Thread: Ant Hill Art

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So you guys down in Texas & South Oklahoma with the Fire Ants seen this?? Very, very cool, in my book! What You Get When You Pour Molten Aluminum Into An Ant Hill - Digg

Thanks for posting that Roger, I saw something similar not too long ago.

I occasionally melt up small batches aluminum to pour some odds and ends and the thought crossed my mind to do that on an ant hill or two I've got around here. The only thing that stops me is; it looks like a bunch of digging and that it would take a LOT bigger batch of aluminum than I normally melt up.



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That's pretty cool, but what you don't see are the Ants…. kind of like that show where the guy would stick metal rods on the sand in a lighting storm and make glass figures…

Originally Posted by parkwood

That's pretty cool, but what you don't see are the Ants…. kind of like that show where the guy would stick metal rods on the sand in a lighting storm and make glass figures…

With molten aluminum being over 1200F I imagine the ants are part of that smoke you see coming out of the sand.




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Might take a tab more aluminum, but think of the crazy art if you did that to a prairie dog town!!!!!!!!

I'd like to do this to some dang ground hawgs!!!