Do Ants Build Neighborhoods? / Texas Fire Ant Casting / Aluminum Ant Mound Sculpture
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- เผยแพร่เมื่อ 5 ส.ค. 2022
- For 2 years this mound has slowly been migrating. Picking up and moving over a few inches every time a lawn mower passes over. It looks like a long neighborhood that kept expanding in one direction. The mound has been vacant for a few months with no activity and thought the rain had washed out most of the mound. We had a small amount of aluminum left in the pot from a previous project and decided to pour in this mound to make a small casting. To our surprise it took what we had and looked like it needed more. We decided to leave it for a few weeks to gather more aluminum and time. It took another 3 full pots of aluminum to make this casting.
Please enjoy watching our video, we enjoyed making it.
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Getting her done! Have fun boys….
Beau~~tiful art.
That's absolutely gorgeous. WOW !!!❤❤❤❤
Love the ant with a beard!!! Great job showing the process!
Beautiful piece! Looks like coral reef.
Also loved the cartoon in the beginning and yalls ant crawling on sculpture at the end!
Wow it's amazing what ants can do! 😍 great job guys!
Thanks so much!
That was amazing great job just loved the beginning ❤️ keep up the great progress
This is really fantastic!! Great job on the video intro!!
Thank you so much!
MASSIVE
Id love to see one of these melted down to see what percentage of the mass is biomass from the ants.
We would like to see the results of that as well. Sometimes there are millions of ants in a mound. Since the actual weight of 1 individual ant is so small I think 1 million ants will be less than we imagine.
I just found your videos and they're really amazing! 😊
Thank you!
That one turned out awesome
Thanks!
Beautiful casting! Got one close to this size so I know to expect around 30lbs.
Thanks and good luck with your mound. Hope you get a video of it.
WoW!!! 10 x pour? 12?
You guys need a +20 liters jug of aluminum
wooow
that whas an cool one ;)
Way better clip mate. Shorter, quick, not watching metal melt most of the time and showing results. Cheers Avagud1
@jarredtremain4644 - Thank you! We are getting better and listening to our followers. We want to hear from you and others. Tell us what you want to see.
Ants Killer, nothing more.Never mind, what matters is that angela on YT will say Amazing Personally, I'd pour that aluminum on a guy's head, always something new.
What if aliens come back and they’re like yeah we time traveled all the way here and we’re in advance species of ants and we’re just here to pick up a couple of our old and heels because you know like history that would be kind of cool thing for aliens what do you guys think lol
I think I just saw the men in black✌️
@quest4880 - If aliens come back? We thought they were already here. These ants are here from the AI universe. The possibilities of their expression in art is endless.
Hello. Arne from 🇳🇴Norway here. Very Nice woork. How muth can somthing like that cost in money? Thankyou. Arne
@arnedalbakk6315 - Thank you, $300 US + Shipping
@@antznpantzcastings Thank you😊Arne
I love these videos! Would it be possible to use resin so we could see in tunnels as well?
@CrakFacts - We have thought about using many different metals and resin to cast ant mounds. We have experimented with some of them with good and bad results. What we find with resin is the excessive amount of soil that ends up in the casting. They turn out looking dirty and full of soil without any way to clean it up. What might help with this is to make small pours using darker shades of tent in the resin to get better looking castings. We appreciate you watching our videos and supporting our channel.
Nice job! How do you know which way the colony is going, vertical or horizontal? You have some very industrious ants where you live. Thanks for sharing this with us.
@enaidyeltneb369 - Thank you! We guess before every pour on what it will look like, how deep it is, and how many pounds of aluminum it will take. We are both wrong nearly every time. We really don't know what its going to do. Some massive mounds turn out small castings and the opposite with smaller mounds. The best way we find to judge is the diameter of the mound at ground level. What was funny about this mound, it was in my front yard and I spent an entire summer running it over with the lawnmower. It would make them mad and they would move over a few inches and make another mound. Eventually they built enough mounds to give us this 3' long casting. My soil turns to hard red clay about 18" down, so most mounds here are not deep and tend to grow horizontally. Thanks for watching and supporting our channel!!!
@@antznpantzcastings Thanks for answering my question! Just an FYI, if you ever want to move the ants, that is if they are the good kind and not the fire ants, use cinnamon. Just pour at the opening and anywhere you do not want them to be. This adds more time but maybe they will rebuild so you have more to cast. When I did this in my backyard I ended up chasing them from one end to the other before they finally left. Their being in your yard explains not using your portable furnace. First thought I had the wrong channel!!
Is there a way to know the number of ants cast inside? Would be amazing to see through these tunnels using lasers as such. They're ready for the future Jurassic-post nuclear disaster.
So one full pour is about a gallon.?
@stevehartz4615 - The crucible we used in this video is a little under 1 gallon. We could probably could get a gallon but don't want to risk spilling it.
What value would u put on that??
@stevehartz4615 - $300 - $400
When the ants finally take over, this will be an exhibit in humanity's genocide trials.
@Cletus Beauregard - If you think this is bad enough to hold genocide trials over you you my have too much propaganda in your life. Thanks for watching our videos and supporting our channel.
@@antznpantzcastings read the first half again and then go outside and laugh at yourself.
Maybe someday you'll discover a better pouring method.
@Steven - I think this method has worked well for us. We are always looking for ways to improve our processes. We are very open minded to new ideas and ways to better ourselves, let us know if you have any! We appreciate you watching our videos.
@@antznpantzcastings I admire your work and would absolutely love to do this, my OCD just had to comment, that looks so uncomfortable. Be safe friend.