Northwest Redworms - Redworm/castings table harvester

Now that you have composted your material here is a simple way to extract you worm castings (vermicompost) from the rest of your redworms and unfinished compost. If you would like to separate your redworms from your compost for resale this can save hours of harvest time. The slow rotation speed is easy on the redworms. Can be done with one person, but as you can see with two people it is much quicker and smoother with two or you can always modify this and mount a drill to do the turning for you. This item can be found at http://northwestredworms.com/compostproducts.aspx

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• worm cocoons
• vermicompost
• separator
• sifter

[paulgem123]

I had some leaves composting for about a year and decided to do worms. I had a old bath tub and added all the suggested things. I wonder if the tub has enough air circulation and I noticed when I put a thermometer in it its not very hot. Any suggestions? Thank you.

[NWRedworms]

@paulgem123 Worm composts are not supposed to be hot and the air circulation should be great with the leaves as a bedding.

[NWRedworms]

I have used 1/8" screen and it does help get castings without cocoons, but you also don't get out as much castings. I pick the cocoons out when I see a bunch.

[welkinator]

Don't the worms fall right through a 1/4" mesh? Especially small young ones.

[NWRedworms]

@welkinator some redworms fall through, but only a small percentage. I would say about 3%. Almost all of the worm egg coccoons fall through.

[dhunter48951]

how did u make that? i am thinking of doing this

[luke3rdb]

I have a good mind to call the SPCA.

[Tewrobert]

@phbsdkfsduhf I bet they got DIZZY.

I would like to buy one of them Casting Harvesters,,,,,,

[phbsdkfsduhf]

I wonder how many worms had little heart attacks in that thing

[PacoBell]

@PoliceStateIsHere You could probably add a large trough below the harvester for ease of collection. I don't know if the cocoons are less dense than the castings. If they are, you can probably even further refine the castings by rapidly vibrating the trough and collecting the cocoons that potentially rise to the surface.

[PacoBell]

@NWRedworms Which is not to say that it's bad to have coir mixed in with the castings as they provide a nice moisture buffering component to the overall compost.

[conteras123]

I recommend you take the worms out first because they hate vibrations

[ColeFried81]

@PoliceStateIsHere Anything related to gardening is a mess so hopefully you're not a gardener or you're pretty much screwed... Dirt makes a mess, that's all there is to it.

[PoliceStateIsHere]

looks like it makes a mess.



[BigTexWorms]

Excellent video, I had my husband build me one just like it and it works great.