I’ve got 9 trees on our lot, my neighbor has 7 or 8, the church across the street has given permission to harvest their 4 trees, and the city has an old house next to the church with 5 trees. All within 100 yards of my front door. Right now I have 60 lbs collected just from my yard - and I had to leave 3 of mine because I haven’t cut the grass under them LOL This is the first year I’ve ever cared about them - but your spouse getting cancer changes lots of things 😇 You start to see each day as a blessing, and pecans becomes a gift from God. If nothing else, they’re free food - and at the prices people are willing to pay these days, well, I don’t profess to know how God works…. But maybe found money is part of his plan, too.
@@NannetteBlair I like to make cheese pecan cookies each year at Xmas, but when I saw the price of pecans it the store ($13/lb), well, I about sh|t my britches. Then it hit me: hey dummy - you are surrounded by pecan trees. Literally! Get off your lazy buster and harvest them!” So here we are. Love you and thanks
Thanks for the video, it’s interesting to see this tool. Perhaps you can make a two minute version with just the intro to the tool and the shelling procedure?
Thank you. I collected lots of p'cons from a native pecan tree just growing alone on a local street. They are a goodly size, about first digit of adult make thumb size. Letting them air dry for about a week allows the kernel to shrink enough to be loose. They are tasty too. The shells are easy to crack with minimal damage to the kernel. I use a 10 in groove joint tool. It allows for good control and the long handles provide good leverage. I will attemp to germinate about 25 or more of them. But my research about the process is just beginning. 😊
Awesome! I learn everything through trial and error but I have many, many, many volunteer pecan trees growing up and around my existing pecan trees. It’s almost a weed here. Lol.
Back in the 80s my parents moved to Missouri and somewhere they found a nutsheller that was powered by a rubber band. It shattered the shell and the meat came out whole without being broken. It worked on lots of different types of nuts. They no longer have it, I don't know why, but I've been looking for one like that for the last 30 years. You could shell nuts in about 10 seconds. You would putt a nut in the chamber and close the cover, then pull the hammer back and let it fly. And then open the cover, take out the meat, and the shell fragments would fall into the bottom chamber. The cover was like a piece of pipe that slid back and forth on a track. The rubber band powered Hammer was a piece of wood on the track. The hammer would fly forward and hit a metal anvil or spacer with a cone shape hitting the nut and shattering it.
great tip to use the TX pecan sheller once promos ended after about 5 minutes plus- thank you, because I have poked my fingers to pieces using a sheller and picker to dig out the meat.
I love pecans and I live in pecan heaven down here on the Alabama gulf coast on semmes/mobile area and almost every single store and corner has pecan trees a bunch of churches are filled with pecan trees, they taste like sweet butter and a good amount of oil they are so good down here they are so oily and have an amazing butter taste. And all the parks here have atleast a tree or 5 and one park has 65 trees, I got a roller thing that is like a oval round shaped basket on a stick and you roll it and it picks up pecans and any other type of tree but you gotta pick off the ground but it's so easy you just roll it till it full spread the wires apart to empty then keep rolling you can get a few buckets in about 15 minutes with this tool and it will save your back
Hey thanks for the question. It’s at the minute mark 11:45 and in the description but it is called the Texan Nut Sheller and also know as the York Nut Sheller made in San Angelo Texas... Which is where my Grandparents lived. It’s kind of one of the best kept secrets of Texas. Lol
@NannetteBlair Thanks. I have seen shell crackers but never anything to do the whole job. If you have seen one that does it all, let me know what it is called.
You can't or don't pronounce pecan (pecaun or peacon) it's pronounced pecan (just like it spelled )(pee- can) for those of you who can not read english either.
Are you going to go hunting for pecans?
We just bought a new property with one huge pecan tree.
@@bryanhauschild4376 congratulations!
I’ve got 9 trees on our lot, my neighbor has 7 or 8, the church across the street has given permission to harvest their 4 trees, and the city has an old house next to the church with 5 trees. All within 100 yards of my front door.
Right now I have 60 lbs collected just from my yard - and I had to leave 3 of mine because I haven’t cut the grass under them LOL
This is the first year I’ve ever cared about them - but your spouse getting cancer changes lots of things 😇
You start to see each day as a blessing, and pecans becomes
a gift from God.
If nothing else, they’re free food - and at the prices people are willing to pay these days, well, I don’t profess to know how God works…. But maybe found money is part of his plan, too.
@@dahutful nice!!!! Jackpot!! God’s blessings are all around our job is simply to get out there and pick ‘em up.
@@NannetteBlair I like to make cheese pecan cookies each year at Xmas, but when I saw the price of pecans it the store ($13/lb), well, I about sh|t my britches.
Then it hit me: hey dummy - you are surrounded by pecan trees. Literally! Get off your lazy buster and harvest them!”
So here we are.
Love you and thanks
I use a small pair of channel locks and a pocket knife. Works pretty good
Actual content starts at 5:22
ah.. read it too late
Thanks!
Thanks for the video, it’s interesting to see this tool. Perhaps you can make a two minute version with just the intro to the tool and the shelling procedure?
I might just do that.
Where can I get it to buy the cracker thank you
Thank you. I collected lots of p'cons from a native pecan tree just growing alone on a local street. They are a goodly size, about first digit of adult make thumb size. Letting them air dry for about a week allows the kernel to shrink enough to be loose. They are tasty too. The shells are easy to crack with minimal damage to the kernel. I use a 10 in groove joint tool. It allows for good control and the long handles provide good leverage. I will attemp to germinate about 25 or more of them. But my research about the process is just beginning. 😊
Awesome! I learn everything through trial and error but I have many, many, many volunteer pecan trees growing up and around my existing pecan trees. It’s almost a weed here. Lol.
Also if you can get some trees of your own started you can graft a more desirable variety onto yours!
People are strange. The video helped me and was pleasant to watch.
Thank you!
Back in the 80s my parents moved to Missouri and somewhere they found a nutsheller that was powered by a rubber band.
It shattered the shell and the meat came out whole without being broken.
It worked on lots of different types of nuts.
They no longer have it, I don't know why, but I've been looking for one like that for the last 30 years.
You could shell nuts in about 10 seconds.
You would putt a nut in the chamber and close the cover, then pull the hammer back and let it fly.
And then open the cover, take out the meat, and the shell fragments would fall into the bottom chamber.
The cover was like a piece of pipe that slid back and forth on a track.
The rubber band powered Hammer was a piece of wood on the track.
The hammer would fly forward and hit a metal anvil or spacer with a cone shape hitting the nut and shattering it.
great tip to use the TX pecan sheller once promos ended after about 5 minutes plus- thank you, because I have poked my fingers to pieces using a sheller and picker to dig out the meat.
I love pecans and I live in pecan heaven down here on the Alabama gulf coast on semmes/mobile area and almost every single store and corner has pecan trees a bunch of churches are filled with pecan trees, they taste like sweet butter and a good amount of oil they are so good down here they are so oily and have an amazing butter taste. And all the parks here have atleast a tree or 5 and one park has 65 trees, I got a roller thing that is like a oval round shaped basket on a stick and you roll it and it picks up pecans and any other type of tree but you gotta pick off the ground but it's so easy you just roll it till it full spread the wires apart to empty then keep rolling you can get a few buckets in about 15 minutes with this tool and it will save your back
i have a very very large pecan tree and am looking into how to harvest them
Great
What and where do you get that tool? Can't find it anywhere.
I just ordered some for Christmas gifts on Amazon
Thank you
Video starts at 7:00
I just bought one. It better be good or Im gonna be mad at you. - - just kidding. Thanks!
Lol! Well it has been used in our family for three generations. It does take a little practice.
Do you wash or rinse the nut meat before final storage / processing? Ive found the dust to be bitter and I am wondering how to get that off of them.
No I don’t. I do kind Of blow them off. 😬 tho.
Supposedly the guy who invented this got the idea by watching squirrels eating pecans
Really? That is cool. Gotta get inspiration from somewhere. Makes sense.
I use a thread ripper to take that little piece out
That’s a good idea
First view of tool cutter at the business end is at 8:30
I like that your grandpa shelled nuts for his wife’s feted pies
Who makes that tool? What is it called?....The York Nut Sheller...Thank you...............Cheers, Jim
At minute marker 11:45
@@NannetteBlair Hi Nannette. Thanks for this video. I'M buying a York sheller tonight!!!!!!!!
@@jimjakosh2506 awesome!
I’m here because I can’t remember what we called the membrane and the internet doesn’t even seem to acknowledge the membrane exists!
Me eating pecans as im watching this
Lucky you! Here in Texas ours are still green on the trees. I saw pecans in the store this weekend $30!!!! Yikes.
Thanks for your video. It would be nice if you Can provide us the name of the tool ?
Hey thanks for the question. It’s at the minute mark 11:45 and in the description but it is called the Texan Nut Sheller and also know as the York Nut Sheller made in San Angelo Texas... Which is where my Grandparents lived. It’s kind of one of the best kept secrets of Texas. Lol
@@NannetteBlair Thank you for the answer
To much talking
You’re not from the south are you? 😂
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Where do you get that tool?
I got mine at a truck stop here in Texas I I think.
@@NannetteBlair thanks, found one on eBay!
@@bryanhauschild4376 awesome! It does take some practice.
@@NannetteBlair with your help it was a breeze. Now to work towards being faster.
Can I dry pecans out of shell after harvest?
Do you mean dehydrate? I always keep mine in the freezer.
I’m not sure dried would be good as the oils in the nut is what makes it sooooo good. And good for you.
What is the tool called?
The York Pecan Sheller aka Texas Pecan Sheller. Company is out of San Angelo TX
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I like the detail but with about 5,000 pecans to shell, I may not finish before they spoil. There has got to be a faster way.
@@randyrackov6709 there is! I looked into a professional sheller but it was thousands of $$$.
@NannetteBlair Thanks. I have seen shell crackers but never anything to do the whole job. If you have seen one that does it all, let me know what it is called.
It works but takes forever. We have so many that we need a machine
Ayyyy I live I'm angelo!
Well, after 6 mins we actually got to shelling....
Im in weatherford
Howdy neighbor!
Misleading title. One thing that isn't easy is hunting through your long video for the actual instructions.
Damn there's a lot of exposition for a 30 second shelling process
Talks to much and it does not take 15 minutes to explain how to shell pecans.
Talks waaaaay too much !!
Why not talk about the tool.
It doesn't take all that to shell a pecan im 81 an grew up on farm please get your stories right 😂🎉😅
How do shell pecans?
You can't or don't pronounce pecan (pecaun or peacon) it's pronounced pecan (just like it spelled )(pee- can) for those of you who can not read english either.
A p-can is something one uses in the middle of the night. Or so I’m told. 😳😂🤣
The only place inn the world where it is pronounced like that is the South.
That’s what makes it right! 😉. Haha!