I Tumbled Rocks Nonstop for One Year! 

Petrified wood turns out looking pretty cool . Sold some before after tumbling them to jewelry place 😁

@@robertstewart7228 Yes, I have tumbled some pet. wood.

What if you tumbled in diamond dust or crushed lava? Just Curious... Or asking for a friend.... Lol 🤣😂💯😃👍

@@speaklifegardenhomesteadpe8783 Nope and nope!

Question- if you took the dull ones, and tumbled them in the “shiny stuff”, would they then turn shiny? Or is it too late, they’ll always be dull now? Lol

Hey, crowelag, I can't say I remember anyone with your name. It seems like a name like that would stick in my head. I seem to be doing a bit better with rocks than with math. I don't think I'd have 1.6 million views on a video about how to factor a trinomial.

@@MichiganRocks Yep! You lost me at the simple thought of how to factor a trinomial! I’ll take geology any day! Great video! You now have a new subscriber. 😁

@@lanaparedes6460 Thanks, Lana!

@@MichiganRocks you might be surprised, I watched a video the other day that explained the history of how we figured out factoring cubics and why it took so long to figure out and it's a pretty popular video. Although there are at least 4 really popular math channels that I know of so it might be hard to find topics you're able to make a popular video with. I prefer quality over popularity myself though, and I know a lot of others that are the same way.

@@AngelNearDestruction I'm sure there are lots of math videos out there. I know Kahn Academy is super popular. I did that for long enough, though, now I'm teaching other things.

how she said “eehyup” i was like ouch, owie. relax sis haha

Yeeeeeeeeppppp....

Yeah this tickled me haha!

I was gonna like this comment but it's sitting on exactly 500 likes and my mind might burst into flames

Any hoo…. Classic!

Thanks. I had fun with that part. I wanted to do something to show the passage of time.

Thanks, I had a lot of fun making that part.

Thanks, James. This one got pushed way outside my usual viewers and a lot of people seemed to enjoy it. Thanks for taking the time to leave such a nice comment.

Haha I was just thinking the same thing. Why the hell did I just watch this entire video

That’s what I said! Haha! I make people laugh and review games. He’s polishing rocks and getting more views than I could dream of! Haha! He has nice editing too.

Happened to me another time with watching a guy unclogging culverts and drains for literally hours..

The wormhole is real lmfao

Why did you have a rock tumbler as a kid?

Hey Destin! Thanks for the comment. I love your videos.

Lots of kids have rock tumblers. That's how I got started in this, by giving my son a rock tumbler for Christmas. We hunted rocks and tumbled them together for a couple years, then he out grew it but I didn't.

@@EdibleRockingChair - Who doesn't love a bit of rock and roll, even as a kid? Okay, I'll see myself out...

​@@MichiganRocks Fellow Michigander here, I remember getting my first tumbler at either COSI in Ohio or the Detroit Science Center on a school field trip. I wore the motor out of mine and then just kinda fell out of interest. ~15 years later as an adult, I didn't think I'd find myself watching someone tumble rocks but I always loved seeing the end result, and this video wasn't any different!

Thanks! I appreciate you taking the time to make such a nice comment.

I'm a simple guy, so the production is simple.

They're minerals!

@@Maityist damnit, Marie!

If your not at least as excited as this guy about something in life, are you actually living life?

Exactly what i thought xd

Rockhounds do crazy things for rocks (and minerals)as pointed out!!!

Thanks! I had the space in my tumbler, so it wasn't that big of a deal for me. I always wondered what would happen if you did this and now I know.

@@MichiganRocks So do we!

EXTREME ROCK TUMBLING!!!! Who knew?

@@MichiganRocks Did the barrels get hot over the summer? Maybe the pressure built up and escaped and that's how the barrels lost that weight

@@gotrees4 No, they are in the basement that stays cool all year long.

I did my best!

I like watching some of those things too, especially wood carving and gardening. I don't carve myself, but it's fun to watch someone else do it. Woodworking videos are fun too.

I got started in this with my son. Your first paragraph is a very good description of what we did together.

Interesting that you remembered the smell of the slurry after a long time?

@@markfryer9880 Ever had a memory from looking at something? What about feeling something without looking at it. Of course and that’s because you have 4 differ light sensors and about the same amount for sense of touch. Once you add the 1000+ smell receptors … you’ll have plenty more unique memories to flash back on

Thanks, Christie. I wasn't sliding while shoveling. I was just not picking my feet up much, sort of shuffling along. It just looked funny when I sped it up. Shoveling really isn't all that much fun. Snowplowing is a little more fun though.

@@MichiganRocks I didn’t know that you could ride a unicycle. I knew that you could juggle. I guess if everything goes wrong, you could join the circus. You are multi talented. The unicycle looks hard. How do you steer and stop?

@@sparband To stop, just stop pedaling and put your feet down. The nice thing about learning to ride a unicycle is that when you fall, you almost always land on your feet. You don't get tangled up like you do with a bike. Steering is easy, just sort of twist. it's hard to explain, but just sort of natural to do. You might like this video of my son and me: ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-78k7ZL05Fao.html

Jeez OP - put a 'spoiler alert' on your comment :/

@@sullivpaul You read the comments before watching the video? I'm not judging, just surprised. I always watch the video before reading comments.

No problem, I'm glad you enjoyed it!

I'm glad I could amuse you. Thanks for subscribing.

I'm glad it surprised you!

Makes ya suspicious right?

It appeared in my recommended and I thought it was going to be boring. And yep, was really boring. There are probably some good ideas for those meme videos "I did THIS for a year, you won't believe WHAT happened!" but this is not one of them.

Thanks, Tim!

"Go rocks!" is not something I hear very often, but wish I did.

You're welcome! You and your granddaughter should have fun over the next several years as you two learn how to tumble rocks together.

Thanks, I'm glad I could show you something new.

This comment better not get alot of likes and replies

@@5446isnotmynumber ?

@@5446isnotmynumber ?

Rocks are tumbled to smooth off all the rough edges , so punters pay more in jewelry shops for cabershon stones , like star Sapphires & star Ruby's , massive Amythest , Rose Quartz , and more

Sometimes I do better than others. I'm pretty happy with how this video turned out.

Well that all turned out pretty well!

Several people have pointed out that water vapor can actually go through rubber. That seems like the most likely explanation to me, but I'm not 100% sure.

@@MichiganRocks Water loss was defenetly my first thought when you said it had lost weight as well.

A couple other people said similar things. I think you're probably right. Thanks for the explanation.

I was thinking that water leaked out around the gasket in tiny amounts as barometric pressure tries to equalize. Also temperature fluctuations in the tumbling room might expand and contract the air/water a tiny bit, pushing water out. Isn't one gram equal to 1 cc of water? And it was 4 grams weight loss over a year? So that'd be 4 cc's of water lost per year... 1 cc per season. -------- Proposed mechanism? Water is dense enough to pass by the gasket on the way out... but air is not dense enough to pass on the way in. ------- So the gasket is a one-way valve in effect.... allowing water to leak out with low barometric pressure.... but air cannot get back in when the barometer rises. ------ This explains the dented bottoms and the weight-loss. ------ My guess is that leakage at the gasket contributes more than leakage through molecular pores. Both may be weight-loss factors in this long term experiment. And then there is the rubber wear, too. ------- Plenty to keep people busy for decades figuring it all out. NyukNyukNyuk

Its just a reduction in density. The molecules in the rock have empty space between them. That empty space is a part of the total volume of the rock so when it is exposed, there is a reduction of volume that has no matter to fill it, resulting in a total loss of volume in the can.

@@eecarolinee There's certainly a lot to think about. Those sound like some good possibilities.

@@robertkerr4199 That was my thought but I'm no expert

Yeah, Nancy managed to get in at the very end after I did all the work! Sneaky.

@@MichiganRocks 🤣

@@MichiganRocks lol 😂

Awesome.Alpena MI! I used to live here.

@@downriverbill I still do!

I'm glad you finally discovered rock tumbling. It's a big day!

I'm just patient, that's all.

@@MichiganRocks I mean that you know how to do many things well like carving and juggling and unicycling. They many be small things, but it's a display of extensive experience and creativiry to me. And yeah, patience as well.

I'm glad you enjoyed the video, Mike!

Mmmmm... Pizza, my favorite. Yes, the type of grit makes a big difference. I knew that, but only from what I had been told by others. Now I have seen it firsthand.

Welcome to my odd hobby channel!

Those barrels go pretty slow. I was searching for someplace to use as a reference and I couldn't believe it when my friend found that one. Couldn't be more perfect.

I think I'll leave that for someone else. I'm not much of a sculptor.

@@MichiganRocks oh dont be so modest, we all saw your jack o' lantern! that thing was gorgeous!

@@MichiganRocks new video idea though. "I tumbled rocks for a million years"

That's how I got into this hobby. My son loved polished rocks in gift shops. We bought him a tumbler for Christmas, he lost interest after a couple years, and here I am making RU-vid videos about rocks. I never saw that coming.

@@MichiganRocks love this. I had a few rocks I would sleep with under my pillow as a kid, and I still love them to this day.. I’m always pointing out interesting rocks to people 😂

I'm glad you liked it! Thanks for your nice comment.

Yep, I do appreciate rocks. There are so many fun rocks out there.

Timbukthree 😂😂 I'm gonna have to use that now

Get out

So you're the reason this got recommended to me! Get back to work or Craigs gunna get mad!

You're welcome, I'm glad to help out.

Thanks, Jesse. I’m glad you enjoyed it.

Yep, Nancy is great. She does like rocks to some extent, but not like I do. I appreciate her putting up with me.

Wow, that was a long time ago that I used her toothbrush for cleaning rocks. She doesn't let me do that since she saw that video.

You must be a big rock and roll fan

It's a fun hobby if you like rocks.

You're welcome! Rock tumblers aren't just for kids though, the people who watch my videos tend to be my age or older.

Thanks, Debi. I'm glad you were amused!

That's a great story! Sounds like some great memories of your Michigan vacation.

I'm glad I could surprise and entertain you, John. Thanks for giving my video a chance.

Sounds like we’ll get along great. I just retired after 30 years of teaching eighth grade math.

That's a great and relaxing way to spend a day.

I use to collect rocks as well. Seems like most the kids in my family liked collecting rocks. What started me off was a fascination for dinosaurs and fossils. I wanted to find a fossil so bad that I ended up with a bunch of cool rocks. The polisher looks pretty neat.

@@olliefoxx7165 We have lots of fossils in my part of Michigan, but no dinosaurs. It's all sea life fossils here.

@@olliefoxx7165 That's exactly what got me started in the first place! When I was about 4 or 5 years old, I found this really nice, somewhat flat, smooth stone that vaguely resembled a large molar. As a very young child, I was convinced for a short while that it was a brontosaurus tooth. 😂Though it turned out (as you would expect) to only be a stone, it's still a really cool looking stone that I'm glad to still have all these years later.

@@arrestedeffort That's cool! I've found old stones with sea shell fossils and I felt like I discovered a new species. Of course that wasnt true, they were just sea shell fossils I'm rock but we are literally 6-7 hours from the nearest salt water. So those are many millions of years old. I like you still have your "brontosaurus" molar. That's pretty cool.😀

Lots to teach for sure.

I thought you'd like this one. I can't think of a better way to show the difference between silicon carbide and aluminum oxide.

@@MichiganRocks It really opened my eyes to what the right grit can do. I'm going to order exactly what you suggested from The Rock Shed & follow your instructions to the letter

@@OntarioRob Good luck!

@@MichiganRocks Thank you very much. I'll let you know how everything turns out

It was something I have wondered about for a long time. I feel better now that I know what will happen.

Mary sent me an email today asking me to make more stuff. She's sold out of just about everything. I spent the day making heart pendants. Thanks for buying something, I appreciate it.

Thanks for sticking with it!

Glad to see the algorithm hits my favorite creators as well lol

Here are close up pictures of the carnelians from this video: ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-dGIGfMEwHbY.html Close ups of the Bahias are here: ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-9wJL_gtQoZE.html

You didn't see all the falling that happened during the filming of the juggling. I'm fine juggling non-flaming clubs on a unicycle, but I haven't juggled fire on a unicycle in awhile and I wasn't very good at it. Having a Jeep with a camera in it right in front of me to think about didn't help matters any.

You won't get much shaping from aluminum oxide, but you sure will get a shine.

Thanks, Logan.

Thanks! It’s fun to see locals commenting.

Thanks!

Sorry to be pedantic but I think you mean “I’m not a boulder person”

You're welcome. Remember this video when you're choosing grits. It's important.

Thanks, Dale! I'm glad you enjoyed it.

That's an unexpected result from this video, but I'm glad you learned something from it, even if it wasn't what I intended. I am a pretty happy person. What I didn't show in the video is that I am also a pretty religious person. I go to Mass almost every day. I try to live my life the way God wants me to and I think that brings me a lot of Joy too. As for puns, I think they should be intended as much as possible!

I have lots of room in my big tumbler, so it wasn't too hard to just take up two spots and let the barrels run. I tried not to think about them too much over the year.

Thanks! I'm glad you enjoyed meeting us. Nice to have you here.

She likes rocks, but not nearly as much as I do. That's ok, though. I don't like football as much as she does. This way, I can play with rocks in the basement while she watches football upstairs.

@@MichiganRocks Sounds like you have it all worked out. Maybe one day I'll run into you two. As I'm always traveling and rock hounding.

@@MichiganRocks Hey I was wondering... Have you tried any Rock Identifier apps? If so, have you found the results to be correct in naming the rock?

@@AleshaAmor I tried one once. I showed it three rocks, it called them all the same thing, and they were all wrong. They may have gotten better, but it's about impossible to identify rocks by just looking at a picture. Even geologists are very hesitant to do that. There are so many other factors other than just what they look like. There's hardness, how it breaks, whether it reacts to acid, specific gravity, etc. The apps that identify plants are pretty good in my experience, but the rock ones are not.

@@MichiganRocks Thanks for that info. I think I'm pretty good at identifying basic types but there's a few I've found that are just stumping me. I think it's a bunch of petrified wood but I'm not positive yet.

I'm glad because that was a lot of picture taking.

Nah, the grit breaks down so small after a week or so that it doesn't grind enough to wear away as much.

No!

Thanks, Captain! It's still a little cold here to be swimming in Thunder Bay, but one of these days, it should warm up.

I think you can do them with your hands either way. I can do a few pull ups, but you're going to have to keep looking for someone who knows the proper form.

Here's half of them. The other half will be shown next Tuesday. ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-dGIGfMEwHbY.html

Glad you liked it, Jeff. I had a lot of fun making this one.

I'm glad you liked it, Scott.

I don't remember for this video, but I rarely get something in one take. I just don't show the other takes.

Thanks! I’m glad you enjoyed it.

I don't normally get this many views. I was hoping this video would do well, but I didn't expect it to do this well. There are quite a few rock channels, but nothing like video game channels. I don't watch video game videos, but I know there are a ton of them. It had to be really hard to get noticed with all that competition. Hang in there, it doesn't happen overnight.

@@MichiganRocks oh, I know it doesn’t go “boom” in a heartbeat. You have a great thumbnail on this video too. That’s important. I may have graphic design and video editing skills, but doing it for RU-vid is a different beast than anything I’ve done before. Plus, upgrading equipment over time is paramount for the long run. Personally, In the 10 months I’ve been doing this, I can see the evolution of myself on camera and the maturation of my style. I cringe looking at my first few videos now. You’ve got a nice presence on camera. I can tell you’re comfortable. I’ve always been a ham: lead roles in school plays, on field trombone solos, making amateur cheesy horror movies, etc., but getting comfortable for a global audience is altogether different even though my videos aren’t live. (I loved laughter and applause.) It reminds me of Rodney Dangerfield on the set of Caddyshack. He’d never done a film before and the crew wasn’t laughing. He thought he was bombing until director, Harold Ramis, told him, “Rodney, they’re dying to laugh, but the microphone will pick it up. It’s not a live nightclub with an audience. Your audience will be in theaters.” After that he loosened up and gave a performance that has made us laugh now for 40 years. I hope I’m that guy in time lol. Question: since this was the first video of yours I’ve watched, what is the typical time for rock tumbling? I would surmise that different rocks take longer or shorter depending on hardness, types of grits, and desired outcomes. I’ve had a little bit of geology in college, but I’m no geologist or gemologist for that matter, so I’m just curious. Also, do you think the slight condensing of the cans was caused by vacuum pressure over a year? Since the cans are sealed, and they are usually not tumbled for that extended time, wouldn’t it be possible that the extreme breakdown of the grits, condensing of the grits and water with minor air seepage could have caused a vacuum effect? Of course, there’s a chemical reaction occurring with friction and condensation over 365 days too. Just some hypotheses. It would be interesting to see a time lapse to document when the cans began to implode. Thank you for your kind words. I’ll be watching!

@@GAMECLOSET It's funny that you think I'm comfortable on camera. I'm not. I'm better than I used to be, but I really hate doing the parts where I'm on camera and talking. I do much better when I have something to talk about, especially if I'm behind the camera while doing it. I do a lot of rock hunting videos. I hate doing the intro and outro. It's just me talking to the camera. In the middle part of the video, I'm behind the camera talking about what I'm finding and that's no problem at all. Talking in front of people live scares me. I was a teacher for 30 years and it didn't bother me being in front of students, but that's different than being in front of an audience of peers. I am a perfectionist about tumbling rocks. I like them to be perfectly smooth with no holes or cracks. For that reason, I run the first stage for weeks or months, depending on the rocks I'm starting with. Most batches take between one and four months. But I have several batches always going, so something is getting finished every week or two. I'm still not sure why the barrels' bottoms got sucked in. Several people have told me that water vapor can go though rubber, so I think that has something to do with it.

@@MichiganRocks haha. I don't think you are "Robin Williams comfortable" on camera, but I think you have gotten used to it since you have been doing it for a little while. I can see that you do what you need to do and you are stumbling around. Even though I am a ham, if you look at my very first video (it's a Die Hard Trilogy video) to my latest (where I am actually on camera), I have become more "me" and comfortable with the dance with the camera. The Die Hard video I just hit record and went with it. I agree with you, sometimes, the on-camera part is the hardest. I do CRAZY stuff on camera though. In my Lollipop Chainsaw video, I rub Cherry Pie on my face, have liquified cherry pie filling dumped over my head, and I dress as the cheerleader girl from the game because I am supposed to be so obsessed with her. Like I said, I will do anything for a laugh. But our channels are very, very different. I really did like the passage of time on this video: the spring planting, your birthday, the fall leaves being raked, and the tree trimming. Very nice touch, and nice editing. Anyway, have a great weekend!

I didn't weight the empty barrels, that never occurred to me. Some of my barrels are ten years old though, so I don't think they wear very quickly at all.

Even if the rocks wore down the inside of the barrel, the weight should be the same at the end of the process. No? Where did the 4 grams go?

She's actually still working with some online students, but isn't a classroom teacher anymore. We were both teachers.

@@MichiganRocks that’s awesome 💚

I'll bet you feel better now that you know, don't you?

I’m a retired math teacher. Is that a personality type too? Or does that just fall under the general category of “nerd”? Either way is fine with me.

@@MichiganRocks it’s the very specific “this thing most people dismiss as boring is actually really cool and let me show you why” energy.

@@aacsmiles Thanks!

I just tried really hard to forget about those barrels. I have enough other barrel going that it wasn't too hard to do.

Haha you got so excited you opened them up two weeks earlier. Very good video and very informative. I didn't know that's how tumblers work or the materials that go with it

I sure wasn't suggesting that anyone do this themselves. I do think it was very educational though. I know I learned some things, or at least verified what I thought I knew.

@@MichiganRocks , yes, I too didn’t think that’s what you were suggesting, but I’ve wondered if I left them rolling, would I end up with just a bucket of slurry? Now we know! What I think might be an interesting experiment I will try are running some stones that aren’t making it to a high gloss, leave them go several weeks and try to save the rocks from the outside garden!

@@berjo77 Good luck!

If you want to learn to tumble rocks, you've come to the right place. Let me know if you have questions.

I'm from Hubbard Lake originally, just a little closer to Oscoda than where I live now.

Thanks, Nicholas. I'm not usually super creative, so I was happy I cam up with this idea. It worked out well.

@@MichiganRocks Maybe you don't see yourself as creative, but you most definitely are. It comes out in your videos. Your work is on another level, you pay attention to all the little details, add jokes, show us an adventure of a time, beautiful views and sounds, your shorts are unique and cool. Thanks for teaching, inspiring, and always making me jealous of your work and rocks!

@@CityRockhounding Thanks, Nicolas!

Thanks, I'm glad you had fun.

@@MichiganRocks indeed it was a good watch! 👍

Those big amethyst cathedrals are really cool. I don't have much experience with geodes, but I recently cut my first one. There wasn't too much of a crystal pocket inside, but the crystals did have a slight purplish hue to them. The better part was the great banding inside. Do you have 13 seconds to watch another video? ru-vid.comd7u3THfpiUs

I’m a proud Georgian when I know what all of those places are.

Gee, I’m sorry you’re dead.

@@MichiganRocks it's okay I got better

@@nathanhaimson Sounds like something someone who had been turned into a newt would say.

@@MichiganRocks I actually came back to life as a newt. You're a WITCH!! 🤣

@@nathanhaimson ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-ZB5ig6vpQug.html

I've never set anything on fire, but my neighbors aren't phased by me anymore.

Actually, since I've gotten into lapidary stuff, I'm surprised at how many other people do have an interest in rocks and to a lesser extent lapidary arts. I think it's more popular than a lot of people think.

It is amazing how much wear and tear a modern vehicle can take.

I made this video with people who actually were into rock tumbling, but it has reached a much wider audience than I expected. I'm glad you enjoyed it even if it's not a subject you're usually interested in.

I can't believe some of the polishes and pre-polishes some companies are selling. If you're doing four steps, I think the first two should be silicon carbide and the last two should be aluminum oxide. It's just so obvious from this experiment.

Thanks. I'm a fan of mowing the lawn too.

Thanks for subscribing, Sunny. I do love rocks. I just got back from a trip to the U.P. walking the beaches of Lake Superior.