Thread: anyone harvesting walnuts

Harvested alot as a kid,lemon juice will remove the stains from your hands.

I've a English walnut and a Black walnut tree. Neither one produced much this year.

the first yr i did this i dident use gloves and ( i just did a dozen for the hulls for my trap dye) and i dotn know what was blacker my hands or my traps lol good to hear im not alone doing this i just hatewasting a good resorce so i figured id just do a few to have for thanksgivign and xmas when the family is over, i belive i have black walnuts but whats the diffrence bewtween an english and a black walnut? i know im the back woods hunter/trapper and i should know this lol guess im not the grizzy addams id like to be

I still hunt (ducks) and did some trapping back in the day (muskrats @ 40cents each)
But have never heard of trap dye,what is it?.

you cook your footholds in it and it stains them black then you wax them so the fire smooth under the dirt and other crude that is on top of them when you make a set, the dye is just a mix of walnut hauls and water cooked for a few hrs and then you add wax to the pot and let it melt then pull ur traps up slowly and they are dark in corlor and have a thin coat of trap wax on them to protect them

English are the larger commercial type nut. The black are the smaller wild nut.

Originally Posted by Deerhunter1995

you cook your footholds in it and it stains them black then you wax them so the fire smooth under the dirt and other crude that is on top of them when you make a set, the dye is just a mix of walnut hauls and water cooked for a few hrs and then you add wax to the pot and let it melt then pull ur traps up slowly and they are dark in corlor and have a thin coat of trap wax on them to protect them

Thx,my old man just used to smoke them in a pine pitch fire.