Fire Ant Colony Aluminum Casting



Here we go again! This time I cast a fire ant mound at the end of my driveway. I was a little concerned that the underground tunnels might have gone under the concrete but I was happily surprised with an easy excavation. As is usual I sped up the process, from start to finish the melting on the aluminum and cleaning the resulting colony casting took around seven hours. Using my home made backyard foundry I spend all morning melting aluminum soda cans to a temperature over 1500F and remove the dross that floats on top with a slotted stainless steel spoon. Then after adding a ring of play sand around the ant hill colony I pour the molten aluminum down the entrance that the ants use. After about 20 min of cool time I can begin digging out the resulting ant home casting. It is rather fragile so I dig around it lifting out a ball of dirt containing the metal within. Then it's easy to spray the dirt away with a garden hose. Don't forget to check out my other aluminum ant hill videos for more explanation of the process and examples of the results. Intro and Outro templates from RavenProDesign @ http://www.ravenprodesign.com/ Music by Dan-O at DanoSongs.com

Comments

  1. looking like coral
  2. 1:35 why you bare foot!?!? Those are angry FIRE ANTS and their bites are painful!!!!
  3. Why use vulgar language? Annoyed is a perfectly good word..... I left after the second time.
  4. Tree Huggers Eh? bloody useless and a waste of good Oxygen.
  5. Ant-agonizing lmao
  6. that is the reddest soil i've ever seen. where are you?
  7. Tune in next week when this guy packs a lunch and makes a day of pulling wings off of flies. Then for an end of the month special he'll be skinning puppies alive. God the youth of today is sick.
  8. I can't be the only one who thinks these are absolutely beautiful
  9. Its ironic that there are people complaining about complaints.
    (this is strictly an observation)
  10. Definitely worthy of being in a museum.
  11. Man's gotta have a passion for something.
  12. Hi, do you have a link to your foundry design? thanks
  13. Douchebag.
  14. Poor ants 😔
  15. amazing
  16. luckily the ones I had in my lawn packed up and moved behind the back fence..
  17. hey man my name is jeb I live in kansas I have done some ant hills myself a few turned out good how ever I could only do about 4 pounds of aluminum at a time now I can do 30 pounds however I am having problems with my burner working right on my larger rig I am making I am wanting to make it with out having to us make up air ( leaf blower / shop vac) and suggestions to help me out? p.s. I love your videos you do some awesome work
  18. Bad Karma man. This is animal cruelty, plain and simple. You should've just left them alone. I had a fire ant hill in my backyard and just left nature deal with them. haven't seen a new ant colony since then and that was 3 years ago. So in other words this was very unnecessary and heartless. And to add insult to injury, you have the audacity to stand and lay out your game plan with that stupid smugness and shades like you're some kind of badass? Not impressed by you but rather lost some faith for mankind.
  19. fck this shit
  20. lmao the cans


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