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Old 26-10-2008, 06:04 PM posted to sci.bio.botany,sci.agriculture
Larry Caldwell Larry Caldwell is offline
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Default harvesting black walnut
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PAM (Mike Ruskai) says...
On or about Sun, 19 Oct 2008 01:37:07 -0700 (PDT) did
 dribble thusly:

This year harvesting bigtime. Started with 100 gallons of unhusked and
looks to be 30 gallons of
husked black walnut. I have plastic containers with lids to keep the
squirrels and rodents out of
until unhusked.

One method of dehusking which I've heard of, but not tried personally, is to
put the walnuts in a sack (canvas or burlap) on your driveway and drive over
it repeatedly with your vehicle. There's no risk of cracking the nuts, as
anyone who's tried to open a black walnut knows well.

We have a black walnut nut cracker. It's a pair of angled, serrated
vise jaws mounted on a board, operated by about a one foot handle. A
full stroke of the handle closes the jaws about 1/4", just enough to
crack the shell of the nut.

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