God tip the first time, but filling the 5Gal bucket several times is a waste of water to me, especially if many pails of hickory nuts need to be hulled. I prefer to dump the water in a tray with hardware cloth on top of another pail, so all the floating material can easily be discarded and the water reused. After a few times, I dump the seeds in a wider tray and spray them with the hose quickly, so they get clean and the scrap stays in the bottom of the tray. Maybe we have plentiful of water now, but in a few decades, it will become scare more and more, and that is nice to save our water for our kids when they get older. Water is disapearing like the rest of the biodiversity on this planet. Collecting nuts and growing nut trees is amazing for restoring the earth, providing local food and sustainability, but it will be more my kids than me that will benefit from all these nut crops as the trees get older and productive. I just hope that there will still be enough water and rainfall to keep the trees thriving. Drought episodes are aleready occuring since a few years.

They're best raw. Need a good nut cracker or a hammer. Best tasting nut in the world