Massive Aluminum Anthill Casting #24
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- เผยแพร่เมื่อ 1 ต.ค. 2021
- Aluminum casting of a Fire Ant nest.
Instagram @Kiefer_Casting 🔥🔥
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.
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I was digging in the dirt as a child, and wasn’t aware I dug into a fire ant nest, until they all started biting. It was agony for me, and seeing what you’re doing here makes me so happy.
Hehe
they were stinging and they are invasive to the US so its good for the enviroment what hes doing because they out compete native ants
Always love seeing these pop up on my Feed. Keep up the great work
Glad you like them!
Hey Nolan, the algorithm brought me along. The effect you are describing when spraying down the casting is called the Leidenfrost effect. It's a really neat result of hot and cold things mixing together. Have fun!
It’s actually called the klindustin hotfreeze, we use it in titanium sculpting.. no idea why you made up a BS name for it.
@@garygigner7204 bs the bs’er
It’s so nice to see you again. This video was probably your best so far, really enjoyable. I’ll be looking forward to the next one.
Thank you!
This is one of your best videos. Here's why: You explained what you were doing, and you had a couple face shots. People relate better to people they can see... it's not like you're an ugly dude.
Yeah I want to spice it up and keep things interesting in order to keep the channel sustainable. Imma try some new things in the future as well.
@@NolansAnthillCastings what part of Florida are you in and how much do you charge to exterminate a colony. Asking from Pensacola
@@patrickwebster9153 ONE MILLION DOLLARS
@@austinbanttari LoL..
While I enjoy watching the whole process, there is just something so oddly satisfying towards the end, as the water breaks down the dirt, and we slowly get the intricacies of the big reveal. It’s mesmerizing.
I love the concrete layer! It makes it a most unique piece.
Been waiting on a new video!! Nice result in the end..really like the concrete left in the piece!
Glad to see you posting! I know the hurricanes have wrecked havoc. hope you all came out unscathed.
Nice one! I showed my 9yo grandson, and he was suitably impressed!
Ant sized Pompeii 😭
Birds are a chirpin', metal's a boilin', and ants are a dyin'. Nice.
That’s awesome!!! I think the concrete adds character and shows more of what ants are capable of. Nice piece Nolan!!!!
That one came out awesome. The rocks and root fused in are a great visual
I’m so glad you are back, it’s been a long time.
I'm in a bad place. I can't stop watching these but it makes me feel itchy and weird lol
This is up there w some of the best castings so far
I KNOW IT'S PROBABLY DIFFICULT, BUT THESE ARE SO AMAZING! CAN YOU DO MORE?
Great video, and I see Geo Hazelman says it would look good in a fish tank, I agree 100%, it would look great.
Mass murder on video! 🤣 (Still, very interesting to watch!)
this relaxes me so much, i love these vids
I find this very relaxing to watch. I was hooked on first video that popped up a couple weeks ago.
I agree with earlier comment, it's nice to see your face. You're a good looking guy. And you clearly know what you're doing and are well-educated. Super informative stuff.
Great video. I love watching these, takes me back to my youth in South FLA
Of all the videos that I've seen that shows this, none of them talked about the dangers. This one did. I appreciate that very much as we're moving to the country and will have to deal with ants. This seems like a great way to do it! Thanks for posting!
Excellent stuff, the end result is hauntingly beautiful
This is a Forrest fire waiting to happen
What fire ants should be thinking when he sets the kiln up next to their nest “Run!!!!!!”
Awesome dude, that one turned out pretty bad ass!!!
Fascinating. How long did that all take? Looks like many hours.
2nd casting I watched you make.Looks pretty kewl,and I like that you're recycling cast off aluminum to create art.Maybe this will get you that 32K Subs notice,as I'm clicking it now.
What do you do what the after? Wondering if you auction or sell any of them?
On average how much aluminum does it take for an ant hill? I want to start casting ant hills but I don’t know if I have enough aluminum. Just wondering what a good estimate would be.
Each pour I do is about 7lbs of aluminum. Aluminum is pretty easy to find. Car parts are my go to, you can find them for free on the side of the road or have friends give you their broken stuff or go out and buy broken parts from a scrap yard.
@@NolansAnthillCastings so it doesn't come in pre-cast bars?
@@eq1373 It does. I googled aluminum ingots for sale and there’s some on eBay, among many others.
No reason to pay extra for aluminum when you can just get free stuff on the side of the roadz
@@NolansAnthillCastings I get it. Saw another vid where the guy melted soda cans for his aluminum. Just googled it out of curiosity, and of course aluminum ingots are listed on eBay. Saw an old doc about scrapping WWII bombers after the war, and the final shot was a conveyor belt of aluminum ingots that used to be a B-24.
The wife and I love your videos and really enjoy the results of your castings. Glad to see you back at it.
Would u buy 1 of them. I’m thinking about casting and selling dome
@@ScrappingwithGrandpa I would
Please make more. Love these vids
what an interesting network of tunnels and chambers
What do you do with the dross after you scoop it out?
Do you recover the aluminum oxides through chemical processing? if so I would watch a video on it even just you experimenting with it...
Honestly the aluminum oxides would be much more trouble than it’s worth to try to extract due to the strong bond created within. Likely it would take a great deal of electricity for a very small yield
Yes and no, so the oxides like Sam says wouldn’t make sense to try to recover but I do remelt what I take out because I usually take out a bit of good aluminum with the dross.
Awesome peice! Good video and information. How do you get your aluminum?
Mostly broken car parts donated from friends and neighbors and occasional I go out and look for scrap on the side of the road or the free scrap on Craigslist
Ants : heyyyyyyyyyyyyyy
Won’t spraying water on it while hot potentially weaken the structure?
Sir, have you ever considered using a Zinc alloy??
Zinc pours at a lower temp and molten Zinc is much thiner than Aluminum.
I think you will get deeper penetration and finer detail with the Zinc.
I get all of my alloys from Rotometals.
I don’t like messing with zinc. The fumes aren’t good for you if you get the furnace too hot and it’s just more expensive. I get all my aluminum for free by scrapping stuff.
+1, molten zinc fumes are super bad to breathe. Tin/pewter is safe, though. But verify purity!
P.S. I'm sure you're aware, Mr. Ant-nest Caster (beautiful work, btw) but for any folks considering: drink cans (soda, beer, & wine?!) are lined with plastic inside. So if y'all use em, just be careful cos awful fumes. (Hi, I'm new. I'm a worry-wart. I'm sure you know what you're doing, Ant Nest Caster - I'm really sorry I don't know your name!)
We could have used you a couple months ago. I had the exterminators coming every week because more and more hills kept popping up. Finally after some heavy chemicals they got them under control. Aluminum would have been more interesting.
I know you’re someplace in Polk. How far from Winter Haven?
You don't have to get a new furnace, you can just repair the refractory in that one. I would be careful if it has the ceramic fiber blanket in it as that can be quite bad for your health.
wish you would do more of these!!
Here in Eastern NC, you'd be pouring non-stop because they're so many fire ant mounds! Very cool results!
Easier to dig out, too, if your soil is sandy like mine.
I know this comment is old but I personally use alcohol for getting rid of ant piles these days. I used to use gasoline though.
Amazing nature! They’re great engineers
The Assie usuallu just dropps cold in.
8:22 And this is why you call DigSafe before digging
I don’t think they’d know about a piece of pvc that was put in the ground without a permit from 15 years ago
these videos are really interesting for some reason
My Mom and Dad moved to California from Georgia while my mom was still carrying me. Her Mom and Dad weren’t happy that they moved and I didn’t meet my grandparents until I was a Toddler. My grandma “Ma” wouldn’t hold me or anything until they were getting into their car and I was barefoot in a diaper and stood on a red ant hill! They bit me all over my legs and that’s when Ma finally held me!
Always a pleasure to watch. 👍
What size is your forge?
I could watch a million of these
How long time wise from when you pour to when you dig up?
10 min. I take a water break while it solidifies and then cool it the rest of the way down with the hose. Takes about 5 min to solidify the base due to its thickness. The tunnels freeze up with in seconds.
Whether co concrete added an inferestingly atypical dynamic to your casting...nice
Fascinating stuff. Have you tried brass or copper?
I’m planning on doing a bronze casting next
The fun way to get rid of an ant hill
does it have any sale value?
These are always great, thanks my guy
Smiley face, ha 😄
Thanks for explaining what you were doing.
I'm pretty sure you've already answered this question a bunch of times. But do you sell your artwork?
Where do you sell these?
Where did you get the tools to pull the crucible out and pour?
I fabricated them myself out of flat bar steel and had a buddy weld a couple spots.
@@NolansAnthillCastings awesome man! Thank you so much for the reply!!!
I've asked b4, without reply. Do you sell these?
I only sell locally
Thanks
Wow, you Australians rock... really great safety, very impressed..
Fantastic casting
Have you ever use it on a red ant hill before?
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Wow talk about a real mega hot foot for those fire ants.
Fun weekend. Get yourself some cold 🍺 afterwards.
Do you take a water tank and pump with you everywhere you cast? Seems pretty neat.
Nope, all with in reach of my hose at the house
@@NolansAnthillCastings Cripes, you have a lot of anthills!!!
But are any ants harmed in the process!?
So mesmerizing
I used to live in eastern North Carolina. The water table was only about 2 foot.... Good luck and be safe.
Here's a comment for the algorithm. Good vid, cheers.
Great content.
he is doing gods work
Seeing some one make a copper ant hill casting would be kool.. AF
think you need a bigger crucible and longer tongs for pouring
It's beautiful.
I have a 3'x3' nest in my yard I am able to have my water hose on at full going into the main tunnel and it has no restrictions, left the water on for 30 mins and never filled it
Hmmm I finally think I know what to do with all of my aluminum ingots.
awesome... what are the details about your furnace? where did you purchase it? or did you make it? great videos..love them. I used to live down in Bradenton ..Florida was a nice place.. i am trying to find a recommended place to purchase a good crucible
The furnace is a devil forge 10kg ceramic wool furnace, and the crucible is a pmc #7 crucible
We left some of those little square bales of hay laying in the field overnight one time and the next day we went to pick it up to store in the barn and every bale had fire ants starting to build nests in it. There were 4 of us and we didn't realize that the ants were in the bales and before long all 4 of us were coming out of our pants. I HATE those damn fire ants. They almost wiped out the quail and rabbit population. I would love to see every fire ant nest in the country poured full of molten aluminum.
That piece would look good in a fish tank.
You can not put aluminum in a fish tank with fish. It'll kill them.
YO OMG you need to go to Washington State!!! They have HUGE ant hills! I'm talking anywhere from 1 to 6 feet high!!!
Have you thought about soaking it in acid to dissolve all the roots. 🤔
That is awsome
Nature is so awesome
Good work man! Only thing I would recommend is that you should be wearing long sleeve shirt, safety glasses and a face shield. Other than that good casting!
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You should polish then up and then put them in a snow globe with epoxy resin. Use a wooden base and go with a green and sea blue effect. Make it look like coral.
pretty cool
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WHERE DID YOU GO NOLAN???!?!??!? I MISS YOU!!!
The point???
Killing invasive Fire Ants and making a cool art piece out of the carnage
I would opt for the spoon to smooth the bottom.
That’s Awesome!!!👍