Here we go again! This time I cast a fire ant mound at the end of my driveway. I was a little concerned that the underground tunnels might have gone under the concrete but I was happily surprised with an easy excavation. As is usual I sped up the process, from start to finish the melting on the aluminum and cleaning the resulting colony casting took around seven hours.

Using my home made backyard foundry I spend all morning melting aluminum soda cans to a temperature over 1500F and remove the dross that floats on top with a slotted stainless steel spoon. Then after adding a ring of play sand around the ant hill colony I pour the molten aluminum down the entrance that the ants use. After about 20 min of cool time I can begin digging out the resulting ant home casting. It is rather fragile so I dig around it lifting out a ball of dirt containing the metal within. Then it's easy to spray the dirt away with a garden hose.

Don't forget to check out my other aluminum ant hill videos for more explanation of the process and examples of the results.

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