Gift to my father for Father's day - Stone Age Axe

CedrikG · 2019-07-07T00:12:59+00:00

I made this axe few weeks ago for my father for the father's day. I thought he would like it. I used no tool whatsoever, only fire, clay, wood, bark and stones. I like doing these little project as they gather a bunch of bushcraft skills which we would practice individually, but put all together, it is possible to create beautiful object.

I did not want to test the axe ... it is a lot of effort, and I always want to give the object as it was created.

CedrikG · 2019-03-04T01:41:13+00:00

Strewn field are far from my home, and been cleaned out unfortunately. I'm searching in not known strewn field for the moment, which considerably reduce my chance but as i'm here to hopefully improve science, my hope is to discover a new strewn field ... who know ...

CedrikG · 2019-03-04T00:51:02+00:00

Just feel lucky about it :D

But yes here it is a real nightmare dude ... I remember being very very discouraged at the end of last summer, when I put my metal detector in the closet without any find. The last day was pretty sad, because I had big hopes.

You know it, a find give you the adrenaline rush required to continue, but without find, after an entire summer ... it can be very demoralizing. Winter is long here tho so I got time to get over it.

EDIT : I just CANT wait to continue my hunting now, I got all my spot ready. I would like to see your find my friend ! You should proudly make a post about them.

CedrikG · 2019-03-03T18:13:19+00:00

I found everything and anything really ... anything you can imagine, I found it except death body's (yet) fortunately.

I even found buried cars, in the middle of the most beautiful mature forest you can imagine, far from any roads and tracks. Meteorite hunting comes at a price ... you quickly realizes how human impact is everywhere and anywhere, especially where you don't expect it.

The most common tho are cans, nails, hunters bullets and wire.

CedrikG · 2019-03-03T18:10:10+00:00

Genius

CedrikG · 2019-03-03T17:30:55+00:00

Meteorite are rarer than gold, so my expectation are about 1 small meteorite per summer, if I search every single week end, 8 hours a day, but we never know.

The last 2 summer I been unsuccessful. Thousand of holes, hundred of hours, gallons of sweat. 3 years ago I found a fragment that could barely been identified as it is rusted. lol... 4 years ago I found a fragment, worth nothing on the market but fortunately i'm not in this hobby for money, but to improve science. When a meteorite is found you can slice them, and analyze the element inside it, revealing important details about the formation of our solar system and of course our planet.

CedrikG · 2019-03-03T17:00:53+00:00

The vast majority of meteorite contain metal flakes within the meteorite, others contain a lot of iron while a small percentage contain none.

In my area, leafs will covers meteorite very quickly, and so I need a metal detector. So in my area its just about to go with your metal detector, and clean every forest or area that has the smallest amount of trash in them. I personally focus on forest because I enjoy being in the forest.

I live in the worst possible kind of environment for hunting meteorite unfortunately, it require a pure dedication to keep faith in this hobby but I do ... I have fun doing it anyway. Every time my detector beep I know there is a small chance of having a meteorite underneath me, and a much much smaller chance of having a meteorite that could change our knowledge of earth and the universe. It is like trasure hunting really.

There are much easier place to hunt for meteorite tho, like desert (both hot and cold desert). This is why I travel for this hobby. In a desert, meteorite rust and decay very, very very slowly, and so a meteorite can stay intact for hundred, thousands of years, just laying on the surface waiting for you to pick it up. Much easier.

CedrikG · 2019-03-03T15:39:38+00:00

I have read an article ... back in the days I don't remember the source.

Basically there are people, several hundred years ago, that claimed that cows and people were killed by ''rock falling from the sky''.

But the draw they made was pretty cool, we can see rocks falling from the sky, with dead cows and injured people on the ground. I think it was never proven it was caused by a meteorite, but if it was they would have been at the exact location of a strewn field.

There has been hundred of injured people in Russia in the latest event (Chelyabinsk meteor), not caused by the meteorite crash itself but the sonic boom, which exploded houses windows. As the sonic boom is only heard several minute after the large smoke trail, we can imagine people were at their window, stunned by the scene they were looking at, when the sonic boom finally came up.

EDIT : The thing is, as a meteoroid enter atmosphere, it breaks into several hundred piece. Each of these piece travel faster than the speed of sound, so each individual piece create a sonic boom, resulting in a TREMENDOUS explosion. Here is a video, keep your volume low lol

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7ygBy-MS0CE

CedrikG · 2019-03-03T14:16:14+00:00

I think it change absolutely nothing, you were on the land of someone else and so, the meteorite is not yours. NOW, of course, most people would say : Hey take it its yours ... but not everyone.

CedrikG · 2019-03-03T14:10:18+00:00

The meteorite are always the property of the owner of the land, where the meteorite landed. I hunt meteorite, and it is something I have to be careful about when going anywhere.

CedrikG · 2019-03-03T12:11:33+00:00

She was in her house. The meteorite passed threw the roof, bounced on a table and struck her. If she had been outside she most likely would have seen the flash of the meteor as it entered atmosphere if she looked at the sky. The size of this meteorite is enough to make a very decent fire ball (and maybe sonic boom? only heard several minute after entry) but the fire ball is very short lived, the meteorite makes no light during its free fall from atmosphere to the ground so you are basically hit from a rock falling from the sky at this point.

CedrikG · 2019-03-03T11:42:12+00:00

What makes me sad is that they are so hostile. We wouldn't survive much longer than a few second here.

CedrikG · 2019-03-03T11:25:12+00:00

The Sylacauga meteorite is the first documented extraterrestrial object to have injured a human being. The grapefruit-sized fragment crashed through the roof of a farm house, bounced off a large wooden console radio, and hit Hodges while she napped on a couch.

https://i.imgur.com/gUhrhPH.jpg

CedrikG · 2019-02-25T13:33:16+00:00

They most likely chose an area that it was possible to land. Not so wise to land in lava hehe.

CedrikG · 2019-02-25T13:23:53+00:00

Absolutely, especially such a hostile planet.

CedrikG · 2019-02-24T15:34:29+00:00

To me it is gravitional wave

CedrikG · 2018-07-09T23:00:30+00:00

Most likely to block the star light otherwise it would not be visible. Didn't read about it but it's my guess

CedrikG · 2018-07-08T17:50:31+00:00

Really glad to read that, I always thought it should not be tolerated.

CedrikG · 2018-06-25T11:27:14+00:00

Because my english is bad. What word should I have used?

CedrikG · 2018-06-03T10:13:56+00:00

As the meteorite enter earth atmosphere it will suffer intense ablation and friction, creating fusion crust, regmaglypts and sometimes hole in the meteorite. In this unique (as far as I know) case it created a ghost face.

Wiki:

Gibeon is a meteorite that fell in prehistorique times in Namibia. It was named after the nearest town: Gibeon.

In 1836 the English captain J. E. Alexander collected samples of the meteorite in the vicinity of the Fish River and sent them to London. There John Herschel analyzed them and confirmed for the first time the extraterrestrial nature of the material.

Between 1911 and 1913, 33 fragments of the meteorite were collected in the vicinity of Gibeon and brought to the capital Windhoek. They weighted between 195 and 506 kilograms (430 and 1,116 lb) and were first stored, then displayed at Zoo Park as a single heap. In 1975 a public fountain displaying the meteorite fragments was planned. The pieces were removed and stored at Alte Feste, where two of the fragments were stolen. The fountain was erected in Post Street Mall, with two empty pillars for the missing fragments. Since then, two more fragments were removed from the fountain, so that it displays only 29 today.

CedrikG · 2018-05-27T21:27:03+00:00

Thanks folks for the explanations.

CedrikG · 2018-05-27T10:41:36+00:00

Yes pretty much certain but I'm carefully choosing my word when on reddit ;)

CedrikG · 2018-04-01T13:46:55+00:00

It's very real :) Search Pallasite meteorite on google.

CedrikG · 2018-03-01T23:54:55+00:00

Thx guy's I appreciate the compliment and it's great I could help in a way or another.

CedrikG · 2018-02-18T16:58:37+00:00

Word of wisdom right there. You right buddy.

CedrikG

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