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From one of last months jobs:
What is and what is the purpose of husking Walnuts ????
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.
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.
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.
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 .
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