Hello and welcome to the Rugged Rockdown today. I'm actually again at the Nephi Palmwood. I wasn't really planning on coming here Again this year, but dug out here. He's never found a piece of the palm wood out here So we're gonna see if we can't find a palm piece for him today So because those are harder to find usually when you come out here you find the oak wood which I've got lots of And I would like more palm wood, so we'll see if we can find some more of that. So here we go You found something? Some nice agate jaspers Just with a nice color they got the reds and stuff So Tim just found some jaspers. I want to take a look closer look at this one. Okay, that one's Just kind of an okay jasper so probably don't keep that one, but this one looked a little nicer this had some agate I think Yeah, I like the coloring that one So Tim found this see how it's got a nice color in it It's a thin band in there, but it's a nice color So now if you can find some wood with that color Here's my first piece of petrified wood for the day not very good Yeah, that's not a very good piece, but at least it's a piece Tim said he just found a little piece of palm wood there it is You can see the little pores in it. Well done Tim first piece of poem. Oh, there's a piece of wood right there. Yep, so that palm That's what I was looking at next. Nope, that's not palm. Oh wait. No, it is It's got the pores in it. Yeah, so Tim's found a spot where we've got a few pieces of palm We want to come over here Doug Here's this piece of palm wood cleaned off That Nice I'm not a little piece of wood right here Nice Not sure if that's palm it looks like oak that was probably a piece of the oak wood a tiny little shard right there Once again oak Here's this piece of wood cleaned off Too bad Doug here's found his first good piece of wood some nice oak wood. I like how it's dark in the middle and white on the outside But he's hoping for the palm still it's a cool piece. Thanks Okay, we were walking back dugs up here, and I think I just found a big piece of oak wood Small here and a big one there Tim's grabbing the big one. Definitely oak. Oh Look at that chunk. That's definitely wood I'm gonna say that's probably oak. Where's your spray bottle right in my pack? Can you grab that? Oh Boy, this is this this is the second biggest piece I've ever found out here Just brush it off. Hopefully it's got some good color for the end But probably is gonna be similar to that last one number of blacks and lights the oak. Yeah, yeah, yeah I'm pretty sure it's so wait a second. Oh my gosh. This might be a chunk of palm Oh, if that is it's the biggest chunk of palm we've ever found We're gonna get home and really see though There we go. That's what I want to see that is palm that's palm wood palm wood confirmed Take a look at that you can see the holes going into it. What a fine Tim And that's down from where I thought we'd find any because I think most of it's up there. Oh Man Tim. Oh, man. Well, I'm taking a home Well, I know, but like do we search here a little bit? What do we do Tim? I think we should search here a little bit What do you think and here is this piece cleaned off the biggest piece of palm what I've ever found and This is a smaller piece that I found next to it and Tim found it even smaller piece a little further off from it But let's take a look at the main one really quick Look at this You can definitely see the pores in it for the poem It's called xylem These large circles where it used to draw water When it was a tree instead of a rock You can see it kind of all going through that It's got a fracture here. So I'm gonna have to try and glue that or stabilize it somehow Here's the bottom of it. It looks like it might have been part of the root system But it is awesome Like I said largest piece of palm would I have ever found personally? So this is that area we found that open with the other time and found this nice little piece of it right here It's not all this is kind of yeah, I don't know if I care about it more much I think is this a piece of wood Oh, it might be I Just dropped the other one is that not a piece of wood It is I think you're all pieces of the same thing. It's got the same color. Yeah So a few pieces of wood then This is where we're finding all those oval shards, too, so yeah Here's this piece of wood cleaned off It's a nice color right there I need to get this stuff off it's like a calcite So it was right in here somewhere I think it was right there actually Look what that empty spot is So I found this piece right here of looks like opalized wood I can see some texture in there. This is definitely opal It looks like we're getting some opalized wood in this in this area, too Here's this piece of wood cleaned off is actually opalized Snake With that again Well done dog you found a big piece of wood here in the tree area Question is whether it's polymer oak I Can't tell from the outside and the ends are crusty they got you're not gonna you got to see the center That's where it's gonna show you might be when I need to cut Look at real close See if we can see any of those pores in it usually I'll break a corner off but I Hate to break a corner off of a piece like this really good almost looks like blue forest Wood It's not I know but There's that could possibly be a poem Possibly One one cut on my saw and it will It's the biggest piece of wood I've found in if I so it's a good piece of wood that's a good size yeah It is not palm But I will cut it and then we'll be able to see the cross section. It's got some color in it. That's that's the oak That's definitely some color in it. It's definitely got color in it But that's that's a good piece and I'm gonna keep digging right where I'm at but as far as I can tell it looks like the oak Yeah, so dug over there for another little piece in this area and then Tim Continued my spot. I would I want to check another spot and sure enough. That's a nice piece right there No, you can see the you can see some of the circle of Yeah, that's the center of it right there. That's really cool definitely oak wood though. Yep Good piece though. Here's this piece of wood cleaned off This piece that Tim found was absolutely beautiful You can see the rings right there It's a nice piece How well you're seeing the colors lighting isn't the best right now Sorry, I have the Mac relains on so that's the area where we dig normally is over there I decided to hike all the way over here doing some exploration Got this unit here look what I found in it Kind of like a little geotype thing Here's this piece of wood cleaned off Like the pattern on it Here's this piece of wood cleaned off Nice And that's it for today's episode hope you enjoyed it was exciting finding my largest piece of Plum wood I've ever found out here and it's the second largest piece period that I've found out here What a great day. You've seen it all washed off. I haven't yet. It's probably gonna be amazing and I don't know if I'll get back out here. This might be my last trip. I've got lots of stuff from here It is kind of hard to find you spend a lot of time searching and I want to go explore new areas So until next time remember there's treasure everywhere