How to shuck walnuts?

[pdqdl]

My father-in-law has a tract of ground with a large number of walnut trees. We think it might be worth our time to get a machine to shuck the husks off of the walnuts. Since I have no experience whatsoever in this, I thought I would post a thread here.

I looked at all the other forums on Arboristsite, and I didn't see anything better than this.

Any suggestions?

 

[Rookie1]

Let me tell you this about nut shucking. I live in wifes Grandparents house with lots of black walnut trees. My FIL talks about PITA walnuts,and how family loved them for eating. He used to have to beat them through a board with a hole in it to peel the skin off. I believe if he lived here he would cut every one down for spite. A former coworker tells me how his father would jack up the car,put it in gear and throw nuts under tire and it would shoot them out at a backstop where the husk would explode off of the nut. Ive never messed with a pro shucker but it dont sound near as cool as the tire method.

 

[Nailsbeats]

Get a baseball thrower and set it up batting cage style, this would be good hand/eye practice and conditioning as well. Though, the tire method sounds tits too.

 

[nametrux]

Husks

I have heard of people just driving over them with a car to get the husks off.I think this would be done on a hard surface and one you didn,t wanted stained.

 

[(WLL)]

sun dry em and soak the shellz off

 

[Little Monkey]

if you soak them for a few hours and then put them in your washing machine
no soap,low temp,long spin cycle it should work a treat,,,,,, let me know how you get on opcorn:

 

[treemandan]

Get a baseball thrower and set it up batting cage style, this would be good hand/eye practice and conditioning as well. Though, the tire method sounds tits too.

Yeah you'll want a Tyvek suit and some eye goggles for that

 

[Little Monkey]

is that for when the machine blows up or when the misses catches you
f****** up her machine

 

[(WLL)]

is that for when the machine blows up or when the misses catches you
f****** up her machine

there is more than one way ta get your nuts shucked

 

[Rftreeman]

if you soak them for a few hours and then put them in your washing machine
no soap,low temp,long spin cycle it should work a treat,,,,,, let me know how you get on opcorn:

if I tried this I'd for sure get mine shucked...............

 

[TDunk]

Thought this topic was going to lead somewhere else. Just spray some water on them and try to walk on them. By the time your tired of falling on your @$$ you should be good to go.

 

[JohnH]

Thought this topic was going to lead somewhere else. Just spray some water on them and try to walk on them. By the time your tired of falling on your @$$ you should be good to go.

 

[littlenick]

I hope you don't mind having your hands black for a few days after your done.... We used to have 2 walnut trees and they were a pain so...:greenchainsaw: :greenchainsaw: :greenchainsaw:

 

[John Paul Sanborn]

I've heard that corn and coffee shellers can be used for walnuts.

I did a quick search on walnut sheller
http://www.dogpile.com/dogpile/ws/r...e/iq=true/zoom=off/_iceUrlFlag=7?_IceUrl=true
This is a coffee sheller

Here's a corn sheller shipped for $330

Might find one for a lot less at an antique store

 

[Nailsbeats]

I have heard of people just driving over them with a car to get the husks off.I think this would be done on a hard surface and one you didn,t wanted stained.

This was our method of choice for crushing our beer cans in college. We had a dryer box in the corner and could just chuck the cans 20' over our head and bank them in. When the box was full we emptied it onto the parking lot and we drove my '83 Park Avenue and my buddy's '78 camoflage Malibu over them. We also backed over the shrubs to park and continously roasted rocks at our neighbors windows. Ahh, the memories.

 

[fubar2]

We just throw them in the driveway for a few weeks.

 

[pbtree]

I get me kids to do it, and tell them the one with the most done in an hour get an ice cream - works wonders...

 

[yellowsocks93]

I have husked black walnut using an old JD corn sheller and it worked well. Just make sure you get one that the walnuts can pass out of after husking. Some of the John Deere shellers have screens that can get in the way.

 

[treemandan]

is that for when the machine blows up or when the misses catches you
f****** up her machine

Man, DId I get flayed by my momma when we boiled up about 20 pounds of horsechesnuts in her pots and pans.
But the suit is for when you are hittin em with a bat. If you get spattered in the face you look a little odd for a few days. In the eye? Well, you will wish you hadn't.

 

[TreeTopKid]

My father-in-law has a tract of ground with a large number of walnut trees. We think it might be worth our time to get a machine to shuck the husks off of the walnuts. Since I have no experience whatsoever in this, I thought I would post a thread here.

I looked at all the other forums on Arboristsite, and I didn't see anything better than this.

Any suggestions?

Are these Black Walnuts, or English Walnuts?