All about Holt's Nut Wizards

Now that Labor Day has come and gone, we turn our thoughts to fall and all the joys it brings.  This is my favorite season because I love Halloween and pumpkins and all the fun that's to be had at this time of year.  Here at Southern Garden Tools, we shift our thoughts from pea shellers and corn creamers to cider press and grinders and nuts!  We have a thriving nut business and today, let's discuss our most popular nut products-- the Holt's Nut Wizard.

Now, if you've never seen one of these nut harvesting tools, let's take a look.

Holt's Nut Wizards-- the ultimate nut picker upper-- come in a variety of sizes and we will get to that.  But first, the basic components of a nut wizard is the football-shaped basket, the triangle-shaped bale and the wooden handle.  The basket is composed of flexible wires that are press-fitted into metal cores on each end.  These wires hold firm and do not break away from the ends as you roll over your nuts.  The bale simply holds the nut picker upper basket in its grip firmly and screws into the pole.  The handles vary in color from blue to yellow to wood depending on the size.

Let's get to sizes. We have nut wizards for all types of nuts/similar size objects including pin acorn, chinquapin, small acorns, pecans, hazel nuts, crab apples, bitternuts, large acorns, English walnuts, spent brass, shotgun shells, golf balls, black walnuts, sweet gumballs, apples, pears and even tennis balls!  Don't see your nut need listed?  Just contact us for expert advice. 

We hear from customers who say-- why can't I buy a Large Nut Wizard for pecans-- that way, I can pick up more?  Well, it doesn't quite work that way.  The nut rollers are designed specifically for the type of nut listed.  If you bought that Large Nut Wizard for pecans, you would find that they may become trapped in the basket for a very short period of time and then fall out because the wires are spaced too far apart to hold in that smaller nut.

There is another accessory that is available for these nut harvesters-- the "emptying tool" or the unloader or as we call them around here, the dumper.  The dumper tool costs just $4 when ordering alongside of a Holt's Nut Wizard and they assist in being able to empty the roller basket without touching the nuts (which can be very helpful for nuts like black walnuts-- which have a very icky substance on them!).  The dumper is easier to show how to use than explain.  Let's look.

The dumper has two "legs" that fit on to a five gallon bucket.  Your nut roller basket slides down on the protruding end of the dumper and the wires spread, allowing the collected nuts to dump into the bucket.  That simple!  A very handy accessory to the nut harvesters.

 Nut Wizards are really easy to use.  Check out this customer video!  You can also check out the instructions right here!

There are imposters... those weasels!  But Holt's is the original nut picker upper and is American-made-- simply built to last.  You can't say that about those other garden people.  

That's the conclusion of our what's what's with Holt's Nut Wizard Picker Uppers.  Feel free to comment or email us with any questions.  You can own your own nut rollers by shopping right here.  Oh-- and enjoy that free shipping!