Do you like rocks?

Guns.com Vault
Gather App
walkin jack

walkin jack

US Veteran
Joined
Jul 22, 2012
Messages
8,641
Reaction score
24,244
City & State/Province
Whitesboro, Texas
Well, I never gave that much thought. One way to find out is to move to a place where the ground is covered with them. I did and now I spend a lot of time thinking about them...and weed eating around them. About an hour and a half to clean up that little clearing in my back yard. I have decided that I don't like 'em. Not at all.

So I decided to get rid of 'em. My BIL is building a rock wall on his property and he said he'd take 'em. So I got Cubby out and a few tools and we got after it. I didn't think to take a before pic but the area in the 2nd pic is what it looks like now. The difference is that you can't see any rocks. The last pic is all the rocks I dumped next to BIL's rock wall.

Side note: I almost bought one of those 0-turn rigs. Sure glad I got the lawn tractor in stead. It comes in handy for a lot more than cutting the grass.

I'll ad some pics from my phone...
 

Attachments

  • A765029B-3564-4330-BC8C-DCFB0AEFCC20.jpg
    A765029B-3564-4330-BC8C-DCFB0AEFCC20.jpg
    159.5 KB
  • E7991A80-F2EF-4B99-85B0-2A1B8BA8D40F.jpg
    E7991A80-F2EF-4B99-85B0-2A1B8BA8D40F.jpg
    156.9 KB
Last edited:
My wife loves rocks. She steals them from landscapes like in front of Applebee's. Now they are randomly distributed around our place. There's one sitting by the TV. I don't get it but, eh.......
 
Do I like rocks?
I like bourbon on them...... sometimes not.
I had a pet rock once.
Got hit in the head by one (not the pet) resulting in a concussion.
Picked up some today to repair a field low water crossing.
Guess I have a love/hate relation with them.
 
motom said:
Do I like rocks?
I like bourbon on them...... sometimes not.
I had a pet rock once.
Got hit in the head by one (not the pet) resulting in a concussion.
Picked up some today to repair a field low water crossing.
Guess I have a love/hate relation with them.
Click to expand...

Execellent post. You have broadened my mind. Some are of the opinion that I need some more of that. Now I realize that not all rocks are bad. And certainly not the ones that go in the bourbon glass. I guess I do like rocks after all but not where I have to mow or plant veggies or ornamental pants.

You have more experience with rocks that I do. I never have had a pet rock or been hit in the head with one. But we did recently re do our road with crushed granite so....there you go, good rocks. :cool:
 
Heck yes. I married one......................

but it was my first wife. :D

I really do like a good rock collection plus I also have a nice arrow head collection that I have aquired legally.

Nevada has lots of good stuff hidden in the ground, for you to find.
 
I have a property in our little town. The driveway is 30' wide. I only have a 14' gate. The remaining 16' is just one rock. One rock on the property has been shot 7 times and it still required $1,700 worth of excavating to just get it out of the ground and pushed into the corner of the property.
 
billwill said:
When you look at all those rock walls in the New England area its amazing. They definitely didn't have an iPhone to look at all day long.
Click to expand...

So true. When those Colonials cleared the wilderness to carve out a farm, the stones had to go someplace, and they made good use of them. Everything from boundaries to foundations for their homes, they used them. The country fairs have horse and oxen pulls where they compete pulling concrete blocks on stone boats, that's what they used back in the day for moving stones. Here's one on my property.
 

Attachments

  • Wall.jpg
    Wall.jpg
    236.7 KB
dockmurgw said:
So true. When those Colonials cleared the wilderness to carve out a farm, the stones had to go someplace, and they made good use of them. Everything from boundaries to foundations for their homes, they used them. The country fairs have horse and oxen pulls where they compete pulling concrete blocks on stone boats, that's what they used back in the day for moving stones. Here's one on my property.
Click to expand...

And when the Redcoats came by they were a great place to shoot from behind!!!!!! :D

I like rock walls....they have a certain charm.... and never need painted.
 
Last edited:
attachment.php
 

Attachments

  • 4A178C6E-5629-40B9-8B77-8E6B70B4CB65.jpg
    4A178C6E-5629-40B9-8B77-8E6B70B4CB65.jpg
    31.3 KB
We call those little things stones here. And those srone walls back east are what a friend back there says something you get "behind of" when you have incoming
 
While my dad was in the one nursing home, my brother and I used to go down to visit him. One day we took a different route and went past a house that had a huge boulder in the front yard by the road. As this was in northeast Ohio, the boulder was properly painted in order to make the boulder a replica of a Cleveland Browns helmet. A person of obvious good taste must have lived there.
 
Golddollar said:
While my dad was in the one nursing home, my brother and I used to go down to visit him. One day we took a different route and went past a house that had a huge boulder in the front yard by the road. As this was in northeast Ohio, the boulder was properly painted in order to make the boulder a replica of a Cleveland Browns helmet. A person of obvious good taste must have lived there.
Click to expand...


A Brown's helmet? Good taste? NOT.:eek::D
 
Rocks, and Stones

Rocks & stones
Indeed, I like rocks. I have rocks, pebbles, and stones, of all kinds, and uses. The first stones that I collected, was a small match box full of multicolored, crushed granite, pebbles. I gathered them, on my first day, of grade school, on the playground. I gave them to my mom, and she cherished those "pretty stones", all her life, and I still have that box full.

I've been a ‘rock hound”, since I was a kid., and have rock, and stone mementos, from the USA, and Canada, of all types and uses.

My collection, includes an American Indian artifact collection, Glacier formed boulders, excavated in central Ohio, granite boulders removed from, OH grain fields & vegetable gardens, petrified wood, Flint, from, Flint Ridge, OH, an OH, shale fence, and I always kept a supply of marble sized stones, for use in my slingshots. My most unusual, stone, is a smooth, gulf ball sized stone, that my dad gave to me, when I was a kid. He led me to believe, it was a dinosaur gall stone.
 
You must log in or register to reply here.

Similar threads

Faulkner
Down at the crick
Replies
19
Views
635
Autonomous
Autonomous
raljr1
A Gaggle Of Guns
Replies
25
Views
1K
raljr1
raljr1
D
Odd Ball HS
Replies
10
Views
422
John Stimson
John Stimson
coolbreezy
Where do you draw the line between shooter and safe queen?
2 3 4
Replies
104
Views
3K
kanewtervalve
K
444 Magnum
Funny stuff in my travels today.
Replies
3
Views
467
Rubone
Rubone

Latest posts

Back
Top