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Clearing area/ New brick kiln design

🕑 Added 2023-06-02 01:15:48 +0000 UTC

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Primitive Technology

Yes, I got some on the internet from Africa and smelted some in a pit, it was really a really rich ore and produced about 50% copper by weight of ore, in big lumps. I tried some from a mine train track also, but the yield was way lower and just made a few tiny prills.

Kenneth Crips

It is to bad you don't have any copper deposits on your land. They are located South of you. Limiting yourself to what you find in your immediate area is what really makes your show so good. Copper would be an ideal thing the smelt from ore given its lower melting point. Copper tools were used for a millennia before bronze was figured out. That is what Egypt used to chip out the stones for the Pyramids. The written accounts of the work gangs that built the Pyramids at the end of the day they would turn in their copper chisels, and they had to return the number they were issued. These chisels were than hammer sharpened for the next days work.

Kenneth Crips

I know you don't do Bush Turkey the descriptions say they taste like a range chicken but in Australia only Aboriginal Australians can harvest them. There are some restaurants I see online owned by Aboriginal Chef's that occasionally serve them.

Primitive Technology

Sounds good, let me know how it goes.

Michael Brown

Yo dawg, I heard you like bricks, so we made bricks using bricks and then saved the ash with some more bricks.

Primitive Technology

I'm back and forth usually. I used to go right into the mountains before I started this channel though and would stay up there all day. I grew yams and sweet potatoes and ate shrimp occasionally, but mostly I'd wait to eat when I got back. Thanks.

Gabe Nathanson

Speaking of yams... what do you typically do for food while you're out there? Are you back and forth in a day, or do you usually stay on-site while you're working on a project?

Primitive Technology

Thanks Chris, I'll keep them coming. Much appreciated.

Chris Jones

John, always enjoy every video - you know you could charge more per video right? Chris

Primitive Technology

I remember seeing a show on SBS once about peoples experiences with bush turkeys in the suburbs. This one lady was Buddhist. It was digging up her garden sand he was acting all zen about it like it didn't bother her and that she should tolerate all beings, karma, reincarnation etc. But the turkey kept coming back and digging up her vegetable patch into a huge mound. She ended up loosing her cool and swearing at it, it was funny to watch when she started acting like a normal person.

Kenneth Crips

Was reading bush turkeys can be something of a nuisance the roosters constantly collecting stuff for their nesting mounds,

Primitive Technology

It's a brush turkey https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Australian_brushturkey. Not sure the sex of it, I've recently seen a pair of them. They're attracted to my digging projects as it turns up worms. They also eat yams that I used to grow. I don't know they're names as I haven't asked them. Adam and Ave?

Primitive Technology

Always seems popular. Thanks.

Primitive Technology

Went through a few digging sticks though.

Amy Tobol

Sorry for so many comments haha but I have to ask about your Avian Foreman. What is she, some sort of dwarf turkey? She's so tiny and elegant! What's her name?

Amy Tobol

Thanks so much for the satisfying firemaking segment!

Amy Tobol

No excavators were harmed in the making of this video 😂

Primitive Technology

Not really, but water flow will be a consideration if a hut is built there. The slope dictates which way the hut will be built. Thanks.

Primitive Technology

9 more minimum. The speed will depend on the rain though it is the dry season. Might build a temporary shelter to keep the bricks dry while waiting to be fired. Thanks.

Julian Gonggrijp

Weren't you concerned about erosion when clearing a slope?

Lucas Costa

How many batches of bricks do you foresee for this new structure? Thanks and congrats! This looks awesome!

Primitive Technology

It was in the wet season and the fire risk is minimal. In the dry season you have to be careful though. Thanks.

Faralis

I'm surprised you didn't take any precaution while cutting the fallen tree with fire There were no real chance of burning the forest with the fire?

Primitive Technology

Lots of heavy lifting for sure. Thanks.

Geoff Bowman

Watching this video made my hernia repair scars burn like crazy.

Primitive Technology

Correct, I just find it convenient to form it into bricks for storage (I used to store the ash as pellets). The ash bricks will be fired later to calcine and turn into mortar. As long as it's not handled for too long, and the hands washed afterwards the skin should be fine. But handling calcined ash as a mortar without a trowel will cause painful sores. After that lesson I started using a trowel to lay the mortar instead. Thanks.

Primitive Technology

Thank you and I will! More to come.

Primitive Technology

Fire wood collection is a good example of this. I find it unnecessary to cut fresh wood for fire wood or charcoal, especially with Eucalyptus trees dropping branches of oil rich timber. But this may not be possible in all climates. I heard that charcoal makers in Europe used to coppice trees for fuel. Thanks.

Theo

Mortar isn't used in bricks though, right? You will have to crush them and make it back into paste to use? Also, isn't wood ash and water lye!? How do you keep from burning/melting your hands?