Black Walnut Planting

[sandhills]

HiTech, they're the best eating as far as I'm concerned but you could starve to death trying to get the meat out of them  :D.  I planted a short row of nuts last fall so we'll have to see what comes up, took the advice from the squirrels and just put them in the ground. 

[HiTech]

The squirrels don't seem to have a problem getting the meat out. lol They will eat one side and flip it over and do the other. They look like they might be a pain getting the meat out. Perhaps a hammer will help. lol I will have to try some this fall.

[SwampDonkey]

One of our sponsors sells a walnut sheller. (Lawn and Gardening Tools). Lower left on this page.

[beenthere]

Recently I learned a trick from this video to remove black walnut nut meats from the cracked shells (after I use the vise to crack the shell) is to use side nips (dikes or wire cutters) to nip at the shell and easily release the meat.
This video at around 7.30 minutes shows the wire cutters used. The whole video is a good one to show the entire process with black walnuts.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=fvwp&v=w5wjt10Rmvw&NR=1

[sandhills]

Thanks beenthere, I'd never heard of that before.  Do you think a guy could build a cracker from one of the older, small roller mills used to crack corn?  I like to see what the rolls look like inside one of the powered machines I don't think they'd be too hard to duplicate if the rollers would work.

[WDH]

BT,

That was informative.  I know all about the hammer, just never used the wire cutters.