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From one of last months jobs:

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What is and what is the purpose of husking Walnuts ????:confused: :confused:

Walnuts have a husk on the outside of the nut. PITA to get off since it will stain anything and everything the husks come in contact with (including skin, has to wear off). I wait till the husks get soft, then use the mule back tire to do the job for me. I leave very little room between the tire and the board and don't support the board under the tire. In this way the nut gets rolled under the moving tire, the board flexes a little but keeps the nut tight under the tire. The husk breaks off and the internal nut flies out about 5 feet from the operation. They then go in a wire bucket to be washed (pwr. washer) and then left to dry. The really hard part comes when you want to crack the nut to get at the kernel (too cheap to buy a cracker so a hammer on the sidewalk works o.k.). Our Walnuts have a very earthy taste, not anything like store bought ones. Very yummy on ice cream sundaes and cakes and cookies and etc.

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I wait till the husks get soft, then use the mule back tire to do the job for me. I leave very little room between the tire and the board and don't support the board under the tire. In this way the nut gets rolled under the moving tire, the board flexes a little but keeps the nut tight under the tire. The husk breaks off and the internal nut flies out about 5 feet from the operation. They then go in a wire bucket to be washed (pwr. washer) and then left to dry. The really hard part comes when you want to crack the nut to get at the kernel (too cheap to buy a cracker so a hammer on the sidewalk works o.k.). Our Walnuts have a very earthy taste, not anything like store bought ones. Very yummy on ice cream sundaes and cakes and cookies and etc.

My walnuts end up in the driveway, and the cars husk them for me.... I just pick the nuts up... Once dry, i use a vise to crack them... Actually, i like "butter nuts" better, so i don't pict up a whole lot of the walnuts...

Rob
 
i agree.

what i don't understand is u guys that are felling trees, u wear ear and eye protection but no hard hat, well if ur dead no sense in being able to see or hear. I personally will not fell any trees without a hardhat on, i don't always wear eye and ear protection but always a hard hat. A friend of mines father was killed when a small limb hit him in the head.

i can't tell you how many guys i have seen have a tree fall on them and they would have died had they not had their hardhat on.
 
Walnuts have a husk on the outside of the nut. PITA to get off since it will stain anything and everything the husks come in contact with (including skin, has to wear off). I wait till the husks get soft, then use the mule back tire to do the job for me. I leave very little room between the tire and the board and don't support the board under the tire. In this way the nut gets rolled under the moving tire, the board flexes a little but keeps the nut tight under the tire. The husk breaks off and the internal nut flies out about 5 feet from the operation. They then go in a wire bucket to be washed (pwr. washer) and then left to dry. The really hard part comes when you want to crack the nut to get at the kernel (too cheap to buy a cracker so a hammer on the sidewalk works o.k.). Our Walnuts have a very earthy taste, not anything like store bought ones. Very yummy on ice cream sundaes and cakes and cookies and etc.

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Thanks for the detailed explanation. You must have different walnuts species than over here apparently. Our walnuts have a husk that cracks open by itself in fall, so the nuts fall out without any effort. Then one uses a simple cracker to get to the kernel. Walnuts are used as snacks, toppings on ice cream, in salads, and to produce walnut oil. When I was on holiday in south of france this year, I visited a walnut farm that produced all kind of walnut stuff, among it a real good tasting walnut cake. I liked it !:blob2:
 
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The day i took this picture my oldest daughter played hookie she didnt want to go to school so i decided what the heck shut down the shop and we both went to the timber. I thought a day of cuttin splittin and stackin wood and she would never want to skip school again WRONG !! she is now hooked she loves the outdoors just as much as i do and is almost always willing to go . What a great day that was even though she did skip school.
 
Ok so what is this white stuff that fell out of the sky today????

It was -8°c with wind chill today. Not bad in the woods but you want to keep moving!

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Here is a couple of pictures. One picture of my restored WARDS 820 sporting a 30" Cannon bar. The saw now sports electronic ignition croyo reed valves and a 1" intake and carb. The pile of Oak wood we are splitting with the log splitter I built in 1984.

jerry-
 
Free trailer load with my young man

Here is my son on my little 4x8 trailer full of oak that I picked up from a home construction site today.

Thanks Leroy at Long Bay Construction, Charleston for the free wood.
 
Guys im sorry for the extra large pics i got to figure out how to downsize them a little it took me a long time to figure out just how to post pics on here ill do a search on here and get it figured out .
 
Guys im sorry for the extra large pics i got to figure out how to downsize them a little it took me a long time to figure out just how to post pics on here ill do a search on here and get it figured out .

If I can figure out Photobucket, anyone can. Works pretty good. Poke around on A.S. and you'll find plenty of helpful posts on Photobucket use and other ways of posting pics.

Looks like a gun shot hole above the left rear tire?????

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well i hope this works resizing the pic. if it worked these are a couple of firepits i built out of the end caps of a propane tank and the bottoms are cut out of the smaller propane cyl.The rest of the big propane tank is my new wood stove for the shop. Propane tanks are good for somthing. The hole in the side of the ranger aint no bullet hole just rust it has lots (rusty but trusty).
 

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