I can remember him using it and the worms really moved to get out of the ground when it was plugged in.
We would just go to the golf course at night and hit it when the sprinklers turned off. More crawlers than you can imagine. Feels kinda creepy if you step on one with bare feet.
My grandpa had a compost pit. It was actually a pit for something else, but he used it for compost. He used a goofy looking pitch fork kinda thing, took a scoop out and viola, Red Worms!
I tried a suggestion to lay down some cardboard, put an inch or two of soil on top, soak it down, and in a few days, should have earth worms abounding. They are supposed to feed on the starch that binds the cardboard. Guess they weren't hungry.
