Primitive Life:Find Iron!
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- Опубліковано 3 жов 2024
- Primitive Life:Find Iron!wilderness!primitive technology!life in the forest
This video i try to find iron from poor iron ore.i build a furnace to do.i use poor coal to firing.i hope i can make iron!
Hard to do this cuz its rainy season!
Please share and sub my chanel if you like this video!thank you very much!
Could you imagine a collab of all primitive channels doing a speedrun to iron age
For real though, they should do that
@@MercedesSL3 No talking smack about the wondrous and incredibly brief pool age.
HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA That would be awesome.
It would take at least 2 minutes to get to Iron Age with all of them
That would actually be awesome
What if he started out with just a camera and a lot of memory cards, and progressed to the stone age, and over time just worked his way into the modern age. After achieving this, he built a computer from scratch and uploaded the footage he collected over the many years. Now we're seeing what he did.
If that what they call "metta"?
@Evan playz update?
Advice:
1) Need more heat. a *lot* more heat. That fire is too cold by a good 400c. You want high-yellow, approaching white heat.
This can be achieved by making the furnace much taller (3x or more), and by introducing better forced air. A blower or good bellows is needed.
Note that even with a fire this hot, you don't actually *melt* the iron.
2) The ore needs to be crushed to a fine powder, as only the exposed surfaces will participate in the reduction process. With chunks the size he had, you will need *days* of time.
Normally, you would not add all the charcoal, and all the ore, in one go. You start a good hot fire, and then feed it a slow dribble of ore, with enough charcoal to keep the furnace full and very hot, over a span of several hours. You want a large enough amount of iron to settle to the bottom, and form a workable bloom.
3) You need a way to separate the iron bloom from the slag, while it forms. Easiest is to add some lime to make the slag liquid enough to run off, and also allows the iron to sink through the slag to puddle at the bottom.
4) While not needed to form the basic iron bloom, the quality of your iron will be greatly improved if you first roast the ore, to drive of excess sulphur. This also makes crushing it into a suitable powder *much* easier.
5) To get usable iron, you need to extract the iron bloom while it is yellow-hot, and mechanically manipulate it to drive out encrusted and entrapped slag. I.E. you need to hammer the living daylights out of it, before it cools too much to be worked.
11:23 wow he did it. he skipped right over bronze. I can't wait till season 3 when he finds coal, and season 6 when he invents a nuke.
just like they did in Africa
Bronze making needs Tin, which is pretty rare. The Bronze age was dependent on Tin from Afghanistan and England.
Iron ores just happening to be spread on top of pine needles lol. Why not just say brought it in from somewhere near, iron ores are all over the place, but not everywhere.
find iron is the easy part
i want to see you forging this iron in something useful
Kassio G. Yeah! It would be quite unique, there is not so many videos like that. Anyhow, congratulations for the nice progress! :)
That's not that easy. Not with these tools...
He can try reducing it in small batches by layering ground roasted ore, ground charcoal and sand, in a sealed, fired crucible made of clay mixed with very fine charcoal dust. It can produce him cast iron that could later be processed.
Kassio G. Me too I think he needs to make another longer video on what he is actually putting in those mixes as well I didn’t see him actually melt down that metal I saw him mix up some sort of mud instead
Kassio G. Make nife
Yep, there's plenty of hematite here.
Man I love your minecraft let's play vids, such high quality too
Yeah great shaders
@@donnynapitupulu3740 Got it on 128K
=/ dude this is irl D=
@@familyyoutube5690 Nahh... It is Minecraft Raytracing, Shaders, ultra texturpack, early 5.16.2 acces, special exclusive edition for RTX 7080 TI owners
@@itznoliama1915 Its real life, not minecraft.
Even if the iron is not "good quality" - which I feel like it's utterly ridiculous to expect modern-day iron out of a first time effort using ancient techniques! - That is **amazing**! I am consistently impressed with how hard you work and how precise you are in your methods.
I certainly hope that more progress will be made - even if all you can get is a few very small metal items from this effort, it will be worth every back-breaking hour of labor!
Great video! I look forward to seeing more! Take care!
All iron is good quality
welcome to the Iron Age!!!
Hooray.
there will soon be an iron pickax, an iron ax, and a shovel
For those who don’t understand, this equation explain everything he did in the video:
FeO (the stones he collected in the begining) + C (charcoal) -(heat)->> Fe (iron) + CO (smoke)
That's definitely not FeO. FeO's only natural occurance is the 9% of Earth mantle.
Man. I really hope this works. If I am not mistaken, You´ll need more heat.
Really looking forward to updates.
Could one crush up the iron ore and pan it like gold? Would this reduce the amount of debris that is in the ore? Frankohero I always keep an eye out for your comments. They are awesome.
@William: Thank you very much :)
I know a bit about Bushcraft and building stuff - from a LONG time ago. But I don´t know enough about iron to say something qualified here.
"Primitive Life" seems to know what he is doing anyways. And I don´t know how he can produce the amount of heat I >think< is neccessary.
frankohero As far as I know it should be possible to even properly melt the iron. He would need to build a bigger furnace with thick walls for insulation and more height (2-3 m maybe), so that a more efficient heat-buildup is possible. Also there is the need for more oxygen to increase the temperature. For that he could use a simple wind blower which some other similar channels have done. But in general he does stuff properly and in the right way.
Air is what is needed. I used to forge a bit back in the day. I never used a coal forge only propane one. So from my experience I would think that one could make a crucible and build a furnace that has another opening up high to add in more coal or charcoal . Then some type of blower. I also think that more processing should be done for the ore.
After some google searches.... they would need to build a Cupola furnace and use quicklime.
What is this minecraft server
Shuu Haise exactly what I thought
How
I don’t play Minecraft
No plane shift, where else would we learn this?
GRIEF !!1one
great job.... i will always waiting u videos, nice.... 👍👍👍
why is this my favorite primitive channel?
You show us how all of modern technology started: with mud, sticks and stones. And it still is something that everyone should know how to do: building a hut!
Cảm ơn anh đã giúp em và mọi người tìm hiểu rõ hơn về cuộc sống. Chúc anh đạt được nhiều thành công. Cảm ơn anh rất nhiều ạ.
Thank you for helping me and others to learn more about life. Wishing you a lot of success. Thank you very much.
Once a primitive society perfects metal production that's it. There's no going back. You'll be on the moon before you know it.
you were on the right track to begin with - here is what you need to do.
1. you need forced air, and a lot of it. make a bellows or blower that you can operate comfortably for >4 hours.
2. you need to get that fire _hot_ - you were close to the temperature, but not quite there. you need to get hot enough that the slag will flow.
3. build your bloomery with no fire grate, no pit. build it on the ground level and make sure it is completely sealed all around, except for the top exhaust, and the intake tuyere.
4. get a good fire going, add iron oxide powder, add charcoal. continue to layer iron oxide powder and charcoal until you have used your entire supply of iron.
5. at some point you will need to tap the bottom of the bloomery - poke a hole with a stick into the bottom and let the hot slag drain out. this is not metal, this is liquid glass, for all intents and purposes. this is near 2000 degrees F, be careful.
6. keep the slag flowing. do not let your fire cool down, you are almost there. continue to add charcoal. it is hard to gauge, but once the slag has a good flow your iron bloom will be ready to remove and be forged into billet.
7. take your bloom and _gently_ hammer it to condense, weld, and drive out the slag/scale/cinder and junk. you need to keep the bloom hot, around 2200 F. repeat this until you have a homogeneous piece of iron.
you will need:
forced air
stone hammer
stone anvil (a BIG one - about as heavy as you can reasonably move, or relocate to one that is large.
safe and reliable tongs - wood tongs work, but make sure they are robust
trust me, you do not want to be dropping things that are over 2000 degrees onto your bare feet. practice extreme caution. i have been forging and playing with fire for some years - burns are not fun. i have never gotten any bad ones, i have always been pretty careful. a simple mistake can cost you a lot here. test your tools, get familiar with them, proof them, when you are confident that they can withstand the heat and the pressure, you will be ready to create a bloom. good luck, keep us posted.
he wouldn't need forced air with a 3-3.5 meter tall updraft furnace with thick walls and a large air intake pipe
i have done this but that furnace needs to be tall my first successful attempt was with a 3.2 m tall updraft furnace only got a bloom big enough to make a small knife but its possible
@@seanmcdonald4155 well sure if you want to build an enormous bloomery I don't doubt that will work, but by the time you build all that, you could have spent that time and material on a 1m furnace with forced air.
Really really impressive !! Wow ! You make my day !
Congratulations, I look forward for the next !!
You should make some bricks out of clay then firer them in a furnace then make those fired clay bricks into a furnace for the iron so it doesn't crack under the heat as easily
thanks his video good luck
You can find iron ore on top soil? I always assumed you had to dig quite a bit bellow surface level to find some.
you cant there is a lot of things wrong with this vid. there was nowhere near enough air getting forced into that forge to even come close to melting iron, and making the amount he did would have taken over a day in just burning alone to get. and it needs to be pulled out as soon as its melted to compact it or it wont be useful At all
Obviously iron is everywhere just use a magnet
@@MuddyTodler Its easier than you think because iron is everywhere. Trollbertofu is a troll and you can find iron anywhere and everywhere. You could just find some in a river with a magnet I'm sure
@@leightoncollins3704 Lot of things wrong with you making fun of the poor countries
@@damontragicville4536 who said I'm making fun of poor countries, I'm just pointing out that people make videos like this without really doing anything properly and editing it to make it seem like they did to get easy money
Wonderful man.
I like your tool. Your rake👍👍
You need a better air flow going through your bloom forge. You can make a basic fan bellows using wood and clay.
once you can get it hot enough you should be able to hammer, fold, hammer, fold, and keep doing that to drive out the impurities. After awhile you might have some workable iron to use there.
wow man you are the best channel of this kind no fancy anachronistic devices needed just a piece of wood and clay and you even made a bowl sorta so great job.
11:27 anyone else see the frog? 😂
Me
Very nice! Respect from ice cold Finland
please actually turn this project into actual production of metal tools and such! that would be super cool!
I REALLY LIKE THIS GUY HE IS SMART.
Oh look I just randomly found these iron deposits
You should cut a bit of the trees around the house and plant some grass around the stone paths it would look even more beautiful than it already is
I’ve seen every video and I look forward to your videos every day!! Keep it up! Hopefully u can get a better mic soon so we can hear more sounds of you doing things and less of the crickets and noise! THANK U!!’ have a good day
I came on this expecting a primitive technology rip of. But nah, this is as great.
Not bad at all. By color I would say the ore you found was some sort of limonite, which is one of the best iron ores out there. From results, I would say your fire was too cold and the ceramic bowl did not help - too many impurities in the resulting iron. If you intend to use a crucible, make sure you get a very clean clay, make the crucible then fire it empty in a kiln, to make it ceramic, then use it to smelt. I'm curious what's the next step and how you refine your skills, good luck !
NVM, you did it in 2nd stage, absolute excellent work ! Think you can have the iron wafer tested to see how much iron you got ? Also it would be a good idea to pound the wafer, when its still super hot, to drive out the remaining impurities and coagulate the metal.
nice progress, looks promising. make a bigger furnace
good job you got the iron iggots., always beware from the creeper btw.
I do not understand why there are dislikes, this is awesome!
Wow very impressive!!
I think you should do a much bigger and better furnace for higher temperature and make a some kind of bellows(for example what the guy from Primimitive Technology did),because you have much better fuel and metal source,but he can do much higher temperature because his furnace and its oxygen supply is better.
There's also a lot of unburnt charcoal left over, which makes me think the charcoal is not very good. Maybe there was too much air in the charcoal mound/pit when it was burning.
Ariel Czakó that's the annoying thing,he cannot even copy correctly.
Ariel Czakó yeaa i know what u mean boss, use blower right haha
Charcoal is the best fuel as coal dug from the ground contains too many impurities and thus is not feasible, using it may result in poor iron
More oxygen to more heat. Now have fun trying to figure out how to make some kind of bellows, would love to see what kind of design you would follow
Anyone who does this stuff is absolutely awesome!!!
From what country do you shoot your videos? It seems that you have all the minerals in the world.. 😁😁😁😁 thumbs up for this..
ancient celts made knives and swords out of iron and they were legendary at forging gold necklaces(torques) and bracelets and all manner of forging skills....still this guy is amazing building pools houses and whatnot with only his two hands.his pools are incredibly gorgeous.. but most impressive of all is the fact that he makes all things not by measuring but by eyeballing it...this guy is blessed!
This Minecraft graphical updated is looking good!
Lols
Finally a new video from primitive life.. You are absolutely my favorite on UA-cam.. Everything you do is flawless.. From your weapons you make to the huts and garden.. And the last videos you posted with the stone swimming pool was just amazing.. If there was a contest on this stuff, you would win no question.. It just blows my mind how far you have came since the beginning.. I have been watching your videos since day one and the way you have put together your work/campsite is excellent man.. Hands down my favorite on UA-cam.. Keep up the fantastic work and i cant wait to see what you do next man.. So take care and be safe Out there.. Cheers..
Not enough heat mate its bull shit.
@@shanewheeler713 This guy obviously has more experience with general tropical living. His bamboo and thatch crafts are top notch. His experiments with ceramics and pottery and metallurgy have more of an arc. He clearly has not cast iron yet.
I've been waiting for something like this for so long
Wonderful, this people should get award for saving old knowledge and following it on
You did a great job. Don't listen to the nay-sayers. You can still make something out of this simple iron. Can't wait to see what you decide to do with it!
Love the minecraft shaders
Since Iron is heavy... Could you grind up or smash the iron chunks and then make a gold pan and wash out the bad stuff? Then you would have more iron rather than a lot of slag?
Man one day he will open all of this as a resort and people WILL pay to stay there!Or to even just see the place
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Hi there. Finally, iron age )0)). I don't do forging by myself, but read a lot about it. Can i give some advice ?
1. More heat. Metall must glowing.
2. Control of the dose of charcoal in the metal. More coal - harder metal but brittle.
3. Use some kind of flux. In, ha-ha, primitive life you can use limestone. I do not sure about it, but guy named Cody's Lab use it to make metall from stone (magnetite - iron mineral) (of course he get a lot of slug, so i'm not sure. Don't know how to get thing named borax in primitive life )
4. Hammer and anvil. I think the first thing you need it's axe or other instrument for wood. It's your decide, you know wild life waay better.
Hope this will come in handy.
P.S. Sorry for bad english, it's not my native. Like your videos.
Make iron tools next
YAAAAS... he should make an lron picaxe then he should probably make a digger
Nice job
Do a water powered pneumatic blower for a foundry/crushing/cutting mill.. We have the technology. Bring on the age of bronze!
I watch these at 175 speed and it’s great! I love these vids!!!!
Good stuff man!
Personally, I think iron is overrated. It's hard to refine and work with and you need a shit load of coal.
Copper! That's what we started with...
I mean, copper's a lot easier to reduce the ore to metal and it's ductile, so you can work it with stone tools.
If you have copper, you can go straight to the electrical age! And do, like, lightning machines and shit...
huh a fair bit of available iron, could use some more air, I think, a tuyere, and blower of some kind. but that first batch gave you what looks like a few ounces of "enriched ore" that could be re smelted to give a better bloom. that's the best part about smelting, if there IS iron you can't "destroy" the stuff, each time you re smelt it you have the chance to drive off more impurities, and get a better bloom. Doing well, so far!
good job
Your videos are the highlight of my day... can't wait to see what's next... love your amazing works
Some grass fiber in that mud would prevent that cracking. The fiber may burn eventually as the walls heat up, but would hold long enough to allow the walls to dry without cracks.
Iron? Dude this guy is insane/amazing!
I really hope you get more than just slag. You need to make some kind of bellows though.
He needs a tall furnnace 3m high with thick walls and a 4 inch to 6 inch wide pipe about a foot long at the bottom just above the bloom door to create massive updraft air flow then he wont need to work a bellows for hours
Chúc anh và kênh của anh sớm đạt được nút vàng youtube ạ.
Wish him and his channel soon hit the gold button youtube.
Day3000: making anti lazer nukes to fight the necros
Maybe u create full bricks oven to do this? It will be awesome
Try finding a way to make your furnace hotter you will get better quality iron
Could probably create a bellows from palm leaves to press more air into your furnace to create more heat.
I think some of that is clinks, not a bad thing, often used to make fire proof cement. Often iron is toasted before you smelt it.
Very cool
Primitive Life 2 hello 🤗
hmmm. looks like the Iron has a lot of impurities, perhaps you could modify your design to go for something more like a japanese style bloomery. Though you would still need very high quality charcoal to pull off the refining.
All the same though. Fantastic job and im kinda starting to get jealous of where you get to live.
In other videos on primitive iron smelting, they roast the ore in a small fire before they put it in the furnace. I think that removes some of the impurities.
Gosh I love to watch this man work 😆
I am from Indonesia
I wonder if you can find enough to make tools
You’ll need a much taller stack and much more coal to get it hotter. You’ll need to drain the slag away to get a proper iron bloom
He advanced to Iron Age👍
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Where in this (supposed) South Pacific do you have long-needled PINE TREES ? Are we being bogussed ? Temperate climates or excessively high temperate mountain ranges have pines. I would be raking up and burning all those dead needles as fire tinder, let alone harvesting all the pine oil/tar for wound ointment etc, pine pitch, ...
As for getting iron, you just need enough heat of any iron oxide to oxidize off the impurities, and get slag. Then using charcoal, like a blacksmith and having a bellows unit for high airflow you can then melt the slag into iron drops. Then pound out the iron, and start working toward a high source of iron. Using a rocket stove with an excellent flue, will help in making the iron drops versus just slagging the raw ore powder.
MAN, that water looks clean!
That noise would drive me CRAZY!!!
Iron ore and coal in the ground?Stalin and Rákosi Mátyás triggered... 😍
Your video show Iron from that?
Oh, this civilisation doesn't not lived bronze age, but passed directly iron age! :D
3:28 when the clay doesnt do what you want so you spank it
Whatching this videos feels like playing minecraft in a hole different dimention
Create a bellow that you can use for a forge so that you can forge the metal into something useful. Big nice rock as an anvil
I hope you'll forge this chunk ! :D
You should do a few videos on making better tools.... rake, shovel, pick, hoe, mallot, knife... especially if you can find some good flint.
Use an iron blend to make stronger bricks, then make a blower to make a hotter kiln.
lol all good and well if you have lumps of iron ore sitting around in your back yard.
Primitive going to be Medieval :D
I have never seen these dudes actually make anything out of iron yet.
Next video: building a castle made of steel
amazing man i cant believe how smart and amazing you are you never seize to amaze me great job and keep it up
I have a question. Can you make a video were you show your hole place with everything you made so far ? that would be awesome :D
R4iZz I would like that too.
That would be a request not a question.
You, my friend, are simply amazing. I thoroughly enjoy all of your videos. You are very smart at all the things you create. I admire the fact that you do not use any modern tools or equipment. Genius!! 100% ingenuity on your part!
That's a pretty good start! You will certainly need more heat and better fuels. Fuels for metal working isn't just your coal/charcoal, but air as well. This is why blacksmiths in Europe and here in the US used bellows, for better air control/flow. You need fairly consistent, steady airflow, and not too strong or you blow ash into the metal. For better charcoal there are some smothering methods you can use where you bury wood in dirt and burn it slow, so it smolders. Takes some time, but you lose less carbon from the wood, which is the fuel part of charcoal.
I absolutely love this by the way. I'm a Journeyman blacksmith using traditional methods from England/Ireland. I did a study and wrote a paper on early metal workers and how it shaped most of early society back in my school days. One of the things that might help you get more metal, although it may not be iron, is if you can super heat some clay (or just while making new pots) once you get a hotter kiln. Early copper was found by a potter when he kept finding the slag in his kilns after firing. Another trick that can help you with some of this is when making a pot to hold metal in the furnace (known as a crucible) smash up old pottery fragments into dust and add to the clay mixture. This should give you pottery that is more heat tolerant.
For anyone interested, I don't have my full paper anymore (files are corrupted :( ) but I found one of my original sources (although it's been updated since I used it in 2002). www.naciente.com/essay88.htm
I like this
You may have better luck with wood charcoal than regular bitchumen coal due to high levels of sulfur in most naturally occuring coal. Additionally you'll want to create a two tier furnace that can hit higher temps, that way all the impurities and slag can flow out and you can get an iron bloom in the middle. But you definetly will need more heat for a good production run.
Man... I love this guy's videos
Make a whole kitchen with stove and sink and table
Good job ;)