Re: Looks like a good walnut drop this year
[Re: charles]
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07/22/21 10:16 PM
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Hate to say it, but go buy the walnuts. Cleaning Black Walnuts and getting the meat out is time consuming and a "cracker" can be expensive. I used to scoop up 1000+, spread them in a gravel driveway and run over them to shed the hull. Messy and Walnut stain is hard to get out of anything like shoes if you walk across them . . . especially if they're wet or it rains. :-(
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Re: Looks like a good walnut drop this year
[Re: Paul Dobbins]
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07/22/21 10:29 PM
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I recall when I was a kid, dad had a 56 chevy. He'd jack up one back wheel about an inch or so off the ground, chock the front tires, start the engine, put the transmission in first gear (Standard tranny) and feed the walnuts under the tire as it spun. The hulls would fly off and make a mess, but it made simple work of hulling a bunch of black walnuts. That would make a mess flyin' everywhere! HA!
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Re: Looks like a good walnut drop this year
[Re: Paul Dobbins]
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07/22/21 10:35 PM
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I recall when I was a kid, dad had a 56 chevy. He'd jack up one back wheel about an inch or so off the ground, chock the front tires, start the engine, put the transmission in first gear (Standard tranny) and feed the walnuts under the tire as it spun. The hulls would fly off and make a mess, but it made simple work of hulling a bunch of black walnuts. Cool, some are falling already seems early? Not many in my country now. But s.d. was a bunch I us to boil traps in them. Like the old Chevy story.
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Re: Looks like a good walnut drop this year
[Re: charles]
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07/22/21 10:41 PM
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I have the Hunt's Black Walnut Cracker.
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Re: Looks like a good walnut drop this year
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07/22/21 10:48 PM
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I have the Hunt's Black Walnut Cracker. They look like a nice machine. How do you like it? Keith It's a quality machine but as with all of them, it's a time consuming process. As I recall, back then, I paid $$89.00 (?) for it. :-)
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Re: Looks like a good walnut drop this year
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07/23/21 07:50 AM
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I only have a few walnut trees but they are pretty full
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Re: Looks like a good walnut drop this year
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07/23/21 07:58 AM
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I like to mess with nuts. Not interested in buying nuts. I got a decent walnut cracker.
Last edited by run; 07/23/21 07:59 AM.
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Re: Looks like a good walnut drop this year
[Re: charles]
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07/23/21 08:04 AM
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We have a big Black Walnut tree in the yard along with about 4 other trees. I hate it when there is a good yield as I am the one that has to pick them up to mow the grass. The big tree will yield about 10 cart loads of walnuts for me to haul away. At 76 years old it is back breaking work for me. We use very few of them, I have put signs out saying free walnuts and hardly ever get any takers. They are big meaty walnuts I wish I could get someone to pick them up for me.
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Re: Looks like a good walnut drop this year
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07/23/21 08:40 AM
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I have used the hauls to dye traps many times. I fill a 5 gallon bucket with walnuts and then dump them on the ground and run over them with my garden tractor, I then scoop them up and put them in the bucket and fill the bucket with traps and water and let it soak for a few days, maybe as many as 6 or 7 days, they get nice and black. I only do that when I have a few traps to do.
I got myself a seniors' GPS. Not only does it tell me how to get to my destination, it tells me why I wanted to go there.
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Re: Looks like a good walnut drop this year
[Re: charles]
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07/23/21 09:08 AM
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I use this. The kids love to roll it around and gather the walnuts. Saves a lot of back bending. :-) Well worth the cost! BY GARDEN WEASEL Weasel Lg Nut Gatherer
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Re: Looks like a good walnut drop this year
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07/23/21 11:44 AM
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I recall when I was a kid, dad had a 56 chevy. He'd jack up one back wheel about an inch or so off the ground, chock the front tires, start the engine, put the transmission in first gear (Standard tranny) and feed the walnuts under the tire as it spun. The hulls would fly off and make a mess, but it made simple work of hulling a bunch of black walnuts. That is great it sounds like something my grandpa would have done if he had thought of it or saw you and your dad. If anyone ever made even a minor comment on some of his "hillbilly engineering" feats he would always smile and say "Poor people have poor ways".
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