Wanted Scaley bark hickory nuts

[TnBob]

Looking for some scaley bark hickory nuts. Don't mind driving a ways to get them. I used to have a place I could pick up a bunch but that tree is gone.

 

[Tenntrapper]

I assume that is the same thing as a shagbark hickory. Lots of them here, but that's a pretty good haul for you. East of Knoxville

 

[TnBob]

Probably the same. Most are tall, straight trees. The bark is loose and hanging in strips. The nuts are small, about the size of a quarter.

 

[Tenntrapper]

Probably the same. Most are tall, straight trees. The bark is loose and hanging in strips. The nuts are small, about the size of a quarter.

Sounds like them. I googled "scaly bark" and it came back shagbark. Squirrels been hitting them pretty hard here.

 

[TnBob]

Yeah, the tree rats usually get them unless you can find a tree out by its self.

 

[MUP]

Just picked up a few in the yard.

 

[Hduke86]

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Just picked up a few in the yard.

Uhhh MUP why do you have someone else's nuts in your hand…..

 

[MUP]

Hickory nuts, not His Cory nuts! And those ARE my nuts!

 

[Hduke86]

@MUP get Dem Nutz out of yo hand

 

[MUP]

@MUP get Dem Nutz out of yo hand

Deez nutz ARE mees nutz!

 

[Wiley]

I have the largest shaggy bark hickory that I, personally, have ever seen on my property. We measured it close to 10 years ago and it was 108" in circumference. Researching the growth of trees showed that it was a seedling when the American Revolution broke out.

 

[chrmayo]

If you could beat the squirrels of them I have in my back yard.

 

[brassmagnet]

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Just picked up a few in the yard.

Those ones with the holes in them have already fed the worm, they empty!!!

 

[Shag]

I have the largest shaggy bark hickory that I, personally, have ever seen on my property. We measured it close to 10 years ago and it was 108" in diameter. Researching the growth of trees showed that it was a seedling when the American Revolution broke out.

WOW! 108" diameter is freaking HUGE! That's 9 feet through!

 

[Wiley]

WOW! 108" diameter is freaking HUGE! That's 9 feet through!

OOPS!!!!! Circumference is the correct term for the measurement for my tree

 

[Shag]

OOPS!!!!! Circumference is the correct term for the measurement for my tree

Ok. I find that more realistic. That'd be more like 34-35" diameter. That's a big hickory, for sure. I have seen them that big. But 9 feet…I was like, holy crap! I wanted to see that tree!

 

[TRHC]

Looking for some scaley bark hickory nuts. Don't mind driving a ways to get them. I used to have a place I could pick up a bunch but that tree is gone.

Whatcha gonna do with them? I talked to an old timer a few years ago who was picking them up on the side of the road. He said he'd been getting them from under that same tree for 40 years to make cakes with. He said a hickory nut cake was way better than a walnut cake.

 

[TnBob]

Never made a cake with em but we have made a pie. Way better than pecan pie. Also made cookies with them. Mostly just shell em out for my wife. She can eat em by the hand full.

 

[mike243]

I use the bark from a shagbark tree for grilling, it don't take much and the taste is better than any store bought wood or chips you can buy. go easy with it till you find the amount of flavor you like.

 

[MUP]

Those ones with the holes in them have already fed the worm, they empty!!!

Yep, these were ones that were already cracked open, or almost all the cracked open.