Fire Ant Colony Aluminum Casting

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 th