Worms eat waste in pictures

[Equilibrium]

Ding ding ding ding ding... link check! That's to a "Re: Black soldier fly larvae + Earthworms = bio-composting²". I'm going straight worms!

[Gloria]

Equil, this is especially for you...

YouTube - Worm Castings & Compost Harvesters

But this guys homemade motorized version caught my eye.

YouTube - Harvesting Worm Castings

Notice both use 1/8 inch screen for separating castings from worms.
Our little screeniworks fine but this looks efficent.

[TheLorax]

Yikes. I did make a terrible mistake.

This is the double rubbermaid worm bin set-up I believed you would find interesting-
Vermicomposting: Making a Home For Your Worms | One Caveman's Financial Journey

[biigblueyes]

Ohhhh. I looked at the guy's motorized worm casting harvester. He announced in the video that he had made it himself. We had guessed that. . . . It's not pretty, but it does work. One of those with bigger mesh would be wonderful to sift compost, whenever I actually get enough to harvest.

[Equilibrium]

For me!!! Thanks Gloria!!!! He's a hoot and a half and it does seem to work. Would the 1/8" wire on the motorized Pollard wormer get the eggs or would we have to run the castings through another screen? I'm not going to invest in a motorized wormer... not for the amount of castings I'll have but a hand wormer would work.

[Arrow]

How about just making a sifter with a wood or plastic frame and attaching 1/8 screening on it. It probably wouldn't take too much work to sift by hand unless you have a huge worm farm

[Equilibrium]

I don't know what I'm going to do but I will probably make my own like you say. I'm not going to have a production line going here... just enough for me to use after I make my vermicomposter.

[jpdenk]

Originally Posted by Pahinh Winh

I will never understand by what stretch of imagination or fancy anyone comes to the conclusion that processes that have been going on for millions of years are somehow "wrong". I refer to the statement that "Worms in the wild are "foe". Takuskanskan / Something Holy moving knows far more about what is 'right' than any mere human ever will. Hechetu ye / No discussion needed.

Hello Pahinh Winh,

I realize that you said that no discussion is needed, but when you post your opinion in a discussion forum, why would you not want or expect any following discussion of what you said?

When people take organisms from one spot and transport them hundreds or thousands of miles and release them into the wild (something that has been going on for a very short time, nowhere near millions of years), that is not the work of your or anyone's deity, it is the work of humans (unless you believe that all human actions are predestined by god, but let's not go there, as that can be used to justify many horrors that humans have committed) and is usually done without a single thought of whether it is going to harm anything. Yes, non-native worms in the wild in many parts of North America are indeed a foe to many things that they affect. Please check out an excellent thread in these forums that explains very well why earthworms are a bad thing in many places here .

In nature, new organisms move into new territories slowly, and other organisms have a chance to adapt to the new species, a very different situation than when we bring worms from Europe to the Americas and let them go, introducing them to a large area relatively overnight.

My $.02 worth anyway, and worth at least that much.

John