I'd be willing to trade a chestnut problem for your walnut problem. With chestnuts, you get these prickly little needles all over the pods that come back to haunt you the next time you kneel down on your knee. Talk about painful! The nuts do make for nice fireworks when you pile them and burn them with the hulls. I have both chestnut and walnut trees, but I'll take walnuts over chestnuts any day.
I like MOST trees!
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Those type pickers won't work well on walnuts. The nuts need to be smooth shell nuts for them to work, or the wires will just bite into the ridges. But, if you have smooth shell nuts to pick up, then they work great. I have one that I bought from the local Tractor Supply store for around $18 in 2010. It works by stabbing the spring wire bottom over the nut which then holds them in the built in box until its half full.