Richard Hixenbaugh

Piteba. The standard red one from ebay. I have used it to extract black walnut oil and it works really well. I also have a few hundred black walnuts left to shell. Im getting a good amount of oil from them. I'm just not sure what to do with it. Could I maybe use the leftovers for making pellets? I have a pellet stove and was thinking of getting a pellet mill. I have an unlimited supply of sawdust. Would the acorns in their raw cracked form make a good binding agent? or maybe make some fuel logs out of them and sawdust? I'm currently making my own charcoal and have made a homemade press that produces nice square logs but need a better binder. I wonder if the acorns after extracting the oil woild make a good pellet by itself? sooooo many questions...... currently crying my crushed acorns infront of my pellet stove inside a piece of unused cheese cloth.

I have a few quick questions. I have been doing a lot of research on acorns and such. I have literally tons of acorns thumb size and bigger mostly from white oaks at my disposal. I have cracked and leached about two gallons of nut meat so far and I'm waiting for it to dry. I'm going to be running it through an oil press to see if anything comes out. So my questions are is there any way to make a profit from them? I have enough this year that I can crack constantly until next fall. I would like to be able to offer the flour and oil that I should be getting from them to people that do not have access to them at a reasonable price. If its possible what should the cost be for flour and or oil? I do leave plenty for the local wildlife by the way and plan on putting the extracted nuts that i get oil from, back into the woods. birds love it. I'm in WV and would even consider selling uncracked or shelled nuts. Any ideas or suggestions please?