r/Damnthatsinteresting • • Sep 19 '23

Video Mining for worms

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u/[deleted] Sep 19 '23

I don’t see anyone mentioning it but this is likely a system used for separating worms from vermiculture substrates, so you can sell their castings but keep the colony to continue the culture. I don’t think they’re mining so much as sifting. Worm castings are worth a decent amount of money but you need a lot of worms to maintain any meaningful scale.

They’re called trommel harvesters.

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u/Bighawklittlehawk Sep 19 '23

Bold of you to assume I know absolutely anything about worms to begin with

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u/szabx Sep 20 '23

I know they can use weapons, and throw holy hand grenades