Primitive Technology: Belt and pulley blower
AdultsDIYEngineeringTechnologyI made a belt and pulley drive to power a blower. Up until now I had been using a rope and stick to spin the fan rotor of the blower.
Primitive Technology: Water powered forge blower
AdultsDIYEngineeringTechnologyI 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
AdultsConstructionDIYNatureSurvivalThe 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
AdultsDIYSurvivalThis 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: A-frame Roof Tile Factory
AdultsConstructionCreativityEducationDIYSurvivalTechnologyScienceEnvironmentWith 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)
AdultsConstructionCreativityEducationDIYEngineeringI 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: Geopolymer Cement (Ash and Clay)
AdultsConstructionCreativityEducationScienceTechnologyDIYI 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
AdultsConstructionCreativityEducationNatureEnvironmentDIYThe thatched workshop where I produce bricks, pottery, cement and charcoal for various projects was destroyed by prolonged rain from the wet season.
Primitive Technology: Volute Shaped Blower
AdultsConstructionCreativityEducationDIYScienceTechnologyI 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
AdultsConstructionCreativityEducationDIYExperimentsIn this video I use the thatched hut to fire bricks and make charcoal in for the first time.
Primitive Technology: New Brick Kiln Design
AdultsCreativityEducationNatureDIYEngineeringTechnologyI 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.
30 Days Building A Modern Underground Hut With A Grass Roof And A Swimming Pool
AdultsConstructionLifeNatureDIYArchitectureEnvironmentToday we show how to build an underground house with a pool and decorations, including an underground living room.
Primitive Technology: Iron Bacteria Cement
AdultsConstructionCreativityEducationScienceDIYI 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
AdultsConstructionCreativityLifeScienceEngineeringDIYI 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: Rock-Throwing Catapult (Trebuchet)
AdultsCreativityEducationNatureDIYEngineeringScienceI built a trebuchet, a type of catapult that uses a counter weight to store gravitational potential energy which is then used to fire a projectile via a sling.