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Not a whole bunch just 2 each 5 gal buckets full. Would be enough the make some beads and cookies. 👍
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Good deal! If you have a hand corn sheller, that is a good way to take the hulls off.
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Squirrels got every one of my Black Walnuts.
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No I don't have any specific tools. I put on some durable rubber gloves, I step on them to soften em up. Then I pick them up one by one and shuck the husk off. I them put em in a bucket with warm water and use my paint mixing wand on the drill and give them a good cleaning.
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I'm still eating the black walnuts I collected last year. Couldn't even guess how many buckets I picked up. Yard WAGONS full. I don't sell them.
I fill up the yard cart and only pick up the BIGGER ones any more. Those little ones don't yield enough to be worth the effort. When the cart is full I drive it over to the drive way and dump/spread them out up the gravel driveway and everyone runs over them coming and going. No special effort. About every day I'll put on work boots or barn boots and walk down the drive way kicking walnuts that still have a little hull left and picking all the rest up with the basket type pick up tool I use to collect them in the grass with the hull on.
Dump them in 5 gallon buckets and carry them to the bench on my bridge. Once I have a couple buckets with just the nuts in them, I'll take two of those Dollar Store wire waste baskets I've wired together to look sort of like a minnow trap and fill it up from the bucket. Just sorting a little on the way and throwing the worst 5 - 10 percent off the bridge. If they get loose the dog will grab them and crack them to eat, him self with his jaws.
You close those two wire baskets, top to top, and put another wire twisting it shut and I Hang those on a tree limb with 3 or 4 feet of fence wire from a chain link fence and that is how I store them. Let the rain do the washing for you right through the wire basket. If you want some just got out and take down a basket I'll sit on the bridge and crack them with a hammer and eat them the rest of the year. Looks like TWO years worth this year.
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No I don't have any specific tools. I put on some durable rubber gloves, I step on them to soften em up. Then I pick them up one by one and shuck the husk off. I them put em in a bucket with warm water and use my paint mixing wand on the drill and give them a good cleaning. Sounds like a good idea. I never heard of that method.
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There are tons of black walnuts around here. Too many trees to count.
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If they float in water, throw them out! They’re no good.
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Crows drop them onto country roads just waiting for a car to smash them open.
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I remember when I was young, every kid in school had stained hands form husking black walnuts.
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There are tons of black walnuts around here. Too many trees to count. Where is "here" - approximately?
Ecc 10:2 The heart of the wise inclines to the right, but that of a fool to the left.
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I remember when I was young, every kid in school had stained hands form husking black walnuts. Was that in Co?
Ecc 10:2 The heart of the wise inclines to the right, but that of a fool to the left.
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There are tons of black walnuts around here. Too many trees to count. Where is "here" - approximately? Greenbrier & Monroe County West “By God” Virginia.
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There are tons of black walnuts around here. Too many trees to count. Where is "here" - approximately? Greenbrier & Monroe County West “By God” Virginia. All right. You ever hunt squirrels after those walnuts?
Ecc 10:2 The heart of the wise inclines to the right, but that of a fool to the left.
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Got a few buckets making stain right now.
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There are tons of black walnuts around here. Too many trees to count. Where is "here" - approximately? Greenbrier & Monroe County West “By God” Virginia. All right. You ever hunt squirrels after those walnuts? Tree Rats are not in my diet, but you see a lot of fox squirrels dead on the roads around here. Back where I grew up around Charleston WV, you’d be lucky to see a fox squirrel when hunting.
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Wood or cloth? What material does it work on?
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Crows drop them onto country roads just waiting for a car to smash them open. Smart birds. They figured out how to use tools..... mechanical, combustion engine tools.
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My Dad like Black Walnut and would harvest some every fall.
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