 Hello and welcome once again to the rugged rockhound today. I'm once again back at the Nephi Petrified Palmwood area This area is a great area. It's a new year and we did have some heavy rainfall about a week and a half ago So we are hoping that we can find some good stuff that's been revealed So I was taking a look here That one time I was here that I found that big piece. It was right here and it looks like since then some people have been digging Seeing if they can find any more of that wood Hopefully they found some good stuff We're gonna go ahead and move. I'm gonna head over this way This is where we're finding the colorful pieces of wood and it looks like that it's been trampled a lot By some cattle that have come through here. So maybe they've overturned some stuff for us and as always I'm always gonna give you the GPS of where we're at so that you guys if you want to come out and find some stuff You can come here too and Tim wants to show me that he maybe found some wood already and sure enough he did look at that Nice little piece of wood right here Um, yep, it's got the pores in it. It's definitely some palm wood You probably won't be able to see that very well on the camera. So we'll give you a close-up later of it But yeah, Tim's already found a piece of petrified palm wood Let's get at it. Let's go find some wood. Hopefully some colorful wood. I really hoping yeah Last time I was here. This is where I was digging We dug this area a bit and this is where you found those nicer pieces right in through here But look at what has happened since we have been here Look at all of this somebody tore this place up Goodness somebody really went to town up here Probably found some good stuff moving this much dirt well We're going to kind of set up our base of operations right through here And we will dig as well as like go explore. I want to explore some more over there But you know just anywhere just see what the rain has washed off a little lizard here joining us What'd you find Tim? Red It's wood It is wood. Yeah, you got the light lines of lines of wood right there Oh Oh good piece Tim. It is wood nice find. Let me spray it off really quick So as I was spraying this off Tim found another one. Let me bring him out here in the sunlight Where we can actually see them and enjoy them. Look at that beautiful That's a nice piece of wood right there Not the palm wood. This will be the kind of the oak wood Then we had another beautiful piece right here Very good Well done Tim. We're in the zone Looks like a piece A little piece of wood It's like Tim got a small piece of wood again Very dirty. Yes, it's very yeah, you can see light coming through it Yeah, there you go Yep, there's another little piece of wood We'll get that cleaned off later Found my first piece finally Yeah darker piece I found half of it the little pieces He found a few little black chips And found out that they were coming from the tip of it that counts Yay found another little piece Don't know how well you can see that it is very dirty Tried to spray it off, but these are very dirty pieces. We'll get them home So we didn't find anything for quite a while We've been digging a lot. One thing we've noticed is there's this greenish ash layer And then there's the white there on bottom and most of the wood that we find is between those These little pieces they tend to be in between those so we're going down about That's about six seven inches about six inches at least where I'm at and that's about where I'm finding it so I've been Looking around right here. So we've been digging over there and decided to come over here to take a break from digging Because we weren't finding a whole lot for a while And we got some pieces here. There's some old pits here. I've been here before And we were thinking of maybe coming in here and digging through this What'd you find? It's on the other side Oh look at that Oh, there's some nice wood so it's white on the outside and black in the middle. That's pretty cool That's a fun little piece of wood I like it. I like it too Okay, we'll look some more around here. Let's see if we can see anything Catch the rod That looks like some wood It is Once again a piece of wood that's been out sitting for a while So in this spot, I've been finding a bunch of little shards of opalized wood And then I found this nice piece of wood all in this little zone right here and I just saw it here. Let me see if I can find it again Just saw it. Where did it go? Dang it. I lost it already Uh right here There's a little piece. There's a bigger one though. Where did it go? I just saw it It was right in here Why can't I see it now? I moved that stick because it was right next to it It was right in here somewhere Where did it go? gosh dang it How did I miss it? How can I not see it now? So you got these little shards of opal everywhere. It was right in here somewhere. Where did it go? There it is. That's it. Oh, yeah That's what I saw. Ooh, look at that because it broke off of this because I grabbed that Looks like we've got some opalized wood here. Oh, there's another piece No, this is my spot. I found it. Oh Here's some more pieces Good good good. That's the only spot. I kind of want a piece Right through here Right in this So just in this that's got to be like one Particular that's a piece too right there. You know what I mean? Yeah, it's coming out right in here somewhere So at the base of this tree I found a few nice little pieces Tim however says he found something nice down at this tree We'll go see. Oh I guess that's nice. Oh, we don't know Looks nice and you haven't even picked it out. Oh my goodness. Look at that I haven't even picked it up yet. There's a nice piece of wood That's a good sized piece of wood Yeah nice Too bad it's so fractured, but that's because it's been out Probably sitting on the surface of the ground for who knows how long Nobody's ever seen it That's the biggest piece today so far See something pretty right here That looks like it's probably some wood It is nice Ready to come out of Might be right through here We came back into the tree area Tim's been finding some little pieces here. Yeah, I found this one right here That brown Yeah, can you spray that for me? That's kind of like the piece I found. Oh good Where it's like dark in the middle and then light on the outside Yeah, it is. Look at that That's a nice piece There's more here then Tim's got a good spot Tim says he found a good one Let us see what he found Oh, look at that thing. Oh, that's beautiful. Oh, that is so nice Good find Found me a piece in this area That's pretty nice. Is that another one? No, that's just agate Find a piece we got here So these are the stick So it might be the very edge of wood. Yeah, looks like you've got the edge of some wood right there. Yeah Interesting And we're back from the petrified wood near Nephi. I just got everything cleaned off. It's right over here Let's go ahead and take a closer look at all these pieces. We got some pretty nice stuff Here we go. Let's take a look at the first piece So this looks like it's more of that oak wood And I love how it had this darker spot right in the middle That's kind of cool This one was a bit strange It's very dark Hard to see any of the patterns in it. You do have some of this agate going through it But yeah, you can see it's wood It's got the wood texture on it So it's a very interesting dark one This one was a little broken piece Had some red lines going through it But she seems some of the nice textures patterns going through it right there Too bad. It was just white and colorless mostly But it does have some red here This one wasn't too bad. It's kind of nice It's got some agate here and there going through it See the nice wood pattern on it The interior is pretty nice too. This is probably the best side to look at it from So yeah, this is kind of the best side to look at it from right in there Now we're getting into some of the better looking stuff This was a nice brown Probably oak type wood I'm just saying oak wood because that's kind of what it's Most closely resembles to today's plants trees This little piece It's really nice from this side So Yep more of that oak type wood Still a very nice piece. I love the lines in it right there This piece is a little bit more colorful, isn't it? I love this little zigzag of red it does across the top there And it looks nice all around So yeah, this was a very nice piece Now this is a piece I wish I would have found a big piece of Look at that That is beautiful The lines the colors going through it It's just a nice piece This is a really neat piece While the inside isn't all that great The outside is really cool The beautiful knotted wood texture going through it there Just neat So here's another piece of palm wood You can see the black pores Well they were replaced with a black Black casted ony Quartz type thing so Yeah, you can tell that was palm wood So yeah, nice little piece of palm wood This was my favorite piece of palm wood that we found Once again, you can see the little pores in it A little nice color But the reason I really like it is look it must have been the outer edge of it because Look at that. That's kind of that Bark like texture you get on the outside of palm trees well So you've got the palm tree itself and then you've got the layer of the Where it connects with its Bark basically and its bark would have been out here probably But look at that. Isn't that a cool texture? And here it is the pride and joy the best piece we found And once again tim is the one who found this one So this is the winning piece the best piece So Well done tim But yeah from this side look at that the colors the lines It's just beautiful and it's a good size too Even the outside looks really cool And there you have it There's the wood we found on this trip some good pieces Just to goes to show that even a place that is well known and has been dug for a long time Can still produce good stuff if you're willing to Search a bit and maybe dig a bit So if you're ever if you're going out there that spot we're digging it has been dug a lot But if you can kind of search around for where maybe it hasn't been dug as much dig down a little bit You should be able to find a few things But maybe the best thing to do is to start exploring further away There might be some good pieces of wood In a deposit that hasn't quite been found yet out in that area. I don't know worth looking for right So I hope you enjoyed I don't know when we'll get back out there We're probably done with that spot for a while because I really want to get out to some new places for you guys So let's get working on that. All right until next time. There's treasure everywhere