Simple Walnut Huller And Cracker

Simple Walnut Huller And Cracker FARM HOME Miscellaneous Larry Palmby Dover Minn built a walnut huller by mounting a wheel hub and tire on a metal frame The tire is shaft-driven by an orbit motor Walnuts are fed into a metal hopper and drop down between the tire and a length of channel iron The de-hulled walnuts fall into a pail “It really works good and it’s fast – I can dump a 5-gal pail of nuts into the hopper and in less than 1 minute 90 percent of the nuts will be out of their husks ” says Palmby “I rotate the wheel at 16 rpm’s By loosening a double-nutted bolt I can vary the gap between the tire and channel iron according to the size of the walnuts ” He dumps the cracked walnuts onto a homemade 4 by 5-ft sorting table to be hand sorted The de-hulled nuts go down one hole into a pail and the hulls go into another hole When the nuts are dry he cracks them using a homemade cracker It consists of a metal frame with a 10-in long bolt that has a 4-bladed knife screwed onto the bottom of it To crack Palmby sets the nut under the knife and then hits the top of the bolt with a hammer Contact: FARM SHOW Followup Larry Palmby 607 County Road 10 S E Dover Minn 55929 ph 507 273-4206

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