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Grunting for worms actually works.
I have never done it , but when I was a kid I remember watching my grandfather.
Pretty soon there will be a grits festival. ;D
I know there is all ready is one.
There is one in Warwick, GA, and I assume that are many more of them :).
Quote from: WDH on April 17, 2012, 10:08:33 PM
Grunting for worms actually works.
Oh come on.....if you're in the woods grunting, you're not looking for worms. :D
I've heard of using electricity but never grunting, so who makes the grunt calls :D
Quote from: sandhills on April 18, 2012, 02:50:34 PM
I've heard of using electricity but never grunting, so who makes the grunt calls :D
You drive a wooden stake into the ground and then use another piece of wood to rub across the head of the stake to make it vibrate which produces the grunting sound much like a fiddle bow drawn across the strings make the sounds of the fiddle. The vibrations of the stake in the ground causes the earthworms to come to the surface...
There's an art to it but it works. I remember going with my Grandpa to pick up the worms when he grunted them before we went fishing...
Herb
Quote from: PC-Urban-Sawyer on April 18, 2012, 04:24:31 PM
Quote from: sandhills on April 18, 2012, 02:50:34 PM
I've heard of using electricity but never grunting, so who makes the grunt calls :D
You drive a wooden stake into the ground and then use another piece of wood to rub across the head of the stake to make it vibrate which produces the grunting sound much like a fiddle bow drawn across the strings make the sounds of the fiddle. The vibrations of the stake in the ground causes the earthworms to come to the surface...
There's an art to it but it works. I remember going with my Grandpa to pick up the worms when he grunted them before we went fishing...
Herb
HAHAHA!!!! :D :D :D :D I'm sitting here thinking you bend down and make some kind of grunting noise at the dirt... :D :D :D I'm a idiot ;D
Quote from: Raider Bill on April 18, 2012, 06:45:42 PM
Quote from: PC-Urban-Sawyer on April 18, 2012, 04:24:31 PM
Quote from: sandhills on April 18, 2012, 02:50:34 PM
I've heard of using electricity but never grunting, so who makes the grunt calls :D
You drive a wooden stake into the ground and then use another piece of wood to rub across the head of the stake to make it vibrate which produces the grunting sound much like a fiddle bow drawn across the strings make the sounds of the fiddle. The vibrations of the stake in the ground causes the earthworms to come to the surface...
There's an art to it but it works. I remember going with my Grandpa to pick up the worms when he grunted them before we went fishing...
Herb
HAHAHA!!!! :D :D :D :D I'm sitting here thinking you bend down and make some kind of grunting noise at the dirt... :D :D :D I'm a idiot ;D
Quote from: Raider Bill on April 18, 2012, 06:45:42 PM
Quote from: PC-Urban-Sawyer on April 18, 2012, 04:24:31 PM
Quote from: sandhills on April 18, 2012, 02:50:34 PM
I've heard of using electricity but never grunting, so who makes the grunt calls :D
You drive a wooden stake into the ground and then use another piece of wood to rub across the head of the stake to make it vibrate which produces the grunting sound much like a fiddle bow drawn across the strings make the sounds of the fiddle. The vibrations of the stake in the ground causes the earthworms to come to the surface...
There's an art to it but it works. I remember going with my Grandpa to pick up the worms when he grunted them before we went fishing...
Herb
HAHAHA!!!! :D :D :D :D I'm sitting here thinking you bend down and make some kind of grunting noise at the dirt... :D :D :D I'm a idiot ;D
You weren't the only one that had that thought.
I was being a little sarcastic with the grunt call thing, I believe it does work and I'd love to see it done. Heck some of the best times I had in junior high were "hunting" nightcrawlers when the city was watering the park, I figure if I live long enough I can re-inact the scene from "Grumpier Old Men" :)
I've known about it, and had something similar work for my neighbor and I. We'd either sink a wood post in the ground (pound it in or with a post auger) and then move it back and forth to cause pressure. The nightcrawlers would stand right up to get out of the ground. Was amazing.
Here is a video (and there are others) of the small post and the steel bar used to make the ground vibrate around the stick.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FK-Oo7NwPiQ
Quote from: beenthere on April 19, 2012, 12:07:53 AM
I've known about it, and had something similar work for my neighbor and I. We'd either sink a wood post in the ground (pound it in or with a post auger) and then move it back and forth to cause pressure. The nightcrawlers would stand right up to get out of the ground. Was amazing.
I knew you was an old worm grunter from waaaay back!
Quote from: beenthere on April 19, 2012, 12:07:53 AM
I've known about it, and had something similar work for my neighbor and I. We'd either sink a wood post in the ground (pound it in or with a post auger) and then move it back and forth to cause pressure. The nightcrawlers would stand right up to get out of the ground. Was amazing.
Here is a video (and there are others) of the small post and the steel bar used to make the ground vibrate around the stick.
Thanks for the video......I'd never believed it.
Quote from: Woodwalker on April 18, 2012, 11:25:24 PM
You weren't the only one that had that thought.
+1 more!
I have never heard of this before. :o
As a kid I mixed some powdered mustard with water to get them to come out. I would walk over our front yard, feel for the uneven mounds of dirt, and push off the top of the mound. I would place a straw into the mixture, put my finger over the end of the straw, and place the end of the straw into the visible hole that was under each mound. Lift up your finger, the mustard water ran down into the hole, and a beautiful night crawler would wriggle right out! Worked really well.
We used bleach or electronic rods made from welding sticks and a extension cord with whittled wood handles. Remember getting tickled more than once. ;)
I just dug them up, a low production method, kinda like sawing on a manual mill :).
WDH,that's how I do it too.
We were kids and didn't know better.
Quote from: thecfarm on April 20, 2012, 07:00:01 AM
WDH,that's how I do it too.
What, saw on a manual mill ??? :D :D :D.
I had a worm garden - a plywood box about 3 x 4 feet and 6 or 8 inches high. Fill it with good compost then throw some worms in. It kept me fishing everyday after school and all summer. :)
Mike Rowe has an episode of Dirty Jobs with the worm gruntin' guys. It's pretty funny... :D