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Sep 25, 2012#1

lawn mower fanatic

There is this lawn I mow with a walnut tree just a little bit in their neighbor's yard. It drops TONS and I mean TONS of walnuts into their yard, and after a storm came the other week, it dropped even more! It is very hard to mow, because the mower bounces on all the walnuts. They are down far enough that they don't get chopped up by the mower, but if I try to turn around and a walnut is right in front of my tire, the mower won't move and I end up hurting myself. I almost slipped and fell from a walnut today. Next time I mow their lawn, I am bringing a rake, blower, and lots of bags. I WILL CONQUER THE WALNUTS!!! :laughing: (Attached are some pics of the yard)

Sep 25, 2012#2

Carscw

lawn mower fanatic said:
There is this lawn I mow with a walnut tree just a little bit in their neighbor's yard. It drops TONS and I mean TONS of walnuts into their yard, and after a storm came the other week, it dropped even more! It is very hard to mow, because the mower bounces on all the walnuts. They are down far enough that they don't get chopped up by the mower, but if I try to turn around and a walnut is right in front of my tire, the mower won't move and I end up hurting myself. I almost slipped and fell from a walnut today. Next time I mow their lawn, I am bringing a rake, blower, and lots of bags. I WILL CONQUER THE WALNUTS!!! :laughing: (Attached are some pics of the yard)
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I have a walnut tree would love to have got some walnuts but the damn squirrels got to them first. I was told if you shot a few squirrels the rest will leave. It's not true

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Sep 25, 2012#3

midnite rider

If the world gives you lemons make lemonade, if the world gives you walnuts, never heard of walnutade, oh well, bag um and sell um. :laughing::laughing:

Sep 25, 2012#4

exotion

A hard sturdy metal rake. I wouldnt use a plastic rake as it will probably brake as your trying to dig them out.

I dont sell them i usually just throw them in the back of my truck and throw them away with the grass.

Sep 26, 2012#5

P

possum

Easy to pile up in a hurry in grass like that. Get the excess with a good wide heavy plastic rake and the partly buried or stuck ones with a long handle 3 tine. Most folks here in town never do anything with them. The tree rats work them all fall and winter. Come spring they grind them up a bit as they mow over them and the grass looks poor around the trees. One fellow i know uses his golf clubs to putt them into a nice pile then picks them up. I have three of those trees, I just pick them up every few days. They can be a pain in bermuda grass. The tree rats here bury them evereywhere, and dig up each others and rebury them as well. Every tree of any size in the neighborhood has piles of broken ones under them from the little devils chewing away on them all winter. Every spring I work up hundreds of buried walnuts in my small garden that it would seem they have forgotten. But no, as soon as you plant the garden they show right back up and begin digging to find the few you missed tilling up. I know the answer to the problem is two stroke smoke and wood chips but my wife thinks she loves the trees. One fine day though I am going to cut them right down to the ground if I live long enough.

Oct 1, 2012#6

lawn mower fanatic

Today was the day I was going to clean up the walnuts on the ground in the one customer's yard. It was horrible! Not that it was hard.....it started out well. But then after only getting half a paper bag full of walnuts, I realized there were these bugs biting me. I brushed them off, and my leg was bloody. Then it became a lump. I got tons of those. I think they were biting flies or something that are attracted to the walnuts. Anyway, I think I am going to just deal with the walnuts....because I like my legs not being eaten by bugs! :laughing:

Oct 2, 2012#7

Thegeek

Maybe they were after your nuts! :laughing:

Oct 2, 2012#8

BKBrown

Pickup Wizard For Small Fruits and Nuts (3/4-inch diameter minimum) | A.M. Leonard, Inc.

Have not used one, but just came across this in a catalog this weekend ???

Oct 2, 2012#9

lawn mower fanatic

Thegeek said:
Maybe they were after your nuts! :laughing:

I think so! :laughing:

Oct 2, 2012#10

lawn mower fanatic

BKBrown said:
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Pickup Wizard For Small Fruits and Nuts (3/4-inch diameter minimum) | A.M. Leonard, Inc.

Have not used one, but just came across this in a catalog this weekend ???

Hmmm....that's interesting! Do you push it around or does it attach to a mower??

Oct 2, 2012#11

exotion

push more than likely

Oct 2, 2012#12

BKBrown

From what I understand you roll it over the items and the pressure allows items into the center.
Like raking - not pulled with mower or tractor.

Oct 2, 2012#13

midnite rider

Nuttin to it! :laughing: :thumbsup: :laughing:

Oct 8, 2012#14

M

msaeger

http://www.nutwizard.com/prod01.htm

These look easier than a rake.

Oct 9, 2012#15

S

SeniorCitizen

After you get them collected you need a huller. :biggrin: The hulls drop into a trash box and the nuts travel out the chute into the nut box. Hulls about a grocery bag of nuts in about 5 minutes. Takes 3 passes on average depending on moisture content of the hull material.

Oct 19, 2012#16

Bomba

Hello! Im sorry to hear about your problem but I feel your pain. I have the same problem. I've been told that mine are hickory nuts that fall from my trees but they look the same as yours. I just bought the property a few months ago, so all of this is new to me. I have slipped a few times while walking over them, but my main problem is when I try to cut grass near them with my zero turn I can hear the nuts cracking and damaging my blades I'm sure. I guess I need to buy a jack so I can look under the mower and see if the blades have been damaged. Also, as I'm sure you know, they make your lawn look messy and wet. I have a 5 acre lot, so I'm not looking forward to raking! Lol!

Oct 19, 2012#17

lidnr2

I also have a walnut tree in the yard, next my house and drive way. there used to be 2 trees next to each other. As luck would have it, lightening took down one of them about 12 years ago. The squirrel problem I had migrated into my attic. they used my attic to store their nuts! Even chased me out of it. Peanuts, a shotgun, new roof and soffit cured that problem. Major wind storm blew walnuts out of tree and onto the hood of my Blazer! Looked like hail damage. I really hate this tree...

Oct 19, 2012#18

lawn mower fanatic

lidnr2 said:
I also have a walnut tree in the yard, next my house and drive way. there used to be 2 trees next to each other. As luck would have it, lightening took down one of them about 12 years ago. The squirrel problem I had migrated into my attic. they used my attic to store their nuts! Even chased me out of it. Peanuts, a shotgun, new roof and soffit cured that problem. Major wind storm blew walnuts out of tree and onto the hood of my Blazer! Looked like hail damage. I really hate this tree...

I feel your pain! :redface:

Oct 19, 2012#19

NewportNic

SandburRanch, is this a commercial unit or did you make it yourself? We have mostly English Walnuts that come out of the hulls when they're mature, but do struggle with the Black & Carpathian varieties.

SandburRanch said:
After you get them collected you need a huller. :biggrin: The hulls drop into a trash box and the nuts travel out the chute into the nut box. Hulls about a grocery bag of nuts in about 5 minutes. Takes 3 passes on average depending on moisture content of the hull material.

Oct 19, 2012#20

S

SeniorCitizen

NewportNic said:
SandburRanch, is this a commercial unit or did you make it yourself? We have mostly English Walnuts that come out of the hulls when they're mature, but do struggle with the Black & Carpathian varieties.

My MIL ordered it from a guy that was building them in AR about 30 years ago. She was an avid gardener and probably saw it for sale some gardening magazine.

Some would find it a little strange but it has Oak bearings. Oak bearings were common in Baldwin combine straw walkers in the mid 1900s. I wish I could find someone to give it to. I'll never use it anymore and it's just in my way.

Oct 20, 2012#21

B

bodean

I'd be willing to trade a chestnut problem for your walnut problem. With chestnuts, you get these prickly little needles all over the pods that come back to haunt you the next time you kneel down on your knee. Talk about painful! The nuts do make for nice fireworks when you pile them and burn them with the hulls. I have both chestnut and walnut trees, but I'll take walnuts over chestnuts any day.

Oct 20, 2012#22

graydog

BKBrown Have not used one said:
I have one I use to pickup pecans. It works great.
Small Holt's Nut Wizard Picker Upper for Pecans Shotgun Shells | eBay

Oct 20, 2012#23

B

bodean

graydog said:
I have one I use to pickup pecans. It works great.
Small Holt's Nut Wizard Picker Upper for Pecans Shotgun Shells | eBay

Those type pickers won't work well on walnuts. The nuts need to be smooth shell nuts for them to work, or the wires will just bite into the ridges. But, if you have smooth shell nuts to pick up, then they work great. I have one that I bought from the local Tractor Supply store for around $18 in 2010. It works by stabbing the spring wire bottom over the nut which then holds them in the built in box until its half full.

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