Yeah, it looks good, Patrick! If a squirrel had a dollar, I'd figure out a business opportunity with that sheller, lol! Cool stuff!

I wander if you slowly poured the pecans into the top of the machine while the machine was going instead of dumping the whole bucket in before starting it whether you would get a better result with separating the meat from the shell, maybe you could experiment with it to find the best feed method

Patrick great video. I will get with you on Monday.

Patrick the wild turkeys across the road would love to have that scrap for sure thanks for the show!!!

Hello, Patrick! When reasonable, organic is better.

Great video Patrick!

Enjoyed the video Patrick! My daddy always said a pee-can is what they used beside the bed. Hahaha God bless you and your family

Great video. We are very similar. Our orchard is 10 years old, 150 trees, Oconee, Pawnee, Kanza trees in North Texas. We are looking at cracking/shelling equipment. We are learning it’s a challenging business.

I love this channel.

@PatrickShivers

3 ай бұрын

Thanks Josh!

This little town about half way between Atlanta and Athens was apparently big on pecans in the past. Pecan trees all over the place. Very old trees. Two monsters in the neighbors pasture out behind me. Picked up a hand full the squirrels were nice enough to drop off the other day. Was cracking them out and feeding them to my chickens and had a couple of pieces. Sure was tasty! Love those things but age and bad health pushed me into this Ketovore diet thing and I don't partake in such things anymore. Nice to get a little taste now and then though. Sure did make my birds happy!

@PatrickShivers

6 ай бұрын

Pecans were huge all across Georgia in the late 1800s-early 1900s. I see Remnants of those orchards in nearly every county.

I had one of those good ole homemade pecan pie today

They have a few tree shakers in the market bulletin

Ha Savages having the same problem, moisture content is a must!

Thank you for the video! What was the machine near the end of your shell seperator? Looked like some kind of seed cleaner. Enjoyed your video of Mason auction. I was there as well. Was some bargains on the bigger farm equipment. Good luck at leesburg!

@PatrickShivers

2 ай бұрын

The Leesburg auction video is already up. It’s titled “Farmers are downsizing”. I have an Urschel green been cutter parked right by the air separator

@MrSeadawg123

2 ай бұрын

@@PatrickShivers Wonderful will be watching it tonight! I inherited some land in Florala, Alabama. Had all the pulpwood pulled off it 40 years ago. Have a few trees I want to harvest. Clear some land and plant some trees and put in some row crops. Am new to this! So makes your videos very valuable to me. To learn from! Appreciate you!! Oh is 100 acres. But about 30 of that is marsh land. Due to a beaver damn. So when prices come down on crawfish. Going to try farming them. Thank you again!!

I have been picking up and shelling pecans by hand every day for the past 3 weeks. I am worn out and haven’t even made a dent in shelling them. I’m going to take a bunch to get cracked this week though. Pecans are pretty good in west TN this year. The paper shells could have used another 1 - 2 inches of rain in September to finish off. I like to pick them in the borders of cotton fields. None of the pecan trees I pick from have been directly sprayed with insecticide. However, I have noticed stink bug and weevil pressure is not as high in those areas due to insecticide applications to the cotton crop all summer.

@PatrickShivers

6 ай бұрын

Stink bugs have become a major nuisance in nearly every crop. Harvesting from trees next to cotton field is a good way to get some nuts with less insect pressure. Did the cotton defoliant knock the leaves off the trees? The longer the leaves stay on the tree after the nuts have matured the bigger next year’s crop will be.

@johndycus6468

6 ай бұрын

@@PatrickShivers I am glad we don’t have red banded stink bugs, they are much harder to control. I didn’t know that about the leaves but yes they still have 60-70% of the leaves on. Most people around here use a ground rig for defoliation so the trees don’t get banged up. I am glad the Xtend and Enlist technologies have improved the past few years. The first 3 years the dicamba technology hit the market, trees took a pretty good beating. It was super bad the first two years. A lot of people were using generic dicamba and adding ammonium sulfate with no drift control agent.

I have a 1970s vintage Lockwood tree shaker if you’re interested. I’m in Terrell county Ga.

@PatrickShivers

3 ай бұрын

I’d be interested in looking at it and knowing how much you’re asking. I’d also be interested in knowing how you came up with that KZread user name. 😂

man, i remember my grandma making me crack pecans & feed them to her chickens. they'd all run up (like 15-20) when they heard you cracking them & they'd all eat out of your hand.

@PatrickShivers

6 ай бұрын

My dad use to make me pick up pecans off the 3 trees in our yard growing up. I told him I would never live anywhere with pecan trees in the yard……..I planted 300 of them

@NotOnDrugs

6 ай бұрын

@@PatrickShivers i said the *exact* same thing. now, i've got a few hundred acres & pecan trees everywhere. i used to love throwing them in the fire when i was young, so they'd blow up & shoot out. i've got a CAT Challenger that's tracked I'm about to get rid of, if you'd have any interest in it? It's got 390 hours on it. I'm in NC.

Thanks for making and posting this! I love this small scale machinery that lets you stay 'small', yet produce a finished product you can direct market to the end user! That's a good version of capitalism in my book!

@PatrickShivers

6 ай бұрын

If you haven’t already, check out some of my other videos. I grow/process/& sell to end consumer: potatoes, sweet peas, green beans(snap beans), Butterbeans (baby lima), southern peas, popcorn, pecans, and beef. I have videos of all the processes.

@CuriousEarthMan

6 ай бұрын

@@PatrickShivers I will certainly check them out, thank you! I like your manner and how you explain things! Oh, btw, is that a panner I see in the background? I have to see in your videos if you make pralines or maybe do some coated peanuts in there. Thanks again!

@ 1:16, You must clarify your yield. You said #1500 to #2000 per year is nothing unless you are selling unshelled pecans at $10.00/lb. In Louisiana, farmers are paid $.35/lb. After Thanksgiving, prices jump to $85/lb. In Louisiana, many trees produce #1500/tree.

@PatrickShivers

3 ай бұрын

My trees are 8’-15’ tall. They are just entering production in the last few years. I only have 300 trees. They made about 1,500 pounds in shell last year. Close to 3,000 this year. $10 shelled which is about $3.50 -$5 in shell depending on variety. In Georgia if you ain’t got them sold by Thanksgiving you will take a huge hit. Selling shelled direct to end consumer my market remains strong until week before Christmas. Anything not sold by Christmas won’t get sold.

PEECAN, or pee can?, that is the question! 🤣🤣😁😁

@PatrickShivers

3 ай бұрын

Indeed 😂. I use the pronunciations “pea-can” and “pea-con” interchangeably but there are some that are strictly one or the other.

Nice bucks on the wall did you get them

@PatrickShivers

6 ай бұрын

My paw in law killed those in the late 80s-early 90s. His best 4-5 are at my mother-in-laws house & mine as well as my dad’s are at my dad’s cabin

How do you keep the inside of that building from sweating since there's no insulation?

@PatrickShivers

6 ай бұрын

🤷🏼‍♂️it doesn’t sweat

@johnlynn6291

6 ай бұрын

@PatrickShivers I'm surprised to hear that. It's a nice looking building

@PatrickShivers

6 ай бұрын

@@johnlynn6291 rain does drip through eave if there is any wind

What do you charge per lb

@PatrickShivers

6 ай бұрын

$10 shelled

Howdy Patrick

@PatrickShivers

6 ай бұрын

Howdy Tug!

It’s study not stud! KZread and its handles. I have a Bible study mostly on fb.

@PatrickShivers

3 ай бұрын

What y’all studying this week. I’m doing the Man Church discipleship program and we’re currently studying Abraham

@thewednesdaynightbiblestudyon

3 ай бұрын

We are covering the book of Luke. Started maybe a year or so ago. I’m sorta familiar with Bluffton. I filled the pulpit in a church there about 12-15 years ago for a few Sundays. I think it was Bluffton Baptist. On the subject of the shaker, I don’t have any idea about what it would be worth. It’s been in the bushes for 25 years. I know it’s missing a cylinder but I think I know where it is. As far as I know it was working then.

@PatrickShivers

3 ай бұрын

@@thewednesdaynightbiblestudyon i am a member of Bluffton Baptist. My cousin-in-law, Michael Williams, is our pastor. I started to ask for your contact info as I went through Dawson twice today (heading to Leesburg sale and coming back). I’ll get over there another time and give it a look over

@thewednesdaynightbiblestudyon

3 ай бұрын

Ok sounds good!