Pecans: What to do with them?

[JEVapa]

Pecans botanically are not nuts, they're drupes.

right out of wikipedia

 

[John6185]

I used to buy pecans in the shell on Ebay 20-40# and crack them on the back porch by hand. I enjoyed it and it gave me something to do.

 

[OK Corgi Rancher]

Got it figured. Neighbor has family in the biz and is going to take them for processing. Thanks for all the great suggestions.

 

[dancer4life]

Oh man, if I lived closer I would take them off your hands.

 

[Oklahomabassin]

I am not the same, if I lived next door, I would offer to cut the tree down for smoking wood and clean up the pecans for the last time. I wouldn't even want the pecans.

 

[KOPBET]

right out of wikipedia

Lol. You wish.

 

[OK Corgi Rancher]

I am not the same, if I lived next door, I would offer to cut the tree down for smoking wood and clean up the pecans for the last time. I wouldn't even want the pecans.

Ha! I have a friend that drives from central Colorado to collect pecan wood for his smoker.

There's a HUGE brush pile on the property we're buying near Ada...almost all oak with some pecan that was all felled about a year ago. It needs to go away. Probably a LOT of good firewood there. I won't be able to use it all.

 

[dennishoddy]

Our native pecan trees are self-pruning in Oklahoma's winds. I burn a lot of pecan and walnut in the wood heater in the shop from those limbs that hit the ground.
The pecans all have worms in them before falling so don't waste my time picking any up but I do love papershells.

 

[Oklahomabassin]

Walnuts are more of a PIA than pecans.

 

[dennishoddy]

Walnuts are more of a PIA than pecans.

HUGE pain in the arse. They have to be the nastiest tree in America. We have thirty some and they drop hundreds of pound of walnuts on the ground along with the sticks that hold the nuts to clog roof guttering even with the "gutter protectors".
Easy to twist an ankle walking across the yard at night if one is stepped on.
We used to spend days raking and gathering them up getting a 6' front loader on the tractor full two to three times to dump on the burn pile.
Now we let the plethora of squirrels gather them while galivanting around the country in the RV. Come spring they are all gone! Problem solved.