Primitive Technology: Simplified blower and furnace experiments
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- Опубліковано 24 сер 2017
- Blower description
The purpose of this project was to test a simplified blower design connected to a furnace. I purposely did this to show that people in most natural environments should be able to replicate this design without difficulty. This blower differed from the previous one in several ways to simplify the construction method.
Firstly, the impellor was simply a stick as a rotor with a 40 cm wide rectangle of bark tied into a split in its end with a bark fibre cordage. A stone with a pit carved into it acted as a socket for the lower half of the rotor to spin in. If spun in the dirt the rotor can drill down and the position of the impellor can reach ground level causing the blades to bump into rocks and dirt. Later, I plastered the stone socket into the ground with mud to hold it securely in position (not shown in the video, just be aware of this solution if the socket shifts around too much).
Secondly, the housing for the blower was made in situ of ordinary mud (dirt and water on site). It was a bit more than 40 cm in internal diameter. The walls of the housing were solid mud and the roof was made of sticks covered with mud. An opening more than half the length of the impellor was left in the roof to remove the impellor for maintenance and to admit air into the blower during operation. In use, the portion of this opening near the front of the blower was covered with a tile. If left opened the blower still worked but covering it improved performance by preventing air escaping near the front. In places where water is not available, a housing shaped pit covered with sticks and dirt might work instead.
Finally, a simple length of cordage was used to drive the rotation of the impellor. This cord was placed in a notch carved into the top of the impellor rotor. The cord was wrapped around the rotor about 2.5 times. During operation the cords were pulled outwards causing the rotation. When fully unwound, the momentum of the impellor then wrapped the cord back around in the other direction. Then the cords were pulled outwards again causing the impellor to spin in the other direction. Note that this is a centrifugal blower with a symmetrical housing, therefore it doesn’t matter whether the fan spins one way or the other (clockwise or anti clockwise), the blower will always suck air in to its open top and force it into the furnace.
This design is easy to make and use. It can be made with minimal materials by unskilled people. The impellor design is simple yet effective. A stick, some bark and lashing of some sort should be available in most areas. The housing being made from mud, is easily sourced also. For the drive mechanism, I chose this method because the first blower I built had too many parts. There was a frame made of wood and vine to hold the rotor in place which kept causing issues with the rotor seizing or jumping out of the socket. Also, the bow that was used to drive the rotor added unnecessary complexity. In the new design, the simple cord in the notch of the rotor did away with the frame and the bow of the old design and the associated difficulties.
Furnace experiments
The blower was used to power a furnace attached to the front of it. Note that with minimal materials, the blower could simply force air into a hole in the base of the furnace and work satisfactorily. But I wanted to test a different configuration so I used clay grate from a previous kiln I made. Fuel in the form of wood and charcoal was used in this furnace by being placed on top of the grate instead of under it. During operation, the blower forced air up through the grate into the burning fuel bed increasing the rate of heat production relative to the use of natural draft (convection) alone.
I made 3 pots and fired them with charcoal. The first pot was painted with iron bacteria (iron oxide being the active ingredient). When fired, the oxide melted slightly showing minimal glazing. The clay became quite hard, possibly stoneware. The second pot was painted with wood ash and placed on a three sided clay plinth to hold the pot in the position of highest temperature in the fuel bed. The pot softened and sagged apart catastrophically. But the ash glaze gave a dark green smooth finish (difficult to see in the video). Finally, a pot was place upside down on the grate and a cylindrical brick made of iron bacteria, charcoal powder and wood ash was put on top of this. The brick melted over the pot, covering it in a viscous blob of slag rather than a thin glaze. On inspection, the slag had 1mm sized spheres of metallic iron in it. Some of these were picked out and stored in a pot. The reason for experiments like these to gain knowledge that might be of practical use in future projects that have not yet been determined.
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Lewis Yu 😂😂
What a boss this guy is, the prim guy
no cringe? ...have you read the comments section?
If you turn on the subtitles you can get explanations on what he's doing. Or you can turn it off.
This guy is gonna confuse the shit outta archaeologists in the future
Eric Wright Exclay my thoughts
Hahaha funniest comment ever!
+Eric Wright "Check this out! Ancient clay pottery!"
"How old is it?"
"Erm... About three weeks... wtf?"
Eric Wright lmao
Eric Wright so archeologists will question "how is it possible that a human being could recreate an ancient technology after several millenials?!"
The man that speaks no words but teachs a lifetime of skills
3 years lol
"what's left of it has a nice ash glaze"
nothing ever dampens your spirits does it sam?
If you have to chop down bamboo trees and pack things with mud everyday, kinda helps not to discourage easily i would think....
Those rain clouds might.
You took the words right out of my hands
Wait, Sam?
@@itzbeendakavgaming5632 LOTR reference
40 episodes from now:
"Primitive Technology: Quantum Computer"
Ahad Zeb well, I'm sure he could progress quickly, I don't think he has access to enough natural resources to do something like that, maybe next season.
Epsiode 174: Colonizing Mars
+Watermeloon1416, haha, it'd totally roast Elon's ass:)
ITS FUNNY BECAUSE HE DOESNT UPLOAD FREQUENTLY
Episode 1000:Going Back To The Past 1 Year
8:06. The first time I have ever heard a noise from this man. Spectacular
Dc29923 😂
Dc29923 he sure does say something under his breath there!
Dc29923 I
Dc29923 a
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Thank you for the long and wonderfully detailed descriptions, especially in this video. I had no idea wtf was going on lol. After reading though, this is super interesting! Thank you for all your hard work you put into every video, I really enjoy watching them!
This is basically the closest thing we've got to a Dr.Stone live action
I bet almost anything this is what Dr. Stone is based off of
@@valthiriansunstrider2540 agreed
I know right
old comment but one of the problems he seemed to have when trying to make iron is the poor quality ore. to not use excessive ammounts he might try panning to concentrate the heavier ore from the lighter silicates. when he tried to make iron he only got some small iron prills out of it.
I'm pretty sure Dr Stone is based off of this. Both are amazing though.
You know you're cool when you have 5 million subscribers without saying a word.
His subscriber base can keep going up, that's fine, but he better not ever say a single word!
you're
dodo 👍🏼
Charles Nasc ^^
Charles Nasc subtitles
2017: Simplified blower for furnace experiments
2032: Thriving colony entirely made out of clay, Part 2
2057: entire spae colony made out of glass thriving to extinction lol
CaptainNightvale 2218 primitive technology how to build a space ship part 1
Even the people are made of clay, he's so advanced he has created artificial mud men. Or, just a town full of Jewish gollums I guess.
Dishwasher Please You know what I noticed? The golems in minecraft have big ass noses.
Lol.
I could imagine someone coming across this and thinking "wow this must be 1000s of years old!"
metal age coming soon...
do you mean iron age or electric guitars?
Fuck I can't wait for him to get to 2018 and hit minecraft age lolz
This guy is basically bypassing bronze age..
Sado Plays i’d like to see him mine ore
watch him advance in technlogies beyond our current
He's about to advance to the Iron Age.
iForgot soon computers and a city
good thing I found you comment, I was about to write the same thing.
Primitive humans: What if we burn this yellow rock really hot
*Creates lead.
Primitive humans: This is cool.
*Mass production of lead
*sudden realisation
Primitive humans: Shit we hit the lead age
*Entire civilisation dies of lead poisoning.
"Do not wait to strike til the iron is hot, but make it hot by striking."
That lil nugget was probably just tin.
Next he'll probably strike copper and mix shit together for bronze.
Then comes the iron age.
But if indeed that was iron, then what the fuck
Oh edit; Also slag. tons of slag.
-Shirtless Australian
Class: Expert Ancient Survivor
LV:75
Strength: 50
Agility: 50
Intelligence: 100
Wisdom: 100
Endurance: 150
Luck: 50
Clay Sculpting: 5000
Newly acquired skill: Metallic ore processing
australian*
cool yet how long did it take for you to do that and what purpose does it serve
The flaming Bolt I really like RPG. Also it didn't take long.
ChauNyan make knifes and axe with this metal
Weaving: level over 9000
The bird noises are so calming
Ikr!
Daniel B you can see chicken
Welcome to Queensland guys anywhere not the city is this
Birds singing
Atherton tablelands the bird life kid amazing
I love how you show the failures anyway even if it takes longer than usual
Episode 1000:
This guy: So if you put this there you can have antimatter
Arzant Yt Bananas emit antimatter so he honestly probably could
and this is how you make a ftl warp core.
David Bella Actually hes from Australia
I remember a while ago people saying he would start to make weapons.
He's already started forgery, get your rifles this man is starting his own country from scratch.
*Congratulations you leveled up! You now have unlocked iron tools!*
Man I love this channel. Been following since day one. Love How you show the failures as well as successes .
Only just recently found ypur channel like maybe 4 days ago and i have binge watched all but maybe 2 videos. Its amazing to see how it started and watching it progress and i can't wait to see where and how you continue to develop the tools and contraptions you use!
If my life turns wrong and I become homeless, I want to live out in the woods with this guy. He seems like he knows what he doing.
morgan girardin
He said he has military training and knows most of this from internet, he surely knows what he's doing
Eridan 24 according to his UA-cam page so do sent he have any military training. That just makes this so much more impressive.
morgan girardin I hate seeing all the new fans comments.
Well he is not living continuously like this! So you are out of luck, he is doing these just as projects. If you are in danger of going homeless seek help from your friends, community, government. Don't do foolish things!
Maybe its a good time to put some money on BITCOINS!
Ash Westbrook Well you were once a new subscriber. So you cant say shit.
"I'm gonna confuse the shit out of future archeologists"
Lol
Luigi Marroquin kek
Thats funny but there are ways to date the material. Non absolute and absolute methods of dating haha but that comment was still hilarious.
robert jacobs thats the thing
Lol
Him as a kid:is playing minecraft
Mom:go play outside honey
Him:sure
*Never comes back*
Soon he’ll be making the flintmobile from “The Flintstones”. 🚗💨
You know this weekend is becoming great if Primitive Technology uploads!
Achievement unlocked: Accidentally refine iron.
He may just have accidentally recreated the birth of the Iron age!
Well it is very likely that metals were discovered making pottery, imagine using tin or lesser metal holding stones to build the kiln as a short cut (or simply to build a larger one) to not having to use that much mud/clay. Then it's entirely likely the metals that melt at lower temperature would just 'poor' out of the wall...
Doctor Wrecks unlocked - Level 1 refinery , weapons level 3 ,iron mine level 1
Doctor Wrecks that was definitively not accidental. He has been working on this for a while.
It’s my theory that this guy directly inspired Dr. Stone
This guy inspired a lot of copycats, and popularized the genre.
Im pretty sure Dr Stone was heavily inspired from Primitive Technology. Both are awesome though.
No you're wrong Dr. Stone was inspired by this guy.
@@geraldsajulga5791 you read the comment wrong he said exactly what you did
Wow I've been watching you for years I can't believe you're at 7 million subs, without talking or selling a product you are the best, congratulations!! I feel proud of you and I don't even know you personally!!
It just amazes me how hundreds of thousands of years ago some people had to literally discover and invent this stuff, and now thanks to this silent, shirtless and barefoot guy (sometimes with sandals) we can see everything from our home. Humans, hey!
You know it's a good day when primitive technology uploads
yes there is just a rank 4 Hurricane coming to drive thru in texas
Your profile picture looks like sth that i see in the toilet everyday
Eh filtration of the population isn't always the worst thing.
Mah Say very interesting that it has a face and the colour is strange I think you need to see a doctor
Upon seeing your stoves/ovens... The best one is the rocket stove type wherein you made the roof tiles.
It burns to high temperature; retains heat; can cook on it; can make potteries and metallic items (knife and chisel).
You didn't need to continually blow air to maintain high heat; it basically feed itself air... all you need to feed it is wood.
When I grow up, I can do whatever I want; I want to play with mud. And so, he followed his dreams.
he's finally moving on to iron guys
Simon Smith no he's not, read the description.
400 subs without videos white supremacist
It says he's just experimenting, but he has collected Iron pieces, so yes he can move to Iron if he wanted to.
I feel like I'm watching a very slow real life version of Minecraft. Just waiting for him to discover and smelt diamond so he can start blinging himself out
He will reach interstellar travel before us
He has over 5 Million Subs and has never spoken any words. He's a legend
This really reflects a rapidly advancing stone-age civilization. Whereas glaze experiments like this, in a more slowly advancing civilization, would involve more carefully crafted toolery, this uses much more quickly cobbled together tools to achieve a very similar effect. Truly impressive, this is developing very quickly.
8:00 *** drops it on his foot***. GOD DAMIT I'm going to have to make a foot now
**starts molding a foot out of sticks and mud**
Wkey Riftyzz language
Lol
Bold of you to assume even THAT would make him speak lol
Rhys Maidla 2 years later😂😂😂😂😂
Pro tip:
If you put pieces of straw to your clay it will leave air hole that will allow clay to expand uppon heat.
Like so he can see.
Altho... i dont know if you'll need it since you will progress to industrial age in next 5 episode's
Paweł Andonis Gawralidis Dobrzański herbu Leliwa.
Through clay you mean?
Hes on Hardcore
He already reached the iron age.
Great work! I love how you have done started to develop glazes for your pots. Just a tip from a potter, if you want to make your clay high fire you could try to find some quarts rock and crush it and add it to the clay. This would increase the silica content (Silica has a very high melting point) so it could keep your pottery from melting at stoneware temperatures. :)
This helped my bushcraft setup
seems notable
notated !! I have plenty of clear and white quartz . Also have a high amount of grey clay. I plan on making my own concrete. Just am lazy and purchased bags of limestone tho. lol
The craftsmanship on this Channel is outstanding...
This man make mud better than anyone I have ever seen in my life.
I always forget about the subtitles and then watch the video again.
AgentMCCityDE What, subtitles? I didn't that! Lol
AgentMCCityDE i did not knew these videos have subtitles xd! thanls lol
Lol, I thought I was the only one who watched it twice. What got me was when he was picking the little beads, like wtf is he doing. Lol
Oh my fucking god I actually never knew the vids had subtitles!!!
AgentMCCityDE OMG i need to watch every video again
To everyone who does not know... Turn on your captions!
Ethan just tried it thanx
Ethan holy shite dear person you are wonderful, many thanks.
Thanks bro I didn't know .really appreaciate
you changed my perspective of reality, thanxs!
Thanks, wish known many videos ago. thanks.
انا ترعرعت وعشت في اجواء مشابها
هذه الحياة تجمع بين البساطه والراحه
حياة تحكمها التقاليد فقط كل شيء فيها جميل 😍😍 اشتاق لتلك الأيام
Exactly!
What
ولله شكل كانت حياتك فلله حياة والله جميله ❤
Anyone think this should be a lesson in school about actual survival skills? Not fricking algebra. This is important! I've learnt so much from his videos.
When primitive tech uploads it's a special day
Scrapes off a bead of iron.
And so it begins.
In the next episode: a sligshot that projects little iron balls.
I wish you good fortune in the wars to come
So this guy is the living evolution
In the next episode: A 12-gauge shotgun feat. bird shot
Collab with the Slingshot Channel?
Just a thought make your blower water powered for more production and less energy on your part.you sir are a true woodsman
This man is the best minecrafter I’ve ever known
Hard to imagine this guy sitting in a modern house using modern technology to edit and post this
I was thinking the same thing. He probably is only out in the woods on the weekends. I would love to meet this guy one day.
LOL sits in an office 5 days a week.
Nah he just fashions his own computer and isp out of some vines, sticks, various plant resins, a few clumps of mud, and some bird feathers found lying nearby.
100,000 Subs Without Videos he have a house yes... but made of mud. He craft hes own internet only using sticks, mud and sandals
Imagine the camera on site he's filming with
Dude about to enter the Iron age
he's superior
dude bout to enter the ice age
We're all about to entire the ice age.
winter is coming!
Anybody reading Dr. Stone? Got those vibes with the forge and immediately thought iron age 😂
Even more efficient! Awesome work!
This is the best video yet. Love to see you try and adapt
I'm a simple guy, I see primitive technology upload a video I press like.
the glaze on the destroyed middle pot at the end is my favourite. you got some serious heat going there.. nice job!
The second pot was hilarious! The man can tell a joke without words
Unbelivevable! You are the David Attenborough of the wilderness!
you know its a good day when primitive technology uploads a video.
Primitive Technology in all honestly produces the very best videos on all of UA-cam. Like if you agree.
His videos are one of the best yes i agree. This channel and Kurzgesagt are my favourites.
And Tales from a Shipwright, they just started a new series today
Chainsaw
Only in the educational section.
James Bone o
I don't know why but his videos calms me.
I'd love to see that ancient iron process! Maybe even some simple casting? You'd have some lovely tools out there with you when finished.
Turn on captions, he's been speaking to us this whole time
BGK -K I'm going to have to re-watch all his videos again now lol.
BGK -K The Captions seem like Caeser speaking to me... Lol...
BGK -K I'm woke asf
Hahahha hah 😂😂😂😂😭😭😭
I feel like i missed so much.
This is hillarios while he's doing all the hard work I'm laying on my bed like a big fat cow
And I got candy!
08/30/17 12:35 PM EDT
Getting fatter :P
1 im the 100th like and im eating two chocolate chip waffles in my bed
No worries...I'm gorging myself on Chinese food while watching him work.
Could you note the time of your important completions in captions or description, please? (I’d want to know how much time it took to have such results of your experiments)
самая неожиданная встреча 2018
А ви теж збираєтесь тікати в село?
Чета на англизком шпарит
Топ 10 аниме предательств
то чувство что ты не ожидал встретить Слидана тут :D
Those tiny iron specks are the future. :)
Probably the only man who would have survived without technology and tools such as a knife
If I'm ever stranded on an island I need this guy with me.
and the crazy russian hacker
Ethan Zheng what that nigga gonna do, show u kitchen gadget hacks?
Hrbeveve Bdbegege Safety is the number one priority
nah just bring the tarradarrabros with you
Captain Koopa or you could learn this yourself, like I did...
ill never get tired of seeing this ozy make stuff
It's the first video of yours that i watch and you do an awesome job... The very beauty about this video is the incredible sounds that sorrounding you, the sing of the birds are very beautiful... Every people must do something good to take care of our planet and our nature.
Sorry for my English
In case you other people didn't know, this is how most Australians live
Nah, we get some news about Australian politician over here in the Netherlands, they make me very sure they are even more primitive ... this guy is likely millennia ahead of regular Australians.
As an Australian I can confirm this is true.
Yep, right now i'm on my MasterCraft iron, obsidian and gold PC runs like thos American computers that are like 10 thousand dollies
We ride kangaroos everywhere
its time to STOP
I know its gunna be a good day when a new primitive tech comes out
Crazy how far your iron skills have come since this
One year from now he takes on the naked and afraid challenge, they come to get him after the 21 days and he has built a hotel and casino.
So many youtubers doing trash videos with fake drama and diss tracks, this right here is what youtube should be about, quality content that you can tell has effort put into it, awesome video as always!
Gillio it's every day bro!!
Turn on the captions.he explains what he's doing
Naomi Franco thank
Naomi Franco dude cmon... Now I gotta watch the whole thing again
TheBitBrine same
TheBitBrine lol you gotta watch all his videos again
tHExPeRiMEnTALphIX lol thats what im about to do
Tries to paint his pottery, accidentially invents art with primitive technology.
I can imagine myself using this after an apocalypse.
watched once, read comments watched again with captions, never got bored
Honestly he deserves the 5.2 million subs that he has.
Admiro su creatividad y su superviviencia. 😊
well, you could go for the iron bar way like form a rectangle shape, usually the people making iron usually break away the clay.
Your tricep extension workout machine is on fire dude.
Omg Metal Ore Processing! WE HAVE ADVANCED TO THE NEXT EPOCH!
He smelted metal before this. You're out of the loop.
Joel Hohenstein do you remember the name of that video?
EZEIPAM IIRC it was his last forge blower one
I like seeing the mistakes. They are part of the learning process and valuable to the greater knowledge
So many saying, "I'll recruit him for my bug-out team." Hilarious. Why the heck does he need You..? 🤣 or your team? There is a reason he is alone in the bush, folks. Far better to learn what he is generously sharing here, and apply it. Just a thought. 😁
He needs some gofers to run the blower and gather firewood and all that other mundane stuff, so he can just carry on being a genius.
Primitive Technology almost geting into iron age, keep up guys want to see you steampowered by 2020 :)
lol
2020
@@wolfenx3686 2021
Hes getting there
@@vampirecount3880 oh yess
give it 3 years and he'll reach space technology
In three years he will only reach the Bronze Age
Its everyday Bro you must be fun at parties
His goal was never to progress. He merely creates and showcases primitive technologies. He has no need to "reach" technologies of further ages, and those are not his specialty.
sebashtun dakeng naw 3 years and he's using a computer
Or at least catch up to Alec Steele. alecsteeleblacksmith.com/
Slag was apparently crushed into powder and used as a glaze on ancient ceramics. Maybe give that a try next time you're experimenting with pottery.
He's actually using ash & carbon as a glaze matrix for the yellow clay (which is where the metals are) he's essentially making a form of primitive art clay...Amazing stuff!!
Why are these videos so fascinating to watch
Dude watch out from the weird old man walking in the forest yelling "WOLOLO"
Baba Bonzio link plz
walking "in" the forest tho?
death to nazi scum
Baba Bonzio but they can't walk through forests, luckily you have your onagers to tear through it
4th installment + remasters HYPE
cant wait for him to advance to the iron age!
He just started it
soon he will be doing knives and swords :)
He was using iron bacteria.. does that count?
Edit: Just finished the video. He actually made iron!! That definitely counts.
did you see those little specs jesu christi how did we ever make into that age. btw has he made any bronze stuff? i dont recall. is he skipping a whole age?
kurumais tis tin my friend. Tin and copper make the bronze age begin
That is why we, human race, conquered the world... You are amazing man.
Me encanta ver tus videos mil gracias por compartir esta valiosa información
It's interesting to see what it took to achieve iron back then. This is why I love watching your videos.
Might be interesting to see variation of the blower that could be powered by a water wheel at the creek, allowing it to have a more consistent flow of air and allowing you to fire pieces without having to be spinning the blower yourself the entire time.
Great video as always :)
Thanks.
I had the same thought initially, but that would be quite the mammoth undertaking. Just getting the framework up and stable would be work enough, he'd presumably have to use wood to fashion the cogs/gears, which I suspect with his primitive tools would take many days for a single cog.
Give him time :)
Or just make a handcrank so he can fan continuously instead of in puffs
Cogs and gears would be no more effective than a pulley system, which I think would be a lot easier to build and repair.
I was thinking more along the lines of a direct drive from a paddle wheel to the blower fan, which would require no gears or pulleys or anything fancy. I'm sure it would be tricky to do, but I highly doubt it's beyond his abilities with what he has to work with.
This was so awesome. Just entered the iron age!
I just love this guys channel. What a great concept. Everyone's saying something. I'll say nothing (except captions). Brilliant!
This man writing a whole essay for his discription and i struggle to write 2 sentences.
Den ise I can see you're also struggling with your spelling.
2 Legit
You probably high watching this vid ain't you you naughty boy.
Den ise OMG man
you know you can put on CC and get a lot of the information from the video itself, right?
It's always a great day when primitive technology uploads a video
Esse cara, sozinho, pode , do nada, construir uma nova civilização em algum lugar esquecido do planeta.