Largest Ever, Thunder-Egg Gemstone found!

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This is the biggest Thunder Egg I have EVER seen. I went back to my Thunder Egg Private gemstone claim to dig up another load of these amazing Semi-Precious gemstones. The agate and crystal filled gem are formed in volcanic ash beds and are known at Thunder eggs. I got a great haul, including the largest one I have ever seen from this location.
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@shinykazzadragon Год назад

I gave my son a piece of ocean picture stone for his birthday, and he flipped out. He watches Dan Hurd regularly.

@makhmadzadran5685 Год назад

Niac

@Danhurd Год назад

Tell him I say Happy Birthday!

@shinykazzadragon Год назад

@@Danhurd I will! Thank you!

@hanreality.7266 Год назад

What a truly genius present! 🥳

@ThatOpalGuy Год назад

Beautiful stuff, eh?

@menow7851 Год назад

I seriously think if my elementary school had shown us a video about rocks having beautiful insides, it would have changed my entire life path. Thanks for sharing your finds.

@FernandoWINSANTO 3 месяца назад

I started looking for thunder eggs in an Oregon Lapidary Shop when I was 12 years old, google " rockhounding " for u information.

@BBermsWorld Год назад

To have the knowledge, experience and tools you have is a dream! Beautiful scenery and awesome Thunder eggs, very fun video!

@SaltyNationalist Год назад

WOW.. That big stone is beautiful.. It's amazing what nature can create.. Thanks for taking us along and thanks for sharing Dan..😉👍

@Danhurd Год назад

Glad you enjoyed it

@johnreighard9731 Год назад

Awesome Thunder Eggs, Dan👍🏼Never seen a Thunder Egg with green jasper. Very interesting design.

@andrewthompson7022 Год назад

Dan, I’m glad that you are safe and smart. You can never be to careful. Thanks for your inspiring content!

@kellyw.1779 Год назад

Amazing Dan! Cutting the Thunder eggs is just like opening up a Christmas present...ya never know what's inside. So exciting!!

@karlsjunior466 Год назад

We had an embankment like that at our family resort. It was way back in the woods and kids would find it and play on it. I was 17 when tasked with cutting that hill down. What I ended up doing was digging a trench about three feet back on the top of the hill behind the tree or something. Deep and wide enough to get a good car jack in there. I braced the soil with thick plywood and some 2x4s. Then just pumped the jack and toppled whole trees with their roots and everything. It took a few days but it worked. You have to be willing to sacrifice a chainsaw chain. You will need to cut through dirty roots and that chews through blades. It was worth it. I hope this gives you ideas on how to handle that hill.

@mikeblair2594 Год назад

A Pulaski would work too. Its a bit harder labour, but Dan has teenage boys so the Labour ain't A problem. With a Pulaski you can trench and cut at the same time. Its a fire fighting tool that all the greenhorns pick up first although they don't cut line well without the other hand tools like a hazel hoe.

@Antroid Год назад

I love Dan's videos. Always a blast watching them. There's everything: great vistas and nature, watching someone having a blast, doing skillful work and explaining things, the excitement of unearthing some of Earth's buried treasures, and wonder at the unique structure and beauty of the gems when cut. Each one is like a drip feed of pure dopamine.

@Danhurd Год назад

Glad you like them!

@scruggsbuster9458 Год назад

Yeah it seems like any anything that he does is really cool you can see he's really enjoying himself he's living the dream he's a free person doing what he loves best and his family they're awesome I'm sure his wife Dana gets lonely when he's out there but she she's a trooper as well she understands him and that makes her awesome so I liked your comment I thought I'd reply to you I like watching him

@memer-tn3nk Год назад

I love the bigger one that smash it beautiful!

@vanessastuller8121 Год назад

I absolutely love your videos but wanted to commend you for being serious about safety and not worrying your wife! That is awesome! You are a good husband! I'm sure she appreciates it too!

@scruggsbuster9458 Год назад

Yes he is it's a true loving marriage she lets him go out there and do his thing cuz she knows it makes him happy I'm sure she likes to do it sometimes it may not be her thing but she sticks by her husband 100% And he sticks by her a 100% and that is a true loving marriage🇨🇦📷📹🇺🇸😇🙄😆

@judithfairchild8620 Год назад

Being careful is part of success. Continue to take care of yourself please.

@adsart4990 Год назад

this is my first video of yours and I love that you include seemingly mundane aspects of safety! putting up the tape, making sure you're on time to your safety call with your wife, mentioning how since you're alone it'd be bad to get injured and so you drive slow. it all just shows how long and seriously you do this. and serves as a great example!

@beep6410 Год назад

In one video, you said that some people had been displeased with your gemstone content. I would like to say that I subscribed for the gemstones! The gold is awesome as well, love it all. This earth is full of treasures. Do what you love!

@edsamuilis6512 Год назад

Cant wait to see it

@edsamuilis6512 Год назад

A Christmas gift ??!

@randallmcclure9901 Год назад

@@edsamuilis6512 , It's a scammer, don't believe it.

@patrickswayze4455 Год назад

beautiful star and green jasper, nice pick!!

@beez1717 Год назад

Wow! The giant one with the jasper inside it was so amazing! I can see a thin cut from it could be an amazing thing to put in a window and have the sun shine through the green!

@StaceNyourFace Год назад

Using a cement mixer as a tumbler...GENIUS!! 😉

@StaceNyourFace Год назад

p.s. I'm glad you made it out safely, Dan!👍You gave US quite the scare a year or so ago....😮♥

@yosephmcjoe9575 Год назад

I love these Gem hunting episodes - some of my favourites

@emilymalin5304 Год назад

😱 OMG!!!😱 THIS IS _SERIOUSLY_ **ALL** I WANT TO DO WITH MY LIFE!!!! 🤯🤯🤯🤯🤯 You've got _NO_ IDEA!! My grandpa was a "rock hunter" and had the saws and everything- It's in my BLOOD! As a child, I _ALWAYS_ walked with my eyes down, looking for cool stuff on the ground (and it's paid off... I've found cut diamonds and gemstones that have fallen out of rings 😅). I _CONSTANTLY_ had SOOO many rocks in my coat pockets, they started ripping!! My parents MADE me put my HUMONGOUS rock collection behind the fence at our house 😢... I was SO upset! Well, I'm 37 yrs old now, and that INSATIABLE HUNGER to find beautiful and interesting rocks has _NEVER_ WANED!! We just moved, and HALF the bins I had were... You guessed it... Full of rocks!!! 🤣 I even do this when I take my son to the park... It's lined with ROCKS; So the whole time he's playing, I'm looking for cool and interesting rocks!! I've found fossils, gemstones, all KINDS of crazy stuff!! People walking by must think I'm CRAZY 😅... I have OCD and anxiety: The OCD makes me HYPER FOCUSED when I'm looking for something, but it can be almost _IMPOSSIBLE_ to pull me away sometimes 🤦🏼‍♀️.... With the anxiety, this is the *ONE* thing that calms me... As long as I'm looking with wide-eyed ~WONDER~ at the _INCREDIBLE_ "artwork" of Mother Nature, I feel at peace and at home here on earth.... ....It would be an ABSOLUTE *_DREAM_* to do what you're doing... (I had to quit my jobs mainly due to the anxiety; but, OH LORDY if I could °°ONLY°° live the life you do..!! 🥹 I might actually be something MORE than the "couch potato" I am now... 🥲)😅

@raycooper9083 Год назад

Those thunder eggs were awesome. I managed to get one about the same size as your large one here in Australia. Ironically enough when it was cut in half it had a kangaroo pattern in agate and jasper. I just love the different patterns in them.

@andydufresne8269 Год назад

Again always a pleasure watching and learning from you also soooo close to a million subscribers fingers crossed

@oceanluvngal Год назад

That thunder-egg with Jasper inside is one of the most beautiful cuts ever. Wowzers!!!

@edsamuilis6512 Год назад

7:15 am, I'll be a watchin'!

@MountainManMurphy Год назад

Can always enjoy a different type of video from ya Dan! From gold, to thunder-eggs and many more - super exciting stuff!

@laurat5143 8 месяцев назад

😮 Wow! That green one was amazing. 😊Thank you for sharing your cut treasures. ❤ Thumbs-up 👍👍👍👍👍👍👍👍👍👍👍👍👍👍👍👍👍👍👍👍👍👍👍👍👍👍👍👍👍👍👍👍👍👍👍👍👍👍👍. Your other cuts were beautiful.

@rogervandevivere5674 Год назад

❤❤😊 a buityfull gims stone

@riverlady982 2 месяца назад

I had never heard of thunder-egg gemstones until today and I'm on a binge-watch for any video about them now ❤. I honestly am obsessed with stones and natural chrystals in general but these are even better.

@cindyzelmer9228 Год назад

Dan, I’m sure nobody else would go through the trouble that you do to put the thunder eggs through a cement mixer so you would get the best product available. It shows the pride that you take in your work/products. 👍🏻👍🏻👍🏻

@williamwhitacre4456 Год назад

AWESOME, THANK YOU FOR SHARING. 😊 🙏 😀

@judithfairchild8620 Год назад

Wow on the Jasper thunder egg. This little eggs with the black and white so sharply defined are great too.

@teaganrath255 Год назад

Wow, those thunder eggs are so cool! a couple looked like a photo of a overcast-ish dusk sky... thanks for sharing Dan!

@salteastsimon Год назад

I heard we have some pretty nice gemstones in North Carolina too

@jcon1000 Год назад

It was interesting to see up by yourself. You are a workhorse! Those eggs are absolutely beautiful!

@evamarie5024 Год назад

The pile of xtra large thunder eggs looks like a gargoyle relaxing on a smaller thunder egg, I can see it's eyes, it's arms just basking in a sitting position ready to be examined!

@Loverofthelight Год назад

Thank you Dan for always sharing your adventures with us and teaching at the same time. Much love from Blighty where we can only wish for such amazing treasures!

@paulknight1879 Год назад

I love your channel and what u do with all of your egg's, gold, jem stone's u r very safe but so funny with what u do fantastic and amazing job 😄 👏 😀

@Danhurd Год назад

Thanks so much

@paulknight1879 Год назад

@@Danhurd no thank u.

@RoyHolder Год назад

I guess I'll watch it tomorrow, 1:45 am is way to late for me!!!

@dennisshoemaker2789 Год назад

Thanks for sharing your adventure with us! What a great cash of gemstones. Great work!

@terrytish8756 Год назад

Canada is such a beautiful country. TY for sharing.

@faithmorgen7530 Год назад

I really enjoyed this video! 👍 I was so excited to see how the thundereggs would turn out but I never expected them to be that beautiful! Especially the one with the green jasper. Absolutely amazing what mother earth can create!! 💜 thank you for the great content and I appreciate your upbeat personality and positivity. Really makes my day!! 🤗 stay well and be safe

@Zonkotron Год назад

Totally random side note. I live in a part of Europe which is densely populated, not mountainous and basically a "garden country". There is virtually no unmanaged Land and if there is, it is nature preserve and off bounds. Everything is settlement, road, field, managed forest or garden and it is virtually always illegal to use powered vehicles on managed land. I always considered ATVs to be mens toys worse than motorcycles (those i ride happily) because they are slower and bigger than bikes and less useful than a truck or tractor. Your channel made me realize how amazingly useful they are in other parts of the world.

@Op1zilla Год назад

Thunder Eggz are pretty cool, ggz-👽👍

@gaynortrower7157 Год назад

The green jasper one looks like petrified wood. Looks like growth ring's. Awesome vid

@snappyoutdoors Год назад

Thunder Eggs seem like fun thing to dig for Mr.Dan

@benjaminrapp7418 Год назад

Are we just not going to talk about the smiley face in the giant jasper geode?

@moondoggie1987 Год назад

That green jasper was a beautiful find.

@truckeemorton Год назад

The timing on this video is crazy I just got back from visiting my mom in Central Oregon for thanksgiving and ever since I was a little kid I’ve always been very excited about gold and rocks and pretty much everything your channel has covered ever since I’ve been subscribed for the last 3-4 years. But when i was out at my moms my stepdad was helping a close friend of theres with her estate after her husband sadly past a month or so ago. But my stepdad was helping get rid of a bunch of the husbands tools and trucks and he was told to do whatever he wants with the tools and in amongst all the tools where 2 big rock saws, 1 small rock saw ,a polishing wheel as well a few other machines, a big pile of uncut, rough slabs as well as an assortment of other cool rocks to slice as well as a fat stack of maps and different locations for different agate beds and petrified wood forest and all that good stuff as well as a place to hunt for lighting strikes within a 60ish mile? range and he was able to get it all for free just for helping out and being a good friend so we spent almost 2 full days setting up a work shop and slicing up all sorts of stuff from agates just like the ones in the video,some big veins of quarters and a bunch of other stuff we don’t know the names of but I just thought the timing was cool because as we where cutting and setting up i was telling them about your channel Idk I just thought that was cool. An ways always love the vids.

@sarahhanna9241 Год назад

Fantastic beautiful thunder eggs

@tommcstacker4216 Год назад

Thank you for the videos Dan. Because of this channel I now watch Pauly and Gridlessness. Thanks again Dan.

@MelissaMalzahn Год назад

Wow those Thunder Eggs are really cool.

@shinigami666SR Год назад

Would love to become an amateur geologist someday I love collecting stones in finding out the composition of different things it fascinates me doing something can crumble like dust and another thing can contain relics From an age far beyond and yet another can contain things of beauty beyond our comprehension, I really like the way you explain things very concise but not confusing you got my subscription

@gyvren Год назад

I’d take that big geode and make a miniature gold mining scene in the top where the void is. I bet that’d look really cool. 😉👍

@davejack8973 Год назад

@Dan Hurd .... could u use a post hole digger and make a line of holes to knockdown HIGHWALL???

@chiefymoe8385 Год назад

I look forward to every episode,,,, thanks✌️

@josechavez5482 Год назад

Dan Hurd !very COOL 😎

@christhompson4270 Год назад

Wow there beautiful, each one so different. God bless, take care and thank you for sharing 👍🙏❤️

@cptnkaos5994 Год назад

this is going to be another great video

@beachjunkies2378 Год назад

Awesome show's

@stephsexoticpets Год назад

My boyfriend and I love watching you!

@backtoiron Год назад

Been watching you for quite a while now.

@yallhatenatediggity3838 Год назад

Right on brother thanks for the content

@ThySovereignLP Год назад

Every hollow geode is a potential health hazard. Dan be unleashing ancient viruses :D

@Danhurd Год назад

not likely, billions of vugs are opened every year and have been for thousands of years.

@ThySovereignLP Год назад

@@Danhurd we've been Lucky so far!! :D

@tinalaursen8993 Год назад

I don't have a claim but I do go for walks on Fraser river frequently. I find the most beautiful rocks with different patterns and colours. Like mini works of art. I always return from the Fraser mentally refreshed, physically tired, and with yet more rocks. 😂

@sandrakisch3600 Год назад

I had no idea that thunder eggs came from dry banks. I was always told to look on river beds. Thank you for your knowledge. 💌

@janellreno7480 Год назад

Beautiful finds🤗❤️

@triple_A_rockhound Год назад

Very cool t.egg claim Dan interesting spot

@wesstewart7745 Год назад

Love your work. Thanks Dan.

@typicalrockhound9887 Год назад

Beuuty 👌 , didnt at all expect the inside to look like that 😄

@giatomcat8790 Год назад

Whew! I love the safety protocols.

@davidtodd2010 Год назад

Thanks for another amazing video. Your videos are so calming and fun, and the nature is gorgeous, loved the moose.

@scruggsbuster9458 Год назад

Yeah I'd love to go to work in a place like that life having fresh air and water enjoying the wilderness and making money doing it I wish my office look like that but like everybody else that works have to fight your traffic but he makes good videos and I enjoy them just as you do thanks for the comment it was a nice comment I liked it🇨🇦😇🙄🇺🇸😛📹

@TheRealTreasureHunters26 Год назад

Cool find Dan!

@duane2344 Год назад

You have auctions for stuff. I bet you could get paid help on your outings. Love watching and anticipating what you will find. Thanks again, Duane

@TheDevilWAH Год назад

For the first time since watching your videos i looked up Fraser river and dam i did not realise how long it is! in 2024 we are planning to come to canada will be our first visit. we need to stop over in montreal to catch the eclipse but i think i will suggest to the family we get ourselves over to Fraser river. Every time i watch your videos i can't help but think how stunning it looks. I am going to be looking out and listening out for some of the places you mention, hopefully one day i will be lucky enough to experience the same views you do.

@veldasnyder2144 Год назад

I love Thunder Egg hunting!

@jaysonstinson9458 Год назад

great footage of that bull moose running. i got goosebumps seeing how fast that large and powerful animal can move. really awesome stuff!

@randallschrecengoat1671 Год назад

those thunder eggs are a gold mine!!!!

@Timothy-NH Год назад

Wow, just amazing inside.

@davidcarr286 Год назад

Always enjoyable. Thanks Dan.

@melvinroehm821 Год назад

I love the big one with the green jasper in it.never seen that before

@lindareese4579 Год назад

Thank you Dan...

@easternwoods4378 Год назад

Dan there is a satellite based emergency call system. Boaters and pilots and hikers in remote areas use the system. It's the size of your palm . You might want to investigate. Garmin makes one, I know others do too

@joshuajackson6442 Год назад

I see someone misunderstood what thunder eggs really are, the cooking pot in the background says it all!

@johnwilliams8818 Год назад

😁 Maybe Jason from mbmmllc could do a controlled blast to drop that ledge? He seemed to enjoy blasting a few weeks ago at his gold mine 🤣

@Danhurd Год назад

He would need a canadian blasting ticket, and we would need permits, that take years to come in and cost thousands. Unfortunately.

@johnwilliams8818 Год назад

@@Danhurd Well that sucks... Darned government 🤣 Could you tote a jackhammer up there and vibrate it down? 🤪

@lakotakrueger5354 Год назад

Omg so beautiful love the green

@soul_adventurist Год назад

Absolutely gorgeous 🤩🤩

@johnnyyukon7887 Год назад

another great video. always learn something. Thanks Dan

@Intuittogo Год назад

I wanted a piece of the picture stone so bad I could scarcely stand it but some people don't have that kind of money. Glad others were able to get pieces of it. :)

@apexdirtmuppet7593 Год назад

I ordered 2 large un-opened Thundereggs from your website a while ago, they arrived from Canada safely but I have only just recently got around to opening them. The first one was nice, but the second was incredible! My son called it a Galaxy Thunderegg because of the amazing colours running through it. Thank you very much, I will definitely be getting more things from you in the future

@kaylahagan817 Год назад

One of them looked like a landscape with clouds :D

@twodeepupyours508 Год назад

You rock Dan

@mjbartholomew5317 Год назад

Got to love a guy with 6 slab saws!

@MrGordy2630 Год назад

Well Dan you never cease to amaze us with your finds. As allways another great vid.. Thank you for forever showing the right way..in means of being safe and in respecting other claims.. Looking forward to manny more outstanding vids from you Sir.....thank you

@edwardmorley1802 Год назад

those thunder eggs are wicked kool

@karenwiley2889 7 месяцев назад

Amazing. Beautiful

@adamd3319 Год назад

Dan you make such great videos, makes my day when I see a new one online :)

@shaunsmith7019 Год назад

I thoroughly enjoy your videos. There is something calming about them.

@candyontherag8248 Год назад

DIGGER DAN. !!WHOO HOOO FROM CALIFORNIA!!

@Angel-yl1ck Год назад

Pearl is my Birthstone & Agate is another. I love the ones with the brownish/amber color.

@Tommy23_ Год назад

Hello from Australia

@jackkollman9683 Год назад

Amazing green jasper.

@user-xm2dx1gm4k Год назад

Antroid

@janettetippetts7942 Год назад

Oh Boy, did you earn the thumbs up and the subscription! Thank you for sharing the opening of your treasures! My childhood was spent on 'family vacations' so dad could hunt rock, arrowheads, petrified turtle shells, etc all around UT. I guess I caught the rock bug from him. I was in rural Rigby, ID for about a year and would take the dogs out and picked up interesting rocks on the surface of the ground in the field. Many had small streaks or spots of its shiney inside. I dug a hole in the front to plant a bush and pulled out a 2.5"x3.5" egg shaped piece of churt that has a lot of jagged, harder pieces poking out from it. I also dug a hole in the backyard to plant a tree for the homeowner and found it was just layers and layers of those rounded river rocks with a minimal amount of dirt between the rocks! LOL Lucky for me that my daughter that I live with - her hubby has a saw that he uses to cut the geodes they have gotten from a 'rock farm' in south central OR. I just need to show me how to use his saw, then have the courage to actually do it. He's a really busy family wage earner and doesn't have much time to do things like this anymore. ANYWAY, Thank you for sharing your passion! What fun!