Florida Anthill Casting #8
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- เผยแพร่เมื่อ 10 เม.ย. 2020
- Aluminum casting of a fire ant nest.
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Imported Red Fire Ants (Solenopsis Invicta) are an invasive ant species in the southern United States. They kill other native/beneficial ant species, endangered ground-nesting birds, and send people to hospitals. These ants are harmful to the ecology of Florida as well as many other southern states.
Congratulations. You just fulfilled the collective dream of the entire state of Florida by turning a whole enemy city into aluminum!
Eunae Kim Thank you, I know fire ants are horrible and as a merciful person I kill them quickly lol.
And also the state of Arkansas. Lol
experiment that failed 😂
South Carolina also those fire ant hurt ya
Nolan, I came across your channel omg I love it.
A question: What is that stuff you put around the hills? Got me curious.
Just normal sand
"what did you do this weekend?" "Oh, I just poured liquid aluminum over an anthill with my dad and I filmed the whole thing!"
Great work man
Excellent work! Really enjoy your videos.
Thank you!
Are all of your nest castings from fire ants? I'm interested in other speceis nests.
Have you ever accidentally lost grip while taking the crucible out of the furnace?
Neighboring ant colonies: 'Damn... there goes the neighborhood...'
That’s awesome
Excellent job man! I don't know what it is about them but I feel like I can stare at them all day! Absolutely mesmerizing! 👍✌️
Is there a reason you held the aluminum block over the heat for awhile before putting it in the crucible?
Yes, there are two reasons. Everything, even if it doesn’t look like it, has moisture on the surface, especially in Florida, and if you were to submerge that moisture in the liquid metal it could easily explode and splash metal all over you. The second reason is thermal shock. If you put a cold piece of metal into a hot crucible it would freeze the molten metal inside and then it could also crack the crucible if it touches the walls of the crucible. I’ve had a small crucible crack straight down the middle from doing that before. So, basically pre heating it gets rid of moisture and reduces the chance of thermal shock.
Nolan’s Anthill Castings thanks. I had no idea.
20/10
Are there ants in there
Yes, they die quickly and some are preserved as charcoal in the sculpture it’s self.
That's just cool!
looks like fun, but also looks like work.
Fun to watch👍👍👍👍👍👍👏🏻👏🏻
I love it!
What kind of sand do you put around the top of anthill?
Its normal sand
Neat
I am not in Florida but would love to have one.
I love these castings! Beautiful! Do you sell any? I’m in south Florida and would be interested in buying
Yes I do, this piece is already sold but I have more available. What part of south Florida are you in.
@@NolansAnthillCastings I live in Royal Palm Beach near Wellington and Loxahatchee
That’s a bit too far for me to travel, I currently don’t ship but will be soon in the future.
Thank you for the interest though!
@@NolansAnthillCastings I travel to UCF frequently to see my daughter. If you’re around the Orlando area...I could come to you
Do you sell your castings? Also, have you ever done them in brass or copper?
I sell them locally in central Florida and I plan on doing an aluminum bronze casting in the future.
@@NolansAnthillCastings - You ought to consider putting them on Etsy! I've seen a few of the ones for sale on Etsy and yours look 10X better.
Do you this on your or parents property . What do they think of you making all the holes on the property?
The grass grows back pretty quickly, I also do it mostly on a part of the property where people don’t go that often.
👀👀
That would have to be the sick ants nest i’ve seen
What location do you do most of your ant castings
Central Florida, all in my yard
can i ask were you are located
I’m in the Central Florida area.
@@NolansAnthillCastings I had grandparents when I was growing up as well as my young adult years that lived in Lake County. Clermont, to be exact. Plus, we also inherited the timeshare that originally belonged to my other grandparents that we always went to growing up down in Lee County, on Sanibel Island.
Cool stuff, toast the fire ants they're evil wicked things
3:45 Dross muffins. Yum.
nothing like some tasty slag for a pick-me-up
Make yourself a grate that you can lay metal on to preheat it. Holding it by the tongs is too short of time. You risk slipping the cold metal dropping in the molten metal and having a violent explosion. Seen it happen.
You do realize this ain't his first rodeo?
They use a lot of A loo min um in the USA.
And the rest of the world, too. It’s literally the most common metal.
Why do they only do small ones? I wanna see them do one of these foot tall ones on the side of the road. Lol
Check out the Aussie channel that does this, they get some that weigh 400+ pounds!
Its very intresting that nobody likes ANTS! 😄
imagine our city is being poured with hot metal just like in the vid . . .
nope, i cant imagine it
like pompeii?
"Ant Lovers" ?? Is there such a thing ? If so, they need to get a life and not worry about ants. I doubt if ants are on the endangered species list.
I would love to try this but I'm in Georgia, U.S.A. which means red clay. Not sure if it would be possible to dig one out.
Red clay would be one of the easier ones to do and get a better casting im in georgia too
@@codyology After thinking on it, I guess clay would hold it together better.
I’d be careful about pouring in clay. Normal soil allows steam/pressure to escape through it. Clay does not and might explode on you sending molten aluminum everywhere.
@@NolansAnthillCastings Definitely something to consider....🤔
Good point! Clay doesn't breathe as really sandy soil (Florida) does. Might be harder to dislodge as well.
Do folks call you to come do this or is it strictly your neighbor? If a person does contact you do you give them the sculpture free or do they pay you? 🤔 I think it's a cool way to earn a living.
It’s strictly my yard.
Bad architecture by Ants. 😁
thats not smoke its steam the ground is damp
Disliked.
Who?
@@NolansAnthillCastings me
Cares
Are you from loser town? Because you’re a massive loser. Get owned, loser.
What a douchebag don't listen to that s*** you rock man
Amateur
The most nonsense waste of resources I can fancy, damaging the environment, killing insects. At least he does not call it 'art'... lol Poor-minded people pass-times.
Thanks for the channel engagement!
Fire ants are actually a massively harmful invasive species here in the US, especially here in Florida, they do way more harm than good, not to mentions its well known that is Floridians are all crazy.
I suppose you walk everywhere not to waste precious resources and not pollute the environment.
It’s “past-times”. 🤦🏻♂️