walnut huller

[WV2CYL]

Yesterday the wife, my mother and I gathered a lot of black walnuts. We generally just spread them on the ground and run over them and pick them up again. Anyone ever make a huller? I have searched and found lots of $3-5K commercial machines but too expensive for me. I'm considering using a set of feed rolls from an old corn chopper to make a huller. any ideas?

 

[LPgas only]

Someone told me once that they used a hand crank corn sheller and it worked real good.
I think this was to get the meats out of the shell.

 

[Anonymous-0]

If you can find and old corn sheller they work fine with a little adjustment for the thickness.

 

[old]

Guess you have missed my posts in the past about a simple huller that I have plans for. I have had many guys e-mail me for the plans and your welcome to also. The plans date back to the 50s by the way

 

[MF294-4]

I can remember my Dad telling me about making a trough and jacking the rear wheel of a car up to hull walnuts?????

 

[Anonymous-0]

Hi old. Do you live around the lake of the ozarks? i am south of buffalo. do you sell any used parts for wd allis chalmers.Let me know if you do. Archie

 

[Mike Groom]

My dad used to put a chain on the rear of the pickup with a trough under the wheel,it was backed up to the corncrib about 10 to 15 feet away the hulls would drop down and the walnuts would bounce back away from the crib I usually got to run the footfeed at a constant rpm.Worked great!

 

[old]

I'm just south of Camdenton and yes I have a few parts for the WD/WC/WD45 tractors on hand. E-mail is open for more info and I can then give you a phone #

 

[T.W.Sherman]

Thanks for the email, I saw my grandfather do that with a 28 chevrolet when I was a little boy, at least 55 yrs. ago

 

[T.W.Sherman]

Been tossing around several ideas, One is to use feed rolls from an old NH 616 chopper that is rusting up in the scrap pile. remount them, using the gear box off the unit. one roller CCW and one CW to mash the hulls, THEN????????

 

[PJH]

A local old timer picked up black walnuts here on the farm a few years ago. I hauled them out for him one saturday morning - he had a pickup bed full of five gallon buckets, each bucket heaped full of walnuts. He had a plywood trough that he'd feed the walnuts into. They'd go under the left rear wheel of his Oldsmobile - it was jacked up about an inch and a half off of the ground, with the engine running and the transmission in drive. All wheels were chocked. It would spit those nuts out the back like a machine gun. The hulls made a nasty mess. Don't do it in the driveway in front of the house. . . I was surprised that he got them all hulled without hurting himself. His wife could make a black walnut cake that you could set your hat by.

 

[walnut_guy]

There are different ways to hull them, I don't think that is too much of a problem. But what is an efficient way to crack them and extract the meats? That seems tedious and very slow. I am sure someone knows a good way.

 

[paul]

Hand crank ear corn sheller. Simple, easy, works well. Tones your arm - or your kid's arm - at the same time.

--->Paul

 

[Lamar Fudd]

Yep, that's how we do it. Had a backstop made from an old trailer that we stood on end about 15 feet from the back wheel of our '72 Suburban. The hulls would fall short of the trailer and the nuts would be available to pick up near the trailer. Made several drying trays made from 2X4's and chicken wire to keep the squirrels away. Wife was selling these (after shelling with a Walnut cracker from Hunts of Hartford) until she realized that they only made about 50 cents an hour. They are the BEST for baking-don't lose their flavor as English Walnuts from the store do.

 

[shepherdtothehills]

Please send huller plans to [email protected] thanks so much.