How to Shell and Crack Black Walnuts | Harvesting Walnuts | Walnut Shelling Machine
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- We're going back to November. Ozzie got out his crazy "hodge-podge" of a walnut processing setup and showed us how it kinda, actually, pretty much worked.
He's husking them, washing them, and cracking them in the most efficient way he knows. So learn from Ozzie and, with a bunch of awkward and janky equipment, you too can produce a pound or so of walnuts in only a few short days of laborious work. You're thinking this special offer must be too crazy to be true, but it's not. It's absolutely nuts, we promise.
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Try putting the nuts in your portable cement mixer with water and let it run 20 minutes or so, they'll probably come out cleaner and use less water. I borrowed my neighbors mixer on a suggestion from my 10 yr old, he hated helping me clean them. Smart kid
That is a smart kid. I have seen the cement mixer method here on CZcams and it seems pretty good. I think I'd still husk them through the first machine and then wash them in the mixer to contain more water. Wonder what an old Maytag washer would do to them for that matter. You're right the washer uses a little more water than I'm proud of but we don't run too many. If we were doing many buckets and every year I'd have to find a way to recycle the water. Does it take a few rounds of water in the cement mixer?
We didn't let the husks get black & dry. We put them on a concrete slab from the garage and hook up the lawn roller to the tractor & run'em over to get most husks off. So it was easier to clean. We only had 7 30'-40' walnut trees so easy to keep up with the harvest. Usually just one run in the mixer. Then spread onto hardware cloth frames to dry a bit before bagging & hanging in the barn
We live in a rural small town and we had a neighbor who was a farmer all his life. He harvested black walnuts for I don't know how many years. He's had every contraption new and old to do it with. We used to see him out every year picking up his walnuts with a tin can screwed to a broom handle. I guess he just really enjoys all of it. He' was a wonderful neighbor and we sure have learned a lot. We lost him a couple years ago. We sure miss him. And now, we too have a couple of walnut trees, and I just really became interested with anything to do with the outdoors, birds, plants, gardens etc. Well anyway, I had the best time watching this video, I smiled the whole way through and I'm so glad I found your channel. Never stop sharing your knowledge. We sure appreciate you!!
That's so kind. That fellow sounds like a really good neighbor. It's neat you took some inspiration for that. So appreciate your kind words. Wish you luck with the gardening and walnut gathering and such.
Hi Ozzie, thanks for making the CZcams videos. When I was young I was able to hang around a farm and sometimes got to work there. The farmer was in his 70’s and I was about 10(forty some years ago). The things you do and the machines you work with remind me of those days from my childhood. Once that stuff gets under your skin I believe it stays there and you think like an engineer except without the slide rule. I wish you many more days of happy and successful tinkering and I hope you get to keep all your fingers in the process!
Haha thank you very much! These contraptions I don't think are as dangerous as they look on the video but yes safety is important. There's already been a few times I should have been a little more careful. The tinkering and the fixing is definitely a passion you develop. I'm glad you had some fond memories.
I hope people see your videos. Your way of life is is becoming a thing of the past in this world of throwing things away. Nobody knows how to do for there selves like you any more. I love your videos please keep making them as long as you can .
That's very kind of you Lee! Thanks so much. We'll keep at it. Sure makes it easier when you're getting nice words of encouragement like that.
Mr Ozzie, you are a treasure. Thank you for showing your cool machines and how things work.
Thank you for finding us and for the kind words.
Mr. Ozzie, you are a man after my own heart! You remind me of my grandpa. He was an old country Carpenter/Farmer (born 1903) and could fix or build just about anything and I think the same way. My dad said, when he was a kid, he and his brothers collected black walnuts and would scatter them out in the gravel road so cars would run over them and bust off the husks. You brought back some good memories... Thanks!
I've heard of doing it that way. I'll bet your grandpa was a neat guy. They knew how to do it back then, and sounds like he had a special knack. I appreciate when folks get family memories from this stuff. Thanks for watching!
I spent summers with my great grandparents when I was young in central Texas. They knew things lost to folks now. His wrenching on things is the reason I opted out of college and am a mechanic still . Filled with joy working with my hands. Thank you.
That's such a neat story. I'm glad your grandparents had such a good impact on your life, and I appreciate it if the video helped bring some memories back. Thanks for tuning in.
Hammon's Nut Company used to offer a deal for feed stores and other businesses. They would bring you a nut husker and you would buy walnuts for them. Some of the businesses would husk walnuts for you on a share percentage. You would let them keep part of your walnuts for husking, and the part they kept would go to the nut company to pay for the time of weighing and husking the nuts. We did it a few times to get a little extra cash in the fall.
That sounds like a neat deal. There was an outfit buying nuts around here. I think it was a station for a big national company, maybe out of Ohio. They'd give you about $25 per pickup load.
You don't want to do these by hand...that's for sure
Ozzie, you are a treasure! Thank you for sharing your knowledge and life experiences! Great to see your creative way to solve problems with whatever materials are at hand.
Thanks very much. Creative I spose is the nicest way to describe it. Appreciate you watching and the nice note.
Just subscribed, and first time I was ever recommended one of your videos. I'm also from MN and am still in the area. I grew up in Lake Elmo next to a farmer who didn't have the lively disposition you had, but he had critters for me to get rid of, and also had over 50 steam tractors and engines of various sizes. Worked many seasons helping run his old fashioned sawmill, filled the barn to the ceiling with hay, picked rocks. Just a dumb kid. But many years later, like reading good books, that experience absolutely shaped me. I really wish we were next door neighbors, I believe I'd get lost on your farm, like I did when I was a kid. Perhaps we could cross paths some day because I'd like to shake your hand. Thank you.
We must be kinda a dying breed. Sounds like a very neat experience as a kid. There's something valuable about the old ways, maybe we'll cross paths at a threshing show or something. Thank you for giving us a look and subscribing.
Oh Ozzie, you crack me up! I love your video and all the unique tools and machines that you have. This is the first time that I've seen your channel and it really made me feel good. I've been cracking black walnuts from my home in central Pennsylvania for a number of years now and always trying to find a better way. I used to take a hammer and smash the hull off of the walnuts but that is really time consuming and a bit hard on the back for a 68 yo woman. Then I would take them down to the crick (creek) and slosh them around in the bucket and dump the black water in the creek. Also a bit time-consuming. This year I was at a neighboring farmer who I buy hay from and in front of his barn is a big old black walnut tree. I asked him if I could gather the nuts and he was kind enough to allow me to have them. He drives over them with his tractors while putting hay into the barn, and most of the hulls had been crushed off. I felt like I'd just won the lottery! And most were dry enough to begin cracking. I love cracking them but wanted something that works better than the tool I had been using for a while, which is a long-handled, vise-like thing I bought that was made for black walnut cracking. It works great though, but I decided to buy the Grampa's Goody Getter, so I ordered it last night and can't wait to try it out. I don't have any affiliation with the people, but think you might want to check it out and see if it would be more fun than the vice method that you're using. Thanks for a really nice visit with you!
Hi, good to know you are collecting walnuts too. Nice you found some different ways to clean them up. I think if we left ours sitting to get drove over the squirrels would have them all scattered. I did see that Grampa's Goody Getter. Does it cut your time down quite a bit? Thanks for finding us and good luck with your now equipment and happy nut cracking.
Ozzie; just stumbled onto your video- was saying this morning to the wife” I wanna use all these walnuts in the back yard this year. But I need some pointers on the processing.” And, Shazam! I get on CZcams and there you are! My phone must hear me- kinda creepy.😳 I enjoyed this video. Got me thinking. I got some tinkering to do. Thank you for your expertise and generosity showing how it’s done! God bless, my good man.👍🇺🇸❤️
So happy you found us. Good luck with the nuts. I've heard other folks having decent luck with cement mixers and a bucket with a drywall mixer on a cordless drill. That's if you don't want to rig something up. Thanks again. Blessing to you and yours as well.
I bought a farm with tons of black walnut trees. Been looking for ways to harvest and process. This video was great. I want to come out and spend a few days watching you do your thing.
Sad part is we haven't found a fast way to crack them. Maybe you'll discover that and let us know.
Thank you Ossie.
Just retired and have many black walnuts in the area going to waste.
Got time now to enjoy natural life and harvesting walnut will be on the list.
Great retirement project. I hope it goes well for you. Give us an update when you have one. Thanks for finding us!
Great job Ozzie, Now I'll have to try and create something similar. Ive been doing my black walnuts by hand. This makes life a bit simpler!
Best of luck to you! I hope it goes well and you can show us the video!
Ozzie keep on making those videos you have so much great knowledge of all the old time ways .I will keep watching . Thank you
Thanks so much Jon, we'll keep at it.
On a second note. When the wise speak; I listen with rapt attention. This is how we learn. Just wish we could save the lost youngsters this way.
Well that's true. When I was younger there were so many old-timers in the tractor and engine hobby who could answer my questions. I'll tell you what thought there are still a few sharp youngsters teaching me things at my age though. It won't all be lost.
Don't wish.
We just stomped our first batch of black walnuts, from our new little home, it was dirty, but fun! They are drying now, hoping for great nuts!! Thanks for the great ideas on cracking and cleaning! God bless you.
Good for you. Congrats on the new home. Hope the nut cracking goes well.
last year i figured i'd try my hand at processing black walnuts, i mean they were all over the place here. i picked up about 15lbs. my hands were brown for about a week - lesson learned, wear gloves. i did make up some really concentrated dye from the husks. really could have used the equipment you have, though, to clean them up! genius!
Wow that's interesting. We haven't collected dye in a very long time. Have you used it yet?
I'm 63 and appreciate the old school ways. Great upload Mr. Ozzie.
They sure knew how to get things done years ago! Thanks for watching.
Thanks Ozzie. Been processing my Walnuts from ideas like yours. Slow process but have found new ways like yours to speed up processing. My Dad and his Parents all harvested Walnuts here in Kentucky. We all were Dairy Farmers and Walnut trees were on our farm and we gathered them and put in drive way years ago to bust off outer skin. Now I process them by small sledge hammer. Put in bucket and use 5 gallon paint stirrer with half full of water and half full of nuts and use drill to stir and beats pulp off . Usually about three washes and lay out to dry in barn.
That's a good way. I love to hear you're keeping traditions alive.
thanks from a 81 year old man who grew up behind a team of work horses. great memories keep up with your filming. enjoy and can relate to them .
I appreciate that thank you! We'll keep it up.
Fascinating ol feller u are! I enjoyed watching this first video, can’t wait to watch more. My elders have always been my bestest friends. I enjoy learning from u all. And I admire the hard work and knowledge that runs through your veins.
Very kind comment I appreciate it. I always liked the old timers too, then I became one. Hope you like the other videos too. Thanks for finding us.
Thanks for sharing, enjoyed your video. The old ways are much needed knowledge even today. Keep teaching us.❤❤❤❤
Thank you so much. We're still at it.
Mr. Ozzie thank you so much for making my morning coffee enjoyable!
Thank you for finding us!
So glad I happened across your video! Really enjoyed spending a little time on your beautiful farm. (Everything looks so nice, tidy & organized 🤗👍🏼). You Sir, are a clever man with a greatly creative spirit! Keep being curious and trying out new stuff because it’s keeping you young at heart! I learned from you today... So, being that it’s our Canadian Thanksgiving Weekend, I will give thanks for folks like you too! All good blessings to you. Watching you was fun!
What a beautifully kind note. Thanks very much. Happy Thanksgiving!
Love watching you use all that antique equipment.
Thank you! It's funny this stuff is all sorta makeshift second hand homemade equipment that I keep nursing along. So no museum pieces here but fun toys to play with.
@@OzziesOddities I think that is the best kind.
I am not practically crazy about the taste of black walnuts but inherited a tree. I learned this year the hulls are actually medicinal! There are other CZcams videos that show how. No nuts this year but saved from last year trying to figure out how to crack them without hurting myself...the vise sounds just my speed, thank you.
Glad to hear it. How are people processing and consuming the hulls and what for? Hope the vise method works for you! I grew up on black walnuts, but I understand, acquired taste. Thanks for your nice note!
These are going to become the lost ways of how things were done. It’s nice to see someone showing it.
Thank you. Appreciate your kind support! Hope some of these traditions keep living on.
you're top shelf Ozzie, Thanks
i enjoyed watching the whole process thanks
Thanks for find us, and the kind comment!
You remind me so much of my deceased father-in-law! He was such a loving and wonderful man! God bless you.
Well I'm glad if the videos are bringing up fond memories for you. Blessings to you.
Thank you sir, this is very valuable information and also very fun to watch! Great topics as well!
So glad you like it. Thanks for finding our channel. There's definitely some of each in this one: examples of what to do, and examples of what not tot do.
You take me back. I loved watching and learning from my dad I have a corn shelter to but it just collects dust now in my barn but you keep showing and telling people about yesterday it is very important and interesting
Sounds like you better dust off your corn sheller and make your own memories of preserving the old traditions. We'll keep at it. Thanks very much for finding us and for appreciating what we're doing!
My grandad used to jack up the old truck on one side and used a piece rain cutter to funnel the nuts toward the bottom of the running tire would fling the nuts at the shed wall. He used a sheet of tin against the shed, worked pretty good
I've never seen anyone do that, but I have seen it on CZcams. I bet that was fun for you to watch.
Blame Ozzie. I have a tree. I have black walnuts. I launched one through the window of my workshop over the summer cutting the grass. Been letting 'em lay for 40 years as squirrel food and I don't care if the little pests have their breakfast or not. And now here you come with the answer. I ALSO have a vice! Well dadgum! Brilliant! Monster thankees!!!!
Norm from Alabam
Hahahaha. I'm sorry I'm late with this advice but. As with many hobbies, don't even start, haha. I've put in all this work and I've still not done enough to even cause one squirrel to miss a meal.
I liked the inventions that you used on these black walnuts. Thanks for sharing.
Nice to come back to youtube and find these encouraging comments. Thank you!
It's enjoyable watching a crazy man doing what crazy people do.
haha, well then you're just who we're doing it for.
This is EXCELLENT CZcams content. Easily comparable to the feeling I get when watching Bob Ross paint a landscape.
haha, thanks so much for that. These old jobs have that calming feeling.
My dad used to pick up an old gas dryer because the motor was 120 volt. He would load it with walnuts after the husk was dry, add some gravel and small odds and ends pieces of metal along with old walnut shells. It made one heck of a racket and created a ton of dust but they came out completely clean. One dryer would survive about three seasons.
That's a pretty good idea!
Enjoyed the show. That's a lot of work but certainly worth it 👌
Were still trying to figure out if it was worth it, but I guess it was fun. Thanks very much for watching!
We enjoyed your enthusiasm
Keep your vibration high my friend
It helps the world get to a better place 😊
Thank you! Usually when I get a vibration it means I got a bearing out.
@@OzziesOdditieslove your sense of humor.
Thank you Sir. What a great channel. I looked for black walnuts. Nobody here in Germany knows what to do with them. I found last year a few nuts and had to find out what they are. This year i found 5 trees. Really tasty but hard to crack.
Hi thanks for finding us. Never have find a really efficient way to crack them.
First time watching you. I'm doing Black Walnuts and your video came up
I'm so blessed to learn things from you, Thank you and God bless you. ♥️
Thanks for finding us. I wish you success with your walnuts. Blessing to you!
Had to check out your method. I remember a farmer up the road showing me his black Walnuts. He tossed them in a big barrel or keg and let them sit. The husk would blacken and eventually fall off. I can't recall what or when he moved to his next step. I'm sure he told me but it was 40 years ago.🙁 I have several Walnut trees in my back yard. The squirrels were slacking the other year and I had to get the snow shovel out to clear them from the yard to mow. Was wishing I could recall how to process them. Thanks for the video!😊
Thanks for watching. Look forward to knowing what ends up working out for you and your trees. It sounds like your neighbor had a much less labor-intensive method. Wish we could ask him.
Mr.ozzie thanks for sharing your thoughts and experiences with us Awesome
Thank you for finding us. We sure have fun.
Thank You Sir , for taking the time to make these videos
O goodness, it's our pleasure. Kind of you to take the time to drop a line!
Thank you Ozzie!!!
That was a lot of fun. 😉 👍
You're welcome. Glad you enjoyed it.
Okay, so I want to make sure I've go this right. First, toss your nuts into a grinder. Second wash off your nuts and let a $100 worth of natural walnut dye run of to the ground, then pick you nuts up off the ground and dry them off. LOVE IT! Thanks for sharing my friend.
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No problem with the process! We got it and it's wonderful!
Feeling great Ozzie, keep up the great work!
I have a crapload of walnut trees and you just taught me a lot mister. Thank you.
Glad to help. Appreciate you taking the time.
It is great to share knowledge for the benefit of humanity to progress as we should.
Thanks, nobody has ever called this progress before so that's kinda nice. The walnuts taste good in cookies too.
Great video, we have black walnuts, and it's a big job when harvest time comes.
It's a dirty job but it sure makes the brownies taste better.
thank you so much for sharing..i really enjoyed your time teaching us ,,and reminding us that have forgotten...keep up the good work!!
Thank you! We'll keep at it. Appreciate your support.
What a great idea great invention
Thank you! I say invention but I really just cobbled up someone else's cobble. So I can't take all the credit.
Ozzie you are an American classic. God bless you fella. Sorry to see your arthritis.
Thank you and best to you as well. We're still pluggin.
@@OzziesOddities I am 78 and have a small farm here in the Ozarks. I came from West Virginia where we farmed with Blue Mules and had an outhouse and a bucket on a rope to draw our water.
Your walnut huller connected to a Maytag motor looks high tech compared to where I came from.
That is an impressive piece of technology sir.
Wow, I'm sure you got a lot of value and learned a lot from growing up that way. You and I are from about the same era.
A lot of my tools and things are pretty cobbled together but your comment reminded me how lucky I am to have all this stuff to play with and get these projects done. It sure is fun.
Subscribed to your channel and look forward to seeing what you're up to.
I fell into thi fantastic video easy.
Ozzie you are 100% my kind of people love the videos.
Here in WV we have Walnuts also and Hickory nuts which we gather.
Keep up the great work.
Thanks so much. Very kind! Appreciate you tuning in. Will you crack some walnuts this fall for eating?
Yes sir. Also Hickory nuts I have gathered 20+ lbs of them from one tree.
I truly enjoyed watching this. Amazing knowledge tools. Saving a lot of precious time. Love walnuts. Thank you for sharing! I subscribed!
Thank you very much for the kind comment and for your support.
Great job Ozzie ! This is the best process I’ve seen yet. I would be interested in knowing what the main shaft looks like in the first process. You have a new subscriber and I can’t wait to see more of your ingenuity.
Thanks very much. It's really just paddles turning, tumbling the nuts across the wire bottom. I should really try to draw up some plans. Truthfully I should make a little better one. Appreciate your subscription and hope we can bring you some more good stuff.
Thanks for your help and time
My pleasure. Are you rigging something up for walnuts?
Thanks for the tips! It gives me great ideas.
Thank you for sharing. I totally enjoyed it. I love seeing how things can be done.
Not sure if it's the right way but it's definitely the odd way. I've researched CZcams and found that there are many different methods for processing walnuts but none, including ours, seem entirely optimal. But it sure is fun.
Thank you for sharing. Love your "farmgeneering" machines processing the walnut.
Thank you for giving it a look. We sure have fun.
I have used the cement mixer with various rocks and steel weights with water to clean up large amounts of nuts. The big tree is six feet in diameter so produces lots O nuts.
I've seen a setup something like that. That might be a whole lot faster.
@@OzziesOddities I meant add that I started using the pressure washer (electric, not as high of pressure) after the cement mixer. I use a big shop fan guard cage to contain them a bit so they dont get away. So many folks claim they cant eat black walnuts only the english walnuts, which I think are bland. I just came in from cracking nuts on an old machine press my dad found in the junk yard. The birds like em better than sunflower seeds. And I eat my share.
Hey Ozzy I enjoyed your video sharing Walnuts Shelling i'm in the process of gathering Walnuts now and might make me a walnut sheller.
I wish you luck. It sure is fun. Thanks for finding our video.
thanks I saw the potatoe planter, also like the mack truck hat, I worked in a Mack Truck Body shop I Nashville Tn. for many years.
That's neat! I've always wanted to see Nashville. I don't know too much about Mack Trucks though. Just happened upon this hat somehow.
Mr Ozzie..you are so interesting! It would be fun to be your neighbor and do those fun projects. Thank you for your sharing this neat video!
We always have neighbors by. There are these two boys in their 20s bringing their tractors over. There's a guy in town a little younger than me who took up restoring old engines. Couple others just stop in to chat. It's fun. And thanks for finding us on the CZcamss.
Variety is the spice of life, and I like a lot of spice too.
I enjoyed your walnuts husker, and the washer.
I just don't care for the taste of the nuts. Have a great day!
I can understand that. I think it's all what you're accustomed to. These nuts definitely have a more pronounced, darker flavor than the ones from the store. Some people love that, especially if you grew up on them like me. But it sure isn't for everyone. Appreciate your message, and you have a good one too!
Watch here in Scotland ………brilliant video 🏴❤️
Thank you! Glad you found us.
Very cool! I need to make those!
Thank you! You can do it. There are some step by steps that fellows have made out of a propane cylinder. They seem to work even better.
Us old guys have to show the youth that things were really good back when, walnuts make the best cookies.
They sure do! thank you.
Now that is some farm-ginuity! Thank you for sharing your knowledge Ozzie:
You bet thank you for watching. It sure pleases me to know you folks get some entertainment or a thought or two from what we do.
This is one of the nuttiest things I’ve ever watched!😂 I’m just starting out with harvesting black walnuts here in our area of Indiana. This has definitely given me some ideas and motivation. Have you ever collected sap from black walnuts? I’m told it’s very much like maple syrup. I’m trying that late this winter.
Walnut makes a good syrup! Although I've never gotten much into making syrup. We've tapped just a few maples before, but I let that project go. I give you a lot of credit for doing it.
As far as the nuts go, figure out the best way to crack them and let me know. That's the part of the process nobody seems to have down without really expensive machines. The cheaper machines break up the meat of the nut pretty bad it seems like.
There is a corn shelter similar to yours that says it can Crack walnuts too. Maybe you can start there and come up with something similar. Good Luck!
Thanks, yeah I think the corn shellers will husk but not crack as far as I know. I think you're on the right track though. There's some old machine that can be repurposed. Maybe some type of old crusher or something. Thanks for getting me thinking.
@@OzziesOddities that's what the sales ad claimed. I thought I would pass on the info. I thought you might be able to convert it.
I can see it now, "Ozzie's Organic tye dyed T's & Shoe Polish"
Patent Pending!
great video thank you
Thanks for watching and glad you liked it! We appreciate it.
Pretty cool old machines. Thanks for sharing!
Thanks. Glad you found us.
Very interesting pretty neat
Thanks. Thanks for finding us!
Walnuts/walnut trees adversely inhibit the growth of Asparagus as well. Wish i had known that 30 years ago, lost 80 + new plantings near the trees.
Yeah who knew all the things that don't agree with walnuts. It's kinda odd.
Awesome. Thanks.
Good job Sir! Thank you for your knowledge, and be safe.
You are very welcome. I will be careful. As I get a little older it requires being more careful it seems. Thank you!
I had a barrel like yours but it’s was I in closed n it was for scaling fish.
That's very interesting. I really assume this one was always intended for walnuts but the guy I bought it from wasn't sure. Maybe it had a different purpose before I got ahold of it...
I like this guy ! 😃
Thank you!
Thanks for sharing I have black walnut tree in my back yard and looking at ur video is very helpful love it
Thank you, I hope you've got hand cracked black walnuts on your brownies now.
I love black walnuts
Me too!
Enjoyed very much. I'm always looking for a better way to do things. Take care.
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Thanks! I don't know if it's a better way but it sure is fun.
Loved the video! You’re very handy!
Thank you. Thanks for taking the time to watch. It's fun to tinker on these projects.
That was really good and interesting.
Thank you! Hope you find a method that works you.
Everyone is a teacher you just gotta get folks to take interest in what you are doing. I once put up a privacy fence for a fella, he was in his 80's, he worked with IBM in the early years. I wanted to sit down an chat with him, however time was short and he passed about 6 months later. Hope all is well, how is the last garden doing? Thanks for the upload.
We're ok around here. Hope you're well too. I think about that all the time. There were people who knew so much about this stuff who are now long past. I'd have so many questions for some of these guys now. Now people are asking me sometimes and that's scary. We're alright and garden went fine.
Glad I found your channel brother.
Thanks @unclelarry9138, Good to have you!
Love your videos! Any chance you've got some Butternut trees on that farm? Those are mighty tasty, too! 🙂
Thank you. They are. We had one but it didn't make it. They don't seem to like it around our place. Either too harsh of winters on the younger trees or too much harassment from the squirrels.
Love it.what great machine.
Thank you for finding us!
It was very interesting. Thanks.
Appreciate you watching.
There’s on happy man !
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Thanks Bruce! Yep there's nothing better than projects around the farm. And when you're cracking the walnuts you know the brownies are coming.
Great video, now I have a better idea what to do with all the black walnuts each year!
Thanks for finding us. Hope you find a faster way that us to crack them.
Thanks for sharing your videos and keep them coming please.
We're happy to and we have a lot of things recorded so hope to get on a better pace here. Appreciate you sticking around.
Wish I had one of those walnut shellers
It sure does help. Some fellows use an old crank corn sheller to get the husks off.
Love your video!❤
Just found you. Enjoyed the video...especially the opening. Saw the Minneapolis Moline tractor. I collect them and implements.
I sure love Molines. My minnies need some refreshing. Tell me more about your tractor hobby.
@OzziesOddities I have been featured in successful farming magazine with my 1954 ZB. It Won a place in top 5 of 1500 entries for a photo contest. Had my UDLX and my story featured in Goodyear Working Tires magazine, and had my 41 ZTE on steel wheels on the Dupont Collector Trading cards, which I bought from Lyle Dumont. I have 2-1953 ZBUs to restore yet and another 1954 ZBU, and a 1951 UBU to do. I have miscellaneous MM planters, 2 manure spreaders, cultivator attachments and soooo much more. I have signs and print advertising and memorabilia you'd get from dealers. I'll be 57 next spring and live in Central Iowa. Nothing like the MM bug.
Wow, people say I'm deep into the tractor hobby. But your accomplishments sound incredible. Do you do your own restorations? I fixed up my molines the best I could when I got them. I was young. Couldn't even afford the decals. I made stencils for them. Worked the heck out of them. I still get so much joy from giving them a little work. They deserve some love. I've been fixing to get them in the shop next. No real fancy restoration, but get them cleaned up and fixed up.
@OzziesOddities I had them restored. But since then I've evolved into cars. I'm doing body work and welding patches, but likely will hire the painting done.
Sounds like one heck of a collection!@@pnmholdings4635
Love the vids. Good old farm smarts
I don't know if it's smarts. But we're persistent. Thanks for finding us.
Thanks for your knowledge and enthusiasm. Keep them coming
Well thanks! I don't know if this video does much to display knowledge. But it sure is a fun makeshift experiment. It's funny I've watched a number of black walnut processing videos, and I don't think any of us have it all that figured out.
@@OzziesOddities love to see your videos come up on my subscription list, like looking at a deposit text from the bank! BTW I bought 20 black walnut saplings so in years o come I hope I remember your process. Your videos mean more to people than you will ever know, thanks again!!