Molten Aluminum Anthill Casting #20 (4K)
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- เผยแพร่เมื่อ 5 ม.ค. 2021
- 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.
The nation is falling into turmoil and this guy's like, "I'm gonna melt me some ants!" =D
Hahah, 2020 was so bad that when I came inside after finishing up the recording to an attempted insurrection on the news I wasn’t even surprised.
@@NolansAnthillCastings Omg you didn't even know till after your recording! pretty weird for you after that you got to see a second anthill swarming with even angrier ants. lol =D
I’m over in Queensland, Australia and we are in lockdown in my part of Queensland so I’m always happy to watch him casting any anthills. Hahahaha
@@tessok8231 When tyranny becomes law, rebellion becomes duty
@@madman-oc1jh tyranny became law the moment citizens united was passed. lets not even start on the bullshit revolving around electoral collage.
i too would enjoy watching you melt down metal...these castings are pretty neat
Nice pile of scrap
Can a person buy your casting?
I actually watched that video prior to this one lol
Seeing a scrap melt down/clean up video would be really cool!
Someone driving passed your house probably thinks...”Man that guy has a severe gopher problem.” 😆😆😆
I like the bit where the ant hill fights back 😁
Dude your channel is blowing up! Congrats and nice progression with your casts
Yes it is! thank you so much.
REALLY nice piece!! I like the way you explain when melting the aluminum. SAFETY, SAFETY, SAFETY!!! I too would enjoy seeing how you melt down the scrap to make your aluminum bars.
man that is scary when they explode like that! - turned out great,
Short sleeves.... Ouch!
Dude melted a bloody airplane and poured it down the anthill! 🤣 Thank you for the video.
I’m an ant keeper and it’s always sad to see and ant colony destroyed but I can understand an invasive colony being destroyed, they cause lots of ecological damage. So interesting to see how ants tunnel.
watch out this guy's gonna put you out of business
Fun fact - the fire ants don't die in the molten aluminum, they are simply trapped until some poor sucker melts it down again and they can escape to seek vengeance.
I always wonder how people do this kinda stuff and don't get hurt so its cool to see you explaining everything :)
6:38 Man... Get yourself a face shield or at least some safety glasses bro. No hate, but your face was like 2 feet away from that pour and I've seen my share of metal casting mold explosions to seriously hope you see this comment. You're pouring into moist ground with no vent holes.. which is a recipe for something bad to happen. It's a cool hobby and all but nothing is worth going blind over... if you don't believe me just search metal casting explosions on TH-cam. Good luck dude.
Shop teacher always said "I can hold a beer with a wooden hand, walk on a wooden leg, bit you cant see out a wooden eye. Wear your damm googles!"
I agree. I also believe safe handling practices are far more important than just PPE alone. PPE isn't too protect you from being an idiot(this guy isn't being an idiot, in my opinion) but for when crap goes sideways. I got a piece of metal in my eye about the size of a bold ball point pen ball from grinding, and i had a face shield(it bounced up my shirt, i remember seeing the spark) and had i followed the advice of my welding teachers, i wouldn't be seeing a faint spot whenever i focus on things within normal reading distance. I am lucky it's not worse though
Still turned out really good, even with all the steam. We have had so much rain, I can't even think about casting an ant hill.
"to fight fire with fire", fits good to explain this scenario.
Id like to see how you ingot all your scrap.
I bet those ants appreciated purity of that aluminium
The only thing I can think of is "Fire, hot"
Who thought of even trying this, the sculpture is beautiful.
Try using a campfire cooking tripod over it and tie the base to it to support the weight while you dig.
I was thinking the same. Push a steel ring into it while its melted and you would have something to tie it to.
Make a pair of tongs so that as as you pull up the tongs grab the base that you poured
For your million subscriber mark you should make an ant mold out of 24k gold.
I greatly enjoy watching things get melt down and then formed into something usable. I think ive watched about every beeswax melting video i can find, it'll be. Ice to branch out.
Always fun to watch things melt
ive done a few of these ant hill castings and i found using extra strong hair spray works great to hold the more sandy holes open while pouring...
always love these types of vids, the castings look like coral from the ocean
Super slick graphite molds make a lot of sense. Guitarists use graphite pencil shavings on the guitar to lubricate plastic or bone nuts. Graph Tech makes self lubricating graphite nuts so the strings won't bind at the nut causing tuning issues.
...6:40.....shitteree..... I about crapped myself.......duuuude. lol. be careful 🤣🤣🤣
Obviously, people who feel sorry for the fire ants have never been their victim before. So painful.
Meltdown videos are just as good at these. We love everything!
The casting turned out pretty well. Work on your editing, the hill prep work was good. The more you cast, the better you'll get.
Absolutely beautiful!👍👍👍👍
That's a yes from me for casting ingots. Don't forgot a bucket of water to cool them down in. We like the sound of it.
Wow! When the metal splashed up during the pour I thought hmmmm, short sleeves. Very cool stuff. Fire ants are no joke.
Just found your videos. Good job. I like the way you explain things.
I like how clean and organized you work.
That’s beautiful!
Im a new sub and would love to see more of the process, melting scrap.. Thanks for sharing brother much love and respect from Colorado!!💪👊🍻
As someone who plans on own ants as pets and love animals, I feel bad for the ants
But as someone who cares about Environmental sciences, I know what must be done to those invasive species.
Another part of me plans on also blacksmithing and ant casting so this is always fun to watch.
Lot’s of plans! Good luck :)
Yessir I would enjoy watching you melt all that cool scrap metal please!
I would LOVE to see a video of the Polishing and Mounting of the sculptures please 😃👌. Watching from Dublin, Southern Ireland 🇮🇪☘️☘️🇮🇪
Still like these and would like to make one but I don't think we have any big ant nests here. So watching you do it is good enough.
So amazing! They are like snowflakes...no two will ever be alike! Beautiful!
Wow bro, that's another beautiful one! Great job man! Fire ants huh... Either South Georgia or Florida would be my guess✌️
yes i would like to see an entire video of melting metal
It does look like underground earth coral. Wicked nice.
i love the chrome liquid
Glad you didn't get hurt!
Totally amazing and a stunning piece of art.
SO BEAUTIFUL!!!
🙂😎👍
That moment you realize the more it bubbles, the more ants are dying at the same time as their moisture is released into the molten metal ...
When I was younger I would help our survey crew as a rod man. It never failed I would always stand right on top of one of these nests.
It looks like a sea sculpture. One of my faves
Thats pretty cool. I also flinched when u started pouring and it shot up.
We need to get this guy to 5k subscribers!
That looks great. 👏🏼👏🏼👏🏼👏🏼
Wow that looks beautiful
Beautiful!
I would be interested in the melting of scrap. These videos are fascinating.
Nice job!! 👍
This is the best one ever i rekon
Protecting the environment by killing bastard invasive vermin and making beautiful art at the same time.... Nice work. Subbed.
looks really cool mate well done great job
Nature's awesome art
Ok im hooked i gotta get the equipment!! That is so cool! And heck ya id love to see the melt process of the scrap!
Awesome, I use a devil forge 10kg furnace but you can easily do some research and make your own better furnace for a little bit cheaper probably.
@@NolansAnthillCastings thanks for the info! I love watching all of it and the end result is just as amazing as the process!!
This dude keeps recreating Pompeii
Yes, please do a meltdown video.
That steam was most likely the boiling of the ants when it hit the nesting area.
Why are there never any ants walking around the entrances, are these abandoned nests or do you somehow kill them before casting?
They all headed inside to put on fireproof suits
I’d guess it’s early morning and too cold still.
It’s because it’s cold out right now and also as long as you don’t touch the nest itself they won’t be angry and swarm.
@@NolansAnthillCastings
Hello, new subscriber.
Meaning, Does the casting contain the remains of the ants? Cool.
Yep, sometimes you can see ants preserved in the aluminum since they burn without oxygen they stay as charcoal.
beautiful!
Very impressive and very satisfying to watch. Especially when it comes to killing fire ants lol I really hate those suckers.
Yes please for metal melt down!
pretty cool. thx. J.
Stunningly Beautiful.
oooh I love this one very much
So satisfying
Hi Nolan. Beautiful. Exquisite. Educational. Great video. Please stay safe and healthy and take care of yourself and your family members. To all members also. Talk to you later my friend. ☺☺☺😇😇😇❤
Yes for the scrap melting and also the guy who owns the plane chasing you down.
really enjoy your videos. You work safely and clean. Some of the other 'casters' could learn a thing or two. Watching from Canada!
BEAUTIFUL
That would be very interesting to watch. 😊
Many years ago I saw ant hill casting in National Geographic. The casting (if I recall correctly) were given or sold to the Smithsonian.
Yes, that would be very interesting to see how you melt them.
I think that one is beautiful just might be my favorite
How do you determine the volume of molten aluminum you will need, and is a bubbler caused by material filling a nest, or is it from moisture?
I determine the amount of aluminum I need in units of crucible fulls. It’s very hard to tell how much aluminum it will end up taking but I base it on the size of the surface mound. The reason this one popped on me and bubbled is due to steam getting trapped. Steam expands at a ratio of something like 1:27 and when you pour molten metal on water it’ll do that very quickly acting almost like an explosion. Where I was pouring was pretty wet ground usually but it hasn’t rained in a couple weeks so I figured it wouldn’t be bad, I was wrong lol.
@@NolansAnthillCastings oh man don't I know it. I worked in a steel mill and one of our steel making furnaces had a cooling water leak in the bottom. They poured the molten iron in it to get started and it just kept exploding, what a night.
I watched another site that used a support above the casting with a rope attached to a fused loop. Hope this info helps.
Really cool results!!
This one is beautiful
Brilliant
I think melting down the scrap and demonstrating how you clean it up while molten would be great
Ant to other ant , “ What’s that weird silver stuff coming down the tunnelllll!! aarrgghh, hiss🔥🔥
Good job. Wish I could have a 360 view of the finished product. One after it’s been finished being “display level” cleaned.
This one is very interesting. Looks like they basically just started their nest.
Nobody tell ants canada about this
He'll cry
Yes, please show the melt!
I want to roast some marshmallows on that 😋
Ever visit BigstackD's channel? Heck yes, people enjoy a good scrap melting vid!
I was going to mention him!!!
I like this one
Wow nice🤙🏽🌴🍍🌺
I'm thirsty for the *FORBIDDEN JUICE*
That one looks like a coral formation...🐜🐜🐜🐜🐜
Yes. I would like to see something other than myself melt down!🤔🤣