Author Topic: Hunting the elusive Michigan Pudding stone (Read 26653 times)

isawlogs · « **Reply #280 on:** June 18, 2011, 09:24:34 pm »

I found a stone today that my plow must of dug up last winter with the lawn tractor, now it has vibrating mode when cutters are engaged.

Another set of knives hit da dust.

Ray , I hear you well about them rocks, here the fields are bare of them , but one needs to chose his path well when in the bush.

SwampDonkey · « **Reply #281 on:** June 19, 2011, 06:48:32 am »

My grandfather work for an old farmer in Maine many years ago. And the field was full of ledge knolls. The equipment was also all hay wired together from being warn out. Every time the harrow went over one of them bare knolls it would fall apart.

Corley5 · « **Reply #282 on:** July 22, 2011, 11:55:25 pm »

On display in the Smithsonian's Museum of Natural History

This one was found near Kalamazoo

thecfarm · « **Reply #283 on:** July 23, 2011, 05:07:22 am »

Did you go there?This is in DC right?

SwampDonkey · « **Reply #284 on:** July 23, 2011, 05:30:48 am »

Here is a small article on pudding stone as well.

http://toadisland.tripod.com/drummond/pudmore.html

Ianab · « **Reply #285 on:** July 23, 2011, 05:51:11 am »

Moment of panic here.

The worlds most travelled Michagan Pudding Stone was LOST.

Found it in the bottom drawer in the kitchen, where the cleaner would naturally put random rocks

It's back in pride of place in front of the fish tank with various other random stuff that doesn't get messed with

Ian.

Magicman · « **Reply #286 on:** July 23, 2011, 08:49:41 am »

I want one too.

Corley5 · « **Reply #287 on:** July 23, 2011, 09:03:06 am »

Quote from: thecfarm on July 23, 2011, 05:07:22 am

Did you go there?This is in DC right?

Yup

Jeff · « **Reply #288 on:** July 23, 2011, 09:22:04 am »

Here is my newest acquisition. Burlkraft helped me get it loaded to bring home when we were up to the cabin last month.

doctorb · « **Reply #289 on:** July 23, 2011, 09:29:22 am »

When we were kids, we used to have a four leaf clover contest at birthday parties. I never found one. Are the pudding' stones easy to find or do they hide from ya'? Do you know if they are found in the Canadian Shield area north of Lake Ontario? Is there a reference that I could look up their distribution and range?

Jeff · « **Reply #290 on:** July 23, 2011, 09:54:11 am »

They can be pretty hard to find, and are not that common. When I say hard to find, its kinda like finding Morel Mushrooms. If you find where they live, you have to get an eye for spotting them.

I have reference books that state they are only found in the eastern parts of the Upper Peninsula of Michigan, but that is fallacy. Corley5 finds them near and around wolverine, and we find them here in Harrison as well. My buddy Joe just found some on the Charity Islands out in Lake Huron out from Saginaw Bay. The specimen that Corley5 posted from the Natural History Museum states it came from Kalamazoo, which is in the southern lower peninsula. They are said to have come into Michigan with glacial till from Elliot lake, Bruce and Colbalt Ontario. The areas that I find them in Michigan are always places where there appears to be a glacial History.

Patty · « **Reply #291 on:** July 23, 2011, 10:16:42 am »

Quote from: Jeff on July 23, 2011, 09:22:04 am

Here is my newest acquisition. Burlkraft helped me get it loaded to bring home when we were up to the cabin last month.

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Hey! Speaking of Burlkraft......we have not heard from him in awhile. What is he up to these days?

Jeff · « **Reply #292 on:** July 23, 2011, 10:17:38 am »

His computer is kaput. He's been waiting to get it back.

SwampDonkey · « **Reply #293 on:** July 23, 2011, 10:58:03 am »

Yeah, my buddy Jeff at Saulte Ste Marie, Ontario has found all kinds of them to. One spot was on an Island nearby.

There is a polished one in Ottawa as a corner stone of the Geological Survey of Canada building.

isawlogs · « **Reply #294 on:** July 23, 2011, 04:49:19 pm »

Quote from: Patty on July 23, 2011, 10:16:42 am

Hey! Speaking of Burlkraft......we have not heard from him in awhile. What is he up to these days?

Patty ... He is still looking and drooling over the pics he took in Holland.

Norm · « **Reply #295 on:** July 23, 2011, 04:54:08 pm »

And hasn't shared with his bestest buddies on here!

Ron Scott · « **Reply #296 on:** July 23, 2011, 08:04:52 pm »

A guy recently showed me some pudden stones that he found here near Cadillac, MI. He's a serious collecter of them also.

WDH · « **Reply #297 on:** July 23, 2011, 10:42:49 pm »

Quote from: Norm on July 23, 2011, 04:54:08 pm

And hasn't shared with his bestest buddies on here!

I know. What an anticlimax.

Autocar · « **Reply #298 on:** July 24, 2011, 01:36:11 pm »

I think I may have one of those stones , we drug buckets home from Grand Marais and Deer Park over the years. Every hunting trip I ever took I stones I drug home. Floatplane Pilot's have given me some funny looks over the years

Jeff · « **Reply #299 on:** July 24, 2011, 08:28:54 pm »

Odds are, you won't have a puddingstone for those area's Autocar, but you might very well have some agates.

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Author Topic: Hunting the elusive Michigan Pudding stone (Read 26653 times)