Dad and I also used the hand crank corn sheller to get the husk of black walnuts. Fed in one on top of another as fast as we could get them in, no hopper.
That was when we were going to crack them for our own consumption.
Then for a few years a local fruit tree nursery was paying us for them and paid if without husk.
We hauled them home by the 1973 International pickup truck piled as high as we dared.
Then jacked up one rear tire of the CC 125 and let the air out. Made a 2x6 with side boards into a ramp/chute of sorts under the spinning tire.
We shoveled walnuts onto the ramp/chute, nuts went under tire and shot out at a hunk of plywood propped up about 15 feet downstream.
Between getting squeezed and going splat against the plywood, the husk was off.
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