Primitive Technology: Water powered forge blower
Adults DIY
I made a water powered forge blower to blow air into a furnace. Getting running water to power a blower had been on my list for a while now and the weather had been wet enough to cause enough flow in the creek to try one.
Primitive Technology: Brick hut destroyed by falling tree
Adults DIY
The brick hut was destroyed by a falling tree. It had lasted 2 years and 8 months and would have lasted quite a bit longer if it were not for the accident.
Primitive Technology: Two Walled Tiled Hut
Adults DIY
This video follows a person building a two-walled tiled hut. They start by cutting wood and thatching a roof, then create a tile-making area and kiln. The person then builds the walls of the hut using mud and stone, and finally lays the tiles on the roof.
Primitive Technology: Tile Capped Mud Walls
Adults DIY
I built Mud walls and capped them with roof tiles to protect them from rain. Mud walls if left uncovered in wet weather will dissolve in the rain and collapse.
Primitive Technology: A-frame Roof Tile Factory
Adults DIY
With the wet season only 2 months away and thatch being an impermanent material, I needed to make more roof tiles for a new hut that will withstand the next deluge.
Primitive Technology: Water Bellows (uses water instead of leather)
Adults DIY
I built a Water Bellows. It’s an upside-down clay pot with an inlet valve and an outlet spout. The inlet valve is simply a hole in the pot with a leaf plastered to the inside with wet clay so that it forms a one-way flap valve.
Primitive Technology: Polynesian Arrowroot Hashbrown
Adults DIY
I made a hashbrown from Polynesian arrowroot. A hashbrown is typically made from potatoes where it is mashed and baked on a pan.
Primitive Technology: Making Charcoal in a Closed Pot
Adults DIY
I made charcoal in a clay pot by putting wood in it and heat the pot externally effectively making it like a retort.
Primitive Technology: Geopolymer Cement (Ash and Clay)
Adults DIY
I have made wood ash cement before under the assumption that it was the calcium in the ash that gave it its cementitious properties...
Primitive Technology: Wet Season Destroys Thatched Workshop
Adults DIY
The thatched workshop where I produce bricks, pottery, cement and charcoal for various projects was destroyed by prolonged rain from the wet season.
Primitive Technology: Crab and Fish Trap
Adults DIY
I made a fish trap from cane and tested it over the course of a year catching various aquatic animals.
Primitive Technology: Volute Shaped Blower
Adults DIY
I made a volute shaped blower where the housing for the fan is volute shaped, that is to say a widening spiral to test the effectiveness of a one way spinning impeller.
Primitive Technology: Brick and Charcoal Production
Adults DIY
In this video I use the thatched hut to fire bricks and make charcoal in for the first time.
Primitive Technology: Undercover Brick Workshop
Adults DIY
I built a thatched shelter to make bricks in so that they are protected from the rain before they are fired. Despite it being the dry season, it still rains unpredictably in this climate...
Building a Sled | Alaska: The Next Generation
Adults DIY
Daniel Apassingok, along with Chase and his family and friends help build a sled to help their every day lives.
Primitive Technology: New Brick Kiln Design
Adults DIY
I cleared an area as a workspace for making bricks, trialed a new source of clay for brick making and tested a new kiln variant that uses fewer bricks than the previous design.
Primitive Technology: Making Charcoal (3 Different Methods)
Adults DIY
About This Video:
With more iron smelting experiments coming up, I demonstrate 3 different methods to make charcoal, ranked easiest to hardest.
30 Days Building A Modern Underground Hut With A Grass Roof And A Swimming Pool
Adults DIY
Today we show how to build an underground house with a pool and decorations, including an underground living room.
Primitive Technology: Iron Bacteria Cement
Adults DIY
I developed a cement made from iron bacteria, then made pots from it to test its ability to set and not dissolve in water.
rimitive Technology: Decarburization of iron and forging experiments
Adults DIY
I took a brittle, high carbon/iron alloy (cast iron) made from local ore and used a decarburization method to reduce it's carbon content making it malleable and forged it flat by hammering.
Primitive Technology: Cane Water Filter/Siphon
Adults DIY
I made a water filter from cane that siphons clean water from a dirty water while simultaneously using the xylem present in the the cane as a filter.