walnuts...

Someone had to give the squirrel the single raisin? The old man hates squirrels. Did the old lady take the mean old man "out" and give the squirrel the last raisin? Hummm???:)

Regards,

Chris and Cheryl

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Humm moral of the story is to keep your pants on and watch your potatoe! Damn squirrels! Hummm!

Regards,

Chris and Cheryl

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Mike, I have a movie for you! It's only 10 mins. Watch it and give me a moral... Wink

https://youtu.be/e_ofen9SDeM?si=G3RgARwZseokhDy3

Edited by DiyDave - 06 Oct 2023 at 5:27pm

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Five LARGE red squirrels have taken up quarters in trees by our drive, have been planting/burying walnuts like mad here.

I had issues several years ago with the walnuts as well so I contacted a local pest control person and put in a request for him to relocate a couple squirrels to my place the next time he caught a pair, They have been fun to watch gathering their bounty and bouncing from tree to tree till they tried to follow the power lines to the house then we had words which resulted in putting tin flashing 18 inches around where the power enters the house, only took 1 attempt for them ninjas to try and fail at gettin into the house, wish I had my camera out, other that they have been great at picking up the walnuts

Yeah, I've tried one of those. It does work okay, and the lawn vacuums don't. When I said "a dozen" bucket loads, I meant tractor buckets. I've got too many, to use the roller type picker-uppers.

Edited by GSTROM99 - 27 Sep 2023 at 12:13pm

Yep, it's that time of year again. I've got about a dozen of them dang black walnut trees. I HATE them. The crows seem to like to eat the soft meaty outsides, but I don't have enough squirrels to use up what's left over. Time to get out the shop vac, extension cords and loader. I usually get a dozen of so bucket loads, dumping them on the burn pile.

Edited by GSTROM99 - 27 Sep 2023 at 11:03am

We had the same nut cracker. My brother has it now. Would like to find one of my own.

If ignorance is bliss, than happy days are here again.

Yeah Mike,that looks like it would work well. Thanks for sharing

Couple of pictures of the nut-cracker. This thing works great!

Ray, I love black walnuts, wouldn't walk across the kitchen for an English version! They are easy to crack but why bother, I'll leave them in the mixed nuts and eat the almonds, filberts, and other good stuff.

Ray54,

I think it has to do with that they're planted in 2 corners of that farm and have corn & soybeans growing within a few feet of them so I'm sure they get a good dose of herbicides on occasion. They were volunteer trees from someones yard.

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mdm1 wrote:

Me thinks it's easier to just buy some nuts!

I would guaranty you are right. I have picked English walnuts after the husk is off and dry and still leave them sit in a bucket until the mice get in them and then burn the remains. As we don't use that many nuts. And the English walnut are way less than 1/2 as hard to crack and shell as black walnuts.

But you all have me drooling for a good English walnut or a pecan pie. Here my cook uses them both the same just which ever is handy.

For 50 years English walnuts were a good paying crop in California. The mechanization started making it hard to compete in my non irrigated side hill country. Put then organic came to be a big thing and that made this area competitive again. But those crafty Chinese were watching 20 years already. They had ever farmer with the right climate plant English walnuts as shade trees. So they have taken the European market and walnut prices have crashed here. It has cost more to pick them than the selling price the last 2 years.

But me thinks it pays to be very, very careful if you think Chinese walnuts are organic...........................no matter what the package says. LOL

Edited by Ray54 - 12 Sep 2023 at 1:20pm

Me thinks it's easier to just buy some nuts!

Everything is impossible until someone does it! WD45-trip loader 1947 c w/woods belly mower, 1939 B, #3 sickle mower 1944 B, 2 1948 G's. Misc other equipment that my wife calls JUNK!

Black walnuts are really good eating if you've the patience to get them out of those shells!

I found that nut cracker now if I can just get the pictures added one of these days.

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