2022 - Volume #46, Issue #4, Page #19
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He Cracks Walnuts With A Log Splitter
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“The idea came about one day when I was splitting wood and a walnut got smashed between the log and the base of the splitter,” Paumier says. “I wondered if the splitter couldn’t be used to crack walnuts. Everyone looks at it like I’m crazy. But it beats pounding my thumb with a hammer on a piece of railroad iron.”
The scrap iron device has been cracking nuts for 10 years. Angled wings guide the plunger, and square welds at the bottom stop the plunger from totally smashing the nuts. The 5-in. square space holds 12 or more walnuts at a time. A bar on the opposite end hooks onto the hydraulic splitter, replacing the splitter head.
“After cracking, I reverse the splitter to pull the plunger back. I place a 5-gal. bucket under the splitter beam to catch the walnuts,” Paumier says. “The nice thing is you don’t have to do anything with your hands, except put the walnuts in.”
The 94-year-old gets hulled black walnuts and cracks a bushel at a time and picks out the nutmeats in his free time.
“I eat it as fast as I pick it,” Paumier says with a laugh.
Contact: FARM SHOW Followup, Bernard Paumier, 10335 Heimberger Rd. NW, Baltimore, Ohio 43105 (ph 740-862-8262).
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