I can't believe I only now found this video, Ray. I love your setup. Next year I'll try plain water separation and see how it goes.
@michiganhay7844
2 жыл бұрын
Let me know I’ve seen your videos using the salt solution
@josephballard8404
10 ай бұрын
Great job! You may need a microphone cover for the wind! Thanks!
@Ericedgin
Жыл бұрын
Would you show how your design of black walnut works? I'm intrigued and would love to see the inner workings.
@CrookedWoodsFamilyOrchard
3 жыл бұрын
We just planted 10 walnut trees, only a dozen years or more before will get to taste a nut and come up with some sort of cracking separator process of my own
@michiganhay7844
3 жыл бұрын
If you graft some you’ll get nuts in about two or three years
@GosselinFarmsEdGosselin
3 жыл бұрын
Hahaha.. you said nut oil.... Is that like the nut juice all the veggies drink?? Lol (Sorry Ray, I just couldn't help myself 🤣😂) Pretty interesting information and setup!!
@michiganhay7844
3 жыл бұрын
Gosselin Farms Ed Gosselin I get accused of being a hippie sometimes
@GosselinFarmsEdGosselin
3 жыл бұрын
@@michiganhay7844 you are more of a naturalist... You live a real life with the rest of us, but you are a little closer to the things that nature has just laying around that we can eat... 👍👌
@michiganhay7844
3 жыл бұрын
Gosselin Farms Ed Gosselin That’s a really good way to put it I’m gonna save that terminology thanks
@GosselinFarmsEdGosselin
3 жыл бұрын
@@michiganhay7844 best way I can describe you, from what I know about you 👍😁 Too many people are so far removed from the earth and what she has for us 😪
@steadytalkingtv181
3 жыл бұрын
Damn , cowboy your aim was on point to build the machine . 👍 . You a scientist cowboy . Hey machine is really awsome . Catch you later
@johnoneil1534
2 жыл бұрын
Like your video.. But a shield on your pto shaft Could save your life someday🙏🙏
@michaelholm71
3 жыл бұрын
Good work on a great design, Ray -- Your new cracker has some excellent qualities: compact and portable, pto-driven (no additional engine to maintain), simple (no belts or pullies), efficient (single pass through) and successful (cleanly dislodges nuts from shells).
@michaelholm71
3 жыл бұрын
For someone without a shaker table like you built, I might try letting the cracked nuts fall directly onto a hardware cloth screen and try separating the fines from the quarters right out of the cracker, emptying the screen in batches into a 'quarters bin'.
@michaelholm71
3 жыл бұрын
Thank you for the video walk-through and great ideas, Ray.
@michaelholm71
3 жыл бұрын
Also, for the sake of other readers, I found clean nut/shell separation with the quarters by passing the nut/shell mixture through a brine solution with 3/4 cup salt dissolved per gallon of water. The nuts floated and the shells sank. However, this only works cleanly when cracking nuts that have first passed the float test, since floating nuts later yield floating shells with the nuts in the brine. I did a graduated study to come to that brine concentration for my nuts this year, but the goal is to find the right balance that cleanly separates nuts from shells -- too little salt and everything sinks (as in water), too much salt and everything floats. You can then rinse the nuts and dry or roast them for storage, or leave them unrinsed to eat salted!
@michiganhay7844
3 жыл бұрын
Michael Holm that makes sense
@kathleentracy1864
3 жыл бұрын
Nice shirt
@kathleentracy1864
3 жыл бұрын
So very very cool
@agirlandhercows501
3 жыл бұрын
this is a cool process never seen it before
@kathleentracy1864
3 жыл бұрын
Awesome invention
@OzziesOddities
2 жыл бұрын
Wow, that cracker is pretty nice. I'm trying to think of old farm machines that would crack nuts more quickly. You've sure got it figured out for high volume. I can stand to sort them by hand, I just need a little quicker way of cracking them. I can sure learn a lot from you in 10-20 minutes. Thanks for making these videos!
@michiganhay7844
2 жыл бұрын
I’m always wondered if an old hammer or roller mill would crack them
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