My channel members are the best and I try to give back to them as much as possible. Last week I had some of them out to my property to collect clay and minerals, also they get bonus videos, for example some of them got a long version of this video with outtakes two weeks ago. To become a channel member follow this link kzfaq.infojoin

no day exploring is wasted

Andy is so cool. I always look crazy to my family when harvesting clay but it's really awesome

I've been collecting clay because of you. Not sure if I will ever make anything, but it give me new appreciation of the earth. I enjoyed watching your hunt this morning.

Am I the only one who comes here for both the content AND the great music? Andy, I think you have an untapped talent as a music programmer! 😊

Damn potters stealing my bags of clay, it's a real menace.

Thank you for teaching us so much. We absolutely love this channel!

Thanks for taking us along! I’m heading back to the rim soon in search of yellow clay slip for my St. John’s project.

That reminds me of the Zuni Mountains,.. San Rafael Mesa particularly, and I remember red buttery clay there as well. I have been meaning to make it back there! Thanks for reminding me Andy! Enjoy!

Found a lightgrey very clean clay in a slade Area, but need to test it in firing.

👍 Grandios landscape there in your areas! The colors are so bright and beautiful!

Joules says that Andy is the best, and she should know because she's the best, too.

On occasion when I am out exploring and need to pin point an exact location, I use the technique learned while a Boy Scout is to take compass readings of mountain peaks or other geological points. Then when I return to the area, I walk the line towards one of the points identified earlier until I find the spot (X marks the spot, walking the two lines that make the X). To practice this, try it when you find a USDA Bench Mark. It is a skill that comes in handy when you find various interesting sites/spots when exploring and wish to return to the exact spot I have hidden many 'Treasures' for my family to find this way. Thanks for sharing.

great adventure!

Your ability to frame a shot, and edit the flow of your content, and add great music in the mix of it all is superb! I absolutely love your content

Clay hunting is half the fun. Any reason to be out there hiking around looking is a great day. Thanks Andy. Another great video.

I didn’t realize how special the successful firing was of that clay body during the gathering. Impressive work and thank you.

That was a lovely area. thx for doing this, filming it and sharing it with us.

Looks like fun! Glad you got to get out and have some fun hiking!

The white mineral might be diatomite or kaolanite

Wow, wild western clay is so much more different from our wild northeastern clay! Ours is very, very wet and compacted.

Looks like petrified wood to me (the nice weird stone). The clays that you found there seem to be primary clays from the weathering of the rock itself. Did it have a lot of grit in it?

Civilian GPS has a slop factor built added into the results to lessen its utility for targetting.

I want to attend your next class/ camp out!

Thanks for sharing! Love you Brother!

Your videos inspired me to go out and harvest some wild clay from a local creek. I wet processed some clay rich dirt and dug up some exposed clay. It was literally crumbling off the exposed surface. I didn't even realize it was clay until I noticed that the "rock" I was standing on while settling the wet batch turned to mud on my shoes! I am planning on firing in a charcoal BBQ hopefully this weekend if I can figure out what I want to make. The dry clay is a light tan color and the wet clay has a deeper gray color to it. I wonder how they'll fire!! Have you experimented any more with the BBQ firing method? I read an article that left the lid cracked and maybe had a fan blowing and it worked nicely for firing. This is the only firing method available to me currently besides buying an electric kiln. I have to say, I wasn't expecting to have so much fun with dirt! The exploring, the processing, and now the creating and firing! Plenty of exercise and fun so far.

Im 99% sure that this stone is red calcite it's probably best possible material to use as a grog. In my country people from Zlakusa village making hundreds of years traditional unglazed pottery named " zlakusa" for cooking on open flames and they use mixture of 50% clay and 50% ground calcite rocks. In old times they placed clacite rocks over pile of wood to smash it to smaller pieces using fire then continue grinding using hand tools all day.

I usually get my clay out in the mountains and use the levigation technique shown in the Mata Ortiz video to refine my clay. Then I add about 20% sand

I've made like atleast 10 pounds of clay since ive found you, most of it is only used for making sling bullets like the romans did but i love your videos

I have just found your channel today and I absolutely love it. Great videos and a great vibe. A big thumbs up and a new sub ❤

By my experience mountains is best places to looking for clay especially small and medium mountains 300-800m hight

Enjoyed !

Great outting video...... Love to see them

Thank you Andy. Im in the east Tennessee mountains amd pretty much only find red clay around here.

I'd grab some clay with the 🐮pies mixed in for "extra" temper for my cousin who's always trying to prank me 🤣 and tell her later on

I need to go to West Virginia because the clay there might be good. Literally is peanut butter during the rainy season. Truck would get stuck without fail.

I love what you do.❤

Seek, and ye shall find. 😄👍

Andy thinking about Pot holes.😁🤔😂

I’ve been to that area many years ago hunting. Watched the video yesterday so paid attention looking for possible clay on our trip through Gardner and Fish canyon across the valley today. Will take some bags next trip and collect some sample and have a go at it. Thank you for the inspiration.

I’m rather familiar with Elgin. Not too far from Fort Huachuca

Great video and tip about gps on camera!

G'day from down under Andy. I'm excited to share that from no experience, your vids have guided me to harvest my wild clay and even produce a few pieces. I'm wondering if you have covered decomposed granite, or have any thoughts about it, as I have unlimited quantities of it. And if it's ok to ask, I'd love your thoughts on mines characteristics. It low fires to a caramel shade of terracotta + burnishes and blackens really nicely in reduction. It's soft and workable, but reaches it's plasticity limits early. I've only used the sands it came with (mostly mica and quartz) as temper so far. To form any complex shapes I end up having to run wet hands or tools over the surface to smooth little cracks. And when fired, the surface comes up like a tiny dried out clay lake bed with 1/4 inch plates.. Not uninteresting, but potentially limited application. Anyway, thanks heaps for the video's. Edit> I meant to suggest a car stereo speaker magnet on a string for finding wild iron.

Have you considered traveling to different parts of the US to test out different clays?

That white stuff that you said you wasn't sure about what it was, it look like it could me chalk, maybe?

Andy I’ve been collecting a good batch of clay recently. What’s the best way to store clay? Dry, wet or perchance some other way?

Seniman tembikar terbaik,cara membuat nya sangat bagus

Hi Andy! thanks for the videos. they are very educational. I was wondering how to make a pizza stone about 24" round and 1" thick. could you please do a video?

Keep an eye out, Jaguars have been seen in the mountains south of Tucson and you might see one. Earlier this year, just about 30 miles south of where this video was take a young male was spotted. 🐱 👀

Have you ever heard of oregon blue clay? Well i just so happened to have found a large amount it while floating down a river in my raft.. it was so vibrant of a blue i had to dive down to see what it was and it turned out to be clay! I managed to get some up but now I'm not sure what to do with it. Any suggestion? Would you like a sample?

I recently was gifted a big chunk of red clay. It was bought from a store and yet it has a bunch of tiny rocks in it that make it impossible to use because it crumbles. I plan on mixing it with water and then sifting it through a window pane but I wonder if I need to add temper to it? Since it came from a store I assume it already has it (?)

May I ask you, what are you using for temper? My last pot I got the temper out of the stream that I got the clay out of. It seemed to work, I've noticed in the ancient pot sherds I've seen that it was more coarse than what I used.

Where did you get your dry clay grinder?

I tried making a few pots using hobby lobby clay mixed with sand like in your video. I didn’t use the same firing method, they didn’t get the white color like yours and when filled with water they disintegrated. Did I not get it hot enough, not enough sand or both?

Just curious. How do they find kaolin for ceramic in East Asian countries? Is ceramic impossible to make for no kiln backyard pottery?

Hello I'm in Dallas tx, and it's hard for me to get some clay here, is there any kind of way if possible that you could ship me some?

The pipes and drinkers are for the cows Andy, see all the cow manure!?

Quick question: I notice you have somewhat eclectic tastes in background music. I have yet to hear anything from "The Red Clay Ramblers". Seems like a match made in heaven. Are you not a fan?

I have a question, I found a clay that is plastic and easy to work with. But every time I fire a pot it starts to crack late into the firing, and the fired pieces come out very brittle. Is this an error on my end or should I find another source?

oh good, 3 scoops of clay to 1 tempur in the last video. . . Yeah, I got that. But then in this video. . . you say "I used 30% and it worked great! In the last video my clay suffered a catastrophic explosion! So don't use 20%!" no scoopage man! So Andy, in terms of scoops for us less edumacated folk. . . what would that be? like 2 to 1? or would that be 90?

nice hat.