I read the electric fishing thread with interest, cause I live on a lake and am the only person who hasn't caught a fish from it, and it reminded me of another idea :
How to dig worms using electricity....
I did some experiments a few years back. To witt:
I took a lamp cord, put a 100 watt light bulb in series with it (ballast) and then put the cord to two probes about a foot long that I put into the ground, about 6 feet apart.....
So the electricity flowed thru the lamp, into a probe, thru the earth, back up the other probe and into the wall socket.... The light bulb was to limit the current. It didn't light, so almost the full 120 VAC was between the probes going thru the earth. The earth was fairly moist, behind my barn, and I plugged the apparatus in and waited for results...
After a minute or two I saw a LOT of worms crawling around the ground between the two probes. This is GREAT, I figured, and had a good supply of worms then, tho I didn't fish and had no real use for them..... but the machine worked, and I was elated.....
By the way, if there ain't no worms in the ground anyway, this ain't gonna work so good, so it's not like you can start your own worm farm.....
So , has anyone else tried this, or done something similar ?
Andy