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Post by Larry Gene Pate on Aug 27, 2011 14:35:25 GMT -5
How many of you use them? Wish I had some.I use logwood powder the brown and add some sagebrush pieces in to because of that's the country I am in.I smells lovely!!!LOL Larry
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Post by ewoktrapper on Aug 27, 2011 15:54:39 GMT -5
Used them alot.Then I started use'n staghorn sumac berries.Just wrap them in a cheese cloth and put into the water.Reason for the cloth is just to keep all the little berries out of the trap springs.When traps are done,as soon as you pull them out rinse with a hose.All the loose dye/color comes off and doesn't get in your wax.......
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Post by sniperbbb on Sept 1, 2011 16:59:31 GMT -5
Want some? I got enough to fill 50 5 gal buckets
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Post by cmustard on Sept 13, 2011 10:46:42 GMT -5
Larry; I was going to offer you some but sniperbbb beat me to the punch. I used them last year and I put the whole walnut in my boiling pot. I like to "cook" the walnuts a couple of times before I put my traps in. When I do this it seems to strengthen the "dye". My traps come out very black. I use it over and over throughout the season, and it seems to just get better each time.
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Post by trappergreen on Sept 13, 2011 12:52:23 GMT -5
When i was in the ozarks had a farm down the road that bought walnuts and he would hull them and had a huge pile of the ground hulls. I used these for years, worked real well. A 5 gallon pail would dye up alot of traps.
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Post by Forrest on Sept 13, 2011 13:16:55 GMT -5
Larry I use them because I have a huge amount of them here on the farm. I use a 55 gal. barrel and fill 1/3 full of green wallnuts and add about 35 gallons of water. I cook this for about 10 hours and then it sits all season in case something needs dyed. I rarely boil the water to dye my traps I just soak them in my cold walnut tea for 12-24 hours and they come out nice and dark.... Lots of ways to do it I reckon, mine is the lazy mans way! lol
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Post by cmustard on Sept 13, 2011 13:42:14 GMT -5
Forrest; The reason I "cooked" the walnuts I used was because the hulls were not green but had dried on the nut. Makes it really hard. After letting sit awhile and then cooking, they let loose of the juice in the hull and the traps came out really black.
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Post by catman50plus on Sept 13, 2011 18:16:43 GMT -5
LOL, when we were in the seed business big, we had a couple of hullers, that we used to hull the walnuts we sold. I think the average year, we would sell 200K pounds. That was a right smart of hulls we had. Never dawned on me to sell them............... I missed my calling on that one. Oh, that weight, that was after they were hulled too.............
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Post by Larry Gene Pate on Sept 13, 2011 18:22:36 GMT -5
Thank you fellows,hey Sniperbbb,I may just take you up on that,what will 5 gallon pail weigh?Larry
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Post by sniperbbb on Sept 13, 2011 18:28:48 GMT -5
Not sure Ive got my buckets kinda occupied at the moment and I'd have to fill them up. Ill let ya know this weekend....but it might be cheaper to get em from mustard shipping wise.
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Post by tonyscott on Oct 27, 2012 15:41:33 GMT -5
i soak the hulls for a full year,the nuts i harvest this year are used next year.i also use sumac berrys,ill cook a full bushel of them in 35 gallons of water then pour the water through a screen into another drum then your ready to dye your traps.
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