Totally Nuts

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Ka-Ho-Nahs :cheese:

Yesssssssssssssssssssssssssssss

Cheap $$$$ wise, but after humping 9000 pounds of these suckers into the basement in various sized barrels, my back is telling this lady that she been doing too much.


Ms Snowy
 
imacman said:
j-takeman said:
Maybe I can get the squirrel's to save the acorn shells for me? hehe!
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LAST year you could have had as many tons of acorns as you could store....the crop was UNBELIEVABLE. It made the rear tires on my lawn tractor just spin going up a small incline near the tree.

This year, you'd be hard pressed to heat much....a very "off" year for acorns.

That said, next year if the crop is good, I'm going to scoop up 30-40 lbs of them, set the stove for cherry pits, and see what happens.
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You might be better off leaving the acorns on the ground and sit on the back deck with a 7mm mag and a beer. Venison for all winter!
 
Snowy Rivers said:
Ka-Ho-Nahs :cheese:

Yesssssssssssssssssssssssssssss

Cheap $$$$ wise, but after humping 9000 pounds of these suckers into the basement in various sized barrels, my back is telling this lady that she been doing too much.


Ms Snowy
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I still continue to shake my head at the stuff you can do! Just damn amazing!
 
Just goes to show that we should have married a girl from oregon. Then we never would have to worry about unloading 4 tons of pellets. Just kidding wouldn't really turn my wife in. You deserve an award for cutting down on the heating bills.
 
I try hard.

Trained to be an automotive technician back in 1970-71 in college, then off to GM training school for a while.

Could not find a decent paying job so I hired out with a machinery building company and worked in the wood products machinery business.

Hired out as a grunt (helper) was the only girl they had on staff. Earned my journeyman ticket in 4 years.

Moved on into the machine shop and served an abbreviated apprenticeship in machining.

By year six I was a supervisor in the fab shop and then went on to be a "Field service engineer"


Did a stint in the Hydraulics shop as well as the electrical shop.

Did all sorts of wiring, mostly 440V 3 phase stuff but did some 600V 3 phase.

Done a whole lot of a lot of things.

Currently I am an owner operator (trucker) and do heavy haul (local hauls)

Life has been interesting

Snowy/Robyn
 
Hmmmmmm

L A D Y ?????? Wasssat ???

May be a female, but that Lady stuff is probably stretching things a bit. :cheese:

Snowy
 
Snowy, So would my whitfield wp2 insert be able to swallow up hazelnuts without jamming up my auger, if so, you are freaking brilliant, and ahead of the game for what you are blowing away monetary wise in winter heating cost. If gonna start looking for a nut plant up here in washington, if not take a scenic drive to oregon..;)
 
Emilio said:
Snowy, So would my whitfield wp2 insert be able to swallow up hazelnuts without jamming up my auger, if so, you are freaking brilliant, and ahead of the game for what you are blowing away monetary wise in winter heating cost. If gonna start looking for a nut plant up here in washington, if not take a scenic drive to oregon..;)
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You gotta live in D.C. to have an unlimited supply of nuts!
 
tjnamtiw said:
Emilio said:
Snowy, So would my whitfield wp2 insert be able to swallow up hazelnuts without jamming up my auger, if so, you are freaking brilliant, and ahead of the game for what you are blowing away monetary wise in winter heating cost. If gonna start looking for a nut plant up here in washington, if not take a scenic drive to oregon..;)
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You gotta live in D.C. to have an unlimited supply of nuts!
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Nope sorry, every state has its unending supply. State legislature, local town and school boards. Plenty of nuts all around.
 
I am more interested in the cherry pit thing, I have access to a plant that processes 10,000 tons of cherries per year and am currently trying to figure out the mass drying process and marketable side to cherry pits in the PNW. I have some friends at WSU and he has friends at U of I looking into this for me as well. So if anyone has any insight or thinks pits would be a good fuel for them let me know. I really don't know what cost would be at this time simply because I am a rookie at this. The goal is to be equal to or less than wood pellets.
 
I use just the shells that have been cracked and then run through the "Trash Fan" on the way to the waste bin/hopper.

The stuff is no bigger than a finger nail.

Whole nuts would likely Jam things.

The crushed shells auger real nice with only an occasional "Crunch or Snap) when some gets broken by the auger flights passing the tube and breaking some shells as they pass.


Walnut shells work well too, just have to be broken up into small pieces is all.

Snowy
 
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