Yeah, but collecting your own rocks and tumbling them is a good excuse to go

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Jan 26, 2022
6:49:58pm

WhirleyPop All-American

Yeah, but collecting your own rocks and tumbling them is a good excuse to go

to some cool places.

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WhirleyPop

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My daughter's first batch of tumbled rocks is done...the tumbler has been

WhirleyPop

1/26/22 6:44pm

Can't you just go buy those at a souvenir shop for like $3?

UNLVcougar

1/26/22 6:46pm

Where’s the fun in that?

1/26/22 6:49pm

Yeah, but collecting your own rocks and tumbling them is a good excuse to go

WhirleyPop

1/26/22 6:49pm

Where do you get your rocks? Very cool looking!

Forest Green

1/26/22 7:04pm

I got some crushed rock when I bought the tumbler. Planning some trips to agate

WhirleyPop

1/26/22 7:26pm

There are a lot of great rockhounding places in Utah

Bar7h

1/26/22 7:05pm

That's awesome you are doing that with your daughter.

UNLVcougar

1/26/22 10:43pm

You can fish and tomatoes at Safeway, too.

ReyOso

1/26/22 7:44pm

You are the grumpiest dude I know.

Memmo

1/26/22 7:46pm

No, instead you buy 3 untumbled rocks for $1 each.

HandwovenBox

1/26/22 8:37pm

and, erosion

yahtzee

1/27/22 9:27am

National Geographic tumbler?

eysikal

1/26/22 6:50pm

Very cool. I still have some of the rocks my grandfather polished

bluelands

1/26/22 6:55pm

Was this your grandpa?

LumberCoug

1/27/22 12:20pm

Very cool!

AFewThoughts

1/26/22 7:10pm

Here's one of my wife's jars of polished agates she's collected over the years. (Jar is a foot tall)

Zenoch

1/26/22 7:17pm

That's a cool way to store them!

WhirleyPop

1/26/22 7:32pm

I’m doing this with my boys right now! We are starting the final polish run

EarlSpeak

1/26/22 7:27pm

Ours holds up to 3 pounds. It's a Thumler AR1. Got it from here:

WhirleyPop

1/26/22 7:31pm

That’s awesome. Exact same here except we pulled my daughter’s out yesterday 😂

bag

1/26/22 8:40pm

Is it noisy? Like rocks in a dryer?

777

1/26/22 8:59pm

We keep it in the garage so we don't hear it in the house. The drum is rubber

WhirleyPop

1/26/22 10:00pm

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