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Casting ant colonies and other things with molten metal, mostly aluminum and sometimes brass and zinc.
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Casting a Fire Ant Colony with Molten Aluminum (Cast #043)
An incredible metal structure is made by pouring molten aluminum into a fire ant colony. The resulting cast is huge, weighing 17.9 lbs. and reaching a depth of 18 inches. ▶️ 3Speak
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Casting a Fire Ant Colony with Aluminum (Anthill Art Cast #127)
A fairly large fire ant colony is cast with molten aluminum. The surface mound of this colony was not built up very high, probably due to the recent cold weather, but from the area of it, it seemed to
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Anthill Art Cast #126 Fire Ant Colony on a Log - Anthill Art Cast #126 ...
Anthill Art Cast #126 Fire Ant Colony on a Log - Anthill Art Cast #126. 10.9 lb of aluminum, 11" deep and 15" max width. Oak base, med brown stain, satin polyurethane finish. I treated the wood
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Casting an Ant Hill on a Log with Aluminum (Cast #126)
This is an aluminum casting of a fire ant colony which was built around a log. The log can be partially seen on the left side of the hill but most of it is covered by the dirt of the surface mound. Aluminum
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Aluminum Fire Ant Colony in A log I recently did a cast of a fire ant ...
Aluminum Fire Ant Colony in A log I recently did a cast of a fire ant colony that was built around a large log. I'm trying to keep the log with final display.
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Casting an Ant Colony in a Stump with Molten Aluminum (Cast #121)
This is the possibly the craziest cast I’ve ever attempted and definitely the most challenging. This is a field ant colony (species Formica pallidefulva) with a single entrance tunnel right up against
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Ant Colony in a Stump - Cast with Aluminum Finally finished the stump ...
Ant Colony in a Stump - Cast with Aluminum Finally finished the stump cast.
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I got the cast free from the stump. It's been a while since I did but ...
I got the cast free from the stump. It's been a while since I did but I didn't update here yet. I hope to keep it in the wood for display if it doesn't crack too bad as it dries. I have tons of footage
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Removing an Aluminum Ant Colony from a Stump Day 10
It took 10 days of cutting and digging but I finally got it out. I had cut down to dirt around the wood the cast is in and it still wouldn't budge. I noticed the last piece was a roughly vertical root
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## Aluminum Ant Colony Cast in a Stump I poured this ant colony with a ...
Aluminum Ant Colony Cast in a Stump I poured this ant colony with aluminum, then spent the next 10 days digging and cutting it out. I finally got it out yesterday. This is the day before I got it out.
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Removing an Aluminum Ant Colony Cast from a Stump
This colony was on the side of a large stump. I poured the aluminum on Friday and have been slowly getting it out ever since. Still a ton of work to do. I'll post a full video of the casting and uncovering
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## Day 6 - Removing an Aluminum Ant Colony Cast from a Stump This is d ...
Day 6 - Removing an Aluminum Ant Colony Cast from a Stump This is definitely my biggest challenge so far. This colony was right on the side of this large stump. I poured the aluminum on Friday. Today is
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Three Fire Ant Colony Casting Session, Part 3: Fiery but Mostly Peaceful Colony Casting (Cast #119)
Part three of the three fire ant colony aluminum casting session. You may notice in some of the other videos, dirt is piled over the colony. This helps to prevent the aluminum from bursting through the
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Three Fire Ant Colony Casting Session, Part 2: Casting in the Daylight for a Change
Part two of the three fire ant colony aluminum casting session. This one produced lots of smoke during the cast which made it difficult for me to see. Like a true professional I persevered and finished
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Anthill Art Cast #118 (aluminum fire ant colony). 12" deep, 8.6 lb. (Y ...
Anthill Art Cast #118 (aluminum fire ant colony). 12" deep, 8.6 lb. (YouTube link to the casting video in previous post)
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Three Fire Ant Colony Casting Session, Part 1: Big Colonies Hidden Under Small Hills
In this video I cast a cluster of three fire ant colonies with aluminum. This is the first cast of the three. I had expected these to be fairly small and was surprised by the size of all of them, especially
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Fire Ant Colony, Cast #117. 9.9 lb, 14.5" depth.
Fire Ant Colony, Cast #117. 9.9 lb, 14.5" depth.
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Ant Colony Didn’t Fill Completely but I Make the Best of It (by Powder Coating it)
I melted about 24.6 lb of aluminum to cast this large fire ant colony; however, something went wrong and only about 4 lb went in before the aluminum backed up into the pour hole. I usually refer to these
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Did a few fire ant colony casts this weekend. Still a lot of work to d ...
Did a few fire ant colony casts this weekend. Still a lot of work to do but the bulk of the dirt is washed off.
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finished powder coating
finished powder coating
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