A couple years before I got married, I bought a Nut Wizard. Never used it except for tennis balls for the dog.
This year I said I need to use that nut wizard on some nuts, so found some black walnut trees and picked up all the walnuts I could find. Ended up with 3 pails of cleaned nuts so far and still got a couple pails worth in the trailer I haven't bothered with yet.
After I picked them up I left them to rot until they all turned black, husked them through a hole in a board, stuck them in a wringer washer for 30 minutes, left some of them outside to dry for a month, the rest got put on the basement floor with a dehumidifier for a month.
Now I go downstairs and bring up 20 nuts or so every now and then to crack with "The Texan Nut Sheller" which works pretty darn well on black walnuts if you know how to attack them and your hands are strong enough.
Sometimes I wonder if it was worth all the hassle but I just have some gas in the truck to go get the nuts and a little electricity to run the wringer washer for 30 minutes... and it's calming to crack nuts without doing anything else for awhile.
This year I said I need to use that nut wizard on some nuts, so found some black walnut trees and picked up all the walnuts I could find. Ended up with 3 pails of cleaned nuts so far and still got a couple pails worth in the trailer I haven't bothered with yet.
After I picked them up I left them to rot until they all turned black, husked them through a hole in a board, stuck them in a wringer washer for 30 minutes, left some of them outside to dry for a month, the rest got put on the basement floor with a dehumidifier for a month.
Now I go downstairs and bring up 20 nuts or so every now and then to crack with "The Texan Nut Sheller" which works pretty darn well on black walnuts if you know how to attack them and your hands are strong enough.
Sometimes I wonder if it was worth all the hassle but I just have some gas in the truck to go get the nuts and a little electricity to run the wringer washer for 30 minutes... and it's calming to crack nuts without doing anything else for awhile.