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Post by wayne on Oct 31, 2007 15:39:17 GMT -5
Does any else harvest Walnuts for sale? I'm trying to find a more back friendly way to harvest the nuts. Old age is getting to me I guess.
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Post by Delmar Morgan (mask bandit) on Nov 1, 2007 6:59:44 GMT -5
Wayne,I saw a woman picking up chestnuts one day and it looked like she was using a tennis ball picker uppers .I'm trying to find someone around my area to who buys walnuts but closes place is about a hour and a half drive away and their paying $11 dollars a hundred pounds shelled and they shell them. Does anyone know of anybody that buys them around the Clark county area.
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Post by wayne on Nov 1, 2007 14:25:26 GMT -5
Hammond's has about 10 sites around the state. Here's the url for the site locator. At $10 a hundred that's $200.00 a ton or $0.10 a pound. And them darn things are heavier than you thing green. I don't mind the harvest just the wear and tear on my old back. I need a contraption that scoops them up without digging up the grass. A couple thousand can get to ya'. www.hammonsproducts.com/hulling_locations.asp?ie_key=64AB0795F8F04004A9071E352A901D12 |
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Post by mjkluesener on Nov 2, 2007 7:44:31 GMT -5
Got to agree with Bob, unless you’re doing it for the excise it’s not worth it.
Better off flipping burger or something. If you lookin to be outdoors I'm sure a local farmer could use some help.
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Post by wayne on Nov 2, 2007 9:15:12 GMT -5
Like Bob we have nuts everywhere, and I'd as soon sell 'em as anything. Have to pick 'em up to get around the yard.
The Dep.of Ag. folks have a nice paper that shows why there are no real commercial walnut farms around. For most of the reasons mentioned.
I may have to invent something for the tractor that will roll them into the bucket like a golf ball retriever.
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Post by greyscat on Jan 18, 2008 2:23:12 GMT -5
i got to feedin the squirrels last fall and got them trained to gather walnuts for me...no really. then i made me a series of wire yokes so i could control how they moved across the surface of the ground. they didn't like the yokes too well. there was alot of resistance when i fastened the yokes over their shoulders. finally got about 50 of them hooked up and gathering. i just about broke even due to the cost of stitches i had to get at the vets office...
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Post by wayne on Jan 18, 2008 15:08:53 GMT -5
Yet me know when you get the bugs worked out. I'll ship down a dozen for training.
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Post by greyscat on Jan 19, 2008 2:12:04 GMT -5
will do wayne. workin on the lead squirrel now... greyscat
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Post by mattbredeweg on Jan 22, 2008 18:59:16 GMT -5
 I've got a Amish guy here that buys Blk walnuts. He's got the machine that hulls them. I can fill my truck heaping full in about 3 to 4 hours. I've got one of those rollers ( nutwizards) makes picking up nuts easy. I've got people calling me to get their nuts. I get about $75 -$90 for a truck load. $25/hour minus gas not bad $$...
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Post by wayne on Feb 20, 2008 20:33:26 GMT -5
I may just do that if they don't run Pedro back to Mexico first.
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Post by mattbredeweg on Feb 21, 2008 15:48:33 GMT -5
How many trees ya got Bob...size of the trees? Might have to work something out with Amish guy, do you have somewhere to put excess hulls, might be worth jacking with, heck-- might want to get your own machine and couple of mexicans......sell direct to place in MS.  |
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Post by mattbredeweg on Feb 22, 2008 22:29:55 GMT -5
When mid- Sept. comes around we'll have to talk then, I'll try to locate a machine either here or one closer to your place...
Walnuts seem to go in cycles, producing every other yr. was this yr a producer for you? Or is it going to be this yr??
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Post by mattbredeweg on Feb 23, 2008 10:35:39 GMT -5
Just keep an eye on the trees and we'll see.. This past yrs drought affected nut production also, just have to see what happens this fall... |
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I've got a Amish guy here that buys Blk walnuts. He's got the machine that hulls them. I can fill my truck heaping full in about 3 to 4 hours. I've got one of those rollers ( nutwizards) makes picking up nuts easy. I've got people calling me to get their nuts. I get about $75 -$90 for a truck load. $25/hour minus gas not bad $$...