Clearing area/ New brick kiln design
Added 2023-06-02 01:15:48 +0000 UTCI cleared an area to make bricks in and then built a new kiln to fire them in, making a batch of 50 bricks to test it. The new design uses fewer bricks than the original (74 compared to 100) and is simpler to build. The kiln worked and a new source of clay proved useable. Much apreciated.
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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.
Primitive Technology
2023-07-04 20:52:19 +0000 UTCIt 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
2023-07-04 17:16:48 +0000 UTCI 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.
Kenneth Crips
2023-07-04 17:12:05 +0000 UTCSounds good, let me know how it goes.
Primitive Technology
2023-06-05 20:57:36 +0000 UTCYo dawg, I heard you like bricks, so we made bricks using bricks and then saved the ash with some more bricks.
Michael Brown
2023-06-05 20:49:51 +0000 UTCI'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.
Primitive Technology
2023-06-04 20:51:11 +0000 UTCSpeaking 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?
Gabe Nathanson
2023-06-04 15:07:50 +0000 UTCThanks Chris, I'll keep them coming. Much appreciated.
Primitive Technology
2023-06-03 20:53:22 +0000 UTCJohn, always enjoy every video - you know you could charge more per video right? Chris
Chris Jones
2023-06-03 10:58:02 +0000 UTCI 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.
Primitive Technology
2023-06-03 04:42:05 +0000 UTCWas reading bush turkeys can be something of a nuisance the roosters constantly collecting stuff for their nesting mounds,
Kenneth Crips
2023-06-03 02:36:19 +0000 UTCIt'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
2023-06-02 22:20:49 +0000 UTCAlways seems popular. Thanks.
Primitive Technology
2023-06-02 22:15:30 +0000 UTCWent through a few digging sticks though.
Primitive Technology
2023-06-02 22:15:06 +0000 UTCSorry 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
2023-06-02 21:48:03 +0000 UTCThanks so much for the satisfying firemaking segment!
Amy Tobol
2023-06-02 21:02:51 +0000 UTCNo excavators were harmed in the making of this video 😂
Amy Tobol
2023-06-02 21:00:49 +0000 UTCNot 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
2023-06-02 20:35:13 +0000 UTC9 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.
Primitive Technology
2023-06-02 20:33:39 +0000 UTCWeren't you concerned about erosion when clearing a slope?
Julian Gonggrijp
2023-06-02 20:12:28 +0000 UTCHow many batches of bricks do you foresee for this new structure? Thanks and congrats! This looks awesome!
Lucas Costa
2023-06-02 10:43:44 +0000 UTCIt was in the wet season and the fire risk is minimal. In the dry season you have to be careful though. Thanks.
Primitive Technology
2023-06-02 07:11:16 +0000 UTCI'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?
Faralis
2023-06-02 06:39:38 +0000 UTCLots of heavy lifting for sure. Thanks.
Primitive Technology
2023-06-02 06:16:33 +0000 UTCWatching this video made my hernia repair scars burn like crazy.
Geoff Bowman
2023-06-02 05:31:27 +0000 UTCCorrect, 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
2023-06-02 05:21:50 +0000 UTCThank you and I will! More to come.
Primitive Technology
2023-06-02 05:18:09 +0000 UTCFire 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.
Primitive Technology
2023-06-02 05:17:15 +0000 UTCMortar 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?
Theo
2023-06-02 05:09:38 +0000 UTCWatching this video made me subscribe on Pateron. Keep up the great work man!
BrokenPancreas
2023-06-02 03:56:19 +0000 UTCHave you experimented much with stewardship/forestry management techniques, or is your footprint relatively negligible in that kind of ecosystem?
Jimmy Acevedo
2023-06-02 03:50:17 +0000 UTCThanks, it will probably be for a more permanent structure of some kind.
Primitive Technology
2023-06-02 02:29:06 +0000 UTCExcited to see what these will be used for!
VoidWalker
2023-06-02 01:35:59 +0000 UTC
