Over 200 kg (440 lb) Aluminium Casting of a Meat Ant Nest - Iridomyrmex purpureus - 2015/10/19
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- Aluminium Casting of a Meat Ant Nest (Iridomyrmex purpureus) by Australian Ant Art™
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This casting was quite the challenge. It was a mound with 36 entrances. These entrances are generally thought to be separate parts of the same nest, this video shows that it is not so for this nest. Many of them were connected underground. After casting and excavating the nest the next problem was getting something that size, weight and fragility from hanging over a hole onto a ute. After which we drove for an hour to move it to its resting place.
Meat ants are quite amazing. They can form super colonies covering a number of kilometres and housing thousands of ants. They can strip a carcass clean of all meat, preforming vital environmental work. Meat ants will also create foraging trails, easily visible due to the absence of vegetation, and ants will forage on these to trees they favour most. The trees are an important source of food and water, especially when days are hot and dry.
Meat Ants are Australia’s most successful ant.
Cast Dimensions:
Weight: Over 200 kg (440 lbs)
Height: 1000 mm (39")
Length: 1500 mm (59")
Width: 1500 mm (59")
Music:
"The Complex"
Kevin MacLeod (incompetech.com)
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after reading a lot of these comments, I'm honestly surprised that there isn't any aluminum activists complaining about the loss of aluminum.
30,000 empty beer cans were hurt in the making of this video
Your gear & technique is the most impressive I've ever seen regarding ant casting..the lift system on that truck is wild! The finished product looked fantastic..well done guys!
This is what ants get when they don't pay there rent.
Meat ants? Never going to Australia. Meat ants.. Jesus, that just sounds horrifying.
Ants: "It was on this day that the gods brought silver doom uppon us. We could not fight them, for they were beyond our reach. We could not get the queen to safety, for they had blocked the entrances with their thin wood (cups). We tried to fight, but the silver water's heat would boil out finest warriors on contact. It was on this day, that our colony had died, for only a few drones and myself were outside the halls of our fortress, and by the time we realized that the silver menace was to strong... It was to late."
That's a pretty impressive kingdom they had going on underground.
Who saw ants when they were a kid and thought ant hill can't be that big The More You Know
don't even fucking want to know what a meat ant does or how it got that fucking name
Is this normal? Why do I feel so satisfied with ant hill aluminium casting videos.... Dang... I hate ants...
The T1000 spares no one. Not even the ants.
WOW! What a empire! That thing is HUGE! I'm amazed, to actually see how the ants designed their underground tunnels. I'm very impressed! I wonder which one of the chambers housed the Queen? I guess we'll never know. I'm sure some of the ants fled the scene. They probably were off from a distance looking screaming, "For God's sake, these MF giant ass aliens destroying our beautiful empire! This is bullshit! Now we have to go to a got damn flea bag motel!" LOL! Thanks for sharing such amazing footage guys.
The sailor in me is more impressed with the rigging you guys used to get it on the truck who ever thought of the rope under the frame of the truck deserves a cold one.
No aunts were harmed during the making of this film...maybe some uncles though.
Leave it to the Aussies to take something and do it bigger!
This is straight from the basics of foundry for any mechanical engineer... Runner-Raiser-Chill-Chaplet-Corebox-Knockout-Fettling.
This was very well planned from the looks of it
I felt a great disturbance in the Force, as if millions of voices suddenly cried out in terror and were suddenly silenced. I fear something terrible has happened...
WOOOOOWWWW I've been watching these awesome videos for a the last year and this is definitely in the top 3. AMAZING WORK AS USUAL GUYS AND GIRLS. Looking forward to seeing and even bigger nest
Wow, this looked amazing. I'm very impressed with your planning and execution of all the work it took you team. great stuff!