I really like the format with going from the beach to the cab machine and back to the beach. It really shows what rock hounding is all about. Keep it up!
That's what it's all about for me. I like to do something to the rocks when I get them home. I'm glad you're enjoying what I've been doing in the videos lately.
I put an ad at the beginning and one at the end, if anyone stay until the very end. I really hate watching UA-cam videos with ads interrupting them all the way through, so I just won't do it on my own videos. I also don't like the ads that pop up along the bottom because it blocks the view. I don't think most people realize that the creator of the video has the choice of where to put ads. Thanks for noticing.
@@MichiganRocks Bless you and your dear family. Thank you for the beautiful rock hounding videos on the shores of my home state. I enjoy them so much. Thank you.
💎 Excellent video 💎 My BP automatically lowers as My Old Eyes take in the scenery So many cool rocks to see ! You Sir are an Artist Your creations in Rock inspire me I must admit the “two of you” also inspire my heart “will this make the coffee table” He asked his Love to which she giggles “yes” 💕 Thank you 🙏 both
I so love ur videos. The sound of the waves and even the rocks moving around are so soothing to me. I just love rock hounding and learning all I can!! Thank you for sharing with us all!
🙋♀️❤❤ Crazy waves,, Glowing rocks, sparkling stones, fossils! Instant gratification of polished stones. What more could we ask for! THANKS FOR SHARING, YOU TWO!
Such a great video. I enjoyed the relaxing sounds of the waves and loved how you showed us the polishing of the rock right after you found it. Nice editing. Thank you to both you and Nancy.🎃
It only seemed like it was right after Nancy found it. I think it was actually a week or two. You guys watching don't have to have any patience at all! Months long tumbles take less than an hour through the magic of video.
Really cool finds👍.and i just really like those stripy ones.if i lived there i would tag along and pick those u drop😂.and that sound of waves hitting the rocks.i could sit there forever just to listen it❤
Rob thanks for all the videos you and Nancy do, as a fairly newly retiree I just started collecting rock's for about a year, started picking up pudding stone's and Gowganda tillite's, since watching your videos I've picked up a one barrel 3 lb. Lortone tumbler, only on my second tumble hurried the first ones and didn't really get the shine I wanted( still learning, need patience). Just wanted to say thanks for all the videos and helpful hints.
I love the homely whitish agate at about 15:15. I hope you tumble it…it had a lot of action. Nancy is great, as always. I wish you more good weather. Thanks.
I'm not sure how I'd go about tumbling that one. I sure wouldn't be tumbling it until it was hole-free. The holes wouldn't get shiny at all, so I don't know how it would end up looking. I'll have to think about that one.
@@MichiganRocks there were so many interesting lines. I thought a tumble might bring them out……No goal for hole-free, the whole rock would be gone! You know waaay more about this than I do…still it was ugly-cool!
Love this type of video with the polishing in between! And doing the fossil too! I have so many I don’t know how I should try polishing any. Thank you!!
Some fossils can be tumbled. Around where I live, most fossils are limestone which is challenging to tumble, but it can be done. The cabbing machine also works well as you saw here.
Some really good finds there, I dig that one at the end that's not an agate but looks kinda like it, with those white stripes going into the quartz, Very nice!! :)
The sound of the surf was really good in this video. I have a couple of white rocks like the one at 15:00 with all the swirly bands in it. It will be interesting to see how the one at 17:00 polishes up and to see if it’s an agate.
At 5:46 we see a closeup of your scoop. Is that home made? Appears to be a PVC tube & a slotten spoon. Is that a purchased item or did you make it yourself. Looks pretty handy and easy to construct? Retired lady here wanting to have one.
I made that. Here's a video of how I did it, although you could just use duct tape to attach the spoon to a piece of PVC or any sort of stick. PVC is lightweight so it's easy to carry all day. ua-cam.com/video/94qD2d34Ge4/v-deo.html Kingsley North also sells one. Actually they have four different models, two lengths, folding or not. kingsleynorth.com/treasure-scoop-36-inch.html?ref=robertabram1& (affiliate link)
For all the times I’ve wished I could go back up to the UP, I’ve been so happy to watch you guys go out and get em’! Very nice. I’ve had most all of my Lake Huron horn coral fossil tumble out quite nice! The colors in yours, if they would stay, should have made a nice specimen. But with that wheel, SO very nice. I’m jealous! Might have to take over some more real estate in the basement and setup a lapidary center?
More great finds, thanks for bringing us along. I’ve never been to that beach. Maybe next year! I know you’re not in it for the money, but people go nuts for yooperlites that big. I loved the polished horn coral.
I’m sure you probably hear this all the time but you should be a guide and do tours. You always find the best places! I always have a hard time finding places or am not adventurous enough to try on my own.
I don't think you need me as a guide. I almost always say exactly where I'm at, so you can just go check it out yourself. One thing that some people don't realize is how long I'm on the beach to make a video. I think we were on this beach for about four hours. It looks better when you squeeze all the best parts into twenty minutes or so.
That is a beautiful variolitic basalt; really shined up nice too! The "puddingstone" you found at 9:00 looks a lot like some of the Jacobsville Sandstone at Burnette Park that has small red rip-up clasts embedded in it. Obviously can't tell from the video whether the matrix is sandy or not, but that is what it looks like. One of these days Nat and I will have to make it to that beach to have a look around...
I didn't get the feeling that the puddingstone look alike was sandstone. It doesn't feel grainy. Someone else commented that they found one like it and that it polished well. If it actually was the same thing, then that suggests that it's not sandstone too.
Really nice finds. Just wondering why you don't have polishing paste on the last polish wheel? At least I didn't see any. I know that would make a difference for sure. I love the yooperlights. Never found any that big. I have a small UV light that goes in a cabinet to display them. Once I get things set up. Love a lot of the rocks you tossed even, very pretty.
Tumbling is much, much less labor intensive. I can do a whole bunch of rocks at the same time and not handle them very much. The downside is that it takes a few months. This machine is also a lot more expensive and the wheels cost a lot to replace. Tumblers are comparatively cheap and the grit is cheap compared to the wheels.
Thanks you guys for your great videos ! I hope I can get to Michigan shores someday. It sure is fun searching the beaches with you. Come to Washington and we’ll wait till the tide goes out! N
Very pretty finds. The first one agate you found (tiny one) is the prettiest one. The ones you put the UV light are so cool! Beautiful finds for both of you.
I just found one of those varialite (sp) on my last beach video. I had no idea what it was...so thank you for letting us know what you find...that helps all of us identify our unique finds! That is one beautiful rock when polished!
Love the videos and especially because they’re MI based. We were up visiting relatives on Good Harbor Bay this past summer and some recent heavy winds brought a ton of Petoskey stones ashore. Their front yard was bursting with them.
Those are such beauties! The lovely assistant, IS lovely! Don't you find the "noise" from the waves to be "Nature's Valium"....What beautiful, beautiful rocks you both found. Nancy still gets "Best of Show"!! Haven't you become a Yooper lite magnet! Awesome!
I like some wave sounds, but long days with really big waves can be too much. Sam and I were out in June on a day like that. By the end of the day, we found the wind and wave sounds to be sort of exhausting. But that was after something like six hours.
That day reminded me of a hard day of shark tooth hunting on the beaches of Venice Fla. You see a nice one and if you miss it on the first grab, it's gone forever. As always great video!
At 15:02, I see a wolf head in the rock - the nose is near your pinky and 2 small holes for eyes. It's not perfect, but... LOL Thanks, and take care Rob and Nancy.
I have probably tumbled more unakite than just about any other rock. I love the stuff, but I was in a rut of tumbling too much of it. I actually took some home this summer that I will tumble. I find a lot of it, especially in Lake Superior and I can afford to be pretty selective about what I take home.
That non puddingstone is going to look incredible after you tumble it. Just out of curiosity, does Nancy tumble rocks ? I'd like to see some of the rocks she tumbles if she does. I almost never pass up a nice piece of quartz & I only keep the translucent ones. The designs going through them are really cool. Those waves are frustrating when it comes to looking for rocks. Nancy has a great eye for beautiful rocks to tumble. I loved that small red & orange swirley rock
Nancy has about zero interest in doing tumbling or any other sort of lapidary activity. She does appreciate the stuff I make though. More importantly, she allows me to make a bunch of noise in the basement.
They might have been good finds here too, I just don't like to take too much home. If I do, they just end up setting in boxes in my basement. I like to make sure I can do something with them. Then again, the tumbled rocks often end up setting in my basement too!
You need something like an empty aquarium to see the shore bottom further out, undisturbed by waves. That would be unwieldy though - maybe a 5-foot long, 6”-wide tube with a glass bottom, and feet to rest on / poke into the bottom with. The waves would still move the rocks around, but you could see them clearly at least. Put cylindrical mesh / grating around the bottom and you could keep them from moving out of view, too, maybe.
I made a viewer like that out of a five gallon bucket, but I never use it. For one thing, I don't have enough hands to hold a bucket to carry rocks in, a scooper, a camera, and my plexiglass bottomed bucket. Also, if it's too rough, the bucket gets slammed around too much. If it's not rough, I don't need it. The only time it's really useful is if there are just ripples on the water. The one place it would be consistently useful is on rivers, but I rarely hunt rivers.
I think small agates are just more common. They're formed in gas pockets in volcanic rock and I think the smaller holes must be more common. The other thing is that the big ones are just easier to see and they get picked up quicker by other rock hunters.
Old disabled house bound dusty rusty rockhound here: I rewatched this video. Always good to see your and Nancy's smiling faces! Still haven't been well enough to get out and rockhunt in Michigan...but I'm getting a little better and hope to a least be able to ride in a car out to where the rocks are. Do you have any suggestions for places that are better for people with mobility limitations....including rock shops?
That's not in the area I have done much beach hunting around. I can recommend two places that have pretty easy access. I'm not sure if they're within two hours of Lansing, but they're the closest ones I know about. Pilgrim Haven Natural Area is on Lake Michigan near South Haven. There's a sidewalk that goes right from the parking lot to the beach. No steps, as far as I remember. Here's a video we did there: ua-cam.com/video/AMO69Z0Ljdw/v-deo.html The other spot is Fort Gratiot County Park near Port Huron. Since that's so close to Detroit, I imagine it gets hit hard in the summer. I was there in the early winter and saw about six other people looking for rocks while I was there. The parking lot is close to the beach and also has a sidewalk or at least the driveway that goes very close to the beach. The sound is all messed up in the video I made, but here it is: ua-cam.com/video/kvQHgmopGnw/v-deo.html
I know where the river mouth is for this river but where abouts is the access located? Is it off the road that leads to the mouth of the river or is there another access point?
One @15:00 reminds me of the cross-section of a bone!😜😁 One at 17min. definitely an agate. As you said, may be able to bring out more layers/stripes with polishing, or may be disappointed. There’s no way to really tell.🤷🏻♀️
@@MichiganRocks Really? I’ve never heard of that! I’ve got some in the laundry room, but can’t say for sure where my rocks that might wok for are. Quite a bit of them got moved on me while I was away.😡😢
@@littledabwilldoya9717 It's a pretty common thing to do with Lake Superior agates. I have only tried it once with about five rocks and it didn't make much difference in my case.
I used to just put out a batch of rocks that I liked, but never changed them very often. Then Nancy decided to hand pick them a little more. They're not the best of the best or anything, just some that are a little better than average.
If you're doing a lot of rocks, a tumbler is much, much labor intensive. You just put them in and let them go. You only have to mess with them once a week for a few minutes. The downside is that it typically takes a couple months if you want to get all the flaws out of the rocks. With a cab machine, you can shape the rocks and one rock can be done in less than an hour. The wheels on cab machines cost $80-100 for good ones, so I don't like to put a lot of extra wear on them unless the rock is something special or I'm in a big hurry or if I'm making something like a cabochon.
@@MichiganRocks Thanks for the reply! I have collected hundreds of rocks from a beach in Massachusetts, similar to stuff you collect around the Great Lakes. I want to polish them so they appear wet at all times without losing much material since they have already been "tumbled" by the ocean. Hence the interest in a cab machine or something similar. I do have a small tumbler... I have never used it as I like the natural shape of the rocks I find, I just want them to be polished. Would you recommend I sort them by hardness & size and just tumble them with polisher? Thank you!
Some of the best agates I ever found were on the lake across from muskallonge State Park! Now I live in ne Tennessee, can you tell me what to look for in this area?
I looked into hunting rocks up there, but I think it's illegal to pick up rocks at the campground. I need to look at that again, because it would be a fun little trip.
The Great Lakes are some of the biggest lakes in the world. Lake Superior, the lake in this video, is the largest freshwater lake in the world. For some reason, the Caspian Sea, which has salt water, is considered to be a lake and is much larger than Lake Superior. You can't see across the Great Lakes. They're huge. Have you heard of the Edmund Fitzgerald? Do they play that song in Australia? It's a freighter that sunk very near where we were in this video. I live in Alpena, on Lake Huron. We have a marine sanctuary here to protect many shipwrecks in the area. The waves can get very big here, especially in November. Here's a video of a storm in Marquette, another city on Lake Superior. My sister lives in Marquette and my son was in college there when this storm hit. They had to rebuild the road near here up farther from the lake after this happened. I have seen estimates of 20-25 foot waves that day. ua-cam.com/video/JaIuK5mzImI/v-deo.html
@@MichiganRocks yes. We heard the song on the radio a million times back in the day. Watched a few great lake shipwreck videos. My dad was a small boat angler so I've had some experiences in bad weather. I was guessing the cloud way off in the horizon was the other side of the lake. Truly amazing. Thanks for replying. ps. I watched that video. It certainly got wild and cold too I'm guessing. We're temperate climate here 40 miles south of Sydney. A little place named Austinmer, New South Wales is where I grew up.
No, Yooperlites glow under U.V. light. Here are my Yooperlite videos if you want to see what they look like: Hunting Yooperlites: ua-cam.com/video/7xzNiQmKpEw/v-deo.html Tumbling Yooperlite: ua-cam.com/video/5wiAY3vVFws/v-deo.html Slabbing Yooperlites: ua-cam.com/video/xJUMoIpOhoo/v-deo.html Making Yooperlite Fridge Magnets: ua-cam.com/video/ejpOt6Ru2jk/v-deo.html Second Yooperlite Hunting Video: ua-cam.com/video/mX1SEbnRw58/v-deo.html
You and Nancy found some cool rocks. Nancy's agates are real nice. The non pudding stone is interesting. Wonder what kind of rock that is? I found out how hard it is to pick up rocks with waves on the beach. They can be gone fast. I dropped my phone right on the shore and waves went right on it because I couldn't pick it up fast enough. Thankfully my case saved my phone. I thought it was a goner. Now I know what the green rock with the light green dots are. Found a couple of them on the north shore. Thanks for another awesome video Rob!
@@captpaul8827 "Assures" might be too strong of a word. I just didn't think it looked coarse enough to be a sandstone. I'll take a close up and send it to you. I'll also post it on Instagram for anyone else who wants to see it.
I'd have purchased the Yooperlite from you, Rob! The only one I've found was in the lower SW side of Michigan at a turn-off called Roadside Park on the scenic drive; my husband found a puddingstone there. We were both so elated and shocked.
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I love when Nancy is along for the hunt 🙂
Me too.
@@MichiganRocks yay Nancy
Agreed, Nancy is awesome!!!
Absolutely!
So do I
I really like the format with going from the beach to the cab machine and back to the beach. It really shows what rock hounding is all about. Keep it up!
That's what it's all about for me. I like to do something to the rocks when I get them home. I'm glad you're enjoying what I've been doing in the videos lately.
Me too!
Can I get in touch with you privately?
Those were some fantastic finds!
Appreciate the commercial free videos, Rob and Nancy!
I put an ad at the beginning and one at the end, if anyone stay until the very end. I really hate watching UA-cam videos with ads interrupting them all the way through, so I just won't do it on my own videos. I also don't like the ads that pop up along the bottom because it blocks the view. I don't think most people realize that the creator of the video has the choice of where to put ads. Thanks for noticing.
Watching this makes me so homesick for Michigan! Born and raised.
I'm not sure if I should apologize or not.
@@MichiganRocks Bless you and your dear family. Thank you for the beautiful rock hounding videos on the shores of my home state. I enjoy them so much. Thank you.
As a life long rock hound , I look forward too, and enjoy. Your videos! Thank you.
I'm glad you're enjoying them, Gary!
💎 Excellent video 💎
My BP automatically lowers as My Old Eyes take in the scenery So many cool rocks to see ! You Sir are an Artist Your creations in Rock inspire me I must admit the “two of you” also inspire my heart “will this make the coffee table” He asked his Love to which she giggles “yes” 💕
Thank you 🙏 both
The coffee table is in Nancy's domain. I'm thankful that she allows me to make messes and noises down in the shop.
What a great find, friends. I love that area. The storms really churn up the goodies 👍 Meanstoanend
I so love ur videos. The sound of the waves and even the rocks moving around are so soothing to me. I just love rock hounding and learning all I can!! Thank you for sharing with us all!
I love the sound when the water recedes and the rocks all roll back out.
Yay!! Nice day!!
Sure was!
Hey Rob, one of the last agates you found; the small brown one, looked just like a piece of Root Beer Barrel
candy. Sweet!
Yummy!
Some very nice agates. Thank you for taking us along
🙋♀️❤❤ Crazy waves,, Glowing rocks, sparkling stones, fossils! Instant gratification of polished stones. What more could we ask for! THANKS FOR SHARING, YOU TWO!
I hope you don't ask for any more because that's about all I've got!
@@MichiganRocks Hahaha! Here comes the snow and ice!
Nice day and great finds!
Such a great video. I enjoyed the relaxing sounds of the waves and loved how you showed us the polishing of the rock right after you found it. Nice editing. Thank you to both you and Nancy.🎃
It only seemed like it was right after Nancy found it. I think it was actually a week or two. You guys watching don't have to have any patience at all! Months long tumbles take less than an hour through the magic of video.
Really cool finds👍.and i just really like those stripy ones.if i lived there i would tag along and pick those u drop😂.and that sound of waves hitting the rocks.i could sit there forever just to listen it❤
I just love being on the beach. It's a very relaxing place to be.
We really like it when a blow goes thru like happened this week. Turns those rocks over and brings in a fresh batch to look at.
Yep, that's the best time to get out.
Those waves were fierce! I would stayed on the beach with Nancy! It was a fun hunt.
They weren't that big, but did make grabbing rocks a challenge. It's fun to try to grab them fast though.
Nancy's the best! Go Nancy!
I am a rock lover so... you have to know that ALL of you guys rocks are fantastic. And fresh air and sunshine. Rock on.
Thanks, Judi.
That verialite came out really nice! Those waves were very relaxing. You both found some really nice agates. 😍🥰😇👍🏻👍🏻👍🏻
I was happy with the shine I got on it this time. Those wheels are really good on that machine.
@@MichiganRocks Yeah! It came out so great! 😍🥰😇👍🏻👍🏻👍🏻
I love the verialite. My wife and i find them in the river behind my house. We call it Mansonite (for fun) because we discovered it there.
@@farmboypresents9977 I don't find them often. They're sort of a treat for me.
I had to fight to watch this video, because the sound of the waves kept threatening to lull me to sleep!!! 💜🌊😴
They are soothing, aren't they?
Rob thanks for all the videos you and Nancy do, as a fairly newly retiree I just started collecting rock's for about a year, started picking up pudding stone's and Gowganda tillite's, since watching your videos I've picked up a one barrel 3 lb. Lortone tumbler, only on my second tumble hurried the first ones and didn't really get the shine I wanted( still learning, need patience). Just wanted to say thanks for all the videos and helpful hints.
I'm glad to help, George. Patience is pretty important in this hobby. It's worth the wait.
Love hunting rocks in Michigan. I've brought home those mystery rocks so many times. 😅 look good in the landscaping.
Great finds ❤️
I love the homely whitish agate at about 15:15. I hope you tumble it…it had a lot of action.
Nancy is great, as always. I wish you more good weather. Thanks.
I'm not sure how I'd go about tumbling that one. I sure wouldn't be tumbling it until it was hole-free. The holes wouldn't get shiny at all, so I don't know how it would end up looking. I'll have to think about that one.
@@MichiganRocks there were so many interesting lines. I thought a tumble might bring them out……No goal for hole-free, the whole rock would be gone! You know waaay more about this than I do…still it was ugly-cool!
So many rocks to shop. What fun
Love this type of video with the polishing in between! And doing the fossil too! I have so many I don’t know how I should try polishing any. Thank you!!
Some fossils can be tumbled. Around where I live, most fossils are limestone which is challenging to tumble, but it can be done. The cabbing machine also works well as you saw here.
Some really good finds there, I dig that one at the end that's not an agate but looks kinda like it, with those white stripes going into the quartz, Very nice!! :)
I can't remember if I took that one home. It was pretty cool.
Very pretty! Thanks for the videos!
So wunderschöne Steine. Und dort möchte ich auch mal sammeln gehen. Soooo schön ❤
The sound of the surf was really good in this video. I have a couple of white rocks like the one at 15:00 with all the swirly bands in it. It will be interesting to see how the one at 17:00 polishes up and to see if it’s an agate.
Yeah, that one at 15:00 is odd, isn't it? I'm going to try soaking the one at 17:00 in iron out first. I hope that brings out a band or two.
You guys rock!
At 5:46 we see a closeup of your scoop. Is that home made? Appears to be a PVC tube & a slotten spoon. Is that a purchased item or did you make it yourself. Looks pretty handy and easy to construct? Retired lady here wanting to have one.
I made that. Here's a video of how I did it, although you could just use duct tape to attach the spoon to a piece of PVC or any sort of stick. PVC is lightweight so it's easy to carry all day. ua-cam.com/video/94qD2d34Ge4/v-deo.html
Kingsley North also sells one. Actually they have four different models, two lengths, folding or not. kingsleynorth.com/treasure-scoop-36-inch.html?ref=robertabram1& (affiliate link)
For all the times I’ve wished I could go back up to the UP, I’ve been so happy to watch you guys go out and get em’! Very nice. I’ve had most all of my Lake Huron horn coral fossil tumble out quite nice! The colors in yours, if they would stay, should have made a nice specimen. But with that wheel, SO very nice. I’m jealous! Might have to take over some more real estate in the basement and setup a lapidary center?
Might have to? Nah, you have to. You just need to find a way rationalize it with your wife.
More great finds, thanks for bringing us along. I’ve never been to that beach. Maybe next year! I know you’re not in it for the money, but people go nuts for yooperlites that big. I loved the polished horn coral.
Yes, I know I could have sold those, but that doesn't seem right to me. I'd rather have someone find them and be thrilled.
I’m sure you probably hear this all the time but you should be a guide and do tours. You always find the best places! I always have a hard time finding places or am not adventurous enough to try on my own.
I don't think you need me as a guide. I almost always say exactly where I'm at, so you can just go check it out yourself. One thing that some people don't realize is how long I'm on the beach to make a video. I think we were on this beach for about four hours. It looks better when you squeeze all the best parts into twenty minutes or so.
@@MichiganRocks Just like the fishing shows....; you don't believe they catch all those fish in 30 minutes, do you? ;-)
@@captpaul8827 That's a perfect comparison.
That is a beautiful variolitic basalt; really shined up nice too!
The "puddingstone" you found at 9:00 looks a lot like some of the Jacobsville Sandstone at Burnette Park that has small red rip-up clasts embedded in it. Obviously can't tell from the video whether the matrix is sandy or not, but that is what it looks like. One of these days Nat and I will have to make it to that beach to have a look around...
I didn't get the feeling that the puddingstone look alike was sandstone. It doesn't feel grainy. Someone else commented that they found one like it and that it polished well. If it actually was the same thing, then that suggests that it's not sandstone too.
@@MichiganRocks Ok, makes sense. It just has that look.
@@captpaul8827 Dr. Nat had a great video on the copper conglomerate today. I really like how she explains how rocks and formations are made.
@@wyomingadventures Glad you liked it. There's going to be more from the UP and from our recent trip to Colorado added soon.
I really liked your rock at 15.00…agate, almost an agate I think it was so interesting! ❤️❤️
Really nice finds. Just wondering why you don't have polishing paste on the last polish wheel? At least I didn't see any. I know that would make a difference for sure. I love the yooperlights. Never found any that big. I have a small UV light that goes in a cabinet to display them. Once I get things set up. Love a lot of the rocks you tossed even, very pretty.
I do enjoy watching both of you rock shopping
I never thought of it as "shopping". I guess I do enjoy browsing the isles, looking for just the right product.
Beauty is in the eye of the beholder!
Very cool hunt and great rocks and agates!
So why tumble the rocks when you can put them under the polisher and get the same result?
Tumbling is much, much less labor intensive. I can do a whole bunch of rocks at the same time and not handle them very much. The downside is that it takes a few months. This machine is also a lot more expensive and the wheels cost a lot to replace. Tumblers are comparatively cheap and the grit is cheap compared to the wheels.
WOW ! You guys did very well finding all those beautiful agates! 🤩😍
good to see you two together again ☺
We've been together the whole time, just not always on camera.
Hey rob and Nancy thanks for another great adventure on the lake today.really feels like I’m there with u,Mel from Australia 🇦🇺
You were very quiet creeping along behind us, Mel. We didn't even notice you back there.
Thanks you guys for your great videos ! I hope I can get to Michigan shores someday. It sure is fun searching the beaches with you. Come to Washington and we’ll wait till the tide goes out! N
Washington beach hunting at low tide sounds great, but I think that's a little bit out of my range.
I go absolutely insane when you show us the pretty looking rock and you throw it back !!! I’m laughing.
Sorry about that. I try not to bring home more than I can use. I know it drives people nuts.
Very pretty finds. The first one agate you found (tiny one) is the prettiest one. The ones you put the UV light are so cool! Beautiful finds for both of you.
I just found one of those varialite (sp) on my last beach video. I had no idea what it was...so thank you for letting us know what you find...that helps all of us identify our unique finds! That is one beautiful rock when polished!
It is, but it doesn’t tumble great. It’s sort of soft.
Love the videos and especially because they’re MI based. We were up visiting relatives on Good Harbor Bay this past summer and some recent heavy winds brought a ton of Petoskey stones ashore. Their front yard was bursting with them.
Awesome!
Those are such beauties! The lovely assistant, IS lovely! Don't you find the "noise" from the waves to be "Nature's Valium"....What beautiful, beautiful rocks you both found. Nancy still gets "Best of Show"!! Haven't you become a Yooper lite magnet! Awesome!
I like some wave sounds, but long days with really big waves can be too much. Sam and I were out in June on a day like that. By the end of the day, we found the wind and wave sounds to be sort of exhausting. But that was after something like six hours.
@@MichiganRocks Yep, you can hardly walk, and are sooooooooooo blissed out. That's how I got anyway. lol
It's funny the ones that you pick up that I like you end up throwing back into the water 🤣🤣🤣 love the videos watching from the UK x
I can only tumble so many, so I'm pretty selective about what I bring home. I get pickier each year.
Great adventure. You guys are a great team.
lots of cool not-agates today. nancy finds some beauties. some small but lovely agates. you both had me giggling a few times too.
No whoppers this time, but the little ones are fun to find too.
wow! what a fun show! Nancy is a real plus...like the way u explain the various rocks...agates r a favorite!
I love when Nancy is along too!
Cool Beans.
That day reminded me of a hard day of shark tooth hunting on the beaches of Venice Fla. You see a nice one and if you miss it on the first grab, it's gone forever. As always great video!
We had some second chances with these waves, but I have been out on days where there were no second chances.
Wow! I’m very surprised what you were able to do with that horn coral. That takes persistence for sure. Great work!
It polished up pretty well. I didn't do anything special.
At 15:02, I see a wolf head in the rock - the nose is near your pinky and 2 small holes for eyes. It's not perfect, but... LOL Thanks, and take care Rob and Nancy.
I see it!
Nice, thanks for sharing, I see black sand there, did you take the gold pan?
Nope, not this time.
When you dropped that Unakite at 11:24, I said "no!!" I would have taken that bad boy home. We don't find them that big down in SW Mi!! Beautiful.
I have probably tumbled more unakite than just about any other rock. I love the stuff, but I was in a rut of tumbling too much of it. I actually took some home this summer that I will tumble. I find a lot of it, especially in Lake Superior and I can afford to be pretty selective about what I take home.
Nice work
So cool 👍✌️
Love the videos, keep em coming
Ok, will do.
Unakite is beautiful made into jewelry. The black and white speckled stoned look like Dalmatian jasper. It’s also makes nice jewelry after polishing.
I love unakite.
Cool episode!!
That non puddingstone is going to look incredible after you tumble it. Just out of curiosity, does Nancy tumble rocks ? I'd like to see some of the rocks she tumbles if she does. I almost never pass up a nice piece of quartz & I only keep the translucent ones. The designs going through them are really cool. Those waves are frustrating when it comes to looking for rocks. Nancy has a great eye for beautiful rocks to tumble. I loved that small red & orange swirley rock
Nancy has about zero interest in doing tumbling or any other sort of lapidary activity. She does appreciate the stuff I make though. More importantly, she allows me to make a bunch of noise in the basement.
@@MichiganRocks You're lucky. I was banned to the garage. Lol
She's got a great eye for beautiful rocks though
@@MichiganRocks 😂
That’s why I like north winds makes it worth going out.😊
I found one of those imposter pudding stones also they tumble nicely!
That's good to know that it will tumble. It's a really interesting rock.
@@MichiganRocks welcome
So funny, many of the rocks you put back I would keep because that would be a good find in my area. Enjoy your videos
They might have been good finds here too, I just don't like to take too much home. If I do, they just end up setting in boxes in my basement. I like to make sure I can do something with them. Then again, the tumbled rocks often end up setting in my basement too!
Love it nancy it's awesome
You guys found a bunch of nice rocks. You had to be quick, with those waves.
Yeah, they were trying to get away.
You need something like an empty aquarium to see the shore bottom further out, undisturbed by waves. That would be unwieldy though - maybe a 5-foot long, 6”-wide tube with a glass bottom, and feet to rest on / poke into the bottom with. The waves would still move the rocks around, but you could see them clearly at least. Put cylindrical mesh / grating around the bottom and you could keep them from moving out of view, too, maybe.
I made a viewer like that out of a five gallon bucket, but I never use it. For one thing, I don't have enough hands to hold a bucket to carry rocks in, a scooper, a camera, and my plexiglass bottomed bucket. Also, if it's too rough, the bucket gets slammed around too much. If it's not rough, I don't need it. The only time it's really useful is if there are just ripples on the water. The one place it would be consistently useful is on rivers, but I rarely hunt rivers.
Fun! Great excuse for a neat excursion!!!
Fossil yay! Nice polish.
I was wondering why the agates you find up there are so tiny compared to the rest of the rocks.
TFS 💖💔🎸🏏
I think small agates are just more common. They're formed in gas pockets in volcanic rock and I think the smaller holes must be more common. The other thing is that the big ones are just easier to see and they get picked up quicker by other rock hunters.
* Love the way you find yooperlites.. Fun..
Awesome finds! Really enjoyed the video👍👍
Old disabled house bound dusty rusty rockhound here: I rewatched this video. Always good to see your and Nancy's smiling faces! Still haven't been well enough to get out and rockhunt in Michigan...but I'm getting a little better and hope to a least be able to ride in a car out to where the rocks are. Do you have any suggestions for places that are better for people with mobility limitations....including rock shops?
Could you give me an idea of approximately where you plan to go? That would help me narrow it down.
@@MichiganRocks Lansing area but any driving distance under 2 hours from Lansing.
That's not in the area I have done much beach hunting around. I can recommend two places that have pretty easy access. I'm not sure if they're within two hours of Lansing, but they're the closest ones I know about.
Pilgrim Haven Natural Area is on Lake Michigan near South Haven. There's a sidewalk that goes right from the parking lot to the beach. No steps, as far as I remember. Here's a video we did there: ua-cam.com/video/AMO69Z0Ljdw/v-deo.html
The other spot is Fort Gratiot County Park near Port Huron. Since that's so close to Detroit, I imagine it gets hit hard in the summer. I was there in the early winter and saw about six other people looking for rocks while I was there. The parking lot is close to the beach and also has a sidewalk or at least the driveway that goes very close to the beach. The sound is all messed up in the video I made, but here it is: ua-cam.com/video/kvQHgmopGnw/v-deo.html
Amazing 👍🏻😊😊
Hi you two! Great day for agates and other pretty rocks too.
I know where the river mouth is for this river but where abouts is the access located? Is it off the road that leads to the mouth of the river or is there another access point?
It's right here: goo.gl/maps/VSdg1TVYH3KZAre77
It's the road that goes to the mouth of the river. There's a blue foot bridge there.
@@MichiganRocks thank you!!!
Looks like a piece of horn coral to me.I think it turned out beautiful.
One @15:00 reminds me of the cross-section of a bone!😜😁 One at 17min. definitely an agate. As you said, may be able to bring out more layers/stripes with polishing, or may be disappointed. There’s no way to really tell.🤷🏻♀️
I'm going to soak it in Iron Out as someone suggest that I do. Maybe that will bring out the bands.
@@MichiganRocks Really? I’ve never heard of that! I’ve got some in the laundry room, but can’t say for sure where my rocks that might wok for are. Quite a bit of them got moved on me while I was away.😡😢
@@littledabwilldoya9717 It's a pretty common thing to do with Lake Superior agates. I have only tried it once with about five rocks and it didn't make much difference in my case.
Nice finds!
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Enjoying your video. Wish CT beaches had stones like MI.
So you're telling me that Connecticut isn't a place I should put on my list of rock hunting locations to visit?
Yes, what you've got at 4:29 is a horn coral.
Thanks, that was my best guess.
Ok, I’m gonna need to see the full “coffee table collection”. 🙏
I used to just put out a batch of rocks that I liked, but never changed them very often. Then Nancy decided to hand pick them a little more. They're not the best of the best or anything, just some that are a little better than average.
@@MichiganRocks Such a blessing that God gave you a spouse who shares your love of rocks. ♥️
some nice finds well done
Thanks!
What makes you use tumbler vs cab machine for polishing?
If you're doing a lot of rocks, a tumbler is much, much labor intensive. You just put them in and let them go. You only have to mess with them once a week for a few minutes. The downside is that it typically takes a couple months if you want to get all the flaws out of the rocks.
With a cab machine, you can shape the rocks and one rock can be done in less than an hour. The wheels on cab machines cost $80-100 for good ones, so I don't like to put a lot of extra wear on them unless the rock is something special or I'm in a big hurry or if I'm making something like a cabochon.
@@MichiganRocks Thanks for the reply! I have collected hundreds of rocks from a beach in Massachusetts, similar to stuff you collect around the Great Lakes.
I want to polish them so they appear wet at all times without losing much material since they have already been "tumbled" by the ocean. Hence the interest in a cab machine or something similar.
I do have a small tumbler... I have never used it as I like the natural shape of the rocks I find, I just want them to be polished.
Would you recommend I sort them by hardness & size and just tumble them with polisher?
Thank you!
I am proud you remembered Variolite nice find
I was proud of myself for remembering too!
Is that the same place some call the mouth of the two hearted river?
No, the Two Hearted River is sort of nearby, but it's a completely different river.
@@MichiganRocks thanks I wasn't sure .
Some of the best agates I ever found were on the lake across from muskallonge State Park!
Now I live in ne Tennessee, can you tell me what to look for in this area?
I have hunted agates there several times. I have never hunted rocks in Tennessee though, so I can't help you with what to look for there.
My sodalite does not fluoresce, we’re you referring to yuperlites?
Yes, the sodalite in them fluoresces.
@@MichiganRocks I wonder why pure sodalite won’t? Strange. Beautiful Agates you found great job thank you.
@@MACorrupt I wish I could explain that to you, but I have no idea. I'm not a geologist, just a guy who likes rocks.
@@MichiganRocks 🤣🤎🙏👍🏽
Is there a limit on how many rocks you can take from the Great Lakes?
Yes. 25 lbs. per year.
Thank you. Love your videos.
Take a trip up to WAWA Provincial Park. The beach at the campground is all agates.
I looked into hunting rocks up there, but I think it's illegal to pick up rocks at the campground. I need to look at that again, because it would be a fun little trip.
Hi. I'm from coastal Australia. That's one big lake. I'm surprised the surf isn't bigger. I bet it blows up real nasty.
The Great Lakes are some of the biggest lakes in the world. Lake Superior, the lake in this video, is the largest freshwater lake in the world. For some reason, the Caspian Sea, which has salt water, is considered to be a lake and is much larger than Lake Superior. You can't see across the Great Lakes. They're huge.
Have you heard of the Edmund Fitzgerald? Do they play that song in Australia? It's a freighter that sunk very near where we were in this video. I live in Alpena, on Lake Huron. We have a marine sanctuary here to protect many shipwrecks in the area. The waves can get very big here, especially in November. Here's a video of a storm in Marquette, another city on Lake Superior. My sister lives in Marquette and my son was in college there when this storm hit. They had to rebuild the road near here up farther from the lake after this happened. I have seen estimates of 20-25 foot waves that day. ua-cam.com/video/JaIuK5mzImI/v-deo.html
@@MichiganRocks yes. We heard the song on the radio a million times back in the day. Watched a few great lake shipwreck videos. My dad was a small boat angler so I've had some experiences in bad weather. I was guessing the cloud way off in the horizon was the other side of the lake. Truly amazing. Thanks for replying. ps. I watched that video. It certainly got wild and cold too I'm guessing. We're temperate climate here 40 miles south of Sydney. A little place named Austinmer, New South Wales is where I grew up.
Well Rob, the last stone was definitely an agate, a dagate!
25:30 is that considered a yooperlite?
No, Yooperlites glow under U.V. light. Here are my Yooperlite videos if you want to see what they look like:
Hunting Yooperlites: ua-cam.com/video/7xzNiQmKpEw/v-deo.html
Tumbling Yooperlite: ua-cam.com/video/5wiAY3vVFws/v-deo.html
Slabbing Yooperlites: ua-cam.com/video/xJUMoIpOhoo/v-deo.html
Making Yooperlite Fridge Magnets: ua-cam.com/video/ejpOt6Ru2jk/v-deo.html
Second Yooperlite Hunting Video: ua-cam.com/video/mX1SEbnRw58/v-deo.html
You and Nancy found some cool rocks. Nancy's agates are real nice. The non pudding stone is interesting. Wonder what kind of rock that is? I found out how hard it is to pick up rocks with waves on the beach. They can be gone fast. I dropped my phone right on the shore and waves went right on it because I couldn't pick it up fast enough. Thankfully my case saved my phone. I thought it was a goner. Now I know what the green rock with the light green dots are. Found a couple of them on the north shore. Thanks for another awesome video Rob!
I don't have any idea what the puddingstone look alike was. I just know I like it!
I thought the puddingstone look-a-like might be rip-up clasts in the Jacobsville, but Rob assures me it's not. I'd like to see it in person...
@@captpaul8827 "Assures" might be too strong of a word. I just didn't think it looked coarse enough to be a sandstone. I'll take a close up and send it to you. I'll also post it on Instagram for anyone else who wants to see it.
I'd have purchased the Yooperlite from you, Rob! The only one I've found was in the lower SW side of Michigan at a turn-off called Roadside Park on the scenic drive; my husband found a puddingstone there. We were both so elated and shocked.
Congratulations on the puddingstone find!