Not a whole bunch just 2 each 5 gal buckets full. Would be enough the make some beads and cookies. 👍

Good deal!
If you have a hand corn sheller, that is a good way to take the hulls off.

Squirrels got every one of my Black Walnuts.

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.

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.

Sounds like a good idea. I never heard of that method.

There are tons of black walnuts around here. Too many trees to count.

If they float in water, throw them out! They’re no good.

I use em for dye

Crows drop them onto country roads just waiting for a car to smash them open.

I remember when I was young, every kid in school had stained hands form husking black walnuts.

Where is "here" - approximately?

Was that in Co?

Greenbrier & Monroe County West “By God” Virginia.

All right. You ever hunt squirrels after those walnuts?

Got a few buckets making stain right now.

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.

Wood or cloth?
What material does it work on?

Smart birds.
They figured out how to use tools..... mechanical, combustion engine tools.

My Dad like Black Walnut and would harvest some every fall.

Same here.... dye my traps with them and If you got any camo shirt/pants that are getting a little too light colored, throw them in the dye water for a few days. Best camo color I've ever seen. Course, I'm blind in one eye and can't see outta the other.

$20 hundred here this year, several 1000 pounds on the ground that will never get picked up on us .

My dad would put one of the snow tires on the old Chevy. We called them knobbies There was only one drive wheel. No posi-traction in those days. A piece of heavy plywood was stood up and braced about 6 ft back back.

All the other wheels were chocked. Dad would start the engine, put it low gear and set the throttle so the wheel was turning pretty good clip.

Us kids took turns throwing the gathered walnuts under the wheel and some would be back at the plywood gathering them up Never gather he walnuts until after the first frost. The wheel would shuck those husk of pretty slick.Then we would put them up on the shed roof to dry.Probably did a half a dozen or so bushels each year.

We would spend many winter nights down in the garage cracking walnuts with a ball peen hammer on a piece of railroad iron, then digging out the meat.I still remember that black walnut chocolate fudge my mother use to make around the holidays
We felt especially lucky if we found a hickory tree that the squirrels hadn't pilfered all the nuts yet.

Watch two old black guys come in to the salvage yard here with a 70s piece of crap Chevy pickup, squatting down, low tires, walnuts heaped up in the bed as high as the cab

They shoveled all that shît out into the auto tub huller. Took about 30 minutes.

The old Jewie Hiehmansohn paid them $16

haha

Fouuuuuuuuuck THAT !!!

😂😂🤪🙀

We got black walnut trees all over this place. I burn it in my OWB furnace.

In 1993 it was $10/hundred. I picked enough up (with dad and grandpas help, and a few pecans) to buy my first rifle , 700 ADL .270 for $300 from the local KMart.

My grandparents (now mom and aunts) farm in Eastern Iowa is slam full of black walnut trees. There is one tree in a pasture by the old homestead that produces a boat load every two years so for convenience that's where we pick ours up. We let them hit the ground and let the cattle walk around on them for a while before we pick them up so at that point most of the hulls pop right off. I put mine in a frame made of scrap lumber and power wash the hell out of them. My uncle actually runs his through a washing machine on rinse cycle a couple of times. When we were kids one of our punishments was having to crack and pick 1 cup of walnuts. As a kid it seemed like it took forever!

Yes , not many youth today have the ambition

I've got a yard full of them. Likely going to pick them up and get busy. We used to put them in the driveway and run over them to get the hulls off. My hands have been stained many times.

I harvested 2 black walnut trees about 2 weeks ago. One was 36 inches in diameter and the other about 24.
Will soon saw them into slabs and next year I'll begin making tables out of them.

Same here... even a few Butternuts left (folks that don't know Butternuts... they are nicknamed "White Walnuts"... oval shaped.

Boy, I hope that wasn't racist or offensive to anyone.

FYI, Butternuts are dying off (some scab fungus)...

Oh Boy... more racist innuendo... dang it.