290 kg (640 lb) Aluminium Casting of a Meat Ant Nest - Iridomyrmex purpureus - Armidale 2016/10/18
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- Aluminium Casting of a Meat Ant Nest (Iridomyrmex purpureus) by Australian Ant Art™
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We have been at it again. About a year after our first attempt with a frame we have gone bigger and better. This casting was quite the challenge. It was a mound with 70 entrances. We bought in an excavator and filled up a ditch witch 8 times. That is 24000 L of sludge.
Meat ants are quite amazing. They can form super colonies covering a number of kilometres and housing thousands of ants. They can strip a carcass clean of all meat, preforming vital environmental work. Meat ants will also create foraging trails, easily visible due to the absence of vegetation, and ants will forage on these to trees they favour most. The trees are an important source of food and water, especially when days are hot and dry.
Meat Ants are Australia’s most successful ant.
Cast Dimensions:
Weight: Over 290 kg (640 lbs)
Height: 1000 mm (39")
Length: 3700 mm (145")
Width: 1650 mm (65")
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Video:
Australian Ant Art
Matthew Cawood (UNE)
Anthony Broese van Groenou
Editing:
Australian Ant Art
Music:
"Furious Freak"
Kevin MacLeod (incompetech.com)
Licensed under Creative Commons: By Attribution 3.0
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Thanks to:
Liz for letting us take over her property for over a week and make a big mess.
Inglis Plumbing for the help with the excavator and ditch witch. - วิทยาศาสตร์และเทคโนโลยี
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Sinceforth that day was known in the ant community as "The great pouring"
😂😂😂😂😂😂😂
😂😂😂😂 they are mini humans, their world got flooded with hot lava metal 😂 rip!
Shame their Noah couldn't build a boat, for this time the flood was one of heat, death and fire.
They're all living things 🙄😒
"Henceforth"
When flipped upside down the nest looks like a futuristic city
Reminds me of that Skyrim DLC city
ants be living in a cyberpunk city
I get Mushroom Forest vibes from Subnautica.
id say it looks more like machinarium
Its like 25 nests not one!
I see why you guys stopped posting videos....theres literally nothing that can top this, this was your magnum opus 👏👏👏
A true masterpiece.
No the ants killed them mate.
"Meat ant."
That sounds like something I would want nothing to do with.
Oh god
It’s Probably the ants from Indiana Jones
They are really unpleasant and swam you if you step on their nest
@@madcatlover7554 Huh. Remind me to not do that then.
@@Grey_Duck The most effective way of dealing with Meat Ants, as with so much other hostile and dangerous wildlife, is living somewhere far from Australia.
There must be people willing to pay very large amounts of money for these castings given the planning, equipment,materials and labour involved in the process. Very interesting to watch!
Exactly my train of thought
Yeah why don't People think about that instead
yeah my immediate thought was why? someone must be paying $$ for this kind of stuff
That or possibly for research purposes
@@davidferreras195 Some cast ants because they're there.
THAT SOUND TRACK IS THE MOST OBNOXIOUS NOISE I"VE EVER WITNESSED.
I think the word you’re looking for is cacophony.
I suspect this group has done this before, clearly a project like this requires a great deal of obvious planning and probably just as much not so obvious planing. As someone who appreciates planning and a job well done I commend you all...turned out awesome.
I love these videos so far. Especially turning the ant hills into aluminum.
Backyard scientist probably went out collecting aluminum scrap minutes after this was posted.
i heard one went out and ordered 400 cases of coke (cola)and plants to do a molten metal pour with all the empty tins if he is able to get out his seat after drinking it all.
But melting down soda cans is really popular because they're available but they're actually one of the worst kinds of scrap aluminum because they are thin and make a lot of aluminum oxide and slag
Creations Evolve from Intelligent Designs
Creations Evolve from Intelligent Designs I
This is a slightly bigger operation than pouring aluminum on one fire ant mound....
That's just incredible. 1. An ant colony being that large. 2. The amount of aluminum needed to cast that. 3. How deep you had to dig in order to get it all. 4. How long it took to do the whole thing. Just all incredible.
If you think that is large check out leaf cutter ants from argentina... several trucks of concrete
yeah it took them 3 minutes 29
how many life they kill?
SukoYote yes that was incredible! Make a beautiful art piece and at the same time kill those biting ants.
Irfan Rusdianto that's a very insignificant loss, because the millions of dead ants in this colony were immediately made up for in other colonies about 12 seconds after all them died.
Ant lover: clicks video called aluminum casting ant nest
Also ant lover: gets triggered from watching ants get killed by aluminum
More like they just came in to complain
But they're not good ant
@@raflidiot very true
I'm fine with ants but if I see any in my house I'd probably introduce them to liquid aluminium too
After being triggered they go out protesting, burning their own neighborhood. After that they voted Democrat.
If you guys want a real cringe fest ... I can post a video of me washing my hands with antibacterial soap.
So many lives ...
Hysterically stupid 😆......
😂 please do! but under a microscope.
Lol ,😂🤣😂🤣
XD ^^
Do it then..
People eat factory produced meat and ironically worry about ants dying in the comments section.
Killing animal for food totally different and killing for fun / art/pleasure is irrational.
I'm vegetarian
I'm vegetarian...
@Iam Silvie I have it in my garden... But they are part of nature we don't have to do this to them
@Jacob J i'm vegetarian... Thank you for your reply
I wonder what the ants think when they saw early preparation ongoing .
“Oh humans help us through thick and thin.” *pour aluminum*
Ants? Think? How the heck do you figure those two words belong together?
@@craigcorson3036 just use your imagination dude is not so hard
@@jesus2621 It's VERY hard to imagine ANTS thinking. They aren't even bright enough to be aware of their own existence. They are biological robots, nothing more. Stimulus-response machines.
@@craigcorson3036
They are knee jerk reactions made flesh.
@@konradrojo3572 A good way to put it.
Love it how well cordinated everyone was and how they had a planed everything and that they were wearing some safety equipment
"I felt a great disturbance in the Force, as if millions of voices suddenly cried out in terror, and were suddenly silenced. I fear something terrible has happened."
🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣
Lol
rebatotem quote by Ants Canada
I was thinking the same thing! LOL.
didnt i see this comment under a number of videos already?
In the ground it would be good inspiration for a D&D dungeon crawl, flipped over looks like star wars alien city.
I really wish you wouldn't put music in these, you can't hear the natural sounds, and the crackle of the molten metal
tiny little ant screams maybe
So you want chipmunk sound, yeah real natural.. or did you want a 24+ hour video XD
why not both? thats what the pros do: a timelapse interrupted by some realtime closeups with narration.
It was a terrible rendition of the "Fringe" theme
You know humans are fuck up when they treated this as art.
Near the end of the description:
"Meat Ants are Australia's most successful ant."
Not these Meat Ants.
😂
Someone called this “genocide” in a comment. And I thought humans were smarter than ants.
formicide?
Well, you're right. It's just that all bets are off when you're talking about Social Justice Warriors.
This is pretty much the equivalent of getting admin raided on Rust
😂 I know the feeling. Build up your base, then boom, it gets raided
That's one hell of an ant colony! Awesome job getting it to come out intact.
RealRuler2112 ikr
Its aluminium...... Intact....... For sure.....
If I were an ant and I heard this music, I'd know the molten metal was coming.
Wow! This thing is massive. No wonder that so much preparation work has gone into in making it. Well done!
Screw the ants! It is a full time job trying to get rid of the ants in my yard. If you don't keep after them they get into the house.
It seems a very clean and quick way to deal with ants, this method. Aluminium isn't too hard to get. That casting mould and heating source may be harder, but not difficult. A bit of planning and it should be a sure way to get rid of an any colony once and for all.
@classicalisgod what? how is that in any way equatable.
Pour boiling water down their holes. It will go all the way down.
th-cam.com/users/AntsCanada ants r great change my mind lol
Maybe you could make some coin from them using this method.
In the end all the hard work is worth it. looks amazing, like a weird forest
Imagine the Ants trying to run away from the aluminum with this song
But dang the place where they used to be is like the mushroom forest on subnautica
I love how you guys go all out on these, amazing!!!
for those bothered with the amount of ants killed: think of all the ants they didn't kill
Yodavid1 can you be more dumb,,, pleaseeeeeeeeee
Yodavid1 that's really what disturbs me.
Really You need a medical help
This was confusing
r/whoooooooooosh
imagine all the ants dying with this music
Ben Sykes these guys have no right to burn these ants alive !!!!! 😡
Nauman Alvi They asked the ants to leave politely... the ants denied.
Nauman Alvi if you turn the sound down you can almost hear all their little bodies exploding as the soft tissues vaporize inside the exoskeleton. Sizzle sizzle pop pop!
Stream of Consciousness yeah they received their eviction notice 24 hours before. You can't pay the rent just with meat!
Thats what i thought too! They killed all those "thousands army ants" like seriously?
If I use this for the design of a fictional alien city, do I credit you or the ants?
" I do not want the Emperor’s prize damaged. We will test it... on these ants. "
It looks like a Dr. Seuss forest. Awesome!
Do you have to put in the music? I want to hear the ants screaming.
Tiger H. Lore 👍
ants silence screaming course u suckers ahhhhhhhhhhhhhh!!!
Honey, this nest was dead long before you were
Tiger H. Lore bahahahahaaaaa!!!!
“LMFAO” 😂🤪
came across these by chance and havent stoppedwatching them since mesmerising to watch anyone agree??? best one iv seen yet by far 10/10 lads
I had no idea this was how they researched and know everything they do about how ants live. So cool
No aunts were harmed in the making of this video.
What about uncles?
Think of all the beer cans that gave their life to make this and how many drunk Australians there were running around!
I always love watching these kinds of videos.
No ants were harmed in the making of this film
Confirm 💯%
I feel like this video will get really popular soon. I just wanna say I was here when this vid had 243 views.
ah still in the 200s.. so close to being the 300th.. I'm 298
394th damn
6917!
9,440
11100
I love watching these kind of videos, very entertaining and so awesome to see the structure these lil guys like to build
That is the coolest one yet. I love ant art
This is amazing!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! You are all awesome, keep up the great work AAA!
wow so beautifull, amazing.
New ant nest casting on youtube today, this is my favorite so far, nice job team
Absolutely amazing ! I have never heard of them before today.
for a second i imagined sonic the hedgehog came to rescue all these ants on this music
HOW IT FEELS TO CHEW 5 GUM
Danny Garcia Haha I love it! Very underrated.
Every single ant was successfully harmed in the making of this video.
*G O O D*
You guys took it to another level with this one!!!!
Most epic one I've ever seen.
I never knew that casting ant nests was an actual job. This is glorious, I would never do this because I have a phobia of bugs but watching them all suffer is delicious!
The process is a lot more fascinating than the final product.
No ants were harmed in the making of this video
I have never seen anything like this before... just wandered if those ants were still in there? It was amazing to watch and I love the art form of it all.
Occupied by a full colony. There's another of this channels videos where they used resin instead of metal. Pretty interesting what was discovered in the cross sections of the pour. You should check it out if you want to see the inside of a bull ant colony.
That was absolutely amazing to watch and the end result was just incredible. I've been to Australia and I seen thousands of termite mounds. But I never seen anything like that lol just mind blowing. Thank you for posting such an awesome video.
No ants were harmed while making this video
Wow, talk about a lot of effort to do this! Amazing.
"I felt a great disturbance in the Force, as if millions of voices suddenly cried out in terror and were suddenly silenced."
Stolen
Ant hills make for lovely sculptures. Keep up the good work.
That is one impressive sculpture. Kudos.
Ive always wanted to see what a meat ant colony looked like! Not as big as i expected but still pretty cool
2:05 I thought for a minute there that they were going to find Hoffa
I guess the sale of the resulting pieces were worth the time, trouble and expense of it all?
Not knocking what was done, just trying to figure out why all the manpower and expense?
Go on ebay and you will be surprised on the prices of small ones , so just emagen the price of one this size .
TH-cam just showed me this was a thing yesterday . This one is biggest I've seen so amazing
A lot of work payed off, beautifully. Amazing what this would sell for.
Why are people getting upset over them pouring molten metal in an ant hill that's most likely empty? Lol.
HoCoRydaaH hell yeah😂
empty my ass.
look at the hole clearly u blind ass.
You can literally see the ants running around in this video.
HoCoRydaaH. WHO GIVES A FUCK IF IT'S NOT EMPTY ?
BriBri the nest is abandoned.. If it weren't, the ants would be EEEEEVERYWHERE. These are meat ants (Iridomyrmex purpureus) and believe me, they don't take kindly to people poking around their nest.
mikey bustos will not like this
Yeah... also known as Ants Canada if i am correct. pretty awesome and fascinating videos...
If its for any kind of education about ant's and their industriousness, pretty sure he would be cool with it.
So talented, beautiful work.
Wow, that thing is huge, great job guys.
1k dislike is from the ant that survive from this 😁😁😁😁
"I felt a great disturbance in the Force, as if millions of voices suddenly cried out in terror and were suddenly silenced. I fear something terrible has happened."
this is so cool! looks like some crazy sci-fi forest
Ants:Cries in Agony
Music:Its Disco Time
great job,,
Nyasar bang
Jer nyasar 😂
Jir bukannya crita in film
3.7K surviving ants disliked this video
Once you start watching these, there's no turning back
I be watching all kinds of satisfying videos lol but these are cool af
Here in Africa we pour molten lead into meerkat dens to make some amazing art and BBQ.
This comment is massively underrated :D
man i wish i was an ant
Why don't you wish you were infidel, kafir or pagan ? Jihadi is looking for you. -→ I wish I were ant ?!! Vs I wish I were unbeliever.
CookiEs suicidal? pls don't if u are btw don't give up
i wish i was the aluminium
Wow, ur all dedicated to ur work, if i hav money i will buy 1 with all ur precious art ❤️
Now they're colonizing ants. That aluminum sculpture looks like an alien structure.
This video is kind of disturbing. Maybe okay for you guys, who like their meat extra barbequed but there are still humans who pick insects carefully with a piece of paper and put them outside.
👍
I had started to believe that I was the only one left, still doing that on this f*ed up planet.
Good to know that there are still some *HUMANS* out there! 😊
awwwww so compassionate
considering is just one nest I'm not so bother they're killing innocents
but i think the nest was already emptied or abandoned or sth, either way they should have run away due to the noise
You know I'll pick insects carefully too but they freak me out (by crawling or whatever closer to me) too much before i get the chance to do that, so i just let those not harmful like lizards run off themselves + honestly do you do these to ants?? like disjosn?
btw how about cockroach the real pests?
KatorNia i would say you do realise they are just ants and humans are dying too due to unnatural causes but what's not impt to me can mean a lot to others.
yup so go on protest to them hold up a damn board in front of them for sth that is gone already. :) look, ants unlike humans don't have pain receptors like we do, theirs is just pain = danger = get away they dont feel ouch like humans
they also dont have brains capable of complex emotion like fear of concept of death, family love.
they are very strong in Australia and can reproduce and make it up faster than you
the hot thingy will kill them faster than you think
the noise probably scared some of the ants away
honestly is saddening to see them do it but is only 1 and using just 1 nest we got to study the fascinating nest...
im not saying is not cruel cause it was but I'm not saying is the end of the world level kind of dramatic as well
what done was done
and on a side not ant exterminator or whatever they're called do it more than they did tbh so it isn't about lives but reasoning to why they did that
and hi
Pompei
Simply amazing.. so glad I stumbled on to this.. it's a pleasure to subscribe.
Well you guys sure as hell took this shit to the next level
Cool stuff guys, me any my kids enjoy watching.
Thanks :)
Oggz M those ants died there and your kids enjoyed watching it.
Yep
Oggz M you don't have heart. Do you??
you guys (and me) probably step on ants more than they melted.
I wonder how all these sensitive people walk outside everyday...it must be a sad life.
thequickredfoxjumped overthelazybrowndog I agree that society is raising a pack of whimps with no ability to accept uncomfortable feelings however politicizing it makes little sense and contributes even less to fixing the situation. Not all liberals are pussies, not all conservatives are strong. It's a character problem not a political one. And no I'm not a liberal.
Sham Sher It is called sympathy, and it is human
Sham Sher hi
Sham
@@talhatariqyuluqatdis symphony for ants? 🤣🤣🤣
@@freddieflores8881 We should feel sympathy for every living creature, more so the ones that can feel pain, and above all, and of course, ourselves, humans. But this does also include ants. And although very few people would say anything if you killed one ant or 10, if you kill a whole colony, thats just sad. Thats like taking a beehive thats done nothing wrong to you, and is actually producing for you a benefit, honey, and then whacking it to smithereens. Why would you do it? This isnt even emotion, its logic first then emotion. You have much more reason not to do it than you have to do it, secondly its just sad. Not sad enough to make pretty much anyone cry but sad still. Sorry about how my last comment sounded, kind of passive aggressive, didnt mean it that way I think
that was cool. looks like hot work. nice job!
Chrome dip it for the coolest nightclub decorations ever
Poor Ants. . RIP
Randall Abimayu RIP
You guys reeeeally hates ants huh?
For science :3
wongc32 there is no profit in this probably in how much money they put into it
... no profit in this...?
Some people pay a lot just for some random figure - this is worth a lot to some people.
Stef Blok smaller castings 2-3ft wide go for a couple thousand.
Archer95 thats dead nest.. No ant there
This was tops for the ant casting vids genre by far....size wise anyways.....some very cool patterning for sure👍👍
Thats the biggest colony casting ive seen so far!
music selection 0/10
minus x
THE NEST WAS ABANDONED some people are really dumb...
Abandoned, unfortunately!
Birby how do you know that huh you are not an ant nest expert
Actually on closer inspection I see ants in the first two pours they show ... Not that that changes anything whatsoever.
Birby oh yeah, it's an abandoned anthill, don't see all those ants running around with their worldly possessions strapped to their backs??
Not sure if it was abandoned before, but pretty sure it is abandoned now ;)
Should've just played the Benny Hinn theme lol
Congratulations, it's really a great job! How did you build this big furnace ? is it with ceramic fiber or refractory cement? what is its inner diameter?
massacre
the good type of massacre.
dikhetto the fun type of massacre