I was looking in the California blacksmith association magazine and I saw where they are puting together a competion to suspend or band rocks. It looked like fun so now I seem to have a new way to waste time.

                  

                 

Well that's different.  I like it.

hay come to missouri i got all the rocks you can use,lol

That Rocks !

Cages for your pet rock, cool.

I think they are suspension systems for transporting large silicone chips for production of computer stuff...   It's a California thing...

Cages for your pet rock, cool.

 

Don't think I need a cage ....I think My Pet Rock is dead, it lays there in its box and does not move or eat....

 

Dale

Oh it's a California thing, got that right. However, it's obvious these are singing rocks needing cage. 'm sure they're not nearly as messy as a parakeet.

 

Thanks Loyd but we have plenty of rocks in spectacular piles all round us. Maybe folk on the plaines?

 

Oh no Dale it isn't dead just a sound sleeper. They're like big snakes that way, eat oec an eon and spend the next one sleeping it off.

 

Frosty The Lucky.

I always enjoy a post about a good rock band :)  (cant believe no one else said it)

They are kind of fun but more time consuming than they appear.

We really need winter to be over! They need those down in the desert where the rocks are leaving mysterious drag marks.

We really need winter to be over! They need those down in the desert where the rocks are leaving mysterious drag marks.

 

The Death Valley rock trails? That itty bitty bit we got yesterday isn't a morning dew compared to the kind of rain storm and wind that blow those rocks around the Death Valley hard pan.

 

Still, I'm with you in spirit, next precipitation we get I don't want to worry about slipping on it.

 

Frosty The Lucky.

Now that is cool! At the iron pour in Tucumcari, NM there was one of the locals that was taking some of the local rock and putting wax sprue rod around the rock and then putting shell around that and then pouring bronze, looked real nice having a rock in a bronze cage. I like these iron cages even better, Stone Age and Iron Age come together for the ultimate Christmas tree ornament, WOW!!!

Out here in California we take our rock cages very seriously! At our Spring conference we had a competition. It was a blast!!! Here are the first and second place winners.

Fe-Wood; I knew that my rocks were inferiour to what you guys were doing, but I am planning to incorporate these and more into a larger project. We will see if it comes out any good then.

on my cruse to Alaska I picked up a Railroad spike a rock and a small piece of plate in a river.  just haven't had the time to make one up yet. Thought it would be a cool piece to remember the trip.

metalmangeler-

Yours are fine rocks and holders. I didn't mean to imply they are inferior! I just wanted to show that out here in California we take rock hanging VERY seriously.

 

Keep up the good work!

Fe-Wood; there was no offence taken here I am just saying I think they are not at that standard, maybe when the project is finished the rest of the job will ellivate them. :)

No worries, Mark has plenty thick skin and I'm thinking there's more a cultural thing going. In Alaska we're a lot more likely to hang FROM rocks than hang the rocks so it'll take a couple tries to come up to championship projects.

 

Francis: Which river did you salvage the spike, plate, etc. from or where were you at the time? There's a slim chance I can fill in a little history on it. In one of my former professions we drilled test holes for bridges and foundations and got kind of intimate with Alaskan rivers.

 

Frosty The Lucky.

I mounted these rocks on an iron wood tree. They are now a true rock garden as you can see a rock tree in the fruit bearing stage rather than just a collection of rocks. :rolleyes:

 

 

Doug Wilson of Deer Isle, Maine, ironed this rock with 1/4" square material about 20 years ago. He gave it to me as a present, a veritable treasure.

 

Sayings and Cornpone

"It's not the cough that carries you off.

It's the coffin they carry you off in."

     My father, Willard Turley

I like the low hanging fruit! I suppose it is not of the free stone variety....

The fruit is nice and firm, I did not cut any open to see what was inside.

I'm sure those are good luck charms, ... intended to be worn around the necks of "Surfer Dudes".  :P

 

 

 

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The blacksmith shop in Old Sturbridge Village in Massachusetts has a rock bound in iron.  It hangs on the inside of the shop and is connected to two overhead pulleys and is attached to the smithy door.  A 19th century version of an automatic door closer.