Pic of more big field rocks, difference though in these...

OliverGuy · Jan 25, 2013

Here's two more of the 30 some getting moved out of the pile while the ground is frozen. Anybody know the difference in these? A little hard to tell by my cruddy picture, but I can find a client in the city to buy the one on the left for $300!! It's got a couple real neat raised streaks through it. The right one is worth something too, about a third. If you think this is some great money making deal, you should have seen the other 5 loads of "blue rock" that were worth $0. I did find some good granite and others that sell around here. I'd still rather have no rocks.

larry@stinescorners · Jan 25, 2013

is it a geod?
[I not sure of the spelling} The inside is hollow and has quartz in it?

todd hamilton · Jan 25, 2013

I hit one plowing one time when I was a kid about the size of both of them together. Dad said we were lucky it didn't spring the plow (it was Grandpa's good plow and 656). I continued to plow and dad dug around the rock and pulled it out with the 300U. I noticed when he hauled it to the rock pile he went backwards, later I asked why. His reply "couldn't keep the back wheels on the ground going forward"

RayP(MI) · Jan 25, 2013

Left one looks like a Igneous rock that was cracked later in life, and was then inundated by further igneous intrusion. Been battered around a bunch since it's creation, and the white part eroded at a slower rate.

Dean · Jan 25, 2013

They are not geodes but appear to be metamorphic.

Granite?

Dean

JRSutton · Jan 25, 2013

where do you live that somebody would pay for a rock???

I've got miles of stone walls they can have cheap.

fixerupper · Jan 25, 2013

The one on our viewing left looks like a sedementary rock of some sort with the rings but Larry might be right about it being a geode. The ring looks jagged like a volcanic rock. The other one is volcanic of some sort. I don't work with them like Larry does. I just pick them up and throw them in the pile, wishing they would go away. Jim

Ken Macfarlane · Jan 25, 2013

Very familiar with those! Wish I had a backhoe to deal with
them. This was one that got pulled out with the plow. The trip
couldn't clear it and it lifted the tractor off the ground. In
ground that has been worked for 160 or so years now. It had 3
or 4 others packed in around it. 25x12.50 front tire for reference.

I remove a few dozen this size every year. There are a bunch the
size of cars I'm waiting to get an excavator in to roll into the
fence lines.

Adirondack case guy · Jan 25, 2013

I have been a rock hound since I was little. I have a bunch of nifty rocks like that and same general size. Maybe I need to get into the rock business. LOL
Loren, the Acg.

the tractor vet · Jan 25, 2013

That looks like about 5-600 dollars worth of landscaping rock to me . Them dang yuppy city folk pay big bucks to have a couple rocks in there yard . But ya can not get them to come pick them . Have tryed tellen them they can come a pick there rocks for free .

OliverGuy · Jan 25, 2013

Don't think so, I have a lot of smaller geodes from family ground in southern indiana, they don't look like this one. These are from good ole nw central indiana.

OliverGuy · Jan 25, 2013

You'd be surprised. I've gotten good money for specific sized, colored rocks. Especially if water flows over it good in a water garden.

Anonymous-0 · Jan 25, 2013

That one looks like it might be at least 200 years old.

SweetFeet · Jan 25, 2013

Oh, neat. I've seen those in yards with that raised ledge. Don't know what caused it, but it is neat.

uncle henry · Jan 26, 2013

i have some that a d-8 can't push need tnt to make
them smaller

steve in OR · Jan 26, 2013

Looks like quartz veins in the rock on the left.

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