Ant hill castings

Would you ever have a reason to travel south? It would make a neat souvenir. It would be really interesting to raise the ant colony in a form to achieve a colony roughly the shape of the form. Also I believe they only cast abandoned colonies to avoid dead ants stuck to the thing everwhere

>>1143177

They'll use the wall of the bucket as part of their corridors, so you'd have to have some layer lining the buckets the ants couldn't penetrate but which you could knock off later. Plaster of Paris?

If it leaks you don't really want it to just go through the plastic either. So maybe a galvanized steel tub, plaster of paris on the walls?

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>>1143177
As someone doing the same exact thing, where did you get all of your aluminum? I'm having trouble finding scrap to melt and would appreciate any tips.

>>1143653
Would the ants not at least melt? I mean, you are pouring molten metal onto them.

Op here
>>1143653
No real reason to go south, plus I wouldn't be able to bring my gear. My forge is a pretty good size (internal diameter is 10" and I use a #16 crucible, able to melt 15 pounds at a time or so.) I wish though. Got an old friend who moved to Alabama who works forestry, and seeing some of the mounds he deals with...

>>1143659
I was planning on using something like a steel barrel or garbage can so it would resist the heat (not because of the ants themselves, but that's a damn good point I didn't even consider.)

>>1143744
Cans, kitchen foil, and getting others to collect for you works too. I pay folks who bring me cans $0.35 a pound, which is the going rate at local scrap yards. Saves them from having to drive 30 miles to haul it in themselves. I will note that 400 pounds is accumulation over 16-18 months, so it still takes a while.

>>1143759
You right. I just know I've only ever seen it done to abandoned colonies. The ants, if anything is left of them should clean off with everything else. Perhaps ants could clog up the tunnels and ruin the casting.

>In my ant house with my colony bros
>Everything is fine
>Everything is good
>Suddenly a wall of burning molten metal
>I die to become some super chimp's modern art masterpiece
You sick fuck OP

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>>1143744
i get mine from the unhealthy amounts of soda i drink as well as aluminum foil and heatsinks from broken electronics i scrap on occasions. it takes about 2 months or so to fill up a kitchen trash bag with aluminum and usually yields roundabout 10 lbs of slugs.