Great job man! You have quickly become my favorite primitive channel! You are so creative and have great content! Way better content than other “primitive let’s build pools” channels! Keep up the hard work! Can’t wait to see the rice harvest!!
*laughs* Oahhh, the "primitive let's build pools" jibe is so true. SO TRUE. OMG LET'S BUILD A POOL ONTOP OF A HOUSE ON TOP OF A RIVER! "but...you can just swim in the river..."NO IT'S NEVER BEEN DONE BEFORE! new content! NEW CONTENT!" *facepalm*
Sorry PS I've un subbed. After watching Australian PT, and him only getting tiny prills. With a furnace a thousand times better than yours. I think you are not telling the truth,the whole truth, and nothing but the true. That and the click bait thumb nails.
Your bloom may contain too much slag. So there is some advice. 1.Make a proper furnace Your furnace is too short.Try to make it high because it need space for combustion smelting and reduction. 2.Try to use a pumping bellow Pump air into the furnace is much better than fan air into it 3.Make better charcoal first Charcoal is the key to success The Conclusion: You made a good start. But the temperature it not high enough to reach the standard of producing useful iron. BTW try to burn the ore before put it into furnace. Sorry for my bad English
I agree with most of what you say, save for the charcoal. Raw wood has been used by many people in antiquity to produce blooms. I would also add that beating the bloom at forge welding temps is essential to producing proper wrought iron from blooms, and since he did not he basically just has a lump of vitrified slag and bits of iron that will break apart at lower temps than those you would use for forge welding.
Well done! I had my doubts about the blower, but you did it! Suggestions for future attempt: 1) move blower outlet higher in stack. 2) keep it going longer, you need to get more of the slag to melt away from the iron. 3) More Air! The flame should come out the top almost blue.
@@velazquezarmouries hmm not really. if connect a small bamboo pipe to the main irragation you can use baked clay to control the output on the water to get the right speed. bleed off overpressure with holes near where it joines the main irragation.
Nicely done. If I may offer a suggestion, your next bloomery should be narrower at the bottom than at the top (internally). The natural construction inclination is to make the bottom wider and the top narrower, but for a bloomery, a narrowing shaft (an inverse cone), helps concentrate the iron together towards the bottom, making for a denser bloom with less slag.
Also, now that you got a nicely size bloom (bigger than my first attempt), I encourage you to use it to make a hammer. A good hammer will help you forge newer blooms more efficiently, making for better metal that can then be worked (with the hammer), into more useful tools.
This is quite unexpected result from that level of furnace and fuel. Other channels, or even entire tribes that mastered the iron smelting with proper fuels, fluxes and furances didn't manage to obtain a whole piece of metal iron, only iron blooms - the mixture of iron pellets and bypass smelting stuff. I'm sceptically assuming this video is kind of a hoax.
Eh, I'm willing to give it the benefit of the doubt and assume he got really lucky. That lump he got is definitely more slag than metal, and if he does make a hammer out of it, I imagine it will break apart soon, hopefully after hammering out his next bloom.
This is a bloom ... He have a lot of scorys all around his peace of metal. And i'm pretty sure he was having too many scorys in the back of his furnace, that why he destroy it instead of using the clay trap.
He make a iron bloom in fact. It need to forge to become iron. But I guest the temperature is not enough to reach the standard of wrought iron. So it should be a good start. But not a hoax
That bloom is great. But it will be full of carbon and inclusions. It will need to be worked to get more pure. If you could get a much more efficient furnace he might be able to make a crucible and smelt it into Wootz. Or hammer it hot into wrought iron. In the end regardless of how it's worked it will reduce greatly in size. He might get half that size in usable iron.
Mega G. Baitoff I agree, it is unlikely he could’ve acquired iron from such an inefficient furnace, it hardly looked up to temperature, barely even orange, to smelt iron it needs to be nearly white hot. The air flow in that forge was insufficient, it needs to have a “fwoosh” sound when it goes through the fire. I would guess that there is very little pure metal within that bloom, and would need a lot of consolidation to get anything out of it
Yes a water powered bellow so his hands can be free and he can then later add to the other side to make a mill to grind the ore and rice to make rice flour
You need a fair amount of water to turn a pretty big wheel for a millstone. You have to make the millstone first then the waterwheel and everything else. He probably has enough water flow to run his blower from the irrigation tube but I seriously doubt he'd get it to run any kind of millstone effectively. He'd be better off with a quernstone and even those would be a lot of effort to make with stone tools. To run an actual millstone he'd have to move the whole operation down to the river, which I suppose is a possibility, but like I said, a TON of work just to make the millstone and base.
I tend to agree. Perhaps a blower could work, although you have to keep in mind that not only do you have to get the water to the proper location, you also have to have a means for the water to leave once the job is done. Also, there is no guarantee that the blower is capable of running faster and more continuously. Under water power, it may well have to be re-designed to be stronger. But there is no way he can set up a millstone with that little amount of flow, however.
it's mostly slag and very little iron. the temperature was too low. even if you make the furnace 3 times higher and the ventilator 10 times bigger - the only thing that will heat up enough to flow will be slag. the iron will be soft, but still not fluid. that's ok though, because at least you'd be able to separate them this way. a wooden hammer needs a stone head for metal. you need to figure out how to make primitive pliers for later when you reheat the iron for shaping
You do not melt iron in a bloomery. It is a chemical reaction between the ore and charcoal that produces metallic iron, getting the bloom hot enough to melt iron would require a lot more charcoal and a much more advanced furnace, it would also turn the iron from wrought to cast iron which isn't necessarily a good thing. In his situation you would want wrought iron since it can actually be forged and is a tougher material, albeit softer.
Complete Bagel There is no atomic difference between cast and wrought iron. Cast iron is just iron that’s been melted and cast. That forge though was way under temp. He probably lost a bit of iron at the bottom of the bloomery.
@@york7201 cast iron implies at least 2 percent carbon content while wrought iron is nearly at 0. Makes a tremendous difference as far as workability goes.
Give me a break, all of these primitive channels are amazing! All of these men are showing yreat skills that few men have anymore. I give all of you men showing off your great skill much respect! Thank you for showing us what you can do!
congrats, nice bloom, you should defiantly consider putting a pulley or gear on that blower though so you can get it spinning faster without wearing your arm out.
had a friend who's a smith check this out.he says it was likely for real he did this.it's like watching a poker game on tv only 10% gets seen from a 3-5 day tourment we see 3 hours maybe?he says for all we know he spent 3 days heating it up,and the size of the ore could seem much larger then what it is for real due to how close the recording device is.but he is only 75% sure of that but good enough for me.
Great work. Although you took it out too early. You should roast it until you start seeing slag dripping off from it. It will look like liquid. Once that stops then the bloom will mostly be iron. But I think it was close enough. And you have produced more workable matetial than most. Smelt that down and pour it into a mold and you're done. It will make you the most skilled PT channel yet.
For all you saying it's fake cuz his furnace can't get hot enough to melt iron keep in mind that it's a bloomary not a smeltary and the chunk is an iron bloom mixed with slag he would need to hammer it a lot to compress the bloom to substantial iron
Nice, it looks like this time around you had some success. I'd love to see a video of you working it into some tools. Maybe turn that bit into a hammer to use on other things, and start there. Slowly building new tools to make each step easier. It would be awesome to see you start making iron tools. Great work, keep it up.
You need to beat the bloom while it is still at forge welding heat, the idea is you are forge welding the bits of iron together while you are beating out impurities. Forge welding heat is basically a yellowish white color.
Watching this whole series for the 3rd or 4th time... THIS one video is so epic! Look at the tools he's using. His little wooden mallet hammer and a stick! This is so 1000 b.c.! 750 at the latest. The true DAWN of modern civilization!
Great video! I hope you don't mind a few suggestions. The result seems still somewhat impure, I'd suggest trying a more efficient way to blow air inside the furnace in order for it to reach a higher temperature so it will separate the slag from the iron. Some people suggested using water to power the blower, and that seems to be a good idea considering how labour-intensive it is to maintain a good temperature. But careful when considering gear ratios, the water wheel should have at least the same diameter as the blower, if not bigger so it spins faster than the water wheel and injects more air into the furnace. Still, you're in the right path to make your first iron tools! Keep up the good work!
You should use this lump as a hammer. Make another batch. Use that hammer to mash the new piece into a useable shape, probably another, better hammer. Then run another batch. Make axe or a pointy stick tool.
Nice job man, even from slag is dififcult to produce iron, but you made it, i cant wait to see what will you create from it. Love your videos ,keep up the good work.
Awesome job! Your furnace finally got hot enough (noticed how the clay outside finally turned red like it was fired?) and your air pump is great when you can run it (almost as tiring as a bellows, but a lot less strength is needed). It looks like you need a deeper pit in the bottom of your furnace so that ash, slag and the metal can get below the air intake, but again you need a crucible of some type to contain the metal better and reduce how much stuff gets into the metal when it melts. Now you have some fired clay from the broken furnace, you can crush that up into dust and mix it into clay to make one that will take some heat (only once or twice though). Really loving all the stuff you're doing, and learning quite a bit myself. Keep up the hard work!
Congratulations, now that you have one chunk of iron you can heat and work it into a hammer head or anvil base. Once you get a bit more smelted up, maybe you can smith up some iron tools. That chunk of iron will probably need quite a bit of work to make a good tool but it'll be awesome to see you make more and work with it a bit. Going for an Iron axe first?
Increíble! Necesitas mejorar la maquina de aire (multiplicar el giro por ejemplo) y aumentar el espesor de la parte baja del horno, quizá así logres que salga líquido y caiga directamente en un molde. Salud
Buenos días amigo , Dios lo bendiga, eres un hombre sabio , que no se queda atrás apresar de las limitaciones que te rodean felicitaciones que Dios te siga dando esa fortaleza.
Unfortunately, I think this is faked. There's just simply no way he produced that large of a bloom given the amount of ore he put in the furnace, let alone the fact that it couldn't possibly get hot enough with the constructed bellows setup. Slag comes out of the furnace in a liquid, of which there was none.
Eh depends on the ore. There was plenty of heat since it is more about a chemical reaction between the oxygen from the ore in iron oxide and the carbon in the charcoal rather reaching the melting point of iron. Depending on the ore there may be little enough slag that you wouldn't see liquid slag spill out when the bloomery is broken apart. Didn't look like his ore was high grade enough, but without more information we really can't say for sure. It is possible he threw in higher grade ore that he brought from the modern world. I have to say, all of these primitive tech channels tend to do the bloomery process very badly, if they made a sort of box bellows, used far more ore, made their bloomeries considerably taller, and actually beat the bloom at forge welding temps they would be far better off.
@@Angelogilo001 no one needs to try out to proof it was fake, this is already tested by the humanity for ages, the way he got iron from that amount of ore and that primitive furnace looked like he was playing Minecraft, this video got something fishy there
it is very, very hard work to get even a little workable iron metal out of iron ore, since iron ore contains allot of other metals and impurities. you did a fantastic job on this!!! i love your content! keep up the good work! you have managed to successfully do something that no other primitive survival/skills channel has been able to do! :D Great job!!!
Excellent work and skills! The only thing modern and advanced that I see you using is the video camera! Everything else is primitive and/or hand made. Keep up the great work that you do! I hope one day to join you and living the simple life!
need a much better design on air flow. I suggest you open a part of the side of that fan to allow air in, while the tip of the fans in are sealed tight in the tunnel in to push air into the forge. You want to see and hear that "chug chug chug" where it seems like it's a rocket failing.
Wow, if that whole piece is iron all the way through you managed an impressive bloom. If you have the tools to work it, you should try and make wrought iron by hammering it flat and forge welding it to itself multiple times. That will help drive out any other oxides and sulphitites that make the iron impure.
Very nice video dude, i've been waiting months for a video like that, now i can't wait for rice harvest and the fish babies to grow, you are awesome dude never forget that. Greatings and Respect from Brazil !!!
Olá😃 Amo ver seus vídeos. Sou brasileira. Poderia, por favor, fazer um vídeo de porão subterrâneo e e plantas em cima, cobrindo os, com os tijolos que vc fez em outro vídeo? Parabéns pelos ótimos vídeos. Obrigada
Gather a bunch of clay. Or what every to make cement. Make a tall cone a little longer then your arm. Dont make it to big around. Harden it then place it up 5 inches or 15cm from the ground. Hold it up right with sticks while you build a bigger tube around it leaving 20-25cm gap. Make holes at the bottom for air. Harden. Then make coal. Lots of coal. And bump it into the gap. Then grind up oar to dust or as small as you can. From there start your fire at the bottom of coal and force air in by what ever you want. It will heat well. Pour your oar powder into the cone and as it melts the metal will drip out. Works very well.
The spindle on the fan keeps bugging me. I feel like it's counterproductive. Correct me if I'm wrong, but wouldn't it require less energy and produce more heat if you were to just shuffle the shaft of the fan between your palms? Adding the spindle is handy I guess, but the extra circumference that the spindle is following is just increasing the time it takes for the fan to make a revolution; thus producing less heat and taking more time
Wow man!! Very very cool.. I absolutely love how you do things.. You're out there living off the land like a real primitive survivalist.. You're not out there building pool after pool cheating by using pre made bricks and crushing green leaves and getting blue paint lol.. You're the real deal man and you have a life time subscriber here brother.. Keep up the incredible work and im looking forward to what you do next man.. Be safe out there bud.. Cheers..
now that looks far better than your last attempt! coal and a blower for more heat and the rocket stove should be good enough to melt stone and iron.. thumbs up!
You need to go for a re-melt. Your set up isn't bad but you need to get it hotter. Get a rock that is thick but flat. Chip out a mold of something close to a tool that you can use on the flat part of the rock. Then put the rock and the iron in the furnace with the iron already sitting in the mold. You need a better setup for air to get more oxygen to the flame to make it hotter for the re-melt. Just trying to help improve your casting of a tool that is useful.
I had my doubts about your bellows, but you've definitely got the best results of any PT channel yet. Well done. :) Try grinding the ore much finer and having it really dry, getting it all hotter and pulling it out later for purer results. Are you going to try to put it through the furnace again and remove some more slag? Think about trying to make a forge. You'd need a stone hammer at first. Looking forward to your next videos!
Wow, I think you're the first primitive tech channel I've watched to make iron that isn't just tiny specks. Good job man! I guess the next step is seeing if you can make something out of it.
@Sussy ass motherfucka That's a possibility. It's probably a much, much lower quality metal than you would see used today. Still better than rock tools though, when it comes to fine detail work.
@Sussy ass motherfucka Yes and no. I think he found limonite. Its an iron ore made from clay and a lot of different metal oxyds. But this kind of ore can give you a better refined material, depend of how many iron/nickel/zinc etc you have in ...
Probably due to quality of ore in his region TBH, like Primitive Technology guy has to pick tiny droplets from slag and his biggest achievement is so much as a handful of Iron simply cause he can only rely on prospector quality iron oxides from river mud, this guy has access to literal hematite rock which is a n industrial grade ore.
Very good! Now you must build a bigger furnace, with a better blowing system. Then, put this piece of iron in this new furnace again. After this, make a stone hammer to strike the piece of iron when it become red, then put it again into the furnace. Repeat this process untill the piece of iron to be free of clay residue. Now you have a pure iron! After this, just work on that (again in the furnace) to make a blade, or a spear head :D
1/3rd is about right . but yes two guys with bellows working 8 hours would only get a similar amount and it would not be a solid chunk but be very crumbly at first until you pound it together . maybe he's using a different metal, nickel from coins would be hard enough or something else, iron and nickel have like 100c between there melting points ~1500c(iron) and ~1400c (nickel) so kinda pointless .... the other primitive channels are getting what looks like brass and saying it's copper ore refining i think there salting the burn as well
bloomery furnaces are not hot enough to melt iron. It gathers in the hot and liquid slag and will be forge welded when you compact the bloom. CO and CO2 gases from the coal reduce the iron oxide to iron, it won't be melted out.
Hm, maybe I have to correct myself. You don't run a bloomery furnace around the melting point of iron, otherwise it produces cast iron which is impossible to forge.
I knew you would succeed with your iron-project. Great effort, great work - great result. I think the most important iron-tool is a spade, for stabbing, cutting, digging and making more iron (but a hammer would be better at that :) You have a lot of projects I am very interested in... now you can add "making an iron-tool" to that list.
@BLACK: Yes. Not as much iron in there as one would hope. Nevertheless, he knows what to do, so he will continue. So you watch all the right stuff :) Cheers.
it's funny how lots of people expects to see the same process they know today. they are forgetting that this is how people long time ago do it. there are no forge, or ovens to smelt it when they discovered iron.
Well you showed how to smelt iron the primitive way. Thanks for that. You don't need to look primitive though. I think there's no harm in wearing a pair of shoes to protect your feet, especially when you are dressed up in modern casual way.
Incredible ! maybe you could use that to make a tool ?! you could use the power of the stream to power up your fan so you can work the iron piece many time without effort.
You need a bit higher speed on that blower. Nice to see the handle being shorter now, but I think it would work much better if you replaced the handle with a bow, like with a fire-drill.
A lot will be lost in the forge. Also this is an iron bloom it need to be worked before he has an ingot. The ingot will be about 1/2 to 1/3 the size of his bloom.
Well done! Maybe attach some rope or vine straight out from the blower to a water wheel. The tension in the rope would turn the Blower. Only problem is maybe not enough water flow. But! you could build a much larger handle away from it, thus gearing it up! When the rope shrinks due to the twist that might be a problem though. It might pull it apart.
Great job man! You have quickly become my favorite primitive channel! You are so creative and have great content! Way better content than other “primitive let’s build pools” channels! Keep up the hard work! Can’t wait to see the rice harvest!!
Agreed! Is there any other primitive channel can reach the iron age? ;) Keep up the brilliant work!
Also eagerly awaiting the rice harvest. How will he separate the rice from the straw? How will he store the rice grains? I can't wait to find out!
*laughs* Oahhh, the "primitive let's build pools" jibe is so true. SO TRUE. OMG LET'S BUILD A POOL ONTOP OF A HOUSE ON TOP OF A RIVER! "but...you can just swim in the river..."NO IT'S NEVER BEEN DONE BEFORE! new content! NEW CONTENT!" *facepalm*
April fool. Hang on it's not even April. You really think he smelted iron with this pathetic set up. OMG.
Sorry PS I've un subbed. After watching Australian PT, and him only getting tiny prills. With a furnace a thousand times better than yours. I think you are not telling the truth,the whole truth, and nothing but the true. That and the click bait thumb nails.
This guy is out there speedrunning human evolution
Your bloom may contain too much slag. So there is some advice.
1.Make a proper furnace
Your furnace is too short.Try to make it high because it need space for combustion smelting and reduction.
2.Try to use a pumping bellow
Pump air into the furnace is much better than fan air into it
3.Make better charcoal first
Charcoal is the key to success
The Conclusion:
You made a good start. But the temperature it not high enough to reach the standard of producing useful iron. BTW try to burn the ore before put it into furnace. Sorry for my bad English
I agree with most of what you say, save for the charcoal. Raw wood has been used by many people in antiquity to produce blooms. I would also add that beating the bloom at forge welding temps is essential to producing proper wrought iron from blooms, and since he did not he basically just has a lump of vitrified slag and bits of iron that will break apart at lower temps than those you would use for forge welding.
13:50 My god, what a money shot. This is so awesome, a chunk of pure iron from just some ore, clay and bamboo.
Dont let anybody downplay your achievement. This is a very good piece considering the process and tools used to make it.
Well done! I had my doubts about the blower, but you did it!
Suggestions for future attempt:
1) move blower outlet higher in stack.
2) keep it going longer, you need to get more of the slag to melt away from the iron.
3) More Air! The flame should come out the top almost blue.
Bullshit. I don't believe he genuinely produced that much iron. He put a piece of iron in there.
THAT IRON ORE HAVE 65% IRON
BUT THE IRON THAT HI MAKE HAVE SOME IMPURITY
maybe connect the wind making machine to a water wheel so you can focus on other stuff except fire
M. Kittke
Des gens ont déjà inventé des robots, ils ont encore moins de temps qu'avant.
They will need a gear system to make it work at the correct speed
@@velazquezarmouries hmm not really. if connect a small bamboo pipe to the main irragation you can use baked clay to control the output on the water to get the right speed. bleed off overpressure with holes near where it joines the main irragation.
@Devils Advocate I highly doubt that most people could do that in an hour
Yess i think so
Nicely done. If I may offer a suggestion, your next bloomery should be narrower at the bottom than at the top (internally). The natural construction inclination is to make the bottom wider and the top narrower, but for a bloomery, a narrowing shaft (an inverse cone), helps concentrate the iron together towards the bottom, making for a denser bloom with less slag.
Also, now that you got a nicely size bloom (bigger than my first attempt), I encourage you to use it to make a hammer. A good hammer will help you forge newer blooms more efficiently, making for better metal that can then be worked (with the hammer), into more useful tools.
This is a fantastic incite. I've been preparing for my first iron smelt and I will definitely consider this when making the bloomery. Many thanks!
no suggestion allowed!!
@@apidas Little late on the draw there.
@@aquatus1 Is there a way to create a bloomery that you dont have to destroy to extract the bloom?
This is quite unexpected result from that level of furnace and fuel. Other channels, or even entire tribes that mastered the iron smelting with proper fuels, fluxes and furances didn't manage to obtain a whole piece of metal iron, only iron blooms - the mixture of iron pellets and bypass smelting stuff. I'm sceptically assuming this video is kind of a hoax.
Eh, I'm willing to give it the benefit of the doubt and assume he got really lucky. That lump he got is definitely more slag than metal, and if he does make a hammer out of it, I imagine it will break apart soon, hopefully after hammering out his next bloom.
This is a bloom ... He have a lot of scorys all around his peace of metal.
And i'm pretty sure he was having too many scorys in the back of his furnace, that why he destroy it instead of using the clay trap.
He make a iron bloom in fact. It need to forge to become iron. But I guest the temperature is not enough to reach the standard of wrought iron. So it should be a good start. But not a hoax
That bloom is great. But it will be full of carbon and inclusions. It will need to be worked to get more pure.
If you could get a much more efficient furnace he might be able to make a crucible and smelt it into Wootz. Or hammer it hot into wrought iron.
In the end regardless of how it's worked it will reduce greatly in size.
He might get half that size in usable iron.
Mega G. Baitoff I agree, it is unlikely he could’ve acquired iron from such an inefficient furnace, it hardly looked up to temperature, barely even orange, to smelt iron it needs to be nearly white hot. The air flow in that forge was insufficient, it needs to have a “fwoosh” sound when it goes through the fire. I would guess that there is very little pure metal within that bloom, and would need a lot of consolidation to get anything out of it
omg... why none of these survival chanels use water flow as power source???
Matej Jesenský he need to use that technic next video
Yes a water powered bellow so his hands can be free and he can then later add to the other side to make a mill to grind the ore and rice to make rice flour
You need a fair amount of water to turn a pretty big wheel for a millstone. You have to make the millstone first then the waterwheel and everything else. He probably has enough water flow to run his blower from the irrigation tube but I seriously doubt he'd get it to run any kind of millstone effectively. He'd be better off with a quernstone and even those would be a lot of effort to make with stone tools. To run an actual millstone he'd have to move the whole operation down to the river, which I suppose is a possibility, but like I said, a TON of work just to make the millstone and base.
I tend to agree. Perhaps a blower could work, although you have to keep in mind that not only do you have to get the water to the proper location, you also have to have a means for the water to leave once the job is done. Also, there is no guarantee that the blower is capable of running faster and more continuously. Under water power, it may well have to be re-designed to be stronger. But there is no way he can set up a millstone with that little amount of flow, however.
aquatus1 it’s safe to say this guy knows how to get and get rid of water
Nice. I been getting tired of all other primitive channels building houses with pools. Suggestion - make a stone hammer to shape the iron when heated.
it's mostly slag and very little iron.
the temperature was too low.
even if you make the furnace 3 times higher and the ventilator 10 times bigger - the only thing that will heat up enough to flow will be slag. the iron will be soft, but still not fluid. that's ok though, because at least you'd be able to separate them this way.
a wooden hammer needs a stone head for metal. you need to figure out how to make primitive pliers for later when you reheat the iron for shaping
the slag is the only thing that should melt . you would need that furnace to be jetting a 2 foot flame before you could get molten iron
You do not melt iron in a bloomery. It is a chemical reaction between the ore and charcoal that produces metallic iron, getting the bloom hot enough to melt iron would require a lot more charcoal and a much more advanced furnace, it would also turn the iron from wrought to cast iron which isn't necessarily a good thing. In his situation you would want wrought iron since it can actually be forged and is a tougher material, albeit softer.
Alright I nerds let's not fight
Complete Bagel There is no atomic difference between cast and wrought iron. Cast iron is just iron that’s been melted and cast. That forge though was way under temp. He probably lost a bit of iron at the bottom of the bloomery.
@@york7201 cast iron implies at least 2 percent carbon content while wrought iron is nearly at 0. Makes a tremendous difference as far as workability goes.
5:37 Nobody:
Marijuana Enthusiast at 4 a.m. in the morning smoking wed:
Give me a break, all of these primitive channels are amazing! All of these men are showing yreat skills that few men have anymore. I give all of you men showing off your great skill much respect! Thank you for showing us what you can do!
congrats, nice bloom, you should defiantly consider putting a pulley or gear on that blower though so you can get it spinning faster without wearing your arm out.
just an idea , since you aren't using the primative bag bellows, why not put some gears on that hand crank to add mechanical advantage ...
This guy and primitive technology are pretty good.
Dr. Stone in real life. Very inspiring. Good job man.
Big chunk. I wander how you will manage to forge or craft somthing of it. Nicely done!
U need 10 houses, 5 villagers, 500 food units and a windmill. lumbercamp or military building to advance next age =P
had a friend who's a smith check this out.he says it was likely for real he did this.it's like watching a poker game on tv only 10% gets seen from a 3-5 day tourment we see 3 hours maybe?he says for all we know he spent 3 days heating it up,and the size of the ore could seem much larger then what it is for real due to how close the recording device is.but he is only 75% sure of that but good enough for me.
Great work. Although you took it out too early. You should roast it until you start seeing slag dripping off from it. It will look like liquid. Once that stops then the bloom will mostly be iron. But I think it was close enough. And you have produced more workable matetial than most. Smelt that down and pour it into a mold and you're done. It will make you the most skilled PT channel yet.
100% my opinion. i think your bloomery is much to small, you need more charcoal, more ore, it must be roasted. go on, keep trying. like your show.
look at this, even tough its german.
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You can add English annotations. Translations used to be more hilarious then useful but it's getting better.
For all you saying it's fake cuz his furnace can't get hot enough to melt iron keep in mind that it's a bloomary not a smeltary and the chunk is an iron bloom mixed with slag he would need to hammer it a lot to compress the bloom to substantial iron
4:00 You skipped over the construction of the blower for the furnace.
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I love how these videos give the modern man a bit of historical perspective. Well. SOME of the modern men :p
Nice, it looks like this time around you had some success. I'd love to see a video of you working it into some tools. Maybe turn that bit into a hammer to use on other things, and start there. Slowly building new tools to make each step easier. It would be awesome to see you start making iron tools. Great work, keep it up.
How did you find/process the iron ore before it went into the furnace?
Great video as always. I love how when you tried this before so many people doubted that you could even do this but you've proven them wrong.
You need to beat the bloom while it is still at forge welding heat, the idea is you are forge welding the bits of iron together while you are beating out impurities. Forge welding heat is basically a yellowish white color.
Watching this whole series for the 3rd or 4th time... THIS one video is so epic! Look at the tools he's using. His little wooden mallet hammer and a stick! This is so 1000 b.c.! 750 at the latest. The true DAWN of modern civilization!
Great video! I hope you don't mind a few suggestions. The result seems still somewhat impure, I'd suggest trying a more efficient way to blow air inside the furnace in order for it to reach a higher temperature so it will separate the slag from the iron. Some people suggested using water to power the blower, and that seems to be a good idea considering how labour-intensive it is to maintain a good temperature. But careful when considering gear ratios, the water wheel should have at least the same diameter as the blower, if not bigger so it spins faster than the water wheel and injects more air into the furnace. Still, you're in the right path to make your first iron tools!
Keep up the good work!
You should use this lump as a hammer. Make another batch. Use that hammer to mash the new piece into a useable shape, probably another, better hammer. Then run another batch. Make axe or a pointy stick tool.
Nice job man, even from slag is dififcult to produce iron, but you made it, i cant wait to see what will you create from it. Love your videos ,keep up the good work.
So pleased to see it work after your first attempt.
Awesome job! Your furnace finally got hot enough (noticed how the clay outside finally turned red like it was fired?) and your air pump is great when you can run it (almost as tiring as a bellows, but a lot less strength is needed). It looks like you need a deeper pit in the bottom of your furnace so that ash, slag and the metal can get below the air intake, but again you need a crucible of some type to contain the metal better and reduce how much stuff gets into the metal when it melts. Now you have some fired clay from the broken furnace, you can crush that up into dust and mix it into clay to make one that will take some heat (only once or twice though).
Really loving all the stuff you're doing, and learning quite a bit myself. Keep up the hard work!
In this kind of furnace the iron doesent melt. If the iron melt in this furnace, it becomes useless cast iron
Congratulations, now that you have one chunk of iron you can heat and work it into a hammer head or anvil base. Once you get a bit more smelted up, maybe you can smith up some iron tools. That chunk of iron will probably need quite a bit of work to make a good tool but it'll be awesome to see you make more and work with it a bit. Going for an Iron axe first?
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Unfortunately, I think this is faked. There's just simply no way he produced that large of a bloom given the amount of ore he put in the furnace, let alone the fact that it couldn't possibly get hot enough with the constructed bellows setup. Slag comes out of the furnace in a liquid, of which there was none.
Let's see you try to do better and prove him wrong! Talk is cheap!
One doesn't have to be to be Jamie Oliver to say that someone's food is fake.
Eh depends on the ore. There was plenty of heat since it is more about a chemical reaction between the oxygen from the ore in iron oxide and the carbon in the charcoal rather reaching the melting point of iron. Depending on the ore there may be little enough slag that you wouldn't see liquid slag spill out when the bloomery is broken apart. Didn't look like his ore was high grade enough, but without more information we really can't say for sure. It is possible he threw in higher grade ore that he brought from the modern world. I have to say, all of these primitive tech channels tend to do the bloomery process very badly, if they made a sort of box bellows, used far more ore, made their bloomeries considerably taller, and actually beat the bloom at forge welding temps they would be far better off.
@@Angelogilo001 no one needs to try out to proof it was fake, this is already tested by the humanity for ages, the way he got iron from that amount of ore and that primitive furnace looked like he was playing Minecraft, this video got something fishy there
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This is probably the only primitive channel who doesn’t make pools every single time.
Awesome job on all you have done so far...... I would like to see you make a water wheel, with a shaft to drive things like that hand crank.....
it is very, very hard work to get even a little workable iron metal out of iron ore, since iron ore contains allot of other metals and impurities. you did a fantastic job on this!!! i love your content! keep up the good work! you have managed to successfully do something that no other primitive survival/skills channel has been able to do! :D Great job!!!
You did it! Congrats on a successful first iron bloom, your perseverance has paid off! Keep up the hard work
Excellent work and skills! The only thing modern and advanced that I see you using is the video camera! Everything else is primitive and/or hand made.
Keep up the great work that you do!
I hope one day to join you and living the simple life!
need a much better design on air flow. I suggest you open a part of the side of that fan to allow air in, while the tip of the fans in are sealed tight in the tunnel in to push air into the forge. You want to see and hear that "chug chug chug" where it seems like it's a rocket failing.
also try making a permanent reusable forge using bricks that'd be awesome
After rewatching the video and reading comments, They are right. There is no way you got that much iron from that amount of ore.
Wow, if that whole piece is iron all the way through you managed an impressive bloom. If you have the tools to work it, you should try and make wrought iron by hammering it flat and forge welding it to itself multiple times. That will help drive out any other oxides and sulphitites that make the iron impure.
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Very nice video dude, i've been waiting months for a video like that, now i can't wait for rice harvest and the fish babies to grow, you are awesome dude never forget that. Greatings and Respect from Brazil !!!
Nice piece of metal. But no matter what others say about it, at least you can move on to the next step. Should be interesting to watch ^^
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Poderia, por favor, fazer um vídeo de porão subterrâneo e e plantas em cima, cobrindo os, com os tijolos que vc fez em outro vídeo?
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Hands down beat primitive channel, you're slowly but surely building a village, maybe then a town, a city, and finally a primitive metropolis
Gather a bunch of clay. Or what every to make cement. Make a tall cone a little longer then your arm. Dont make it to big around. Harden it then place it up 5 inches or 15cm from the ground. Hold it up right with sticks while you build a bigger tube around it leaving 20-25cm gap. Make holes at the bottom for air. Harden. Then make coal. Lots of coal. And bump it into the gap. Then grind up oar to dust or as small as you can. From there start your fire at the bottom of coal and force air in by what ever you want. It will heat well. Pour your oar powder into the cone and as it melts the metal will drip out. Works very well.
Omg, it look like a timezone of human history. U did well, humankind was developed fastly from appearing iron material
The spindle on the fan keeps bugging me. I feel like it's counterproductive. Correct me if I'm wrong, but wouldn't it require less energy and produce more heat if you were to just shuffle the shaft of the fan between your palms? Adding the spindle is handy I guess, but the extra circumference that the spindle is following is just increasing the time it takes for the fan to make a revolution; thus producing less heat and taking more time
Wow man!! Very very cool.. I absolutely love how you do things.. You're out there living off the land like a real primitive survivalist.. You're not out there building pool after pool cheating by using pre made bricks and crushing green leaves and getting blue paint lol.. You're the real deal man and you have a life time subscriber here brother.. Keep up the incredible work and im looking forward to what you do next man.. Be safe out there bud.. Cheers..
Im sick of pool makers as well!
U r the best primitive guy in youtube!
now that looks far better than your last attempt! coal and a blower for more heat and the rocket stove should be good enough to melt stone and iron.. thumbs up!
now finished the video: congrats! you made steel :)
You need to go for a re-melt. Your set up isn't bad but you need to get it hotter. Get a rock that is thick but flat. Chip out a mold of something close to a tool that you can use on the flat part of the rock. Then put the rock and the iron in the furnace with the iron already sitting in the mold. You need a better setup for air to get more oxygen to the flame to make it hotter for the re-melt. Just trying to help improve your casting of a tool that is useful.
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All these primitive channels are so awesome
I had my doubts about your bellows, but you've definitely got the best results of any PT channel yet. Well done. :) Try grinding the ore much finer and having it really dry, getting it all hotter and pulling it out later for purer results. Are you going to try to put it through the furnace again and remove some more slag? Think about trying to make a forge. You'd need a stone hammer at first. Looking forward to your next videos!
@@orsoncart1021 Hah, my man is from Sunderland, he needs all the rose tinted glasses he can get, I don't have any to spare sorry.
Good job.. I like to see what u gonna do with that piece of iron
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It was minecraft...
Wow, I think you're the first primitive tech channel I've watched to make iron that isn't just tiny specks. Good job man! I guess the next step is seeing if you can make something out of it.
@Sussy ass motherfucka That's a possibility. It's probably a much, much lower quality metal than you would see used today. Still better than rock tools though, when it comes to fine detail work.
@Sussy ass motherfucka Yes and no.
I think he found limonite. Its an iron ore made from clay and a lot of different metal oxyds.
But this kind of ore can give you a better refined material, depend of how many iron/nickel/zinc etc you have in ...
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Watching you find iron ore showed me how much ore i have unknowingly held in my life thanks!
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Кстати, ветер я смотрю есть, можно сделать просто ветряк для питания воздушного нагнетателя )
Yours is the biggest iron ore out of all primitive channels. Great work! So impressed anx inspire... can't wait to live primitive...
Probably due to quality of ore in his region TBH, like Primitive Technology guy has to pick tiny droplets from slag and his biggest achievement is so much as a handful of Iron simply cause he can only rely on prospector quality iron oxides from river mud, this guy has access to literal hematite rock which is a n industrial grade ore.
Very good! Now you must build a bigger furnace, with a better blowing system. Then, put this piece of iron in this new furnace again. After this, make a stone hammer to strike the piece of iron when it become red, then put it again into the furnace. Repeat this process untill the piece of iron to be free of clay residue.
Now you have a pure iron! After this, just work on that (again in the furnace) to make a blade, or a spear head :D
It's like a race with "Primitive Technology".
Who's going to make the very first, simple iron tool. Looks like you're ahead!
Really enjoying your channel! Love your creative work, and thx for sharing!
it seems very complicated to recognize the good stones.
Yes, it takes a lot of time
Ok i was gonna to say that is easy but iam a geology academic
be proud very few people produce a bloom like that.
A lot of iron for the amount of ore ...
that's because its fake...
yes I also think it is fake even you throw the real iron into this furnace，the product would not look at this after polish
1/3rd is about right . but yes two guys with bellows working 8 hours would only get a similar amount and it would not be a solid chunk but be very crumbly at first until you pound it together . maybe he's using a different metal, nickel from coins would be hard enough or something else, iron and nickel have like 100c between there melting points ~1500c(iron) and ~1400c (nickel) so kinda pointless .... the other primitive channels are getting what looks like brass and saying it's copper ore refining i think there salting the burn as well
bloomery furnaces are not hot enough to melt iron. It gathers in the hot and liquid slag and will be forge welded when you compact the bloom. CO and CO2 gases from the coal reduce the iron oxide to iron, it won't be melted out.
Hm, maybe I have to correct myself. You don't run a bloomery furnace around the melting point of iron, otherwise it produces cast iron which is impossible to forge.
try adding a fired clay fly wheel to the end of your fan axle. it will help keep the fan at a consistent speed even if the speed of your hand changes
I knew you would succeed with your iron-project. Great effort, great work - great result.
I think the most important iron-tool is a spade, for stabbing, cutting, digging and making more iron (but a hammer would be better at that :)
You have a lot of projects I am very interested in... now you can add "making an iron-tool" to that list.
@BLACK: Yes. Not as much iron in there as one would hope. Nevertheless, he knows what to do, so he will continue.
So you watch all the right stuff :) Cheers.
it's funny how lots of people expects to see the same process they know today. they are forgetting that this is how people long time ago do it. there are no forge, or ovens to smelt it when they discovered iron.
and why not use water source as a mechanical fan for your kiln?
Awesome!!! Great job! What’s the first tool you will be making? I would suggest a hammer to make more and better tools as you go. Just an idea... 😉
That’s the first thing he needs
Next time, hit it with a big rock as soon as it comes out of the forge. It will crack the slag right off and leave you with the flexible iron.
First make a hammer so you can process metal into an axe
Well you showed how to smelt iron the primitive way. Thanks for that. You don't need to look primitive though. I think there's no harm in wearing a pair of shoes to protect your feet, especially when you are dressed up in modern casual way.
Next up, Primitive Skills: Flying Cars & Robots
You should try and make a iron digging tool
Everyone is watching the Video but no one is Outside and doing that cool sh*t
Incredible ! maybe you could use that to make a tool ?! you could use the power of the stream to power up your fan so you can work the iron piece many time without effort.
It is amazing!! May I know how long did you take for firing the "stones"?
you gotta make a gear box to save your arm!
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Use a little bit of sand on the grinding plate that might help to grind faster
love the video, closest i have seen to how primative peoples made iron besides this one on a tribe in africa that took a whole tribe to get it done
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You need a bit higher speed on that blower. Nice to see the handle being shorter now, but I think it would work much better if you replaced the handle with a bow, like with a fire-drill.
Wow, that's a big yield!!! Any plans for what to make with it?
What about firing the iron or copper with a clay crucible, you would have a bit more luck and less waste
very good! that is a lot of iron! you could make a knive!
A lot will be lost in the forge. Also this is an iron bloom it need to be worked before he has an ingot. The ingot will be about 1/2 to 1/3 the size of his bloom.
this is not iron... it is mostly slag. almost useless material.
Great job dude u on the right track !!!
@@willywillner5962 it's still iron even if it does have slag, slag is worked out when consolidating
Wow finally!! Now its time to mold into block.!
Great job! Just wondering if a magnetic stone might help?
great job,hopefully next time,prepare a stone hammer 1st,and keep hammering while its hot.
Well done! Maybe attach some rope or vine straight out from the blower to a water wheel. The tension in the rope would turn the Blower. Only problem is maybe not enough water flow. But! you could build a much larger handle away from it, thus gearing it up! When the rope shrinks due to the twist that might be a problem though. It might pull it apart.