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

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

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

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

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.

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

Ant Colony in a Stump - Cast with Aluminum Finally finished the stump cast.

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

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

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.

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

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

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

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

Anthill Art Cast #118 (aluminum fire ant colony). 12" deep, 8.6 lb. (YouTube link to the casting video in previous post)

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

Fire Ant Colony, Cast #117. 9.9 lb, 14.5" depth.

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

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.

finished powder coating