Cracking 2 large Fabulous Keokuk Geode finds with some amazing colors!!
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Took a geology class in about 1998 and we took a field trip to to a geode "farm". They handed out 5 gallon buckets which you could fill for an amount I can't remember. One of these sat in the yard until about a week ago when I finally got around to cracking it by using a chisel. By luck I cracked it in just the right place and it looks quite nice. It sits on my dresser top.
Sounds like a fun trip! We had some geodes that sat outside for a couple of years before we broke them that ended up being really nice. Glad you found a pretty one! Thanks for watching!!
Cool story!
might i ask, just where was/is this dig site?
“Rock on” is the best thin I’ve heard all day.
Thanks! It's become his "catch phrase"
I live in Keokuk, my home town. Been cracking open geodes.for 60 years. With a hammer😂😂😂 fun activity for kids
Always love to watch yall opening the geodes. Beauties! 😊
Cracking open a geode is like getting a plastic egg from those
chicken machines in shopping malls.. you never know what'll be inside !
It is always an amazing surprise! Thanks for watching!! I loved those egg machines when I was a kid! 😊
Except the plastic chicken eggs always have crap in them.
"My mama says, 'Life is like a box of geodes....'" ;p
You never know what you're gonna get!
Funny you make that reference since these are prehistoric eggs
That was so smooth the way you opened that . Beautiful rock . I can picture myself getting really addicted to this lol.
It is
Imagine one day you opened one of these and there was a weird young creature inside;. It looked up at you and said DaDa ! 😁. Greetings from Ireland ☘️☘️☘️☘️
😂😂
Thanks you made my day
A Leprechaun!
@@actsismmljcorrectlyobeyed6190 🤣🤣🤣
@@gerry5134 Tell the 'O'Murphy's and Sandlins a distant cousin says hello!
@@actsismmljcorrectlyobeyed6190 I will try lol 🤣 I don't know any o'murphys but I know a Murphy and a Sandlin !
Stunning! It’s like opening a present. Always a surprise
Thank you! We agree! It's our favorite part of the job!!
I love those geodes. My sister introduced to them back in 1997. She went to West Port Washington. In one of the many shops, she found out about the beauty of their inner core. All I can say is. OMG, WOW AND BE SO AMAZED. Thank you for sharing.
Thanks so much for watching! They are each an individual beauty!
Yes they're stunning, I have a piece of yellow quartz and its always perplexing. Interesting how I got it as a kid from a place here in West Texas
Yellow quartz is one of my favorites!
Never seen geodes like that, pretty cool
Thanks for looking
@@WoodiesRockShop you recon geodes are ancient petrified eggs from a menstruating queen kong from millennias past?
@@sasquatchrosefarts if that's what makes you happy 🤷♀️
I can't believe what I just watched. From beginning to end no less.
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Interesting way of getting the geode to break in a controlled way. Never seen it before. Works quite well!
Thanks for looking and enjoy
Vice grip makes one
@@gqp3215 sure, but not tha big! Gotta admit that's a good way to do it. Nice and controlled.
It’s a cast iron pipe cutter.
@@brianwilliams7757 looks like the clamp that holds the pipe being cut, but yes, it is.
I can't say I've ever seen hydrologic pipe cutters used like that. But it makes sense. I've cut everything from a 16" cast iron pipe all the way down to 4" asbestos concrete pipe with a hand cranked mechanical nibber. I'm sure you know but if it starts to crush turn the specimens 45° to 90° and tighten it up to just before where you had it. Keep doing that until it's all the way around and they'll usually pop off pretty cleanly. Good way to get a cleaner snap cut on one you think may be really nice.
Thank you! We have had to take them out and reposition a few times. Usually because they are too thick one way :-)
This is our medium sized pipe cutter, we have one smaller and one larger. Thank you for watching and have a great day!
I love geodes Always have there so beautiful. Wish i could find one. Thanks for sharing.
Thank you! They are always beautiful. Hope you are able to find one!
nice to see you doing your thing and i too miss the car talks
About to let the last car go.
Geode
Geodes are geological secondary structures which occur in certain sedimentary and volcanic rocks. Geodes are essentially hollow, spherical to oblate masses of mineral matter that may form from either the filling of vesicles in volcanic to sub-volcanic rocks by minerals deposited from hydrothermal fluids, or by the dissolution of sedimentary nodules or concretions and partial filling by the same or other minerals precipitated from diagenetic or hydrothermal fluids. Geodes differ from vugs in that the former were formed as early, rounded, structures within the surrounding rock, whereas vugs are irregular voids or cavities within a cross-cutting formation, usually a vein or breccia. Geodes also differ from "nodules" in that a nodule is a mass of mineral matter that has accreted around the nodule nucleus. Both structures had the minerals contained within, deposited from groundwater or hydrothermal processes. Geodes commonly have a chalcedony shell lined internally by various minerals, often as crystals, particularly calcite, pyrite, kaolinite, sphalerite, millerite, barite, dolomite, limonite, smithsonite and quartz, which is by far the most common and abundant mineral found in geodes. Geodes are found mostly in basaltic lavas and limestones. The Warsaw Formation in the Keokuk region near the area where Missouri, Iowa, and Illinois join contains abundant geodes.
See my Petri Dish Earth vids.... they arent what we were told. Not even close.
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@@WoodiesRockShop Subbed too and thank you :-)
I show some cool "rocks" in my vids btw... ua-cam.com/video/Gtaa6bmFpOY/v-deo.html
We’re off on tour again. Melbourne FL this weekend & then west friendship MD the following week June 4-5
Rootbeer crystals!
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fantastic find, video and technically opening.
I found one when I was 14 fly fishing in a small creek in Wyoming. it had a small hole in it so the insides got a bit dirty.
That's how I saw it.
Still got it, haven't cut it, it a purple color 💜, about the size of a coconut.
Didn't catch any fish, but I was just getting started with a fly rod, fishing first summer, and looked down in the creek I was in and saw, picked up, and kept a find of a life time for me, still have it, looking at it right now.., and I'm 58.
Money, I have never been blessed with.., but amazing things like this.., a strange abundance...
That is an awesome story!! So glad you still have it. Riches come in many forms, not just money 🙂
I did break it in half, that's how I know the crystal is purple. I live in Ohio, I was on vacation with my family at the time.
I have a very nice rock collection, so the geode fits right in. Also nice Deer Antler collection, a few nice Arrow, Spear Heads, Cutting Tools.
I'm not even going to get started on Wildlife Sightings... I'm not a hunter and they know it...
Sounds like you have a nice collection of things! All very nature related too 🙂
Fabulous to watch. I saw another rock hound soak geodes in Muriatic acid dilution to dissolve calcite. The hidden crystal formations were amazing.
Thank you for watching!! Each geode is definitely unique and beautiful in its own way 🙂
I LOVE geodes. That's a beauty!
Thank you so much! We love cracking them because they are each one so unique and beautiful 😍
The first one Looks like hard Carmel candies
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Awesome Beautiful 💜
Thank you!
I love my Angel Aura Quartz Geode, bonded with Titanium. ☺️❤️👑🌍 My only Geode.
Thanks for looking
Interesting way to crack them, kind of cooler than cutting as it really shows the grain and structure of the crystals.
Everyone has their own personal preference, some prefer cracked and some prefer cut. We like both :-) We don't typically cut ours because we don't want to ruin a large calcite. Thanks for watching and rock on!
It's like a miniature cave. A cave-a-rama
Nice! A beautiful little crystal cave :-) thanks for watching!
Thats sick! 😮
Thanks for watching!
Wow, this was the first time seeing anything like this. How wonderful to have those on your property. I subscribed so I can watch more!
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Dino Eggs
That is so cool & beautiful!
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yeah like another has stated. this is a very very cool way to open a geode! and not many kno just what that tool is!!
so yeah this was very cool thanks for posting.
Nice one!
Thanks so much!
Hey Woody nice to see you doing well with the geode i miss having my haircut rock shows!
Hey man.
Hopefully y’all are good.
Miss the car talks we had. I’m rarely ever home in the tri state area
Have a blessed day man
Visited there years ago for geodes. Loved it.
Glad you enjoyed it! Thank you for watching!
Yikes!! That’s allot of trust that you won’t rip your fingers of with that rock cracker. How fun!
We've been doing it for 13 years and still have all our fingers. It does require some level of common sense and following safety procedures, but we've done it! Thanks for watching and rock on!
That's cool! The splitting device is too!
Thank you!! Thanks for watching!!
That was cool!
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Lovely
Thank you!
Put that brown calcite geode under a black light and it should fluoresce either orange or red.
We have put some of our geodes under blacklight and usually get a yellow/green to orange color, very pretty! Thanks for watching and rock on!
@@WoodiesRockShop - Cool. Do you have any videos showing that as well? Thanks.
I dont think we have any on UA-cam, but we sure can try to get one on here soon! Thanks for watching!
@@WoodiesRockShop - Thank you. : )
You're welcome!
I can see why this dude's job to hold on to the rock
Thanks
Geodes have always fascinated me. It would have been nice to see these after being cleaned up.
I love your channel! I’ve loved geodes since I was a little girl! What’s the biggest one you’ve ever found?
Thank you for watching! We apologize, we are learning everyday and trying to make better videos and follow-up videos for you all. Have a great day and I hope you enjoy some of our other videos!
Thank you so much!! We have found some that are several feet in diameter but most of our common "big" ones run about basketball or a little bigger and weigh about 60-70 pounds. The "grandpa geode" video is a common "big" geode for us. Thank you for watching and we hope you enjoy our other videos! :-)
Pretty cool
Thanks!
satisfied
Thanks for watching!
Found a perfectly round geode, size of a baseball in some rockfall at the base of a road cut in Missouri. I chipped a small amount off with a hammer but couldn't crack the sphere. Incredibly hard material. Blue color looks like it's made out of flint or chert. It's been sitting on top of my dresser for 21 years.
Sounds like shale. We get a lot of our geodes from shale and they have a bluish/gray exterior. They can be hard to crack, especially if they are solid. Here is a video showing us opening one without the machine. ua-cam.com/video/n3niv_0CpuI/v-deo.html
We don't suggest using a plastic table, and several people have pointed that out, but the technique is the same. They are easiest to open if you score around them. I will note that this one had a natural fracture line to begin with which makes opening without the machine easier. If you get the outside of a geode wet you will be able to see any natural fracture lines as it dries. Thanks for watching and rock on!
I dunno why but I love the word Keokuk
We love the Keokuk geodes 🙂 thanks for watching!
Very Nice Results 😎👍💯🇺🇲
Thank you for watching!!
i like geodes
Thanks! So do we: -) each one its own unique beauty!
@@WoodiesRockShop i only like amethyst geodes
@@WoodiesRockShop or any geode
We don't find any amethyst geodes on our property.
@@WoodiesRockShop ok
Dont know why this was recommended but cool shit I enjoyed. Rock on
We suggest checking out some of our other videos for even cooler stuff 😎. Thanks for watching and rock on!!
Beautiful!
Thank you so much!
@@WoodiesRockShop Am curious, at what age did you learn about geodes, and how quickly did you realise you wanted to work with them?
I have loved geodes since I was a young kid but I didn't start working with them until about 12 years ago after I had been down a couple of different career paths. I didnt start working with them full time until about 5 years ago.
@@WoodiesRockShop That's awesome! Thanks for the response!
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Snapped a whole lot of Con pipe with one of those chain snaps. Never thought about using one for rockhound work like that!
It makes geode cracking easy work! 🙂
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Beautiful
Thank you! Have a great day! 🙂
Airborne extinction....nnice job
Thanks! Have a great day!
COOOOOOOOL!
Thanks so much for watching! Rock on!
That is a nice chain crusher.
Thank you! Thanks for watching!
In southern Venezuela a American spelunker dropped into a mountain and upon react the bottom shined his lights and found himself inside a huge geode with amethyst walls, they've since named it after him a retired dentist
That would be neat!
If you didn't crack them open would they still be growing or are they formed to that an then shelled?
The way we understand it, the geodes stop forming when they are removed from the pressure that they were formed under in the Earth. If that is the case, the geode would not continue to grow if we didn't crack it. Thanks for watching and rock on!!
Whats that machine used to brake those rock that you have
Geodude #2
Geode
Geodes are geological secondary structures which occur in certain sedimentary and volcanic rocks. Geodes are essentially hollow, spherical to oblate masses of mineral matter that may form from either the filling of vesicles in volcanic to sub-volcanic rocks by minerals deposited from hydrothermal fluids, or by the dissolution of sedimentary nodules or concretions and partial filling by the same or other minerals precipitated from diagenetic or hydrothermal fluids. Geodes differ from vugs in that the former were formed as early, rounded, structures within the surrounding rock, whereas vugs are irregular voids or cavities within a cross-cutting formation, usually a vein or breccia. Geodes also differ from "nodules" in that a nodule is a mass of mineral matter that has accreted around the nodule nucleus. Both structures had the minerals contained within, deposited from groundwater or hydrothermal processes. Geodes commonly have a chalcedony shell lined internally by various minerals, often as crystals, particularly calcite, pyrite, kaolinite, sphalerite, millerite, barite, dolomite, limonite, smithsonite and quartz, which is by far the most common and abundant mineral found in geodes. Geodes are found mostly in basaltic lavas and limestones. The Warsaw Formation in the Keokuk region near the area where Missouri, Iowa, and Illinois join contains abundant geodes.
Wow I have a snap cutter I never seen it used to open geods. I seen them cut with a wet saw or smashed with a hammer . That's cool thanks for the video .
Thank you for watching!! We typically crack ours so we don't cut through a calcite.
@@WoodiesRockShop what model cutter did you get? Any recommendations where to buy?
@@tauberrm we have several different models. Ridgid and wheeler rex both make them. You can buy them at plumbing supply stores or sometimes used on Ebay
Cool! New subscriber here :)
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So that's how you get your rocks off!
I suppose that's one way to look at it. Thanks for watching!
I love these things my parents hate that I'm so hooked on crack rock though
Better to be hooked on cracking rocks than crack rock.
the size of the chain link is awesome
That is our medium sized one. We have one smaller and one bigger. Thanks for watching!!
Huh, my first thought would be to use a water jet, or some kind of saw.
We end up cutting off too many big crystals typically
Wow!! That's impressive! When you cracked that 2nd geode I yelled "oh my gosh" so loud my husband came running cause he thought something was wrong. Lol😂 I showed him the video and he was also very impressed. We would like to know where to get a Rock splitter like that??? Also I can never seem to find Geodes bigger than a softball. WHERE DO THESE HUGE ROCKS COME FROM?
Thank you! 🤣 That is a cast iron pipe cutter, you can find them at home improvement stores and plumbing supply stores. You can find used ones sometimes on eBay or other sites where people sell used items. We get our geodes from our private property in Missouri, the "Fabulous Keokuk Geode" site. Thank you so much for watching!!
Vice grip makes smaller ones for gripping threaded pipe
The small ones don't work well on our geodes, except for maybe the baby ones that we sell unopened. Thanks for watching
Muito bonito 🇧🇷👍
That was a nice brown calcite geode.
Thanks!
Great video! Is that a cast iron pipe cutter? Beats pounding away at it. Nice geode you got there!
Thank you! It is a cast iron pipe cutter 🙂
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When jawbreakers can resemble geode, they will be like this.
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Should of cut that joker with a masonry saw 🤔💡. It's pretty. . My dad had one the size of a softball when I was a kid it was purple inside. Years ago. 👍👍❤️🌎✌️
We don't typically saw the geodes unless we know what is in them so we don't cut the top off a large calcite. We have a few we have cut and polished and many other types of stones that we cut and polish. Thanks for watching!!
Very cool. What were you using to crack them open?
We use cast iron pipe cutters. Thanks for watching!!
just had our may club meeting bought a few rocks.
Buying rocks is always a good time! Thanks for watching!
Looks like a seed from those giant trees 🌳🤔
That is what a lot of people have been saying. Interesting. Thanks for watching!!
What are you using to open it
Cast iron pipe cutter with a hydraulic pump
Was in my recommended and I was curious why there was a rock in a bicycle chain. 😅 Read the comments, saw that it's a pipe cutter. Very interesting!
Thanks for watching! It does look like a big bicycle chain now that you mention it 🤔
Yes crystals are important future technologies use these components.neat clinch wench breaker thou".😁
Thanks for watching! Rock on!
We’re did you find those huge ones?
We get these on our private property in Missouri. Thank you for watching!
Is that splitting tool for binding felled trees? ?
That is a cast iron pipe cutter. Thanks for watching!
Now I have Quartz and I have some that are broken but with a lot of yellow in them. What would be the yellow?? It's pretty and sometimes it will be this pinkish. Like the inside of me Geode, on the crystals. It's got a little pink.
Depends on where the geode is from and if it has been treated with anything, like the "aura" geodes are.
Is that a chain cutter for cast iron pipe?
Yes it is!
HI WOODIES ROCK SHOP, FANTASTIC MACHINE THAT YOU HAVE......DO YOU SOLD OR MAKE THIS MACHINE TO BROKE GEODES.? THANKS AND GREAT JOB
The machine is a cast iron pipe cutter. We don't sell them or make them. They can usually be found at plumbing supply stores.
Thank you for watching!
Where can i find rocks like that? ....nice
We get our geodes from our property in Missouri. Thanks for watching!!
When you squish it open. Im not sure but it looks like all the crystals are shattered around the edges. Cutting it will save any real nice ones you might run across and maybe not squish open in that way.
We typically don't saw cut our geodes because of the risk of cutting the end off of a calcite. If you check out our other videos you will see that sometimes we get big calcites in a hollow geode. We have saw cut and polished a few and they do turn our beautiful also! Thanks for watching!
Never seen that rock torture device before.
That's a cast iron pipe cutter and it works great for geode cracking. Thanks for watching!
He said "girthier." 🤣😂
Yep! Sometimes it is what it is :-) thanks for watching!
Where do you find something like this?
We get these on our property in Missouri
WAIT, HOW DO YOU FIND THOSE?!! I live I the Rocky Mts!
When we purchased the property we knew the geodes were there from books that had been written in the past. The Keokuk geode formation is found in our area of Iowa, Illinois, and Missouri. Thanks for watching!!
To be honest the way you were sitting was making me nervous with that chain being so close to the Jewels (pun intended).
Thanks! 😊 We've had a few people mention that. In the last 13 years of doing it this way the jewels have survived thankfully! Thanks for watching and rock on!
Sweet cracker.
Thanks!
Rock and stone
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Them are prehistoric eggs. The yoke is the colored pocket in the middle. many times evaporates and leaves a colored crystallized cavity.
Thank you for watching! They are each beautiful and unique!
I don't think I'd be straddling that chain , there buddy.
We've only had one chain pop in the 13 years we've been doing this, and the video is posted, a link snapped on one side. We do keep the possibilities in mind though. Thanks for watching!
I want to see the other side ! ! !
We realized after posting the video that we didn't show the other side. It was mostly solid and we didn't think about showing it. We are learning more all the time. Thank you for watching and commenting!
Where do you find these?
Northeast Missouri on our private property. Thanks for watching!
GOOD ROCKS
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NICE! I am new here and I subscribed, what kind of cows to you have? I was raised on a southern farm (my grand parents, lol). Cook that way too!🤗🤗🤗🤗
We had black Angus, but now we just have goats. Do love that southern cooking!! Thanks for subscribing!
@@WoodiesRockShop going to scout out places to rockhound today. I am near Bloomington, IL. There are a couple rivers and I'm close to the Ohio I think.
That sounds like fun! So many beautiful rocks to be found all over the place 😍
@@WoodiesRockShop I found 2 broken points, a complete green glass bottle (old one) sugar agates, 2 fossils and a ton of chert and jasper.
@@karapoole4070 awesome! My favorite would be the green glass bottle :-)
wow
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Is that an actual machine for cracking rocks or is that something you made?
It is a cast iron pipe cutter
I'm sorry to be a bother but what exactly is the chain tool called ? and where can you find one to buy ?
No problem! It is a cast iron pipe cutter and you can find them at home improvement or plumbing supply stores usually.
I have these and quartz geodes along with a ton of solid quarts of different colors mostly orange and yellow... is there any value to them? I’m in Tennessee and I have caves all over the property and 2 branches. One drops into an underground stream and I’d dry the rest of the way through the property, unless we get some decent rain and then in flows heavy. The other is a pretty fast moving stream. I find these all over, all the time. I broke open a couple that were black “sooty” looking and when I washed out the “soot” the crystals remained a smokey grey color. I know very little about them and never found em before until I bought this property.
Sounds like a cool property! Unfortunately I don't know much about the value of Tennessee geodes because I've never dealt with them. You might try contacting a local rock club and see of they have any information that would be helpful. Thanks for stopping by our channel!
@@WoodiesRockShop I didn’t even know of such a thing. I’ll start looking into that! Thanks!
You're welcome! Good luck!
@Trigger Happy would you be interested in selling me some geodes ? I have a large geode collection from around the world and would love to add one from your property!
@@kolhtonharrington6275 where are you located?