Aluminum Fire Ant Colony Casting
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- Опубліковано 11 вер 2024
- Finally found another fire ant colony that needed a history lesson about Pompeii. Got permission from the neighboring city mayor to attempt casting anthills on government land. Loaded up in the truck and gave it a shot. The homemade foundry and molten soda cans proved to create a beautiful fire ant colony aluminum casting. The addition of the Phantom 3 Advanced aerial photography is a nice touch.
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this guy is actually saving the environment by using cans to make sculptures and getting rid of fire ants 😂
Sniping Shrooms this is 2 years old but why were you ranting lol
@@AutisticNeedle
What?
What?
What? You're making no sense while you also make so many grammatical mistakes that it's just garble that you're putting out.!!
Your ? Has nothing to do with anthills being filled up with aluminium to make beautiful sculptures from nature while killing off little biting beasts that have no real purpose in life.
If you have ever been bitten by any of these little basturds you would be applauding these artists for a job well done.!!
betty kuykendall 1 year late but ants are beneficial insects in our environment. Their nest-building activities reduce soil compaction and help aerate the soil.
@@ZEDSBlooducti We have fire ants in our back yard and I will cheer him on all day. Those boogers (fire ants) are horrible!!! I've had to strip my children down in the yard to get them off of them. I HATE FIRE ANTS!!!
@@ZEDSBlooducti but fire ants are invasive species that should be eliminated because they're far from their native range
hey man i used to be your neighbor at that town house. i talked to you the day before i shipped to basic training back in September. it blew my mind to see you on youtube. this stuffs cool
The White Sun lmfao
The White Sun
How was your tour, seeing as we are coming up on a full four years
I'm glad you are doing this to fire ants since they are a non native, invasive, species in your area.
Thank you
+556Raven man you guys drink alot of soda lol
Wtf do you think he is he’s a none native invasive species put there by the British
craig leech pretty sure there was humans already there for one, so his species was already there! unless you're saying natives aren't human? That's pretty fucked up of you tbh.
Two, there was other nations that had invaded the Americas including what parts of what we know as the USA before Britain. Learn some history it's not hard.
@@craigleech7536 if you include native Americans as people then yes humans are invasive species because they according to mainstream science evolved from Africa iirc around the Ethiopia area
"its actually steam from the moisture of the sand in the ground" (and the ants... MAUHAHAHA)
Exactly. Probably as much or more steam from the ants.
Good. Unfortunately we could melt every ounce of aluminum in the United States and never get close to killing all fire ant colonies that are taking over the deep south (unfortunately they are moving further north each and every year) the fire ant scourge is one of the worst invasive species currently infiltrating our country’s diverse and fertile landscape.
Ur evil... (I like it )[in a devilish voice]
"They're not nearly as angry as they're about to be." Yeah that'd be hilarious. Their last thoughts before they die basically amount to, "that crazy sonva bitch!"
I love your sculptures! It`s like you can somehow sense the movement of the tunnels and pods under the earth. They are exquisite. Thank you for explaining everything so clearly and special thanks for acknowledging your partner Denise and how much she contributes to these beautiful art pieces. Good Luck and God Bless....
Thank you very much.
Moving away from popping cans would give you more time to enjoy forging cool stuff. I found a couple car dealers that throw me broken and dented aluminum rims when they have them. I chop them up in minutes using an old circular saw with the blade on backwards. Less time, less dross. Timing covers, heads, etc. all work well. The drone gives the hobby a fresh and pleasant view and I giving it 2 thumbs up !!!
+Tim Saunders very true. Ill look into what i can find. Thank you.
I like the new camera angles with the drone!
Thank you.
Even though this video is two yesrs old, it just showed up randomely in my home page here on YT.
Love this beautiful art and the fact of eliminating ants of any kind that I hate.
AWESOME
This is oddly satisifying to watch Thank you! My daughter and I love watching these videos
"A very careful process of unloading the truck." Proceeds to toss bags over shoulder XD
Can't be to careful you know.
+556Raven can't be what to careful ?
Said in a completely understated and deadpan voice, that's how you do dry humour😂
Lol
556Raven did you make your furnace yourself
I noticed that it's made from an old propane tank and figured that you had a spare one laying around, so you made your own as opposed to purchasing a blast furnace or kiln
My hat goes off to the Ants that made the mould to create a beautiful piece of sculpture.
Looks like a silvery Christmas tree, great job! Added bonus that the pests are gone and you have a sculpture to keep
It looks like a xmas tree. Beautiful!
"not nearly as angry as theyre about to be" lol
If your looking for more red ant mounds to cast, you can drive on down to Stuart and cast any of the monster mounds we have in our yard. LOL
Ever been to St. Lucie? Can't sit down in the grass without the buggers bitting my behind XD
thee look like they would be really cool in fish tanks
Aluminum is poisonous to fish in most types of water but if this was caste with a safe material for fish, yes, this would look beautiful!
really enjoy these videos. nice looking truck too! also really appreciate the "Vets helping Vets" sticker
Whoever was flying that drone was having much more fun than you. Lol
😂
Anytime you want to head to SC you can find all the GIANT fireant hills you want. They are all over the place.
As someone from South Carolina, I can confirm this
I 3rdly agree as a fellow Sandlapper.
I have a new nightly addiction lol
What's dat? Tabs, melt downs or smokes?
"Finally found another fire ant colony that needed a history lesson about Pompeii."
How am I gonna be an optimist about this?
If it wasn't for the fact that I learned about the actual meaning of that song thanks to a meme about it, I would have never gotten that joke.
Thank you for video, it is allways the pleasure to watch for your anthill casting work! You inspire me to make such a project in summer 2016 :)
I'm not sure why, but I think your aerial shots are the best-looking. Maybe I'm just a sucker for birds-eye views.
...and ant colony castings, of course.
+David R thank you. Glad I could please. 😎
:Sniff Sniff: I have never seen someone unload a truck so carefully. My world has been changed.
It's a challenge to be that careful and resist the urge to rush. Lol
“The very careful process of unloading the truck.”
*proceeds to yeet the stuff
One of the most beautiful I've seen. Great job! Thank you for posting.
Gotta say. Just stumbled across this video, loved it. I also love the lack of people crying "MURDER" in the comment section of a Ant Casting video. Keep up the good work man!
Thank you.... Give it time. They will call me every name under the sun soon enough.
Murder
They won't think it's murder once they're bitten by a fire ant. Those things have killed cattle because a cow has inadvertantly steps on a nest. My hope to all you who cry "murder" experience the agony of a fire ant bite and the pain and itch which will last for days and days and itchy days followed by a break out of a liquid filled pimple like lesion.
Ok I finished the video and that is super cool.
the drone angles are 🔥🔥🔥🔥
+Jailon Woods Thank you
Love your videos. From your tone when speaking about adding cans, I can guess that melting them gets a bit monotonous. I was thinking about it and wondering if you could just rig a system to feed the cans into the top of your foundry. A simple way might be a few steel rods sticking up off the foundry, set just enough apart so you can stack a bunch of cans on top of themselves, feeding the mouth of the foundry. Then you could add by tens instead of single cans. Thank you for your well edited videos...
Easier yet would be to get a can crusher for 15$ ,and feed those resulting 1/4 inch aluminium rings ....a dozen at a time or so into the crucible
It's crazy how intricate anthills are.
That had a very nice shape to it. Congrats.
Work of art!
I like your process of unloading. I couldn't have done it any better brother
Whoop, more than just the digging and stuff! I love it.
Saw the "Vets helping vets" sticker. Good on you mate!
That would make a cool xmas display. Looks like an ice castle(frozen)
So I don’t know where you’re located, but I’m in south Florida and the ant hills in my yard are about 4 times that size. You can come make art out of those! I’ll even make lunch for you and your lady! Lol
Pretty cool! Ant lovers ,ease up... there isn't anything wrong with this. They're insects!!
13th thumbs up again! Whats with me and no 13 today?
Tony Childs imagine if you were an insect
@@wolfgangfok4068 imagine if you were an insect with a balanced ecosystem everything is fair, life is good, food is abundant then all of a sudden some foreign bigger stronger invasive species arrive and begin fucking up the ecosystem and almost wiping out your entire colony and species as well as dominating multiple fronts across the field aka the Fire Ants, leaving you no habitat, no home, no colony, no food I'd say if i was an insect or an ant in this area i'd be grateful if the humans took care of that problem for me, the enemy of my enemy is my friend, *THAT IS* if we had the same thinking as ants which we don't (but some do) eitherway Fire ants are dangerous not just to humans but to the ecological balance so it's only natural if we wipe out a few colonies to throw the balance back since these ants dominate the ant food chain that could very well lead to the the extinction of other species, it's only fair since they've also wiped out several colonies ¯\_(ツ)_/¯ thats my opinion.
These anthills casters are gonna get attacked by those ant eaters ....one of these days LOL
Fantastic Planet 1973 movie lol
Ohhh my god that is only beautiful the way the aluminium finished up my word I hope you kept it
Those would make great Christmas trees 😊
Your significant other is awesome! My wife would say, "Really?! Yeah right, have fun. Are you planning on being home for dinner?"
AWESOME !!!
I'd put that into a local art exhibit....love the molten soda can idea...you're recycling spent soda cans into ART!
Very cool finnished product.
You know the ol saying...
"Do what you love and the money will come"
Wow looks like a Christmas tree 🎄
its so cool looks like a miniature volcano when the stems coming out
"...another fire ant colony that needed a history lesson about Pompeii." Gold.
Thank you!
Heh. Almost looks like a unique little Christmas tree when turned upside down.
It's very beautiful, far better than filthy wasp in last video. This looks artistic too.
Nice casting.
Great piece of work Mr. Raven and Denise. I've always enjoyed watching art work like this done.
Thank you
Wow talk about a blast to the past, I had one of those camo "Ha, now you can't see me!" shirts as a teenager! Righteous.
Lol. I've had that shirt for a decade or two now. ;-)
+556Raven lokey kind of messesd up about the ants but cool
Dayo Ogundipe What exactly is messed up about the ants? You kill millions when you spray your yard for bugs, but killing one colony to make a piece of artwork is suddenly bad?
+Streptovsky i is kind of new destroying tha t many at a time thats cc all
Dayo Ogundipe It's not, though? A $10 bottle of insecticide at home depot/lowes/walmart will cover that entire plot and kill every single ant without anything to show for it. At least this gets some art.
Very nice work and excellent narrative.
Thank you!
Stunning result!
lol it look like a mini Vulcan from above! ahhaah😂😂😂
I think the best part of the amazing woman you have doing this with!!
Good for you!!!
what a beautiful art!
I wish you would show a closer angle of the prep and pour and also the actual removal of your pour. Still looks beautiful though!
Steam and the intoxicating scent of a million ants being cremated. Lol!
How do you know how much aluminum to use?
That is so cool. Looks like a lot of work .but man that is definitely sweet
He says they're difficult to find. Not in my front yard! Even Terminix was amazed at the size of the (obviously) multiple-queen colony. Took photos to identify (big headed fire ants) and had to notify EPA before treating. Spent a couple thousand dollars, watched them treat, even used a little extra. THEY'RE STILL THERE. Can't imagine how much casting medium it would take or how tall the castings would be. There's about 75 holes/hills all grouped together. 😖
I miss seeing the vedios I love all your stuff
Awesome video!
Nice drone footage.
Thanks
--Quite the unique hobby.
That looks so cool! I want to buy one!
Very cool. Love the drone video.
Nice result!!
That was beautiful. Thank you
Nicccceeeeeee!!!!!!
I'm sure p.e.t.a. will have something to say.
Nah they’d probably kill the ants knowing them
Cool. Nice job. Like the drone footage.
Two things you need to make this safer/easier :
i) A can with a cut-out bottom creates a better base, and a good funnel to ensure Aluminium doesn't splash outside of the aperture. A stainless steel industrial funnel would also be good.
ii) A crucible with a beak or a spout, for easy pouring.
Beautiful art
Cheers from Canada North where I might just try this!
Awesome! If you do, let me know how it goes!
Beautiful.
That's amazing!. Nice looking art too.Ken
Thank you very much
I love watching these they're really interesting especially when watching them in bed sick
+toby midnight hope you feel better soon
this video kicked ass, I enjoyed watching it especially the drone you have up in the air, that really kicked ass, what is the biggest ant hill you have done, this seems more fun than a chore I hope you make more of these videos as they keep me busy through my 12 hour shift, hope you make more videos and hope they are longer, what part of the states you doing this at if I may ask, I've traveled the 50 states already and it took me 20 yrs to do so, I'm just wondering if maybe I've been through that neck of the woods thanks and keep up the great work,
No ants were harmed in the making of this video.
Making the sculpture killed tons, but the video making... none. 😉
Came out wicked good!!
Feeding furnace with crushed cans are quicker.
+Mark Brennan I finally got one mounted in the garage. ;-P
Master piece.... Work of art..amazing
Just cant help Love the Piece of Art from notorius species
Looks like a mini volcano
I have never seen anything like this amazing and cool
Thank you very much
If this were Skyrim, you would have been Alteration 100, Destruction 100 and Conjuration 100!
Always nice to see a new casting, and this one was quite beautiful. great job 556Raven, and I look forward to see you next video. :)
+raymonroe1983 Thank you! there's one in editing now ;-)
XD nice
Love your careful unloading process !! Your a pissa n i love the art !!!
Cool
You should get a shop vac for digging.
Great job.
Beautiful
That looks cool.
Ok he’s kinda funny. Like in the beginning when he says very carefull process to unloading the truck then he throws the bags all over the place. That’s hilarious he’s like a modern day Doc Brown
so cool!
more more more anthills
I haven't seen a video in awhile. Good seeing you back buddy!
+Mason Darby Thank you!
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Any reason to not apply water before removing the cast from the ground? Seems like it would make removal easier (but probably a lot messier).
A few questions:
1.) Why is the channelname 556 Raven?
2.)Is she your partner?
3.)From where do you get these dozens of cans?
4.) Where is this filmed?
5.) Do you need something like a license to cast ant colonies?
Also I really love your videos, especially the casting ones.
Keep up the great work :)
556 is my favorite caliber bullet and the first company I deployed to Iraq with were the Ravens
Yes she is my better half
I'm in a combat veteran motorcycle club and we produce lots of cans 😜
South eastern Alabama
No license required. Just permission from the land owner to dig up the casting.
Thank you! I'm always happy to have a fan.
Awesome!