Coconut husker

[buyag]

Anyone know where to get a coconut husker spike stand. Just looking for a simple spike on a welded stand/ frame. Can't seem to find anything around town.
Mahalo.

[Carey]

We just have a spike set in concrete filled concrete block...

ADD: Bash the coconut husk on the spike (square concrete SS stake, point up) & the husk starts to peel off (prior to the spike in the block, one of our friends used to husk bunches of coconuts by setting our "Mutt" spade handle into a concrete block, worked real well for de-husking, but I use that spade, so we devised this method)

Also, our dog is good for husking one or 2 coconuts...really cleans those pearly whites, too!

for Mutt info:
http://www.olympia-tools.co.uk/products/...Mutts.html

Have no idea how this husker works, but it is from a local (Keaau) company, we just don't have that many coconuts to husk to try it...yet..:
http://www.coconuthusker.com/

[Kelena]

And what do you do with that spike, Carey? Is it for splitting coconuts? Or for just removing the husk somehow?

[terracore]

They sell a coconut husker at the Pahoa feed store. If nothing else you could look at it for ideas.

[bananahead]

husking is just taking off the outside (usually greenish) 'fruit' part of the nut, the outer hairy husk, its easier and safer to move the coconut downward to the stationary spike, than swing a machete within inches of fingers at the handheld unstable coconut.... and its faster when you know how to do it with a spike as well.

VIDEO: Husking coconuts with sharp spike, Bali, Indonesia
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0AvuHS2vq8Q

I know a Jamaican guy who can just bounce a coconut off a large flat rock a few time within 10-20 seconds, each time rotating it a bit after catching it bouncing back up to him... it loosens up the husk, and he then is strong enough to rip off the husk by hand. He can do a dozen in a couple minutes and rarely cracks them losing water... but most people should use a spike
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[Kelena]

That spike so totally does not look OSHA-approved. I see, so all that outer stuff comes off and THEN you.....what....get to deal with the nut inside?

The guy at Maku'u showed me a one-handed method for using a machete. You cut a "V" shape. Takes practice. Have not perfected it.

[Carey]

Kelena....if you would like to borrow our dog.... she loves to rip into the husk...lots of wags on the first coconut of the "season"

The V notch is great for drinking & small green spoon meat coconuts that need little prodding to get the soft meat out... but for large, older coconuts that you would use the coconut meat (flake & coconut milk), then you must husk to easily get to the meat...

The spike is not so bad, not real pointy sharp (dog is quicker if she is inspired...or way slower, esp. after the novel fun of the first one in a while....)

Has any one seen how that one from Keaau husks that I linked above? Is it by any chance the same as a Pahoa Feed?

ADD, the husk is used in most tropical cultures for rope making, soil amendment, and for charcoal...