Ken W Wilson wrote:Ray, do you have your own machine shop or did you convert something else into a cracker?
I have my own farm shop so I made one from scratch kind of based on a design that a guy has a YouTube
video of where he's building one it looks like for English walnuts, mine is
alot bigger and heavier duty . I bought a drill cracker a few years back it's a lot like the Davebilt cracker except you put a power drill hooked up to it for power and it works at First for the initial cracking but when you run it through a second time the nuts don't
feed well. If you want to see my cracker go to YouTube and type in rays black walnut cracker. My dad came over and made a video of my set up. To me the other major factor is sorting nut meats so I built a separator table that my cracker dumps into. I still need a further sorting method so if anyone has some ideas I am all ears. Some guys I know are thinking of using carding cloth to pierce the meats for further separation.