Lol last time I watched one of these videos, people were saying that casting is only done once a colony is dead, and the nests aren't reused by other colonies. Never fact checked that though
Your comments reminds me of the US Congressmen from the great State of Georgia in the US who once said that there were too many people on the Island of Guam and it was going to tilt over.
14:19 Here's an interesting thing about metal being used as mirrors: Some telescopes use a metal like gallium that can liquefy at room temperature as a lense because you can change the focal point simply by spinning the metal faster or slower. Since it's liquid, it makes a near perfect disk and is considerably cheaper than a glass lense.
25 and 30 year old nests of amazing creatures and you wipe out the colonies and burn them to death. How cruel! No piece of art or museum exhibit justifies that.
"If you do this, wear safety gear please..." as an unprotected child dances around aimlessly within a few feet of the same danger the protected adults are close to. I get it, the whole family is out there, but tell the kid to stay back or wrap him up like the adults, that will not end well.
Actually it appears to be quite unprofessional. Bickering about pouring and people participating who have to be constantly cided about standing up properly. If you have "people" in charge of fire protection, have them properly equipped. Bush league.
@@charles9571 hmmm... Fire.. and child dances on it and tries to put out with own feet. Usually children and adults run from fires. This child is just slow.
@@novideostodayI don't really understand this reply but a Darwin award is given to ppl who died strange and unusual deaths, a famous example being rasputin
I love that everyone is wearing safety gear... well everyone except the kid who's standing a few feet away from it all. He's lucky he wasn't trying to stamp out a fire in that last one the same as he did the first.
No joking, and if that was irresponsible during the first fill, its just criminal stupid after they had the first explosion to let him hang around unprotected at the following fills.
And the child jumping on fire like it’s some sort of game, I want to know how quickly their kid will be taken from them when he ends up in hospital after the shoes melted onto his feet. Great parenting right there!
It wasn't a real explosion. It was blowback from the air releasing from the nest through the same hole the metal was coming in. The air was heated and cause some of the metal to eject with it It, when it bubbled out. Short version: The first guy, leading, poured too fast. No more danger than a BBQ for the child.
@@BandersnatchRiderblind and senseless activism is just as dangerous if not moreso than blind and senseless actions in their lonesome, something many in this comment section seem not to understand
You guys better reverse the way you are wearing your gloves. Sleeves outside or one of these days it’s going to burp and you’ll run molten aluminum down inside your glove. Hot slag hand warmer. Not going to be fun.
I could understand it assuming the children are taught how to stay safe when the adults are working. But then they encouraged the children to put out the fire despite having no protection on and had one pouring right after the huge explosion (the height difference causing unsteady handling of the bucket and pouring, yikes!). It's probably a normal thing for everyone there and the kids will probably continue to help out and get better with age and experience but it still made me uneasy. :/
Casually setting the grass on fire on a windy day in a country known for being on fire instead of finding something to set hot things down on is an odd vibe
They had a very capable firefighter on hand and he did a great job. Also I think the guys who do this for a living know better than the armchair commenters.
@@southeastcoastalphotography All I'm saying is you won't need to react to a fire before it gets out of hand if you set yourself up to not light fires you didn't need to light. My line of work has me running grinders and torches in some prime wildfire country. Even if it's something as simple as peeling the sod bad or scraping the duff to bare soil before you start work, you don't throw sparks or drop red-hot steel into something that could ignite. It's not like there wasn't time waiting for the furnace to get up to temperature to be planning a better strategy than tossing the crucibles into the grass. Yeah we always have something around to extinguish any fire that might start, but it's a better day when you don't have to use them. And even if it's not much of a fire that gets away from you, you're still pulling fire response resources away from possibly responding to something else.
@@southeastcoastalphotography considering the unprotected child running around near the fire immediately after the aluminum explosion, I don't think they know better
That kid is lucky he wasn't near the third nest. The fact he was jumping right where the crucible was diring the first nest pour was scary. And the explosion is proof he needs to stay much further back without safety gear. Someone get him a Super Soaker for Christmas so he can put out the grass frpm a distance!
Using a super soaker near molten aluminium is a great idea! If a spoonful of moisture creates that much of an explosion, just imagine how much destruction you can cause with 20 times more!
This popped up on my recommendations and that was quite a pour! My father used to work for ALCOA back in the day and molten aluminum is no joke- he's seen some rough accidents back then if you weren't careful near the stuff. Glad everyone was alright and 100% great advice on proper safety gear as well. Molten metal is friend to no one.
@@dshe8637 It seems like pretty typical behavior for Aussies in general. "Eh, he'll be fine. What doesn't kill ya, makes ya smarter." I think another poster recommended a super-soaker. I recommend a liquid nitrogen sprayer.
It’s great that you guys considered full PPE 👍🏻 think the young lad should have full PPE, as he was involved in the operation, just a thought. Enjoyed your video thanks. 👍🏻👍🏻
Have you guys ever looked into "vibrating" the ground around the nests, when you cast with resin? My thought was to use the vibratory tools they use when pouring concrete, inserted into pre-dug pilot holes drilled into the surrounding earth. Depending on the size of the nest, you might need 2 or more, but I bet even 1 would help to "shake out" bubbles that otherwise might compromise the casting.
Those are specifically designed to vibrate bubbles out of thick liquid. Honestly, a repeated-hammer-type vibrator would probably work better. That said, I think your idea about vibration to get the liquid to fill the holes better, is a good one.
Green sand or other sand molds are cold and the heat from the iron crates a minor geothermal "vibration" reaction if you will, settling into it's form cooling into a solid. Was a ladle crane operator for a few years.
@@YuriMakarov-h3p That's an interesting dynamic to learn about. Thanks for sharing! However, I was thinking more for the resin pours, though, where bubbles and debris in the smaller passageways of the nest, combined with the lower density and higher viscosity of the resin, are more likely to cause clogs/stoppages, and large air pockets may never be displaced by resin at all.
I think the explosions you had comes from the water content of the ants being practically vaporized and their remains charred beyond recognition. The biggest explosion in the third casting was probably because of the proximity to the tree's roots, which also vaporized the water in the roots and caused lots of gaseous emissions that vented through the hole with a spectacular explosion.
To answer why this happened: the molten metal hit the water table. You can tell it’s low in this area because at 1:50 you can see they’re about 20 yards from a pond at site 1, and site 3 is maybe 10 yards further out. Site 2 is much further from the pond and the ground is a bit higher, which is why there was no explosion even though it was a bigger pour.
i was hoping to see the metal when it was pulled out of the ground. i've seen it before and it looks super cool. little disappointed you didn't pull it out
This is my first video of yours- I have some questions lol. What are you scooping out of the hole with the spoon? What causes the explosions and are they normal?
I have watched several aluminum ant castings and this is the biggest explosion I have seen. I am SO thankful that you are all okay! I have given scathing comments to some channels (accompanied by thumbs down) who call themselves professionals, yet they are wearing sneakers, using oven mitts and tongs to pour the molten aluminum. I commend you for showing the PROPER precautions when pouring these sculptures. Thank you!
Who makes no sense we made in God's image not some animal to be destroyed, also the people in the subway are not on other people's property like the answer
No, this is simple physics, when you pour water down a hole with no other place for the air to escape, bubbles form at the top to allow more fluid down into the hole
I was intrigued, so I watched what you guys were doing. As you were putting on all of that safety gear I thought. Really, Why?? Then I saw Why. Glad you all had it on. Wow that moisture in the nest I assume caused the explosion of hot aluminum. Really loved the video
I was glad to see that there is at least one group of ant casters who are willing to use proper protective gear. The big burps around 9:30 and 19:00 was proof of why it is needed.
Fascinating. That 'explosion' was intense. I first saw this sort of thing with fire ants in America and the nests were much more spindly and extensive so I was surprised to see how squat these nests were. A very interesting video. Thank you.
I like all the adults in full-on safety gear, and that kid is just hangin' out, waiting for his face to be melted off by molten aluminum and steam explosions. Australia, ammiright? Be safe out there, kids! ✌🏻❤️🙂🇨🇦
Glad you’re wearing safety gear but… I can’t believe you haven’t set up a jig to pour the bucket from a safer distance…! At the simplest, just two saw horses with a mount, and a bar with the bucket connected. Set up a pulley and a rope, and you can pour in safety from a distance
I've heard about ant nest molds, but to see it in action is really cool. I'm glad you guys had on your PPE (Personal Protective Equipment) when that one pour exploded.
10+ years ago a similar ant nest pouring was done with somekind of cement mixture in Africa, and was dug up after the cement solidified. It must have been a nightmare removing the soil without breaking the branches.
Imagine sleeping in ur house and all of a sudden tons and tons of molten metal is pumped into your house at extreme speed without warning and next thing you know your whole cul-de-sac or city is an art peice 😂
I'm so happy to see you all again!! This was an absolute blast to watch (pun intended), I really hope you all continue to post more vids! I'm also happy to see no one hurt too badly from that steam explosion. That was pretty scary
@@andrewclayterman6230they tend to forget that 80% of the animals & bugs in Australia want to kill you for food hahaha, that's the problem with groing up in America they forgot we still live with Nature & not nature living with us. If they had to spent a week out there they'd DIE, from being stupid ,look at this cute little bugga, OUCH CHARLIE, NO BITE CHARLIE THAT HURT... 😂😂 LMFAO HAHA HAHA
Get that kid out of there! He’s not wearing any protection gears what’s up? What are these adults thinking about? The kid keeps running around and could be so dangerous.
So the explosions happen when the hot aluminum hits the armory/munition store of the ant bunker?
I thought the explosions began when the hot flood reached the ants corn stash, instantly popping it
You know nothing of ants.
It was obviously hitting the waste water treatment plant of the ants.
Shit blew up.
@@simontautorat1014 this. Cows the scape goat for big ant farts
😂😂😂@@doodlegassum6959
Don’t be silly. It is the ant’s fireworks depot for their New Year’s Eve celebration. Ants can’t shoot firearms… everyone knows this.
"Ants are amazing creatures that really help the soil. Now stand aside while I fill one of their nests with molten aluminium."
I mean 1 millions ants compared to the whole population is probably 10
Right!?
Lol last time I watched one of these videos, people were saying that casting is only done once a colony is dead, and the nests aren't reused by other colonies. Never fact checked that though
@@kanemku They literally said that they were clearing out at least one of the nests for some homeowners, which would imply that it was an active nest.
Theres trillions of ants and the queen could lay thousands upon thousands of them so it doesn't dent them
How does the aluminum flow into the ant nest when Australia is upside down? Wouldn't the metal flow into the air??
the sun is so strong it pushes the metal back into the holes
I think it did 😂
Your comments reminds me of the US Congressmen from the great State of Georgia in the US who once said that there were too many people on the Island of Guam and it was going to tilt over.
@@ronniekotler9265 That congressmen (sic) is a dumb idiot
Pressure differential
The one ant who came back from the ant grocery store: 👁️👄👁️
14:19 Here's an interesting thing about metal being used as mirrors: Some telescopes use a metal like gallium that can liquefy at room temperature as a lense because you can change the focal point simply by spinning the metal faster or slower. Since it's liquid, it makes a near perfect disk and is considerably cheaper than a glass lense.
That's freaking cool
Hey I just learned that after visiting the nasa visitor center in Houston.
@@restezlamemeI was gonna say that!
Aluminium go BOOM
Good thing ants don't have social media. They would probably say bad things about you guys to the ant community at large.
Lol
Ant live matter
Free ant Palestine
Some woke genius will get on to this issue.
@@woodrow60 some "woke people" are just idiots on one too many hallucinogens.
“They’re an amazing creature. They do an amazing amount of work.”
*Proceeds to flood their homes with molten metal*
25 and 30 year old nests of amazing creatures and you wipe out the colonies and burn them to death. How cruel! No piece of art or museum exhibit justifies that.
@@arlenewitt248 perfect exemple of immorality
I'm sure you lot treat cockroaches, mosquitoes, and spiders with the same reverence you showed for this nest of bull ants.
Cruel. And shameful.
Absolute cruelty
"If you do this, wear safety gear please..." as an unprotected child dances around aimlessly within a few feet of the same danger the protected adults are close to. I get it, the whole family is out there, but tell the kid to stay back or wrap him up like the adults, that will not end well.
Actually it appears to be quite unprofessional. Bickering about pouring and people participating who have to be constantly cided about standing up properly. If you have "people" in charge of fire protection, have them properly equipped. Bush league.
Big difference between standing over a hole full of molten metal and standing 5ft away from a hole full of molten metal
@@SizzleCorndog Not standing 5 feet away. Bouncing around like a monkey on crack and almost falling face first into the ant hill.
Was thinking exact same thing and why do they not have any fire extinguishers?
@@SizzleCorndog The child was jumping on the fire as if it was a game!
This is probably the ants version of Pompeii
That kid is gonna get a Darwin award soon.
Kids are kids and don't have some of the foresight for consequences that adults do.
That excuses the "professionals"?
@@charles9571 hmmm... Fire.. and child dances on it and tries to put out with own feet. Usually children and adults run from fires. This child is just slow.
@@novideostodayI don't really understand this reply but a Darwin award is given to ppl who died strange and unusual deaths, a famous example being rasputin
I think this is the first time I've seen guys doing this and actually using safety gear. Kudos for doing so and for publicly showing WHY.
Lol, except the kid in no safety gear right up on the pouring operation.
And giving the ants 48hours evacuation notices 😂😂😂
Using safety gear but didn't rake the dry grass away from the area and almost loosing control of random fires 🙄😳🤔🫣
Your avatar says everything!
@@Texas240 It is okay. The kid is a non-productive member of society. He was expendable.
I love that everyone is wearing safety gear... well everyone except the kid who's standing a few feet away from it all. He's lucky he wasn't trying to stamp out a fire in that last one the same as he did the first.
No joking, and if that was irresponsible during the first fill, its just criminal stupid after they had the first explosion to let him hang around unprotected at the following fills.
You can always make more kids
Asinine to even allow that kid on site. 21:30 He is literally stomping on fires that were lit by the explosion.
I'm actually yelling at the screen for the kid to get back !!
Actually one of the stupidest things I've seen in a while.
I can’t believe how close the kid gets to the pour after the explosion
And the child jumping on fire like it’s some sort of game, I want to know how quickly their kid will be taken from them when he ends up in hospital after the shoes melted onto his feet. Great parenting right there!
It wasn't a real explosion. It was blowback from the air releasing from the nest through the same hole the metal was coming in. The air was heated and cause some of the metal to eject with it It, when it bubbled out.
Short version: The first guy, leading, poured too fast. No more danger than a BBQ for the child.
feel bad for those trees, something tells me they wont survive casting
...Like so many actresses in Hollywood.😂
AntsCanada would be really devastated to see this
rightfully so. What a senseless act to do. Making a little money from destroying a whole colony. It’s pretty evil.
@@SamWilkinsonn I totally agree with you
even AntsCanada took out a nest in his backyard with boiling water when they became too much of a problem
@@BandersnatchRiderblind and senseless activism is just as dangerous if not moreso than blind and senseless actions in their lonesome, something many in this comment section seem not to understand
@@That-_-Guy Except I am pretty sure the colony AntsCanada took out was an invasive species, these Bull Ants are natives :'(
You guys better reverse the way you are wearing your gloves. Sleeves outside or one of these days it’s going to burp and you’ll run molten aluminum down inside your glove. Hot slag hand warmer. Not going to be fun.
I shoot professional fireworks displays and I couldn't agree more. I even duct tape my sleeves over the bells of my gloves.
As someone who occasionally welds i strongly agree
as someone who used to experience snow i completely agree
As a TH-cam video watcher I also agree.
😆😆😱✅ Funny!
...As if millions of voices suddenly cried out in terror and were suddenly silenced.
Commento troppo sottovalutato! ❤
Lucas's writing annoys me so much lol. The use of "suddenly" twice in a row in that sentence just feels off.
I DON'T LIKE SAND.
@@G82Jesse it's to emphasize how very _sudden_ it was. can't really overstate the suddenness of that event.
@@G82JesseSpock said it first i believe
And nothing of value was lost.😃
You took the time to point out why it is so important to wear safety gear, yet that little kid ran around you with no safety gear at all.
I could understand it assuming the children are taught how to stay safe when the adults are working. But then they encouraged the children to put out the fire despite having no protection on and had one pouring right after the huge explosion (the height difference causing unsteady handling of the bucket and pouring, yikes!). It's probably a normal thing for everyone there and the kids will probably continue to help out and get better with age and experience but it still made me uneasy. :/
Setting the flaming buckets onto dry grass seems like a well thought out plan.
he has special need powers that shields him
He gon learn today
Ants: doing ant stuff at the home they built
Humans: What if we pour melted metal in there just for fun?
No man they're getting rid of these things that are messing up people's property
Where’s the fire hose, again?
My worry was fire. A month ago we were in severe drought and total fire ban. I did not see any water used to put the fires out if it go away.
Water around molten metal isn't safe, they had plenty of sand to use to put out the fires instead.
Casually setting the grass on fire on a windy day in a country known for being on fire instead of finding something to set hot things down on is an odd vibe
No water nearby to put out any fire that might start either.
They had a very capable firefighter on hand and he did a great job. Also I think the guys who do this for a living know better than the armchair commenters.
@@southeastcoastalphotography All I'm saying is you won't need to react to a fire before it gets out of hand if you set yourself up to not light fires you didn't need to light.
My line of work has me running grinders and torches in some prime wildfire country. Even if it's something as simple as peeling the sod bad or scraping the duff to bare soil before you start work, you don't throw sparks or drop red-hot steel into something that could ignite. It's not like there wasn't time waiting for the furnace to get up to temperature to be planning a better strategy than tossing the crucibles into the grass.
Yeah we always have something around to extinguish any fire that might start, but it's a better day when you don't have to use them. And even if it's not much of a fire that gets away from you, you're still pulling fire response resources away from possibly responding to something else.
@@southeastcoastalphotography considering the unprotected child running around near the fire immediately after the aluminum explosion, I don't think they know better
This blew my mind - so careless.
_No ants were harmed in the making of_ .... Oh, wait, nevermind 😂
Ants are bullies.
@@sirennoir258 And we're not?
@@sirennoir258 and a food source for the echidna.
What's a million ants out of gazillions?
Legal mass murder?😂😂
All in the name of art.
8:25 I felt a great disturbance in the Force, as if millions of voices suddenly cried out in terror and were suddenly silenced.
Why they keep the child so close to molten aluminum. He is without any protection.
That kid is lucky he wasn't near the third nest. The fact he was jumping right where the crucible was diring the first nest pour was scary. And the explosion is proof he needs to stay much further back without safety gear. Someone get him a Super Soaker for Christmas so he can put out the grass frpm a distance!
Using a super soaker near molten aluminium is a great idea! If a spoonful of moisture creates that much of an explosion, just imagine how much destruction you can cause with 20 times more!
let his put it out with his beiber hair style. he shouldn't be there at all he gives off "special needs" a lil too much
Water is scarce there.
NO EXPLOSION, FOOL
It was scary that he put the fire out quickly?
This popped up on my recommendations and that was quite a pour! My father used to work for ALCOA back in the day and molten aluminum is no joke- he's seen some rough accidents back then if you weren't careful near the stuff.
Glad everyone was alright and 100% great advice on proper safety gear as well. Molten metal is friend to no one.
It seems particularly hostile to ants.
Even the 10 year old, running around in the background is wearing sunglasses for protection 8:10
Terminator model T-1000 enters the chat.
I worked for them in Maryville TN
Lol I used to work there in the 90's some guy dropped a soda in the extruder and boom 💥
You need too keep the young fella a few more steps away
or at the very least gear him up in PPE
Kid shouldn't have been there
@@dshe8637 It seems like pretty typical behavior for Aussies in general. "Eh, he'll be fine. What doesn't kill ya, makes ya smarter."
I think another poster recommended a super-soaker. I recommend a liquid nitrogen sprayer.
@@FoxyfloofJumps But kids do die, or get life-changing injuries some times, don't they?
@@FoxyfloofJumpsyou not wrong it does come across like that 😊🫶🏻❤️🇦🇺
How do they get the whole thing out of the ground? or will the soil now remain contaminated?
It’s great that you guys considered full PPE 👍🏻 think the young lad should have full PPE, as he was involved in the operation, just a thought. Enjoyed your video thanks. 👍🏻👍🏻
Lol no-one cares about Joel
Don’t you know by now that Americans only care about the unborn babies, but once out they don’t give a shit.
The one ant coming back: "Yo, why did you guys build a giant mountain in front of the entran-OH MY GOD JIMMY IS COVERED IN MOLTEN ALUMINUM! "
RIP Jimmy 🙏🏻
You deserve more likes for this.
Aluminium
RIP me lol
That one made me spit out my drink! Kudos!
Have you guys ever looked into "vibrating" the ground around the nests, when you cast with resin? My thought was to use the vibratory tools they use when pouring concrete, inserted into pre-dug pilot holes drilled into the surrounding earth. Depending on the size of the nest, you might need 2 or more, but I bet even 1 would help to "shake out" bubbles that otherwise might compromise the casting.
Those are specifically designed to vibrate bubbles out of thick liquid. Honestly, a repeated-hammer-type vibrator would probably work better. That said, I think your idea about vibration to get the liquid to fill the holes better, is a good one.
I like your face. :)
Green sand or other sand molds are cold and the heat from the iron crates a minor geothermal "vibration" reaction if you will, settling into it's form cooling into a solid. Was a ladle crane operator for a few years.
@@YuriMakarov-h3p That's an interesting dynamic to learn about. Thanks for sharing! However, I was thinking more for the resin pours, though, where bubbles and debris in the smaller passageways of the nest, combined with the lower density and higher viscosity of the resin, are more likely to cause
clogs/stoppages, and large air pockets may never be displaced by resin at all.
@@alden1132 oh, I see now. Must have read it too fast. Lol
I think the explosions you had comes from the water content of the ants being practically vaporized and their remains charred beyond recognition. The biggest explosion in the third casting was probably because of the proximity to the tree's roots, which also vaporized the water in the roots and caused lots of gaseous emissions that vented through the hole with a spectacular explosion.
Hey, ants, welcome to... HELL !
@@rolandmeyer3729 oh man that comment made me laugh and feel bad at the same time 🤦♀️
@@All_Loves_Lostno fear. karma will strike back
noooooooooooo really?
Heeheehee.... "gaseous emissions".
Hello, can someone explain to me why liquid metal is poured into ant nests?
Just waiting for the kid to pick up the molten aluminium with his hands
To answer why this happened: the molten metal hit the water table. You can tell it’s low in this area because at 1:50 you can see they’re about 20 yards from a pond at site 1, and site 3 is maybe 10 yards further out. Site 2 is much further from the pond and the ground is a bit higher, which is why there was no explosion even though it was a bigger pour.
ants were living under the water table?
You don't need water to achieve this effect, just trapped, expanding air will do the same.
No, I think what they meant was just that the hot aluminium got all the way down to the water table. @@noneck3099
@@dune7824 you do realize how many ants are in there right and the gas being released from them?
No I didn't get a count, did you?@@0minous187
i was hoping to see the metal when it was pulled out of the ground. i've seen it before and it looks super cool. little disappointed you didn't pull it out
they did tho..... in another video lol............. :0
This comment saved me 23 minutes. Thank you
Serously? That's annoying. At least saved me some time.
Seeing those ants walking on the side of the hill as their 20 year old home gets burned by giants was kinda heartbreaking.
Not really. Little demons
Cry me a fukin river mate!
That makes no sense
Agreed. Humans suck in the worst way. Bring on the meteors.
my question is how do you know how old a ant nest is? in the vid it say that one was 20-25 years old
What is the gear you’re wearing called, and where would you get it? I’d like to make some castings at about 1% of what you are doing.
This would make for an amazing sequel to "A Bug's Life"
Why is the kid, the only one not wearing protective gear? Lol
Мужчина это выживший мальчик.
non skilled, replaceable
Joel is expendable
Isn’t it obvious; they don’t like him!
Would putting a short steel barrel cutoff, say 2.5 feet tall, around the hole keep that exploding bit from spreading?
How do you protect against the risk of forest fires? That grass likes dry as!
This is my first video of yours- I have some questions lol. What are you scooping out of the hole with the spoon? What causes the explosions and are they normal?
I have watched several aluminum ant castings and this is the biggest explosion I have seen. I am SO thankful that you are all okay! I have given scathing comments to some channels (accompanied by thumbs down) who call themselves professionals, yet they are wearing sneakers, using oven mitts and tongs to pour the molten aluminum. I commend you for showing the PROPER precautions when pouring these sculptures. Thank you!
SCATHING COMMENTS AND THUMBS DOWN??? How could you!!
@#sforiza69 if you saw the video that I saw, you would give the same response.
@@kimlindsey5178 I’m just messing with you hahaha
Yeah except the kid running around @9:19 with zero protective gear 😂
fire ants only please -
Makes me nervous how close the young one is to it all with no PPE
who cares
How do they find their way in that when it's pitch black?
16:30 how do they know how big the hole is? 😮
This is all very interesting, but why is that kid so close when everyone else is wearing protective gear?!?
Maybe cause kids are impulsive and most often put fun over safety
Makes me imagine giant space aliens pouring billions of tons of molten metal into the NYC subway system. 😄
They should anyways to clean it out.
Free metal
Ants are not sapient. We are.
Ants will steal your food, bite you, sting you. An alien could leave peacefully with us, in theory.
Not comparable.
@@CruX06
Which they won't. Because they know that city council would do it for them, free of charge.
Who makes no sense we made in God's image not some animal to be destroyed, also the people in the subway are not on other people's property like the answer
Goes on about being safe, has small child with no safety gear stompin' out fires right in the danger zone.
Makes sense.
What if you do a casting during winter? Ant-art-ticker?
We did
Why does it bubble? Are these the gases from vaporizing insects?
No, this is simple physics, when you pour water down a hole with no other place for the air to escape, bubbles form at the top to allow more fluid down into the hole
I'm thinking that your Fire Fighter might need just a little more protective clothing. Other than that, his tecnique is fun to watch. 😎
it’d be cool to do at night with a thermal camera, you’d be able to see the outline in the ground heating up… just an idea
Don't need the night for that.
The kid was far too close, especially when the first one blew back.
To get the age do they count the ant rings?
so where do we see the ant tunnel castings?
The big one from this set is currently displayed at the Queensland Museum in Brisbane, Australia. On display until July, 2024.
I was intrigued, so I watched what you guys were doing. As you were putting on all of that safety gear I thought. Really, Why?? Then I saw Why. Glad you all had it on. Wow that moisture in the nest I assume caused the explosion of hot aluminum. Really loved the video
It’s Australia! Safety gear is essential
I was glad to see that there is at least one group of ant casters who are willing to use proper protective gear. The big burps around 9:30 and 19:00 was proof of why it is needed.
As someone who has been bitten by a bull ant I can assure you, that protective gear isn't for all the molten metal flying around!
@@Myndale hmmmmm....... not convinced tbh lol........ :0
Doomsday for the Ants…died in simmering heat …no lawyers involved
That’s what they deserve
Would a magnet and a tow rope work?
At 6:30 is this in Celsius or Fahrenheit?
Fahrenheit i think
@@DrGonzo-bh9th Celsius
Oh, the humanity!
Don't you mean the 'antity' ?
Could you kindly illustrate how you determined the age of the ant nest like say 25 years, 30 yrs, unknown etc ?
I want to know the same thing.
Property owner information. They have been there a long time and so had the ants.
Fascinating. That 'explosion' was intense. I first saw this sort of thing with fire ants in America and the nests were much more spindly and extensive so I was surprised to see how squat these nests were. A very interesting video. Thank you.
I like all the adults in full-on safety gear, and that kid is just hangin' out, waiting for his face to be melted off by molten aluminum and steam explosions. Australia, ammiright?
Be safe out there, kids! ✌🏻❤️🙂🇨🇦
Nice brand new PPE. Did you decide to be safe for the camera?
Question, How do you estimate how big the nest is to calculate your materials?
Experience!
😅
Glad you’re wearing safety gear but… I can’t believe you haven’t set up a jig to pour the bucket from a safer distance…! At the simplest, just two saw horses with a mount, and a bar with the bucket connected. Set up a pulley and a rope, and you can pour in safety from a distance
That's what I was thinking.
I've heard about ant nest molds, but to see it in action is really cool. I'm glad you guys had on your PPE (Personal Protective Equipment) when that one pour exploded.
But the kid running around randomly was very unsafe
@@dshe8637she wasn't pouring
Seatbelts don't only protect the driver of the car but also passengers.
And there was *NO fire extinguisher on site.* That could have ended in a bush fire. Especially with the explosion
Do you guys see that churka?
WoW that's awesome! First time watcher and I'll be hooked. Thanks for teaching.
How is needlessly eradicating an entire nest of ants awesome???
Jeez what a scary moment. That kid running around that close to it afterwards though isn't a great idea. Thankfully everyone was ok.
They broil ants for a living. This isn't going to be a brilliant community.
@@MavonEastlooks like someone pissed in your cheerios. Simmer down Karen it will be ok.
@@garrettmillsap Thanks for proving my point, Einstein. 😁💙
@@MavonEast you seem like you need a win, so I guess I will let you think you have it. Cheerio pip pip
@@garrettmillsap Good boy.
Australians doing what Australians do best: treating the land and nature with absolute contempt.
Waaaaaaaaaaaa cry cry cry
Maybe you should try living with bull ants in your house and see if you change your mind
@@shanesauce7738 😃
Apparently natives, nature and land are their natural enemies.
they made dingoes go extinct too
10+ years ago a similar ant nest pouring was done with somekind of cement mixture in Africa, and was dug up after the cement solidified. It must have been a nightmare removing the soil without breaking the branches.
I’ve see that one and it was massive
holy moly howd you get all that aluminum those are really big chunks
Are you using zinc or tin?
Imagine sleeping in ur house and all of a sudden tons and tons of molten metal is pumped into your house at extreme speed without warning and next thing you know your whole cul-de-sac or city is an art peice 😂
Pompeii. Italy. Just a few centuries ago (historians lie).
79 AD
*Happened to me once. All the food in the fridge was ruined.*
That's gonna be awesome.😂
pompei
It's funny how amazing they say ants are, but then they kill them.
Even ants were not spared from the evil of humans. How long did it take to build the kingdom?
This looks like the coolest volcano presentation ever i dont know if anyone else did this at school.
How do you age an ants nest???
This wasn't the Ant artic expedition I expected :)
why is everyone protected except the kid
Because it's much easier to make a new kid than to make a new adult
Action starts at 8:00
You just saved 8 minutes of my life. Thanks!
Did anyone say "Foiled again!" ?
Justice for ants ✊️✊️
I'm so happy to see you all again!! This was an absolute blast to watch (pun intended), I really hope you all continue to post more vids! I'm also happy to see no one hurt too badly from that steam explosion. That was pretty scary
It was pretty intense. We have a few more videos coming for these castings.
@@australianantart1376What did these ants do to you??? Why would you do this?
@@lovequeen7080 calm yourself, bruce.. they are vicious buggers that will, and do.. attack humans. The nests were getting closer to the abode..
@@andrewclayterman6230they tend to forget that 80% of the animals & bugs in Australia want to kill you for food hahaha, that's the problem with groing up in America they forgot we still live with Nature & not nature living with us. If they had to spent a week out there they'd DIE, from being stupid ,look at this cute little bugga, OUCH CHARLIE, NO BITE CHARLIE THAT HURT... 😂😂 LMFAO HAHA HAHA
No one except one million ants.
I’m always so excited when y’all post!
So are we :)
WHAT? We will NOT SEE the actual casting in this video!
How can you tell the age of the Nest's?
why are gloves on outside of safety sleeves to drip down onto bare hands? Should they be tucked into sleeves instead?
As a former foundry worker, I approve of this video.
Get that kid out of there! He’s not wearing any protection gears what’s up? What are these adults thinking about? The kid keeps running around and could be so dangerous.
Looking forward to the rest of this miniseries!
What causes the explosion? Huge lesson how important all that safety gear is.
The molten alluminum came in contact with water causing the explosion.