[JoeProBono]

Gary Revell admiring the results of a day of worm grunting

[cripplecreek]

I’ve seen it done by letting a chainsaw sit on the ground and idle.

[GodfearingTexan]

i used to do this as a kid. except i’d find a small sapling, maybe 1-2” in diameter, and cut it off about waist level and begin slowly sawing down the middle with a hand saw. the worms would come right up out of the ground.

[Northern Yankee]

I wonder if having sex outside on the grass would get the same results? ; )

[Star Traveler]

Oh those look lovely... LOL...

We’ve got a bunch of weenie dogs that just love to dig and get those those huge nightcrawlers. When we’re out digging around in the garden and there’s one of those nightcrawlers, all we’ve got to say is “Worm!” and those dogs come a running and they start chewing it up... :-)

They’re absolutely crazy and nuts over those nightcrawlers...

[lonestar]

Have they “outlawed” grunting at Wimbleton?

[agrarianlady]

I told my 9-year-old about this thinking she'd be interested, but she said, "yeah, yeah, yeah, I know all about that. Encyclopedia Brown's friend did that with his favorite axe handle. He called it "worm fiddling".

I can't teach her anything . . .

[ViLaLuz]

When I was a kid, nightcrawlers would come up out of the ground when we were jumproping on the grass.

[wildbill]

File this under “Guy with too much time on his hands”

Did he try several thousand other forms of his “art” before coming up with this superfluous information?

[central_va]

Just be careful!

[RegulatorCountry]

He pounds a wooden stake, called a stob, into the ground and levels his 10-pound flat iron over the top.

Stob. Haven't heard that word since my grandparents passed away. "Whang that stob with yer mattock." Funniest sounding colloquial phrase I'd ever heard at the time. Quite the old southernism, and an Appalachian one at that, or so I thought. This guy's in Florida.

Sent me back, though. Loved those people dearly, been gone twenty-five years. Thanks for posting this thread, if only for that reason.

Stob, lol. Seems like another world.

[Bernard Marx]

My Dad, bless his soul, used a more direct method when I was young, back in pre-PETA times. He pounded a steel rod into the moist ground and hooked it to a car battery. The ‘crawlers shot out of the ground like surface-to-air missiles.

[Tijeras_Slim]

Gary, you might wanna go a bit easier with that frying pan.

[llevrok]

So is that why the tennis court get so slippery at Wimbledon when the women play?

[LibWhacker]

Prior to going fishing, we used to do this when we were kids, back in the ‘50s. Only there’s no need to pound a “stob” into the ground and all that. Just stick a shovel into the ground and shake it rapidly back and forth. Worms will start coming out of the ground immediately. And if you do it for five minutes or so, you’ll have a bucket load of them. ‘Course, it’s best to find a shady spot with moist soil.