Hunting the elusive Michigan Pudding stone

[Radar67]

You got you some mighty fine bricks there DanG. Make sure you hold on to em for prosperity sake.  ;)

[SwampDonkey]

There now. All you need is a little cement, a few shovel fulls of yard sand, a wheel barrel, water and a shovel and mix up yourself some calcified sandstone of the Dangnabbit age. No radiometric dating required. ;D

[Jeff]

While I've been up here on my property working and planting and planting trees, I've been taking time to hunt up some pudding stones too. Here are the two smallest ones I have kept. They are a little bigger then a softball and are beeootiful. 






I've brought about a dozen back to the cabin. About half were all I wanted to handle at around basketball size.

[WDH]

Thank the glaciers ;D.

Very nice!

[beenthere]

Jeff
We understand, after watching the tree hugger video.  ;D ;D ;D ;D

[Jeff]

I might have sounded a bit like em after I picked up the biggest one and carried it out to the trail the bike was on.
I gotta find a way to put handles on em.

[Don K]

Make you a little high wheel cart with a long handle that you can throw on the back of the ATV. You could have a two piece handle that goes toether with wingnuts. Two of those back wheels off a high wheel mower would work just dandy. You could flag the rocks as you find them then go back with your trailer and get them. You hunt puddin stones like I hunt litard knots. ;D

Don

[SwampDonkey]

I'm picturing a smaller size stone, maybe golf ball sized, and put into a polisher. Maybe even as large as a tennis ball, depending on the size of the colored crystals so as to get a lot of color in the polished stone. ;D

I'm also wondering what a diamond cutting wheel could do on very large stones, to be cut for counter top or for around a fireplace, but not where heat is going to be extreme.

Lots of dreaming. ;)

[Burlkraft]

'em er some nice ones   8)  8)

[OneWithWood]

I think I am seeing inclusions of jasper, quartz and perhaps onyx.  What else is likely to be in one of these multi-jeweled stones?

[ADAMINMO]

Them are cool ... My wife would love one of those. My mom would love one more because she is a rock collector. She could walk a creek bank for hours and find some pretty neet rocks. Thats cool.

[isawlogs]

Yep them is real nice looking rocks . I could see one of them inmy aquarium .   ;)     8) 8)

[Jeff]

Marcel, I'll have a dandy waiting for you to pick up at the pigroast.

I think the Ontario Pudding Stones, of which these are, are made up primarily of quartz and Jasper. There are lots of colors of Jasper including variegated versions as well.

[SwampDonkey]

Probably even Agate, which is another interesting Chalcedony, in which Jasper is also grouped. They are other forms of silicates as is quartz.

[Jeff]

A couple of my latest finds.   







Yesterday I decided I would walk around the yard and count just the pudding stones I have put in and around the flower gardens and yard. I figured I had 30 or better.  I misjudged.  Turns out I had 115.

[WDH]

Maybe you should develop a market in stones  ???.  And, I am not talking about turkeys or the various osyters  .

[Jeff]

I've got an item in the wanted forum right now because I  am thinking the same thing. These stones are beautiful when sliced. They could be used for all kinds of things.

[WDH]

Boss, I think that you are on to something.

[SwampDonkey]

If you could make some counter tops from slices, it sure would be hard stuff. Even an inlay of a smaller slice in a coffee table.  8)

[Weekend_Sawyer]

I saw a floor that used sliced stones like tilework, looked great.

Jon

[Dave Shepard]

There is a house about 7 miles from me that has a tiled floor from rocks found on site. When they sliced them up they found fossilized ferns and other plants in them. 8) We have a quarry at work, and we make marble floor tiles.

[isawlogs]

So what kind of saw does one use to cut a stone the size of those puddin' stones ???

[SPIKER]

Yesterday I decided I would walk around the yard and count just the pudding stones I have put in and around the flower gardens and yard. I figured I had 30 or better.  I misjudged.  Turns out I had 115.

HEY looks like you are getting greedy!, better start sharing ;) 8)

ME FIRST! 8)

Mark

[isawlogs]

Spiker .. ya can't be first in line .   

[Phantom9]

Hi I am new and excited to join. Im from northern michigan and also have a vast stone collection.  I cut pudding stones all the time, I sell them at craft shows for around 15 bucks a tile. I also invented a leter holder for nature lovers. I get pics asap.  Very Very nice stones jeff.