Massive Molten Aluminum Anthill Casting #21
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- เผยแพร่เมื่อ 28 ก.พ. 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.
Ants getting "preserved" in aluminum ASMR.
Nothing like watching ants die before I fall asleep.
Its morbidly delicious idk that's what I sang in my head to that cereal jingle
I love that you finally started speaking and explaining to your audience exactly what you are doing...much applause
I’ve seen all of your videos, and I’m looking forward to some more up-to-date castings. You do a great job and make the pours very interesting, especially with your commentary. You are so knowledgeable on this art and you make it look easier than it probably is.
I love how you walk us through the process! I just first want to thank you very much! I love how enjoyable, and informative all of your videos are, and not at any moment do I ever want to click away! I cannot wait for the next video Sir! I hope you are doing alright and staying safe! 👑🙏🏽🌹
When I was in kindergarten, we had a fire ant colony in the sand box. I fell down while playing on top of the hill... I'll leave out the details, but the colony was not thrilled, to say the least.
So, yes, fire ants are very aggressive and an invasive species.
Also, these are pretty awesome to see the behavioral patterns of different ant species and how they work with their colonies.
Must also be fun seeing them get theirs too... 👍
Gotta say, for a miniature death-camp this looks pretty cool.
Less like a death camp and more like a miniature Pompeii.
At 3:15 when he says “back up” it sounds just like the “BACK UUUP! put it in reverse terry!” video clip. LOL. good one nolan!
My wife and I find these videos amazing!!!
Im glad to hear that!
Fire ants destroyed by fire. Ironic? Poetic?
Yes.
Fitting
You found a great niche on the Tube. Maybe add some nice still pictures with a mirrorless camera and a black portrait background. I could stare at that for hours
Property for sale, 3 acres, some holes in the ground but absolutely no ants. Will consider trade for similar property with ants.
I’d like to see an underground bee hive aluminum casting
First you have to find the entrance AND exit holes.
I just watched a couple of other people doing this and You by Far have the very best techniques and outcomes. You are the best! Hope this continues to interest you. Who knows but one day an art show will want to feature your works of art. Many are so beautiful. I like that you leave bits of roots or rocks in the finished casting.
Also you are smarter, safer, and more professional than the others I've seen doing this on youtube. Thank you for all the explanations. Have you thought of teaching classes on this art form?
Yes!! Happy to see you've now got your name on the ingots!! And yet again, an epic video, can't wait for the next one!
Amazing and kills horrid fire ants. Ended up going to hospital thanks to them.
Wow! Just stumbled onto your channel. Fascinating!!! Watched a few of your videos so far. New sub for sure! Now I am assuming you sell these maybe as art? I think they're amazing. I can't imagine you're not selling these. They are so awesome! Can't wait to watch more!
Simple fantastic. What a gorgeous casting!
I could watch these videos all day! This is sooo cool!!
super nice man, love how it turned out, love the details at the end, never really paid attention to the ants after the casting, but seeing the charcoal ants was pretty cool, I will definitely look for that next time. and then obviously you will have to figure out how to cast a star fruit!!!
That would look awesome in a big fish tank! Well done ! Subbed!
one of the best so far
Do you have a site where i can purchase one of these?
Would like to know the same thing.
They are beautiful, could put it in a flower bed as a center piece.
Regarding the roots...as shown at the end of the video do you leave them, considering then part of the “art”, or do you try to pick/pry/pull them out completely? Enjoying the videos!
I consider them apart of the art. I think it adds a nice accent to it.
Thank you. This is my next best thing after trying to get over bleackheads videos addiction
Ant Pompeii.
You're getting a lot of views .. your subs should be much higher.
It won't be long...
Really like the way you walked us through all the steps - nice! And great result.
You should put a mic near the mound when you do this... So we can hear thousands of screams! Muahahhaha Muahahhaha MUAAAHAHAHAHA 😜
Tee hee hee hee, *snerk*
😲 + flailed running.....
Have you ever considered using a metal detector to figure out how far the castings extend?
Nice looking casting! Great video and very informative. Thanks for posting.
Good job you two!
When you're done, do you fill the hole back?
Yeah, that one is super looking! Great pour and a beautiful cast 👍 Nice job!✌️
i always thought fire ants would immediately become cremated with that type of heat!
Hobby?! It's a way of life!
Keeps my blood pressure to a minimum!😁
The satisfying sound of ants getting burned and crispy
What do you use the molds for? Seen you preheat them but not use them yet
So... Do you sell these or anything after you clean them up?
How much aluminum do you use for one pouring? Do you have an online school/class
Really cool piece bro! Good job.
That didn't kill them all? Huh; the molten metal must have started to solidify before it reached the outer passages and chambers. Hope you got the queen and the brood chambers, at least; the rest will be dead within a few months with no queen.
yo wtf?
Yea. They will be. They'll just get lost.
little bastards would survive a nuclear apocalypse
I wonder how it would look like if you used clear acrylic instead of aluminum...
Wow amazing work ant did underground ..great pour
给您一个很好的建议，將此件艺术品加一些裝饰品，若是買到的话！可以在底部位置放一些类似灯饰的装饰！或者在空隙位放一些亦可！不錯！
I love that you explain so much about the process and the reason you’re doing it! It’s nice to learn these things.
Where did you buy the stuff to melt aluminum I've got ant hills in my yard and would like to do this
Devil forge, eBay, and ace hardware.
I'd be dressed like I was an astronaut! I hate even oven burns lolol
So glad these things aren’t around where I live. How often do you find a new hill on your property? Do you do this on neighbor/friend’s property as well?
There’s probably a few dozen on my property at any given time. They do go dormant for the winter it seems though, they just started coming back in full force.
That's really cool. 😊👍 what do you do with the castings once finised?
I believe he sells them
To remove all the roots do you use a tub of acid / water mix?
The other thing do use led lights inside your works of art?
So just curious, from start to finish, approximately how long does a task like this take? From the sand perimeter to melting the aluminum to hosing off the artwork....this is awesome 👌
That mound looks awesome. We can bearly get a couple days without rain, hoping for a few weeks of no rain this summer.
Yeah that’s how it was for us the last couple of months. The ground was still wet even after about a week of no rain.
It would be pretty cool if you can find the Queen.
That would make a nice little Christmas tree.
Anyone's who been attacked by those vicious monsters should enjoy this
god yes. little bastards gave me an ant phobia growing up in NC...
great video
so do you sell these things?
Would it be possible to purchase one of these? Serious question.
Very cool!
Ile takie coś może kosztować?
What's the best time of the year to do that
What are you going to do with the root that goes through it? Are you going to try to burn it out, cut it out or just leave it and maybe carve it into something?
I’m going to leave it. I try to avoid casting near trees so I don’t get these big roots but sometimes I still do. When that happens they’re usually pretty stuck in there since the ants will dig around them. It adds a bit of character to the casting in my opinion.
If you used a long skinny metal tube for a nozzle and stuck it in the ground around the hot casting and injected the water around it while hot, I wonder if the boiling action of the water would loosen it and maybe help uproot it
How does a person buy one?
Anyone else feeling phantom ants crawling on them after watching this?
Any ants that come back are in a post apocalypse
Came across your channel today, interesting. Have you ever thought about using these new age resins they have out today, thinner than molten Aluminum, can get deeper into the nest, slower to cure which allows it time to do so, and can be mixed to mimic any color, including Aluminum, and it won't burn you.
I think one big problem with trying resin or acrylic is that moisture in the ground will prevent a good casting, screws up curing, clarity, etc.
The goal is to violently charcoalize the ants, not not burn them...
@@moonymonster, honestly, when it comes to Fire Ants any way to rid them is the correct way, for those that's never accidentally gotten into a large nest you wouldn't understand.
You should get a stamp to imprint your casts they are so good☮️
From what I remember from school (many Moons ago), you heat Aluminum Oxide to the melting point of Aluminum, then shoot a HIGH VOLTAGE electrical current through it (AKA "Frankenstein"), this is why Aluminum Foundry's are always found near power plants (or they used to be).
Aluminum oxide is dissolved in molten cryolite, a lower melting aluminum compound. Then electricity separates the aluminum from oxygen. Yes, it takes a lot of power. This is the bulk of the value of aluminum.
@@keithjurena9319, like I said it's been a while, knew it was very similar to that.
@@Titus-as-the-Roman
At current ;) normal consumer electric prices, there is about a dollar's worth of electricity in every pound of aluminum. That energy value is preserved which is why aluminum is widely recycled. It takes less than 5% of that energy to remelt and recycle.
12:47. Dead center. Looks like one of those theater masks.
Charcoalized . I’m putting that in my dictionary.
Do you sell these castings? Where?
Make sure you get them all. You don’t want an ant John Wick to come after you!
New meaning of "fire ant"?
What size crucible do you use?
#8 crucible I believe. I’ve had this same crucible for over a year now, it might be a #6. Manufacturers make different dimensions for the same volume crucibles and I had a #8 that didn’t fit my furnace but I re ordered a 6 and an 8 and I can’t remember which one I ended up using.
This is oddly satisfying.
Nice!!!
Please tell me you're wearing eye protection.
I'm always confused that no one connects the top to something to support its weight. Like a hook or a strap
How often do you roast marshmallows while you are waiting for the aluminum to melt??
Did you grow your star fruit tree from seed?
No we bought a started tree. This is the second year we’ve had this tree, our old one died a couple winters ago.
How do find all the ant hills
They’re all in my yard
I guess as a kid it just wasn't enough for this guy to kill ants with a magnifying glass.
Nolan’s Anthill Castings and Baby Starfruits
Do you sell your castings? I want one!
They're the opposite of friendly, they're un friendly
Nice video. If you preheat your spoon too the aluminum won't stick to it when you scoop out the dross.
Really cool underground city. Built by skilled workers 😁
Do you sell them and how much would you get for them
I sell them locally in central Florida for between 150-400 dollars usually.
@@NolansAnthillCastings wow no shit good for you
what does molten aluminum smell like?
There’s no smell. The oxides afterward have a smell similar to ozone though.
That’s not steam rising from the ground, that is the souls of the ants...
Is this the premise behind the pokemon Durant?
I wonder how many ants were harmed during the making of this film.
Looks like Mount Vesuvius and Pompey.
Great
It looks like a bunch of people dancing and twirling alone and with each other. Weird how I seem to see that.
This one is nice.
Do you ever use aluminum pop cans?
I use everything except aluminum soda cans. When you melt down thin aluminum like soda cans you get a lot of dross/slag for very little metal. It’s also very time consuming and fuel wasteful since you can only fit about 5-7 crushed cans in the crucible at once. Car rims are the best thing I’ve found so far, a lot of metal with not much dross. I’ll melt down anything that’s not thin though, I’ve done aircraft parts, rims, car parts, and so on. I’ll pick up aluminum if I see something on the side of the road or something.
Good question and great answer.
I was wondering same thing. Lol
Has anybody come up with a method to safely remove the roots and organic matter without damaging the cast?
You can probably just put it on top of a camp fire. As long as you don’t bury it in the fire it shouldn’t melt again.