[Sca-cooks] Walnuts and nut cracking devices

[Dan Phelps]

Was written:
>
> A friend of mine in SE Ohio has an interesting device, basicly a corn
> stripper- strips the kernels off the cob. It's about 36 inches high, with
a
> weighted wheel, and you feed the corn in one end, and the kernels come out
> of one spout and the cobs out another- looks kinda like a big coffee mill.
> When he gets walnuts, he tightens down an adjustment, and it does a really
> nice job or stripping the green rind off of the walnuts, too- he then lets
> them dry for a season, and has lots of walnuts in the shell every fall.
> Works very well, but trying to find one up in this area might be a
problem-
> you'd need to know what they look like, and get it before some antique
> collecting yahoo decidede it would look great out in hir garden, and let
it
> rust and rot to death...
>
I don't guarantee that they have what you want but if anyone has a shot at
it it's Cumberland General Store.  Check out their site and see.

http://www.sces.k12.tn.us/store.html>

Daniel>
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