Walnut hulls dye and wax today
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10/16/21 09:54 PM
10/16/21 09:54 PM
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Half bucket of walnuts and hulls, boiled for about an hour over wood fire, did nice dark dye job. Used my old smart cooker to melt wax and waxed the traps. Worked great. Ready to rock and roll! Organizing everything... Smart cooker and wax... Simmering some traps... Individual traps after dye and waxed.... Vic #3s dyed and before wax... Vic #3 after wax... Bridger 1.65... Montana #2 with step down pit pan... MB 550... Duke 160s cabled to stabilizers, dyed and not waxed. Bridger #3 dyed and waxed.
Last edited by jabNE; 10/17/21 06:28 AM.
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Re: Walnut hulls dye and wax today
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10/17/21 06:27 AM
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Not sure how many walnut I used. I didn't crush them or anything just picked half a five gallon bucket off ground from couple local trees and put whole thing in hull and all. When I poured off the pan at end of the day after it cooled, the dye water and walnut gunk remaining was pitch black. The smart cooker for waxing is slow, it takes awhile to heat up a full cooker of wax but it holds the temp nicely at liquid point with no flame. Just have to plan ahead and plug it in and set temp and time a couple hours ahead of when you are firing up the dye fire. Does a nice job just leave the traps in until same temp as the wax and they come out perfectly every time. When done just let it cool back to solid state and lock the lid back on...put it up on shelf again until next fall. Pretty simple. Now i just have to remove wax from trigger points on dogs and pan notches and im ready to rock and roll. Planning to start around Thanksgiving. Jim
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Re: Walnut hulls dye and wax today
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10/17/21 06:46 AM
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How many traps did you do? They look pretty good, I would have thought you would need more walnuts than a half of a 5 gallon bucket.
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Re: Walnut hulls dye and wax today
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10/17/21 06:51 AM
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I dyed 200 traps yesterday with just that half bucket. The dye got darker as I went.
Mine tops out around 200 degrees, I set it at 176 at and it worked great. Put setting to warm and ran it all day at that temp safely.
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