Got walnuts?

[dmccarty]

I subscribed to forestry news letter and this morning he had a couple of good articles about Black Walnuts. What the tree likes, dislikes, and general information. He also had a second article about harvesting the nuts which had quite a bit of good information including when to harvest, how to husk and what to use to get out the meat.

Harvesting a Black Walnut Crop for Seeds and Nuts

Later,
Dan

 

[riptides]

I subscribed to forestry news letter and this morning he had a couple of good articles about Black Walnuts. What the tree likes, dislikes, and general information. He also had a second article about harvesting the nuts which had quite a bit of good information including when to harvest, how to husk and what to use to get out the meat.

Harvesting a Black Walnut Crop for Seeds and Nuts

Later,
Dan

Now that was an interesting link.

The harvesting link had a part on uses - "filler for dynamite". Well, time to go get some more nuts!

 

[JDgreen227]

I subscribed to forestry news letter and this morning he had a couple of good articles about Black Walnuts. What the tree likes, dislikes, and general information. He also had a second article about harvesting the nuts which had quite a bit of good information including when to harvest, how to husk and what to use to get out the meat.

Harvesting a Black Walnut Crop for Seeds and Nuts

Later,
Dan

I saved 15 gallons of the biggest walnuts I found and ran my tractor over the hulls to semi-shuck them and then delivered the end product to my mom in law. She puts them on a tarp in her garage and during the winter months she cracks open a few at a time.

 

[Chuck52]

When I was a kid, we'd shell enough to add to fudge. Chocolate fudge with black walnuts is special.

Anyone else ever find a hickory with nuts big enough to shell? I don't know the variety, but there was a huge hickory near my childhood home that made nuts with a reasonable amount of meat in them. Tasted pretty much like black walnut, to me, but the nuts were nicer to work with.

Chuck

 

[dmccarty]

Now that was an interesting link.

The harvesting link had a part on uses - "filler for dynamite". Well, time to go get some more nuts!

Yeah, the uses were surprising.

The ground up shells provide special products. Manufacturers use shells to deburr precision gears. Ground shell products are also used to clean jet engines, as additives to drilling mud for oil drilling operations, as filler in dynamite, as a nonslip agent in automobile tires, as an air-pressured propellant to strip paints, as a filter agent for scrubbers in smokestacks, and as a flour-like carrying agent in various insecticides.

I ASSUME that "Ground shell products" are not just black walnut shells. I find it hard to believe that so many black walnuts are harvested to supply that long list of products. I never would have guessed the shells were used so many ways. I need to go tell MossFlowerWoods he needs to crack some black walnuts, grind them into a flour like consistency and mix with borax to kill his itty, bitty basement crickets that are bug'n him. :laughing::laughing::laughing:

Later,
Dan

 

[JDgreen227]

When I was a kid, we'd shell enough to add to fudge. Chocolate fudge with black walnuts is special.

Anyone else ever find a hickory with nuts big enough to shell? I don't know the variety, but there was a huge hickory near my childhood home that made nuts with a reasonable amount of meat in them. Tasted pretty much like black walnut, to me, but the nuts were nicer to work with.

Chuck

HMMMM....about 300 feet north of my property line there is a HUGE shagbark hickory tree...I will sneak out there early some morning and see what the nuts are like....if the crops surrounding the tree were corn I could look anytime...but this year they are soybeans. Gotta be careful though as I know the area around the tree is loaded with poison ivy. Will post pics of the nuts tomorrow early.

 

[nybirdman]

Went to the friends to harvest a few walnuts of plant.....not ONE NUT left.Its a small tree maybe 15ft.high and 12in.in diameter.It was totally loaded last week.I assume the squirrels and deer cleaned them up as soon as they dropped.Next year I will pick off the tree.

 

[mjarrels]

Years ago, they were ground and put into the tread of snow tires.

mark

 

[JDgreen227]

Went to the friends to harvest a few walnuts of plant.....not ONE NUT left.Its a small tree maybe 15ft.high and 12in.in diameter.It was totally loaded last week.I assume the squirrels and deer cleaned them up as soon as they dropped.Next year I will pick off the tree.

I have thousands of walnuts lying back where deer roam and have never seen any sign of deer eating them, EVERE. Just did a Google search and it says deer will not consume them either with the husk on or off. I took a bite of black walnut husk one time....UGGGGHHHH !!! Can't believe squirrels will chew the husk off but maybe they taste good to them.

 

[forgeblast]

Piteba Nut and Seed Oil Expeller Oil press: Amazon.com: Kitchen & Dining
Is something you may want too, you could press your own oil. I picked one up, I am hoping we have a lot of hazelnuts next year.

 

[k0ua]

I was told black walnuts are not ok to eat?

I have eaten a few thousand.. and I am ok.. oK..OK..OK>> ah.....

 

[k0ua]

Hammons Black Walnuts

$13 per hundred pounds: better get to picking them up and selling them to the huller. JD you have a fortune in your back yard.. not to mention the thousands of dollars your trees are worth if you wanted to cut them down..I know you would not want to do that, but they are worth a fortune.

James K0UA

 

[Chuck52]

I think I've read that the Hammons company also processes the shells for use in abrasives and the like. The nut meat is expensive, much more so than the meat of English walnuts, but I bet they have to get something from the whole nut to make money on processing them. I don't think I've ever bought black walnut meat, and I like it. Lots of folks don't like the stronger flavor. I wonder if they have an overseas market. Of course, with all the food and cooking shows on TV these days, their niche market may be expanding. They need Alton Brown to do a show about using black walnuts.

Chuck

 

[Chuck52]

I think I've read that the Hammons company also processes the shells for use in abrasives and the like. The nut meat is expensive, much more so than the meat of English walnuts, but I bet they have to get something from the whole nut to make money on processing them. I don't think I've ever bought black walnut meat, and I like it. Lots of folks don't like the stronger flavor. I wonder if they have an overseas market. Of course, with all the food and cooking shows on TV these days, their niche market may be expanding. They need Alton Brown to do a show about using black walnuts.

Chuck

 

[k0ua]

I have used a lot of the ground up walnut shell as a cleaning media for Cartridge cases in my vibratory tumbler. I have used a lot of ground up corncob media as well. They both work.

James K0UA

 

[EE_Bota]

I have used a lot of the ground up walnut shell as a cleaning media for Cartridge cases in my vibratory tumbler. I have used a lot of ground up corncob media as well. They both work.

James K0UA

I have heard that corncob media is wonderful for cleaning large DC machines. There are lots of nooks and crannies in a DC motor, and the carbon is a conductor, and wears, so the machines are self contaminating. Organic blast media is a wonderful idea...

 

[k0ua]

I have heard that corncob media is wonderful for cleaning large DC machines. There are lots of nooks and crannies in a DC motor, and the carbon is a conductor, and wears, so the machines are self contaminating. Organic blast media is a wonderful idea...

yeah that makes sense, carbon feels like grinding compound... so I could see that... You would want to be sure to get all the corncob media out though.. On the inside of the flash hole of almost every case a piece of the corncob media finds it way into and sticks in the flash hole. Of course it gets punched out with the primer by the decapping pin and is not a problem.

James K0UA

 

[wilsone]

My trees production went into overdrive also this year. It seems like every third year this happens. One of my trees is branched out over the concrete driveway. They get sweeped and shoveled into the Gator and then dumped into the ditch near the corn field. The rest of that tree and all the others just get ignored. It does make it trickey to walk out there but by July they will all be gone, turned to compost I guess.

Well if they''re anything like macadamias, they will encourage a rat plague if left around for too long (unless your squirrels squirrel them away).

Although it would require a lot of care (safety wise), I am told that in the old days before mechanical dehuskers, people here used to dehusk nuts by jacking up the rear wheel of a car, put it in drive with the engine idling and pass the nuts between the spinning wheel and the ground. I am not recommending this.

Regards

 

[k0ua]

Well if they''re anything like macadamias, they will encourage a rat plague if left around for too long (unless your squirrels squirrel them away).

Although it would require a lot of care (safety wise), I am told that in the old days before mechanical dehuskers, people here used to dehusk nuts by jacking up the rear wheel of a car, put it in drive with the engine idling and pass the nuts between the spinning wheel and the ground. I am not recommending this.

Regards

And then he tried to pass a really big one between the tire and the ground, and it got stuck, the care lurched off of the jack and it ran over his a** :shocked: and that was the last time he ever did that!

James K0UA