Thanks Em, to you and Kevin, for sharing the excitement of ammonite hunting. I feel like you invited us to watch you open Christmas presents! Looking forward to the next instalment...
What a fun video. Shows how exciting and nerve wracking fossil hunting can be. I live in the Great Lakes regionof the US and there are places nearby where we find triolobites, ammonites, corals, braciopods, crynoids, and if your very very lucky euripterids. If I'm right the deposits we explore a bit older than what you're finding on the English coast Paleozoic vs Mesozoic. I dabble in paleontology but am more interested in Anthropology/Archaeology.
Hey Em.... perhaps you should invent a rock vice... A rock vice is a kind of clamp where you can precisely implant a wedge through a screwing action rather than many hits with a hammer... Get someone to weld you one out of steel: a kindof cradle to wedge in rocks, weld over it a nut through which you can turn a bolt that pressures a knife edge into an area of the ammonite that you want to aim for... Perhaps using chains a cradle would be adjustable to any rock, so perhaps weld together 2-3 chains it would be very portable. lol.
Em: Here’s a fun experiment to try. Apparently it can be quite successful on concretions. The concept involves alternately freezing and thawing the concretion. Put the concretions in a container of water and allow them to soak for several days so the water thoroughly penetrates the concretion. Then, place the container of concretions in a freezer. When the water has completely frozen, remove the container from the freezer and allow the water to thaw completely. Repeat this freeze-thaw cycle as many times as necessary. Periodically, after thawing, check for any concretions that may have opened and remove them. I may not have the patience to do this and, alas, resort to the old whacking method!
Nice to see people taking care over what theyre doing, so many channels lay into these concretions with a lump hammer and almost always destroy the fossil, You took time over what you are doing and I appreciate that, cool stuff and far more interesting too.
Hungary has got large amount of Ammonitico Rosso limestone in the mountains and old buildings' covering stoneslabs. Some of stoneslabs contains lots of ammonites.
Saw this here fractal vice for safely holding odd-shaped objects and thought it might be a good concept for controllable rock cracking. ua-cam.com/video/eCfw9fd0mHg/v-deo.html Might need a bit of a redesign to make into a field tool, but not too bad for use in a lab / workshop / home utility room, wherever fossils are prepped.
Nice! The fractal vice looks a very interesting idea for holding odd shapes, before sawing them or hitting them with a hammer. Possibly a very useful lab accessory
Cheers Em,just 'discovered' your channel,pardon the pun,we've been fossiling between seatown and lyme regis for years and have found some incredible fossils,we mainly concentrate on iron pyrite ammonites,it's an incredible feeling when you find fools gold fossils,we've got a week booked in April in charmouth for intense pyrite fossiling,can't wait.👌👍💥
Hi Emma. You and the good doctor keep talking about the location but without saying where it is, other than the hashtag reference to Jurassic Coast. Can I ask where it is, please?
I so wish I could find these things I only have a tiny one I found at work but I’d love something to put on display in my home Also honestly I wouldn’t super glue I’d keep them separate it’s almost a part of the story to them
Haha it is risky indeed...especially without chisel guards, but I like to think it adds to the value of the fossil if blood was spilled :P (although a few fingers have been sacrificed in the past lol)
Thanks Em, to you and Kevin, for sharing the excitement of ammonite hunting. I feel like you invited us to watch you open Christmas presents! Looking forward to the next instalment...
What a fun video. Shows how exciting and nerve wracking fossil hunting can be. I live in the Great Lakes regionof the US and there are places nearby where we find triolobites, ammonites, corals, braciopods, crynoids, and if your very very lucky euripterids. If I'm right the deposits we explore a bit older than what you're finding on the English coast Paleozoic vs Mesozoic. I dabble in paleontology but am more interested in Anthropology/Archaeology.
Hey Em.... perhaps you should invent a rock vice... A rock vice is a kind of clamp where you can precisely implant a wedge through a screwing action rather than many hits with a hammer... Get someone to weld you one out of steel: a kindof cradle to wedge in rocks, weld over it a nut through which you can turn a bolt that pressures a knife edge into an area of the ammonite that you want to aim for... Perhaps using chains a cradle would be adjustable to any rock, so perhaps weld together 2-3 chains it would be very portable. lol.
What you are describing sounds like a bigger version of a nut splitter
That first big rock the professor cracked open I would of left whole. What a cool piece with algae fossils and ammonites showing.
Em: Here’s a fun experiment to try. Apparently it can be quite successful on concretions. The concept involves alternately freezing and thawing the concretion. Put the concretions in a container of water and allow them to soak for several days so the water thoroughly penetrates the concretion. Then, place the container of concretions in a freezer. When the water has completely frozen, remove the container
from the freezer and allow the water to thaw completely. Repeat this freeze-thaw cycle as many times as necessary. Periodically, after thawing, check for any concretions that may have opened and remove them. I may not have the patience to do this and, alas, resort to the old whacking method!
Your serious.. wow lol. The hammer works well enough.
Thats so cool! I will definitely try this at some point! :D
Looks like great fun. Great video.
So stressful watching fossils being opened!will it shatter, will the hammer hit a finger instead of the chisel?😄
Excellent guide. Interesting 👍👍👍.
Another video again.
Nice to see people taking care over what theyre doing, so many channels lay into these concretions with a lump hammer and almost always destroy the fossil,
You took time over what you are doing and I appreciate that, cool stuff and far more interesting too.
Great video, Em; very informative and such a beautiful locality to crack open a few ammonites! 😊💯
Fossil hunting fantastic
Great channel.
Worth the wait. Great finds.
thanks for sharing you always have something interesting to show thank you
oh my gosh your videos are amazing. totally hooked on fossils now :) thankyou so much :)
Excellent em ta vidéo j'adore 😊😊
Last one was a perfect split
Hungary has got large amount of Ammonitico Rosso limestone in the mountains and old buildings' covering stoneslabs. Some of stoneslabs contains lots of ammonites.
You should make a video, would love to see your local fossils!
Another great video I do learn alot from you well done and keep up the good work.
Awesome😮😮❤❤
I love you, I love the passion with which you do things, you are a great woman!!
Saw this here fractal vice for safely holding odd-shaped objects and thought it might be a good concept for controllable rock cracking.
ua-cam.com/video/eCfw9fd0mHg/v-deo.html
Might need a bit of a redesign to make into a field tool, but not too bad for use in a lab / workshop / home utility room, wherever fossils are prepped.
Nice! The fractal vice looks a very interesting idea for holding odd shapes, before sawing them or hitting them with a hammer. Possibly a very useful lab accessory
Cheers Em,just 'discovered' your channel,pardon the pun,we've been fossiling between seatown and lyme regis for years and have found some incredible fossils,we mainly concentrate on iron pyrite ammonites,it's an incredible feeling when you find fools gold fossils,we've got a week booked in April in charmouth for intense pyrite fossiling,can't wait.👌👍💥
Beautiful Harpoceras fossils. :)
Hi Emma. You and the good doctor keep talking about the location but without saying where it is, other than the hashtag reference to Jurassic Coast. Can I ask where it is, please?
It's along the Jurassic Coast, but more specifically Eype :)
Thank you! I must try there next time we’re down that way. It’ll make an exciting change to Charmouth and Lyme Regis.
Hello 👋🏻 Thank you for your Amazing videos and Interesting information in it ) 🙂🙂🤓
Great fossils! What beach are you at?
Thank you 🙏
Interesting. I never saw this before. I have some polished Ammonites at home that are in spectacular condition.
Interesting video. Thank you for sharing.
Hey em i have a question was the beach you went to was white point beach?
You should wear the black dress with POCKETS to carry your fossils!!! hahahaha
Dorset Junction Bed in Thorncombe Beacon?
Indeed :)
Hello from France🎬🔬🙏🍀😉
Hi Em 😊 do you find any evidence of ichthyosaur or plesiosaur's around your hunting grounds?
Yes! but I have yet to be so lucky though!
Great video!!
reminds me of an old 60's song by bobby fuller four whose lyrics include...."breakin rocks in the hot sun"....
The chain gang was doing the rock breaking in the hot sun.
Thank you for sharing. When you bust them open you are the first human to see how this creature ended up.
I so wish I could find these things I only have a tiny one I found at work but I’d love something to put on display in my home
Also honestly I wouldn’t super glue I’d keep them separate it’s almost a part of the story to them
U have there a area with ceratites?
Is there any more fosllies left in Dorset :-) seem like so many amazing one that have been found :-)
The sea is always working hard to expose more and more 😍 so yes there are 😉
@@EmGems just been down the coast, there was a fossil the size of a bed. I wanted to take it home lol
Great. But very hard to get the fossils out of the rocks.
Where did you find them. Were you on the isle of white
Nice top
Amitites teach us the ocean
wish I were close to such beach and beautiful Emma
Where was your specific location?
So 😍
Beautiful young woman wielding a rock hammer, what dreams are made of.
Hi i have stone so i feel like ther's something inside because my grandpa left me this stone so how can i send you
Nice cleaving.
The entire time the two of you are hammering and chiseling I’m cringing and thinking, gloves would be a good idea 😱. Glad all the fingers survived 😆👍!
Gloves? Bro are you soft?
Haha it is risky indeed...especially without chisel guards, but I like to think it adds to the value of the fossil if blood was spilled :P (although a few fingers have been sacrificed in the past lol)
remember to save some for the future generations 🙏
;)
In germany, the climate glue freaks and mashed potato throwers wouldn't take care of that. They would throw soups at the ammonite fossils.
Why the hell is every person who finds a ammonite at the beach a British person 💀
A British person hunting for fossils along a British beach isn't so unusual is it🤔
Very hard to watch the old guy DESTROY fossils, battering away at them like a five year old.
Hi,
ফসিলগুলো কোন প্রাণীর যদি লিখে দেন তাহলে বুঝতে পারবো।
can you send some to agate dad,? utube please
🪐😯❤️🇲🇦🙏🏻👍🏼
That old guys the worst fossil splitter I've ever seen...
Please show us how it’s done, sport.
Hey
I am from india
Can i get one,please
Who cares most likely 300 billion lying around.