organic material that had, in time, formed into a spherical shape through a chemical binding process.
Sometimes there can be something in them and other times, there can be nothing. It all depends on the circumstances.
Should be able to freeze them then hit with hot water, they should crack on the fossil
I'll remember that for next time :)
Thank you for the tip!
Should I soak it in water first?
It hurt my back watching this.
It was definitely heavy lol
was cooler as a trip letter then all busted up
It's still fun to see what's been hiding on the inside :)
Antes había muchas de esas cosas en tijuana antes de que construyeran casas en todos lados.
Do you know if there was anything inside of them before they were all covered up?
@@WorldofRockhounds si sabía que había dentro de ellas de niño coleccionaba fosiles marinos, aún se pueden encontrar tirados a plena vista pero ya no más en abundancia.
these are sacred to the Anishinabe...
Two words, air scribe
That is one tool that is high up there on my wish list.
I'm all about learning new skills and I think fossil preparation is something that is right up my alley because of the amount of patience and eye for detail that it requires. Some day 🤞🤞
So now the testicle rock doesn't exist any longer. People probably enjoyed looking at that for years.
It still exists - Just at my house for the time being until I give it away to someone that further appreciate natures ability to preserve the life of the past. It probably wasn't on the beach for that long, maybe less than a year. The cliffs it comes out of are breaking down yearly. These erode out of the wall and either find a home with a rockhound or be buried in the sand to eventually break down that way.
You must wear safety shoes dude. A broken foot will ruin your life.
It's a bad habit. Usually on my days off, I don't like wearing shoes at all. I only wear safety shoes when I go rock hounding. Sandals for when I'm at home.
this was bad a$$!
:D
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