A really great video. It taught me that I definitely do not want to tumble rocks, or stones, or any mineral for that matter. It is a very time intensive process. I have a new respect for rock tumblers or whatever you call that tumble person. Thank you again for showing how it is done in such great detail.
Actually, it's like doing a load of laundry that lasts a week rather than one hour. Not much actual work involved other than checking on it from time to time.
That was amazing. You did the video exactly as us mere mortals needed to see, step by step, nice and slowly to soak up the details. It was a perfect video. The ending was outstanding. I was so impressed and I’m not easily impressed. Thank you so much from the UK 🏴
FYI that petoskey stone will polish right up by hand. Use auto polishing compound and a soft rag after wet/dry sand paper. That's how we do in west MI.
Fantastic tutorial, thank you for the dry look, it shows how realistic you are. Awesome result for only 2 weeks. Very impressed by your apparatus also, inspiring and soothing, Thank you :)
"Look at that bucket of yum-yum"...lol...I LOVE IT!!!!!!!! That's EXACTLY how I feel every time I tumble a bucket of rocks. EXCELLENT video, Mark! From one rock lover to another...you did an amazing job!!!!!!❤
next time when you hit prepolish add ceramic media to take up the space, you never want to go below 3 quarters full. I always add borax to my grit as well it prevents grit from sticking to the rocks
I have polished several batches of small smooth, already almost-but-not-quite shiny, rocks with just water, borax, and 1 maybe 2 drops of Dawn dish detergent, following a tip from a youtuber. (I am sorry that I have forgotten which one, she deserves the credit). I liked the shine on them better than 6-8 weeks of polishing with the 4 grits. I was out of needed grit and decided that I was going to just clean them up a little with the borax and Dawn, til it came in. Well, you know how it goes. Things that need to be done get in the way and you just put your rock polishing off for a little bit, til you have more time. Meanwhile, they are just tumbling away. By the time I got back to them, it had been a couple weeks. One of her commenters tips was to tumble them a day or 2 in just water to remove grit, dirt, or detergent. Mine seemed a little soap-sticky, even when dry so I put clean water and tumbled them anther couple days. My idea of a perfectly polished rock. Shiny but not so shiny that it looks polyurethaned. I have also used the borax and Dawn to remove the grit in the crevices of the rocks, between grits.
I read about how to make an industrial tumbler out of a rear axle of a big semi truck with the rims and tires in place. You want to cut an opening in the highest part of the rim to load rocks. The article said a cover is not needed but I always thought if I was going to do one I would have a hinged door sealed with inner tube rubber. The idea is to set up a motor geared down so the tires rotates slowly and all the rocks stay in the lowest part of the tire at all times tumbling over each other. Each tire can hold about 100 lbs of rocks and you have 4 tires going at all times each one with a different grit. Always use same tire for the same grit. You rotate the rocks once a week and you have a 100 lbs of polished tumbled stones each week. I have been wondering if you could use quartz sand as grit for the first stage to do the rough rounding off? The fact that the tumbling will all take place in a rubber tire should help keep the noise down. The rocks should never touch the rim. I have suggested to people that they make a sound proof shed just big enough to be practical so the noise will be minimized. Plus the rubber in a tire is thick and should absorb a lot of the noise. Also you should have a small fan on the motor to keep it cool. A high quality motor will be a must as it will run 24 hours a day. I am no expert but with the proper gearing the motor should not be under too much stress. I would sell the tumbled stones. Once tumbled, you grade them by quality and type. Some would be really valuable. I bet you could average $10 usd per pound with just good found material and more if you have high grade material. Definitely not for the weekend rock hound but if you sell stones or want to, what a cheap way to start. You could tumble other people's rocks for a fee or shares too. You could make one with car tires for a smaller scale operation. There has to be a lot of people with a 30 year in the making, 3 ton pile of rocks out behind their house. With this they could see results from all that collecting.
@@RockHunterMark Just thought it was interesting idea and you would enjoy reading about it., I did not think you would do it. One idea for what you are doing is rig up longer roller bars (might need bigger motor) with same size drums so you can run 6 tumblers on same machine. Every single week you would have a batch of new stones finished. Builds a table and mount it directly to the table. If you could sell enough to pay for the grits your hobby would pay for itself. If you could find a texured rubber to cover the roller bars would that help eliminate slippage?
I've heard about using old rigs to tumble too, but the design I heard of involves the drive wheels and a set of free wheels on the other end and using culvert as the barrel. Plug one end and slope it slightly toward that end. Lol! Give me a big enough lever and fulcrum and I'll tumble the world! Of course, this is wheel and axle, but you get the joke....
I really appreciate all the comments and views on this video. I have two other rock polishing videos. One is all petrified wood: ruclips.net/video/FCiQG-W5sY8/видео.html. Plus another on various rocks: ruclips.net/video/YGW1a2yYUSA/видео.html. Thank you everyone.
They turned out beautiful Mark! I haven’t tumbled in so long. We’re moving house so it’s all packed away right now, but if it wasn’t I’d be starting a new batch after watching that mate! Nice show brother 👍👍👍
Thanks Rookie, I’m glad you liked the video. I hope you’re move goes well. Keep on watching, I have rocks in the tumbler right now for my next video. Peace out.
Beautiful job! I saw a video where the guy raised up the idlers roller with about a 1 inch spacer to put more weight on the drive roller. Might be an easy fix for that slipping.
I was going to mention this, Michigan Rocks does a bunch of these, very soft and need special polishing. Can come out really nice but not in a Mohs 7 general tuble.
Great video, Mark! That coral was awesome. I've never seen ond like that before. I'd love to have one of those. I've never seen coral like that here in north AL.
Like your vids, I think a light box would do wonders for your before and after pics of the stones. Thanks, I'm looking forward to my own tumbling experiences. 😉
I am so impressed with these! I just started the second stage grit on mine, where can I find the polish? Because I have a National Geographic small tumbler and I just know my rocks will not end up with that shine. Thank and great work dude!!
I’ve just been using Amazon and buy the kit from Polly plastics. There may be better ways but I haven’t looked into it. I used to but from a hobby store near me that closed. Have fun with your polisher! 😎
Did you toothbrush each rock after each stage? I cant seem to get the luster you have achieved. I polished for only one week. I will try two weeks next time.
@@RockHunterMark i live in south dakota. I worked construction building concrete basements. All around northwestern black hills. My father has a geographically astounding property, filled with petrified wood, boulders of alabaster, agate,rose quarts. I fellow friend and co worker lived in custer county, same with his property. Most dig sites would have piles of dirt to go through when killing time on site i would always dig through them finding geodes and i would assume fossils.
Hi again!! My rocks finished tumbling but they were a bit dull (it was from the polish I used that came with the kit, I’m planning on buying the Polly plastics kit next) so I rubbed with some coconut oil but I had an idea-have you or anyone else ever tumbled with water and a small bit of oil? I’m thinking I’d like to try but I want to see if anyone’s given that a shot first? If not then I’ll definitely give it a go and let everyone know of results:)
No, I haven’t heard of that before. I think the poly plastics are for adding a space filler so that the rocks don’t chip each other from tumbling. If they were my rocks I would run them again with a week of pre polish then a week of polish. Cleaning them between grits really good.
3:27 was that a moonstone??? Damn where did he find all these? That little thing he had at the begining to stir the stuff reminds me of this contraption I built when I was little to perpetually spin me while I sat in a bucket 🤣
That Petoskey stone was perfect for hand polish after the first stage. Next time don't go any further and bring out the the fine grit sand paper.. 2 hours of sanding and polish you'd have an actual gem.
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For some reason this is really relaxing to watch
I so agree.
A really great video. It taught me that I definitely do not want to tumble rocks, or stones, or any mineral for that matter. It is a very time intensive process. I have a new respect for rock tumblers or whatever you call that tumble person. Thank you again for showing how it is done in such great detail.
It is a pleasure to see your nice comments. Thanks for watching
Actually, it's like doing a load of laundry that lasts a week rather than one hour. Not much actual work involved other than checking on it from time to time.
True
That was amazing. You did the video exactly as us mere mortals needed to see, step by step, nice and slowly to soak up the details. It was a perfect video. The ending was outstanding. I was so impressed and I’m not easily impressed. Thank you so much from the UK 🏴
Clare your to kind. Thanks for the wonderful comments.
I loved seeing the up close before and after shots! These look amazing thank you for sharing!!
Thanks for watching Lana, that’s my favorite part also.
FYI that petoskey stone will polish right up by hand. Use auto polishing compound and a soft rag after wet/dry sand paper. That's how we do in west MI.
Wow! ALL of the rocks are wonderful. I especially love the Petorsky rock.
My god, that’s a HUGE petoskey!!!! Nice find!!! (I’m obviously a Michigander)
Thanks! I’ve been trying to find another one.
nice work, love the outcome. really need a garage or a lab to be able to do this, doing it while traveling is not an option.
Some of 'em look like they're from another planet! Thank you for sharing!
Fantastic tutorial, thank you for the dry look, it shows how realistic you are. Awesome result for only 2 weeks. Very impressed by your apparatus also, inspiring and soothing, Thank you :)
"Look at that bucket of yum-yum"...lol...I LOVE IT!!!!!!!! That's EXACTLY how I feel every time I tumble a bucket of rocks. EXCELLENT video, Mark! From one rock lover to another...you did an amazing job!!!!!!❤
Thanks for the wonderful comments. I love rocks and I love rock people, rock on 🤘
next time when you hit prepolish add ceramic media to take up the space, you never want to go below 3 quarters full. I always add borax to my grit as well it prevents grit from sticking to the rocks
I have polished several batches of small smooth, already almost-but-not-quite shiny, rocks with just water, borax, and 1 maybe 2 drops of Dawn dish detergent, following a tip from a youtuber. (I am sorry that I have forgotten which one, she deserves the credit). I liked the shine on them better than 6-8 weeks of polishing with the 4 grits. I was out of needed grit and decided that I was going to just clean them up a little with the borax and Dawn, til it came in. Well, you know how it goes. Things that need to be done get in the way and you just put your rock polishing off for a little bit, til you have more time. Meanwhile, they are just tumbling away. By the time I got back to them, it had been a couple weeks. One of her commenters tips was to tumble them a day or 2 in just water to remove grit, dirt, or detergent. Mine seemed a little soap-sticky, even when dry so I put clean water and tumbled them anther couple days. My idea of a perfectly polished rock. Shiny but not so shiny that it looks polyurethaned. I have also used the borax and Dawn to remove the grit in the crevices of the rocks, between grits.
WOW!! They came out beautifully!! I absolutely LOVE the white pyramid shaped one and the pink ones. Actually,I love them all!! You're a patient man!!
“Look at that bucket of yum yum! “ 🤣❤️ Love your videos! 😁
Yummiliciuos
I read about how to make an industrial tumbler out of a rear axle of a big semi truck with the rims and tires in place. You want to cut an opening in the highest part of the rim to load rocks. The article said a cover is not needed but I always thought if I was going to do one I would have a hinged door sealed with inner tube rubber. The idea is to set up a motor geared down so the tires rotates slowly and all the rocks stay in the lowest part of the tire at all times tumbling over each other. Each tire can hold about 100 lbs of rocks and you have 4 tires going at all times each one with a different grit. Always use same tire for the same grit. You rotate the rocks once a week and you have a 100 lbs of polished tumbled stones each week. I have been wondering if you could use quartz sand as grit for the first stage to do the rough rounding off? The fact that the tumbling will all take place in a rubber tire should help keep the noise down. The rocks should never touch the rim. I have suggested to people that they make a sound proof shed just big enough to be practical so the noise will be minimized. Plus the rubber in a tire is thick and should absorb a lot of the noise. Also you should have a small fan on the motor to keep it cool. A high quality motor will be a must as it will run 24 hours a day. I am no expert but with the proper gearing the motor should not be under too much stress.
I would sell the tumbled stones. Once tumbled, you grade them by quality and type. Some would be really valuable. I bet you could average $10 usd per pound with just good found material and more if you have high grade material. Definitely not for the weekend rock hound but if you sell stones or want to, what a cheap way to start. You could tumble other people's rocks for a fee or shares too. You could make one with car tires for a smaller scale operation. There has to be a lot of people with a 30 year in the making, 3 ton pile of rocks out behind their house. With this they could see results from all that collecting.
Wow! I'm happy with doing a small time tumble. Thanks, Jeff!
@@RockHunterMark Just thought it was interesting idea and you would enjoy reading about it., I did not think you would do it. One idea for what you are doing is rig up longer roller bars (might need bigger motor) with same size drums so you can run 6 tumblers on same machine. Every single week you would have a batch of new stones finished. Builds a table and mount it directly to the table. If you could sell enough to pay for the grits your hobby would pay for itself. If you could find a texured rubber to cover the roller bars would that help eliminate slippage?
Haha you’re trying to put me to work. I do need to eliminate the slippage.
I've heard about using old rigs to tumble too, but the design I heard of involves the drive wheels and a set of free wheels on the other end and using culvert as the barrel. Plug one end and slope it slightly toward that end. Lol! Give me a big enough lever and fulcrum and I'll tumble the world! Of course, this is wheel and axle, but you get the joke....
sounds like a lot of work
Great video Mark, thanks for sharing that. I'm just starting to appreciate rocks more now.
AMAZINGGG ESP THE FOSSIL IM IN SHOCK ABT HOW CHILL U WERE ABT THAT LOL! 😂
Literally insane!b It looks so easy while you are doing it.
Loved your before and after pics - great idea. :)
Thanks for the positive feedback.
I really appreciate all the comments and views on this video. I have two other rock polishing videos. One is all petrified wood: ruclips.net/video/FCiQG-W5sY8/видео.html. Plus another on various rocks: ruclips.net/video/YGW1a2yYUSA/видео.html. Thank you everyone.
That looks awesome , Thank you so much for sharing 👍🏼
Very cool . Thanks for sharing. I'm going to give this a try.
Such beautiful stones and agates. There was one special one I’d love to have grabbed through the screen if I could. Rock On!
Beautiful stones. Interesting process. Thanks for sharing.
Thank you!
I’m so glad I found this channel!
You had great results, with your method. I have polished 2 batches so far and I am still learning the tricks of the trade.
nice job with the polisher. now we know how it's done !
Great video and they turned out fantastic. Good job
Amazing rocks!!!
Those are so cool, Mark. Thanks for sharing.
Thanks Brian. Appreciate you watching.
Great stuff man! Nice video!
Awesome job man thanks for sharing
Thanks Mark for the video! Very interesting!
They turned out beautiful Mark! I haven’t tumbled in so long. We’re moving house so it’s all packed away right now, but if it wasn’t I’d be starting a new batch after watching that mate! Nice show brother 👍👍👍
Thanks Rookie, I’m glad you liked the video. I hope you’re move goes well. Keep on watching, I have rocks in the tumbler right now for my next video. Peace out.
Great video, my bro and I are tumbling now. Only into the first week. Cant wait to see them. Learned a lot. Thank you Sir.
Thanks for watching and I appreciate your comments
Awesome good show,and to think we walk around on them pretty rocks...thanks for uploading, high speed mark works fast
High speed mark needs to find some arrowheads 🤣
Super nice!
You sir, are my new hero. Check back in 20 years, and you'll still be my old hero. YOU ROCK!!
Rock on thanks
Beautiful video. Thank you for making such amazing videos.
That’s very kind of you . Thank you so much for the compliment
@@RockHunterMark 🙏
Thank you Mark.
frickin awesome!
Great video. I Love the before and after pictures.
Thanks Bob, good to hear from you. Hope everything is going well.
RockHunter Mark Thanks Mark. We are doing well. Hope you have been keeping busy.
Sweet! I can sense the Michigan 😜
Nice job!
“Bucket of yum yum”. That just sounds amazing
It is
I love the rocks that have layers! :D
I do too. Thanks for watching.
Beautiful job! I saw a video where the guy raised up the idlers roller with about a 1 inch spacer to put more weight on the drive roller. Might be an easy fix for that slipping.
Thanks! It got a little better after I adjusted the piece of metal that holds the tub in place from the center of the top of the canister.
Awesome video Enjoyed watching.
Appreciate you watching .
My endorphins FLY when I see the finished products!
Yes.
Thank you very much for your information and for the comment people post below. I really appreciate it all. Good Day to you and you all☀️
So nice of you. Thank you, Ling.
they came out soo prettyyy
Yes, love it!
gorgeous!
Awesome Mark. I have a rock polisher I use to clean dug coins. Going to have to polish me some stones. Definitely Yum Yum!
Break out the tumbler for the yum yum!
Fossil rock is Petoskey Stone. Ancient coral. Excellent video. Beautiful work. Do u sell u stones or make jewelry?
Thanks, Dawn. The polish on that ancient coral didn't go as expected! I don't sell or make any jewelry.
I was going to mention this, Michigan Rocks does a bunch of these, very soft and need special polishing. Can come out really nice but not in a Mohs 7 general tuble.
@@tonyhamilton9764 yeah they're the official stone for the state of Michigan
Meow
Awesome!
Great video!
Thanks for watching. I appreciate your comments
Great video and channel thanks 🙏
Great job Mark, with best wishes from someone beyond the seven seas.
Thank you!
Came out good ✋
Those are really pretty.
Thanks 😊
Super awesome
Thanks 😊
What a great video. My little daughter said the video was really cool and is wondering where u got the rocks. We loved watching it together
Thank you. Found these in river gravel in Missouri
Awesome...
Love ur channel!!
Thanks
I really like your tumbler!
Thanks I appreciate your comment. My grandma gave it to me.
Great video! Why didn't that Petoskey stone polish up?
Great video, Mark! That coral was awesome. I've never seen ond like that before. I'd love to have one of those. I've never seen coral like that here in north AL.
I mean, fossil. Is it coral?
I don’t know what rock your talking about
Oh the petoskey stone? I want to find some more of those myself! So pretty.
So beautiful
Thank you very much!
Yessir, I wash each stone with a toothbrush between each stage, I've had too many times where the polish was ruined by not being diligent!
that has happened to me also.
Gorgeous.
Thanks 🙏
Go to the $ Store & buy a kitchen sieve to wash your rocks! I thought that for sure you would dump some on the ground!
Can’t treat that petrosky like an ordinary rock per “Michigan Rocks”
Thanks ! That's a cool deal. I've got a million tons of quartzite around here. I'd love to see some of it tumbled !
You should get a tumbler! Thanks for watching.
@@RockHunterMark It's crystals, some as big as the 👊 fist, rose,black, smokey, clear as glass . Do ya know how the tumbler would effect it?
I did a crystal before and it didn’t come out as clear as I wanted. I’m not sure though.
@@RockHunterMark thanks Man !
@@michaelhedgepeth5106 quartzite is a 7 mohs, or there about. So should have no trouble tumbling it. Not as much trouble as a softer stone.
I love the huge petoskey stone!
Same. I want to find more!
Like your vids, I think a light box would do wonders for your before and after pics of the stones. Thanks, I'm looking forward to my own tumbling experiences. 😉
Thanks for the input and for watching
This is amazing. Here do you find rocks all these beauties?
sweet nice job
Thanks
Found it ! 😁
thanks
Nice
So cool ,didn't no it took so long in machine.
Wow! How much time do you need for this job?
Really enjoyed your video,thanks.
I assume that none of the grit can be used more that once ?
Some people say the reuse the grit, I never have it’s a mess
You such a handsome rock polisher!!
😊
What do you do with these rocks when they are done?
I am so impressed with these! I just started the second stage grit on mine, where can I find the polish? Because I have a National Geographic small tumbler and I just know my rocks will not end up with that shine. Thank and great work dude!!
pre polish and then polish . i buy them on line.
@@RockHunterMark any special place?:)
I’ve just been using Amazon and buy the kit from Polly plastics. There may be better ways but I haven’t looked into it. I used to but from a hobby store near me that closed. Have fun with your polisher! 😎
Check out my video from two weeks ago with all petrified wood in the polisher. so shiny
@@RockHunterMark sure will dude! Thanks!!
That is so cool! Where do you find all your gorgeous rocks?!
In the river.
Do you have to put so water in or can you do less for a even smoother tumble before the second run?
Good question , I don’t know
Did you toothbrush each rock after each stage? I cant seem to get the luster you have achieved. I polished for only one week. I will try two weeks next time.
I make sure I use plenty of grit , and water just above the rock level. And I make sure each rock is clean. Certain types of rock don’t polish well.
Anyone have any suggestions on a large rotary tumber? Ive got buckets of fist sized agates id like to polish.
Wow those are large.
@@RockHunterMark i live in south dakota. I worked construction building concrete basements. All around northwestern black hills. My father has a geographically astounding property, filled with petrified wood, boulders of alabaster, agate,rose quarts. I fellow friend and co worker lived in custer county, same with his property. Most dig sites would have piles of dirt to go through when killing time on site i would always dig through them finding geodes and i would assume fossils.
What a blessing is for you to have such a rich site. I hope you enjoy the rock life. Rock on 🤘
I think it's wonderful that they have hobbies like this for our special folks!
Bom trabalho, amigo
Obrigado!
Hi again!! My rocks finished tumbling but they were a bit dull (it was from the polish I used that came with the kit, I’m planning on buying the Polly plastics kit next) so I rubbed with some coconut oil but I had an idea-have you or anyone else ever tumbled with water and a small bit of oil? I’m thinking I’d like to try but I want to see if anyone’s given that a shot first? If not then I’ll definitely give it a go and let everyone know of results:)
No, I haven’t heard of that before. I think the poly plastics are for adding a space filler so that the rocks don’t chip each other from tumbling. If they were my rocks I would run them again with a week of pre polish then a week of polish. Cleaning them between grits really good.
@@RockHunterMark thank you, very insightful! I’ll be doing that with my next grit kit
The rock you called a fossil, is called a Petoskey stone in Michigan.
I’ve just learned this by watching another video on RUclips thanks for the insight have a great day
Yes its a type of fossilized coral. so your both right.
3:27 was that a moonstone??? Damn where did he find all these? That little thing he had at the begining to stir the stuff reminds me of this contraption I built when I was little to perpetually spin me while I sat in a bucket 🤣
No moonstone sorry, thanks for watching and your comments
Is there some reason you don't reuse the grit, And why not just use sand blasting grit?
It’s really messy to dry out the grit and reuse. I’m sure there are ways to do it but I rather start fresh.
He said and i quote “” look at that bucket of yum yum “”
Doesn’t get better than a bucket of yum yum, rock on
Yup
That Petoskey stone was perfect for hand polish after the first stage. Next time don't go any further and bring out the the fine grit sand paper.. 2 hours of sanding and polish you'd have an actual gem.
I agree
That bone in the beginning is hugeeee, i have one just like it but i dont know from what animal its from
Finally all the rocks are done and my life is over. Hope you like polishing stones.