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[Gene GeRue <genegerue AT ruralize.com>]

On Oct 14, 2008, at 2:42 PM, EarthNSky wrote:

> In the almost an hour that I was out there, I have picked up over two
> hundred pounds of walnuts.  How many pounds of meat will that yield?

I have no idea. I have never picked them nor cracked them. Now that I  
am living on Social Security that may change.
>  I
> only got the bottom branches-those that I could reach and shake, so I
> only 'cleaned' about a quarter of the tree at best.

In my area people wait until they fall from the tree, often after a  
strong wind.

In California English walnut orchards they use a tractor and belt  
running on a cam pulley to shake them down. The older way was to knock  
them with a long, strong stick.