Do you find petrified wood?

[Western]

Dennis, those are very impressive photos.:thumbsup: We were driving through AZ a couple of years ago and saw several big petrified logs laying in the field beside the Interstate. They looked to be 3'+ in diameter and 25' to 30' long. They weren't in any park, but just outside the ROW fence. I've never been to the Petrified Forest, but would love to go.

Jim, you must have been on I-40, there is quite a few laying East of Flagstaff just North a few miles from the "PT". Some of those logs are over 60' long.
They have a rock museum at the South entrance where you can get some nice cuts that have been polished, all sizes depending on how deep your pockets are.

It is a nice trip from here since you can go North of Flagstaff to also see the Grand Canyon. make a fun 4-5 day trip if you poke around on the way. A tip if you go, as you head North from the Petrified Forest, you will drive by a state monument. It is an Indian dwelling with original foundations. There is usually a state guy there to, even in Jan when we went. Across the 2 lane road from the parking area, there are some small rock out cropping s, I had asked the State fella if I could poke around over there and look for any more Indian writing (hieroglyphics) he said "sure".
We found a ton of Indian drawings on the rocks there and no tourist!! Heres some photos. The 1st is the foundation of the Indian dwellings, next 2 are drawings we found over the road, last is one of the Grand Canyon.

 

[Bill 55]

I have a small chunk about 5 inches wude by 4 inches long that is about 3 inches thick lying on the counter by the tv that I dug out of a creek bank when I was a kid. At one time I had a big box of the stuff, but over the years it got away and I just have the one piece left. It isn't real hard but definitely has turned to rock. The area it came from had a lot of that old mucky blue limestine clay and the stuff was fairly soft and wet when I dug it out but it dried out over time. I would say it probably wasn't quite done fossilizing yet but I picked it anyway as I didn't figure I would be around when it was completely ripe

 

[tcreeley]

As a kid in western Mass we had our pig pen up on a hill and I'd carry a bucket of slops up every morning. The pigs would stand on this big flat rock out of the mud they made. One day the lady who sold us our property drove up and reminded my mother of her promise to give her that flat stone at the top of the hill. Sure, My bother and I dug out the flat rock for the lady and flipping it over we understood why she wanted it. There was a dino print clear as any thing. We loaded it into her trunk and she drove home a few miles away.

 

[Duffster]

Do you find petrified wood?

Is that what those purple pill commercials warns you about that after 4 hours you should see a Dr?

:laughing::laughing:

 

[forgeblast]

Western awesome pictures!!

 

[Western]

Is that what those purple pill commercials warns you about that after 4 hours you should see a Dr?
:laughing::laughing:

That would have been a "woody"

Western awesome pictures!!

Thanks, Sure was fun at the time and very few tourist, except at the Grand Canyon. It was probably a wind chill in the teens and there was my family and most of Asia. I mean maybe 1000, no joke.
Funny part, I told my wife "lets get one of these tourist to take our photo" she replies "they don't know how to use our camera" All i could say is "honey, they make the **** things"

 

[woodchuckie]

We find it in the logging roads where they have cut through a hill. It's the white brittle limestone type. I have one piece which is about 3 feet long and goes from maybe 10 inches at one end and tapered to the other end. It looks like a broken or splintered log. It is very heavy but I don't have a way to weigh it.

 

[txdon]

Here's one my uncle found while bulldozing in Lee County. I put a quarter on it. It's about nine feet long.

 

[Western]

Here's one my uncle found while bulldozing in Lee County. I put a quarter on it. It's about nine feet long.

Don, that is the nicest looking one I have ever seen anywhere in Texas. What a show piece.

 

[jinman]

Don, that's awesome! Having the hole (knot-hole?) where a limb branched off is really nice. I'm sure when your uncle hit the piece, he probably thought it was just a big rock. I wonder how long it took him to realize it was something really special?

My neighbor and his son came over yesterday and brought me a present. They left me two basketball sized chunks of petrified wood. A trip back to their deer lease netted them two 5-gal buckets of small chunks and about 4 chunks the size of a basketball or big watermelon. They were all in the same area as the bigger piece in my photos above. Since the area is not in a creekbed or gully, most of the pieces were completely buried in the dirt. There's no telling what might be a few feet down in this spot. All the chunks have the same characteristics and look like they came from the same tree.