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lane912 12-12-2013 11:53 AM

what to do with fire ants
 
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TheMentat 12-12-2013 11:59 AM

That is awesome!

GH85Carrera 12-12-2013 11:59 AM

That is a good use of a fireant nest.

I bet PETA will not approve but who cares about them.

mreid 12-12-2013 12:41 PM

That is cool! Just told my wife that I want one for Christmas.

enzo1 12-12-2013 12:54 PM

cool!

gordner 12-12-2013 01:03 PM

I saw a video of this done with concrete slurry once to an ant colony in Africa, I cannot remember what type of ant it was but excavated the thing was huge, like 30 feet across and 30 40 feet deep of crazy interlaced tunels and large storage caverns. Very very cool stuff.

wdfifteen 12-12-2013 01:13 PM

Very cool video! Thanks!

MT930 12-12-2013 01:52 PM

Pretty Cool !

scottmandue 12-12-2013 01:55 PM

That is so inhumane!!!!

That is why I pour hot bacon grease down my fire ant nest... gives them little ant heart attacks... and when you are done... you have bacon flavored fire ants!


aschen 12-12-2013 02:12 PM

The thing I don't like is molten aluminium is too nice of a fate for those litle bastards.

74-911 12-12-2013 03:39 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by aschen (Post 7803015)
The thing I don't like is molten aluminium is too nice of a fate for those litle bastards.

and all it would do in the long run is piss em off.... cool video however.

based on some of the above posts, I assume some of you have never dealt with fire ants. They are indestructible for all intent and purposes.

on2wheels52 12-12-2013 04:10 PM

That pot was holding 1,221°F material?
Perhaps it was something other than Al
Jim

Hugh R 12-12-2013 04:16 PM

Jim, that is funny, I thought the exact same thing.

I had one fire ant get on my shoulder once, the pain was incredible, like a pair of red hot pliers digging into my shoulder as hard as was possible. Incredible pain from one freaking fire ant.

winders 12-12-2013 04:45 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by on2wheels52 (Post 7803178)
That pot was holding 1,221°F material?
Perhaps it was something other than Al
Jim

No, that was molten aluminum. My family owns a zinc and aluminum die casting plant. I used to move molten aluminum from large melting pots to pots in the die casting machines.

nut11 12-12-2013 05:54 PM

Jesus that's cool. Those Texas crazy ants could use a dose of that.

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difioretin 12-12-2013 05:59 PM

Just told my wife that I want one for Christmas.http://netkios.com/12g.jpg

nut11 12-12-2013 06:13 PM

Love it!

johnco 12-12-2013 06:31 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by gordner (Post 7802902)
I saw a video of this done with concrete slurry once to an ant colony in Africa, I cannot remember what type of ant it was but excavated the thing was huge, like 30 feet across and 30 40 feet deep of crazy interlaced tunels and large storage caverns. Very very cool stuff.


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MBAtarga 12-12-2013 06:35 PM

There was a documentary just lately on one of the cable channels. Maybe Animal Planet - not sure. Anyway - the college professor or whomever had collected dozens of those castings from around the country/world of different ant species. Some of them were 4,5 and 6 feet deep - of various widths. It was really fascinating.

M.D. Holloway 12-12-2013 08:42 PM

I would like to do that - getting to that temp would be tough with conventional stuff not to mention a bit dangerous, must be a concrete mix or polymer formula that could do the same? It would have to penetrate as well.


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