Triple Fire Ant Aluminum Casting
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- Опубліковано 26 сер 2024
- Back at it again! Out to the New Brockton Armory for more aluminum fire ant hill goodness. This time around Denise and I had two visitors, Denises's daughter Amber and a buddy Matt. Matt is in the process of building his own foundry to continue on the lower Alabama ant killing spree as i will be moving out of the area soon. More to follow on the move in the not to distant future.
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It's kinda cool that we know about 6k ants use the internet.
Joey St-Pierre 😂😂😂😂😂
Lmaooo 🤣🤣
Yoooooo 😂😂😂😂 y'all toooo much..lmao
I mean there is trillions of them on earth
@@p4m209 take a joke
just imagine one of the ants coming home from a long day of finding food and just seeing everyone in agony and burning alive and he's like "well shit"
it's a harsh world lol
They're fire ants.
ants don't feel pain
They call them fire ants for a reason.
+Burrito Bandito BECAUSE THEIR SO LIT FAM 😂😂😂👌🏼👌🏼😂👌🏼😂👌🏼👌🏼👌🏼💯💯⁉️💯⁉️💯😂😂👌🏼👌🏼💯💯💯
6000 dislikes from people who have never had their world set on fire by these little monsters.
No it's just ants that disliked the video
Can you imagine having this at a yard sale and some customer comes by?
Customer: what's this?
You: three hundred Trapped souls.
Customer: what?
You: upside down genocide.
Customer:...do you speak normal English?
You: it's an aluminum Christmas tree.
Custoner: I'll take it!
😂😂😂
Souls? Lol
Lol have you seen any ant ghosts? They might be pissed, so take a Bible or priest with you ha ha. I love the sense of humor.
😂😂😂
$500 bucks please.👍😀
"We have served an eviction notice to the ants and I would like to preempt the comments by saying only ALL the ants were harmed in the making of this video."
Quote me... in that video... nailed it!
Well he was honest at the least.
PETA gonna getcha
@@leveckfamily8841
PETA needs to go eat a steak.
@@atomicsquid9836 they should make it a fund raiser dinner. Have a bunch of tanks full of lobsters and auction them off to the highest bidder.
Winning bid can either set them free or have them boiled alive at your table.
You find out who was the most money in a hurry. Rich carnivores would try to out bid rich vegans just to piss them off...
I wonder if this could be done with resin and some sort of positive pressure system to push it down into the chambers. It would be cool to have a sort of artificial amber ant hill with the ants captured inside.
That would be neat.
+Paul Fries please try this o.o it just needs to be really liquidity and not absorbed into the dirt
+Paul Fries STAR TREK IV, Scotty reveals the formula for transparent aluminum.
+Paul Fries omg yeah That was a good Idea..
+ Ferret Face That's a real thing, now; aluminum oxynitride.
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aluminium_oxynitride
When my truck broke down inTX (1970) I pulled over on the shoulder and got my repair kit out. It was vapor-locking, the way to fix it was to soak a rag with ice water from the cooler and wrap it around the fuel pump to cool it down.
I did not realize that I had parked over a red ant bed. No sooner had I managed to wrap the pump than I started feeling awful stings, all over my back, my legs, and in my crotch. I scooted our from under that old Chevy and I was running down the road in the moonlight, hollering, ripping of my clothes, underwear included. Sure enough, a Deputy Sheriff drove down that “Farm Road,” just as I was doing my striptease-he thought I was crazy until he shined his light on me and said he counted about 50 welts, just on my back. He held his light for me so I could check my clothes for ants, gave me a tube of salve from his first aid kit, and while I got dressed he ran my license, plates, etc.
I’m sure this was the subject of a lot of good stories down at the station.
NO MATTER WHAT YOU DO TO FIRE ANTS, ITS NOT ENOUGH!!!
You convinced me when I read the word crotch.. It is like when I heard chimps when fighting each other and humans go for ripping that area off..I lost all respect for them.
Did you go to the Hospital after that? I'm a FF/EMT I've seen that before
drcovell you are not allowed to talk about your truck at all on youtube
Audrey Yang they’re an invasive species... it’s okay though a dumb bitch like you wouldn’t know that.
In their defense, you did just demolish their home that probably took them weeks to build.
Not saying it's right, but they're doing what comes naturally. I'm sure you'd want to hurt anyone who came in and destroyed your house, too.
That’s beautiful. So intricate. Aluminum is an amazing metal. The chance to see the structure of something hidden...priceless.
Thank you for sharing this.
they had the eviction notice...apparently they chose to defy the law
Giggle!!! Nice!!!
Go Judge Dredd on their asses
Go Judge Dredd on their asses
Troy Evans next time, pit an ellipses before "the law" to make it sound epic.
I "am" the lauagh
0:51
Only ALL of the ants were harmed in the making of this video.
I died of laughter. XD!
Thedemonhater me too
U know how evil that sounds u literally just said u laughed at the death of thousands of indecent young children how does that sound now!!!!
Daniel Grant sounds great! 😁😁
Daniel Grant
OMG, they are ANTS! Hello !!
Not children.
Verklatschte Amis
And this is how I went from wanting to study math to watching someone pour molten metal into anthills
Your welcome. Lol
Jakob Albrecht classic. Happens to me all the time
Hon, no one willingly studies math. That's a do or die situation, there.
What's math ?
Nobody knows how you went to do this, nobody knows your story.
Very cool! Can’t think of a better use for Fire Ants!
only ALL the ants were harmed.
Goood.....gooooooood!
This is not a good idea, eventually the ants will become immune to molten aluminum.
+Jeffrey Harris
Heat resistant, fire-breathing ants
REAL _FIRE_ ANTS
in a million years
+William Foss fallout?
Lolololol
So T-1000 ants
Now that's art, interesting to see the mound up close; seeing tunnels, it's byways and chambers is really interesting, plus you got rid of the ants.
At first I was going to break some balls about the fails but then I realized this is all part of the process. And thank you for showing us both your failures and your success. And as far as those sculptures go I like that smaller one that you called a failure the best. It was more interesting. Thanks for the video, take care
Why does everything about this video scream Texas...
His cool voice and clothing
or Florida
Because fire ants love Texas
Because Texans hate fire ants.
:)
The end product would be a really cool fish tank structure for fish to swim in and out of!
Anyone else agree?
Yep...
Depending on the ph level of the water and the type of fish it could kill the fish through aluminum toxicity
Incorrect: The toxicity of aluminum has been studied extensively in fish, less so in invertebrates, amphibians, and birds, and not at all in reptiles and free-ranging mammals. For aquatic organisms, Al bioavailability and toxicity are intimately related to ambient pH; changes in ambient acidity may affect Al solubility, dissolved Al speciation, and organism sensitivity to Al. At moderate acidity (pH 5.5 to 7.0), fish and invertebrates may be stressed due to Al adsorption onto gill surfaces and subsequent asphyxiation. At pH 4.5 to 5.5, Al can impair ion regulation and augment the toxicity of H+. At lower pH, elevated Al can temporarily ameliorate the toxic effects of acidity by competing for binding sites with H+. Aluminum toxicity in aquatic environments is further affected by the concentration of ligands such as dissolved organic matter, fluoride, or sulfate, and of other cations such as Ca and Mg which compete for cellular binding sites. Although risk of Al toxicity is often based on a model of free-ion (Al3+) activity, recent evidence suggests that factors determining Al toxicity may be more complex. In general, aquatic invertebrates are less sensitive to Al toxicity and acidity than fish; thus acidified, Al-rich waters may actually reduce predation pressure. Fish may be affected by asphyxiation at moderate acidic conditions or electrolyte imbalances at lower pH. In amphibians, embryos and young larvae are typically more sensitive than older larvae. Early breeding amphibians, which lay eggs in ephemeral ponds and streams subject to spring runoff, are most at risk from Al and acidification; those that breed later in the year in lakes or rivers are least vulnerable. Birds and mammals are most likely exposed through dietary ingestion of soil or Al-contaminated foods. Concentrations > 1000 mg.kg-1 in food may be toxic to young birds and mammals. Clinical signs in these animals are consistent with rickets because Al precipitates with P in the gut. Suggestions for additional research on the ecotoxicology of Al to wild animals are provided.
TL:DR Aluminum can be quite toxic to fish. Any aquarist knows this and takes appropriate steps to limit the amount of aluminum present in tank water, and avoid aluminum aquarium fittings, especially for fish that require an acidic water.
shammy dammy EXCELLENT job downloading your explanations from Google, a little much for the average layman don't you think?
This video was disliked by 5,196 ants.
Cap'n Alba no! Ist was disliked by people who care
I would hardly call those first two attempts failures. They have their own allure and crystalline beauty. They would make fun paper wieghts or ornaments if nothing else lol.
three fire ant mounds destroyed, sounds like a productive day
you got my like at "eviction notice" lol
Thank you.
5.1k ants disliked the video. we need more alluminium
🙆♀️😂😂😂🤣🤣🤣🤣
Bent over, and I will give you some Aluminium casting
@@martinusamsterdam7667 you mean fisting
It's a shitty video. Way too long and not worth the watch.
That one ant felt bad when he returned to the colony as his last words before foraging was, "Y'all can all just go to hell!"
Kudos, bro! Get rid of all you can.
People that complain about killing fire ants have never been bitten or stung by them.
Aaron S I've never been bitten or stung by ants, but fuck them anyways
MegaLoveDoctor 2.0 you do realize that fire ants can cause an allergic reaction in some people which can be lethal, they destroy yards that you pay for, and all kinds of things like sting the living shit out of you
MegaLoveDoctor 2.0 fire ants deserve to die
MegaLoveDoctor 2.0 there also an extremely invasive species. If this were a carpenter ant, a native species threatened by fire ants, I would have a probably (unless it’s near kids or eating his house).
MegaLoveDoctor is a commy, too bad we can find him/her/it and send him/her/it to China or cuba
Your music sounds like runescape dubstep.
drewlj7 Well, guess what, runescape didn't invent that type of music, they just used it.Well
Uhhh, I think if you check you'll find OSHA requires at least one cooler filled with ice and beer as a backup fire suppression system. I'm gonna have to report you to the feds.
are you joking
oh wait nvm
altheliterate LMFAO!!!
NICE 👏🏼👏🏼👏🏼👏🏼👏🏼 😂
Safety first, seconds later.......
Hey, he served an eviction notice to the ants. They refused to leave. It's on the ants :p
Massive butthurt ensues because killing 1/1,000,000,000,000,000 of the ant population is so cruel.
I don't have to invest much time in it at all. All I have to do is say something; and they will spend the next 5 weeks arguing about it; eventually resorting to arguing against each other. Infighting can be quite amusing; when they start to disagree with each other's sentiments in spite of sharing a common banner.
You should try comic cons. Just say something like: "Cowboy Bebop is the only reason to watch any anime". Or "Why are there so many Weeaboos here?"
Guaranteed people will freak out or gradually energize their ego systems.
Killing is wrong period. Thats a fact are you're a ignorant dumbass. And cowboy bebop is the shit. You stupid fuck.
i want to like for bebop, but dislike for the bland statement that killing is wrong with no conversation on if/when's/why's.
I fully agree with you, same with dogs for example. there are millions if not billions and yet people cry around about 1 dog getting killed. Get over yourselves, pussies.
3 fire ant beds demolished = success regardless of the sculpture.
100% agreed.
And then...the Fire Nation attacked
More like Earth nation because they can bend lava AND steel
RandomMindz it’s the earth kingdom
The water nation tried but hey they seem immune to water.
And at night, if you listen closely, you can hear the screams of thousands of tiny tortured ant voices....no extra charge! 😛
The ants got Aluminated. Badum tssssss
I think it would be so fun to wash the dirt from the statue
Agreed haha
yeah, but maybe put a high pressure fitting on the end of the hose?? Maybe do it in the yard??? LMFAO
I agree, wonder why this person has no end nozzle? would make the job easier and more entertaining.
I actually saw another video like this and he high water pressured it when he was done.
@Dio Falkner Respec Waman
Thank you for sharing what goes wrong, rather than editing it out. That is very instructional and serves as a good warning to those who want to jump right in without considering all the problems that could occur. Fascinating video. thank for sharing!
Two obvious things that would help :
i) Put a can with the bottom cut out near the anthill mouth, to make sure the metal all goes in, and also create a solid base for the art.
ii) A spout or groove on the crucible would make pouring easier and less dangerous.
A lot of these commenters have clearly never experienced fire ants, or I think they would be singing a different tune. I would feel like it was less ethical if it was most kinds of ants, but fuck fire ants. With molten aluminum. Two-year-old me thanks you guys.
It's less that they haven't encountered them, or at least it really shouldn't be. Bees can suck, but they're important to local ecosystems. Fire ants in north america are an invasive species and thus eradicating them is actually good for the environment.
Matt W
That too, absolutely. But also, fuck fire ants.
Xaos Bob g
Matt W No they are not the native pollinators would thankgod cor killing bees
I remember them from parris island when I was in boot camp...fuckin hate them things and they can all die.....
Over 2000 fire ants have UA-cam account
Momo Chang Ants and other creatures with ant-sized brains.
Now 4.3👍🏿😁
@@thenumerousfew1205
How the heck are these ants smart enough to create an account?! 😁
Josh Lambert
PETA does it for them 🌝
I noticed the Combat Vet cut at the end of this video. Thank you for what you do. I'm a member of Patriot Guard Riders myself.
The Crucible?
....This is AMAAAZING! - Shaxx
I was about to mention this to you but you already found a neat purpose for the so called failed ones. That it would look so awesome as a miniature desk top accessory! keep them coming and thanks for sharing!
Pretty cool to see what an actual fire ant mound tunnel system looks like. Never knew it was that extensive.
I find the comments about how cruel this is to be kinda strange. I have no problem dumping fire ant killer on these mounds. Molten aluminum is a much quicker death.
What's so awesome is that the ants did half of the work for you, and then you just smothered them all as they were doing it! hahaha! Tarantino style! love it! 👍
Thank you!
Jeff the fire ant:*running through the tunnels* Run everyone run we're all doomed
Greg to frank: there goes Jeff again screaming that we're all doomed
Frank: yup let's just keep digging
*liquid aluminum comes flowing in*
Greg: OH MY GOD AHHHHHHHHHH
*Silence*
Lol.
Another happy ending...I think I'll watch it again
At least jeff survived...
I love that vivid imagination. Run with it.
Pompeii all over again.
Just a slightly smaller cloud of ash. Lol
Cool!
Next time, soak the cast anthill in a bucket of water for a couple of hours. You'll save a lot of water.
I actually started doing that in a kiddy pool. Saves a ton for sure.
+1 subscriber.
Thank you. 😎
Philip Tettehor use a pressure washer.
Saves water but kills the ants twice over 😂
“Only all of the ants were harmed during the making of this video” lol
Best thing to ever happen to fire ants
it amazes me that the aluminum retains enough heat to stay liquid and dribble down so far into the ground. .. Nice work !!
Well there's tunnels and crevasses that the liquid seeps into and creates a cast and solidifies.
+ohmanyourecool The point of automan's comment went right over your head.
+daniel conner
I was stating the obvious so people won't be "amazed" it's just science.
+ohmanyourecool no he's not amazed by the 'science' (the obvious) that you stated - just that he thought that the aluminium would solidify much sooner than it did
+Joof
Are you automan? Do you know his aspirations? Didn't think so.
is thisPompeii for the ants?
The Necro it darn right is
Its pANTpeii actually.....
Great video. I’ve done this before and one tip I have is to find a trash can and fill with water then put the metal/dirt anthill in the water for 24 hours. This helps to clean up the final piece.
And I’d like to mention that all of the ants were hurt in the process.........
10/10
Hehehe. Thank you for watching!
Wait, so what ELSE have you done to ants?
Nothing. Just metal destruction.
I can imagine a buff as leprechaun doing the jig to this music for some reason....
hey can we go on surface?
*NO*
why?
*the metal is deadly lazer*
haha remember that meme?
LMAO when no one reply to your joke ^
Hahaha
The history of the world (I guess)
Hey we could make a religion out of this
"I even took one of the fail bits and made a little one".....NICE ! lol.
As someone with insectophobia this was pleasing to watch
The music reminds me of age of empires 2 if anybody remembers that game lol
yupppp
I remember playing that.
+William Doescher damn for real I need to get that shit man haha. That game was the shit. Used to be up mad late playing it
I downloaded the expansion pack for pt2 on my mac. pretty cool no disk needed. anyone ever played Empire Earth? same concept just modern wars. You can nuke and carpet bomb
Hell yeah, the one with the bagpipes.. I still play it with friends on multiplayer.
Now i can create spin metal in my back yard, thanks !
lol
Lol
This video was so relaxing. I fell asleep watching and had a little nap in my chair 😊
I didn't know the masked magician was now doing aluminum sculpture. Pretty cool!
Someone needs to do this to one of those massive 10 feet tall ant hills in Africa
Those probably have a useful purpose in that ecosystem, so no need. Fire Ants, though, must die.
Those are termite mounds
I'd be very interested in seeing the difference in castings between different species of ants.
+Gunther Ultrabolt Novacrunch
Didn't even think about something like that; what a fantastic idea!
If search the UA-cam channel, "AntHill Art" - over many years the guy has done multiple different ants.
Thinking it would be a popular video if the edited on together.
I heat mine 1600 f it flows farther.If u want to different ant pours go-to smiley chuck on Twitter
The aluminum going through the grass was like lava going through forest of trees
This dude could narrate a beer commercial.
I would probably prefer rum 😎
I knew fire ants were good for something.
Ya gotta fight fire with fire 😁
What about burying some LEDs in the middle of the casting. Might make a nice lamp.
plastic would melt right off and the circuits will be destroyed
Wrap it in solar LEDs and put it outside
If you disliked this i envy you because you clearly have never had to deal with ants in your life.
THAT. IS. AWESOME. 🙌🏼🙌🏼🙌🏼 Thanks so much for sharing that!!!
I wonder, About how much would it cost to do this with melted gold?
Most likely an amount that's still totally worth it.
i think 14 troy ounces equals 1 pound times the value of 1 ounce of gold times how ever much it would weigh. ive seen 8 to 20 lbs so. 14.58 troy ounces is one lb x $1300 per troy ounce x 10lbs (nice round number) almost $200000 in gold.
guynemer53 thanks now i just have to save up lol
+ShockwaveITB Depends also on how pure your gold is. You could opt for elerium which is a mixture of silver and gold, that would look nice also. I would only worry about thermal conductivity of precious metals. I've melted quite a bit of precious metals in my days and the one bad thing about them? They cool very quickly, unlike aluminum.
+Chad Thomas any idea if introducing molten metal into the ground has any bad effects to the ground?
Environmentally friendly pest removal that produces art. Nice.
Thanks for sharing the less than successful. It teaches us so well. Love to watch
I worked in a Aluminium factory, I still get the funny feeling in my stomage when someone lifts a full casket of melt. What a good idea could be, take a large fire blanket, and go to a tailor and let him or her make a overpant, closed with 'pressbuttons'on the sides, so you kan rip it off when molten metal drops over it.
Not a bad idea at all. Thank you
Are the ants ok?
They dieded, rip invasive species.
+VoxelFusion died*
+Nickolas927 Nah
+PearlyGreat *dieded :p
+VoxelFusion died*
If you want to shine it up, put it in a media blaster and hit it with the glass media. Makes it look better. Make sure to use low pressure. Dont hit it with 2000PSI! LOL! Looks great though! I had the same trial and error on a few me and my buddy did. Glad to see we arent the only noobs out here doing this,. Make more, turn them into stuff and sell them, people lovem!!
That eviction notice is from the cutest things I have ever seen!!! It’s adorable 😍 how come I never got one 😔
Man's epic battle against ants!! Loved it !!
Loved the drone action ... great well done video!
Thank you very much!
AntsCanada does not approve
He probably doesn’t approve of most of my comments on his fire kingdom. I do have to say the quality of his videos are high quality and it keeps my interest.
He would likely cry. his fire ants just died like a week ago too
“*only* *ALL* of these ants were harmed in this process”
deadass
Love the music Gregorian chant meets Irish bagpipe funk
I like the way you show it in your house at the end, that's quite rare that people show it at the end in their house.
BTW nice sculpture and the blue stones/glass fit well with it!
Hey, a family in Africa could've eaten those ants (Had to say it)
Lol
In Australia people actually eat honey ants xD
+VoxelFusion No we don't
hi screw you i am from africa not everyone is freeking poor in africa mostly we all have a home and food
Hanje van Tonder lol cmon.
ever thought about instead of the hose, having it soak in a big bucket of water to loosen all the dirt?
This whole thing started in 1872 when farmer, foundry-worker and part-time sculpture Clement Harrison's entire family (and all of his horses and chickens) were killed by fire ants. The result was his legendary insane quest to find ever more extreme methods of exacting revenge.
It's just amazing how all the Chambers fill in w/ the molten metal. No air locks.
As much as I love animals and absolutely love and am fascinated by ants, I also understand that in many areas, ants can and do become not only major nuisances but also dangers to people and their animals. In my opinion, this is a way of humanely getting rid of the ants, which have become pests and environmental hazards.
You just gave me an idea for an artificial coral reef! Boss!
Those would look cool in a fishtank. And a cool Christmas tree with lights.
why are people disliking this fire ants are a invasive species that displays local ant species
You need to come to my house. I have 5 or 6 HUGE fire ant hills. Three stand about a foot above ground.
Whoaaaaaaaaaa!
+Fartsocks - kinda like ratatat
Theres a lot of how-to vids on stuff like this, why dont you give it a shot?
+Noah Anderson (Weastwasfine) Most people don't have a crucible and forge lying around to melt down aluminum lol
+Nickolas927 My husband and I actually are building one now. we have most of the stuff to assemble it. Just need the crucible; although, we found them online. They are little pricey for the grade we need.
REV UP YOUR ENGINES!!!!!!!!! Ooops. Wrong video.
LETS COOK SOME ANTS!!!!!!
You have an incredibly soothing voice.
It's amazing how much knowledge these ants have on the building of there home. They have figured a way to get cool air all the way the down in. They even have a section where they poop. Great work man.
It'd take some work, but I'm sure you could get that rock out of there by putting many holes in it with a drill and breaking it. Even easier if you have a Dremel.
soon all ant hills Will be aluminum art >:)
Yassss >:D
+LILING LO that's mean I like ants. you can tell because my picture
+Derpyguy3333 this is what people Will do to you
NO! Its bad!
They will evolve and get imune to aliminium or they will fuse together with te aliminium and become cyborgs!
+Fedor yes XD
I am amazed that I once thought there would be so many people making aluminium casts that the Fire Ant nests would run out. Now I realize that there is no chance of even 1% of the nests getting consumed in this way.
Good way to start a brush fire turned wild fire.
556Raven (aka Ant Killer) meets AntsCanada (aka Ant Lover).... MORTAL COMBAT!!!!! Fight!
Ants Canada would probably be fine with is, fire ants don't belong in the US and threaten native wildlife, that's part of the reason he left Canada, so he could keep exotic species without risking invasive animals being released into the wild. In Canada they have a similar problem with European fire ants(which I keep) as they thrive in temperate climates just as Asian fire ants love warm/tropic climates
have you ever thought of displaying them in there natural position. maybe make a plexi stand ,kinda like a small end table . make it the right height for the piece back light the plexi and some kind of down lighting on the piece. and hang it with in the cube so the top really is the top. you know what i mean?
Combat vets mc. Ty for your service and keep the shiny side up n the dirty side down
You’re such a monster! Killing all those.... oh, you served an eviction notice. Well done sir, go about your day. Excellent and fun video! I love seeing the final product