Walnut Picker-Upper Attachment ?

[WillysWoodPile]

I hate raking walnuts into piles and picking them up. So I was thinking that they have attachments that pick up golf balls on a range. Why can't that be adapted for walnuts? {The walnut trees (a dozen) are on our 3 acre lawn. So they would be on a grass surface and a dirt road surface}

Anybody have the same thoughts?

 

[yooper1]

Nut Wizard offers a hand held type...

Nut Wizard: Pick Up Tool That Gathers Nuts, Fruits, Acorns, Sweet Gum Balls

They even have one to pick up empty casings at the range...I had to have one of them

there probably is a machine / mechanical thing out there

like these

http://www.baganut.com/scripts/prodList.asp?idCategory=52

 

[mwb]

I hope you have a sense of humour

Walnut Harvester

First hit looks to be what you want:thumbsup:

 

[WillysWoodPile]

Nut Wizard offers a hand held type...

Nut Wizard: Pick Up Tool That Gathers Nuts, Fruits, Acorns, Sweet Gum Balls

They even have one to pick up empty casings at the range...I had to have one of them

there probably is a machine / mechanical thing out there

like these

English Walnut Harvesting Equipment for Gathering and Picking Up Walnuts - Bag-A-Nut

That Nut Wizard is really kooky, which means I gotta' have one.

The $475 drag-behind is about what I'm looking for but I am talking about picking them up with the green hull still on them. Is that what this is for?

 

[WillysWoodPile]

I hope you have a sense of humour

Walnut Harvester

First hit looks to be what you want:thumbsup:

I do Google [not much] but I would rather interact in conversation.

 

[lhfarm]

Here is what I do - http://www.tractorbynet.com/forums/rural-living/154859-bag-nut-walnuts-follow-up.html

 

[/pine]

you might visit your local driving range and look at what they use to pick up golf balls...?

 

[nickel plate]

Welcome Willy. Offer prizes to all the local kids (Easter egg hunt business model), contact the Senior Gleaners and split the crop with them or buy a 3-PT rake with gauge wheels but I think you are trying to get the walnuts off of the ground and into bins with less effort than you have dealt with in the past.
Must say though, the walnut farmers out here use shakers, sweepers and vacs. Walnuts are one of the easiest labor-wise tree crops to maintain.

 

[nue2farm]

Local hardware stores here sell a nut-picker. Works on most any surface and does a good job. Looks like a round wire ball on a broomstick. Only thing I don't like about them is the price.....Right around $50.00..... takes a lot of nuts to pay for one.
Have fun and stay safe...

 

[WillysWoodPile]

you might visit your local driving range and look at what they use to pick up golf balls...?

--- Once I got there, how would I leave?

 

[WillysWoodPile]

--- You guys are awesome. Thanks for all your advice.
-1) Go to the local restaurant and discuss walnut picker-uppers with everybody.
-2) Visit local hardware store and discuss walnut picker-uppers with everybody, again.
-3) Go to local restaurant, eat lunch and discuss walnut picker-uppers with everybody.
-4) Go to local welding shop and discuss fabricating one out of thin air. Or plow, disc, sickle, and tractor parts.
-5) Go to driving range under the pretence of "research".
-6) Start "researching".
-7) You know you've been at the driving range too long when you start saying "bushel of balls" instead of buckets.
-8) ?????

 

[jbooth]

To many walnut picker upper threads going. I just posted on the other thinking I was here. I have used one of those nut pickers as discussed earlier. Works great for pecans, not so great for black walnuts. Below is what I posted there when I thought I was posting here. Make sense?


I would think a yard vac would work well for picking up walnuts. Probably would need to leave an up top opening for grass and leaves to blown on through. Walnuts should drop out being heavier than the grass and weeds. I have never used the method as I pay my grandkids to do it. I know they should do it for nothing, but they will get into me for money anyway. Just as well let them think they are "earning" the money

For hulling walnuts; a small portable cement with small rocks or iron thrown in with the walnuts has worked well for me. Add some water if you want to clean the black crap of the walnuts. Side benefit is it will clean your iron if it is used for the media.

May need to experiment with the size of rocks/iron.

There is a market for walnuts here, but I would hate to try to make a living doing it.