i wonder how coarse his hands must be from all this work
That is incredibly impressive
what a legend
100 days, not including making the tools.
This is a pretty neat hobby.
I don't know why I'm so impressed about his knowledge of dirt, but I am.
Clay is such a robust building tool holy shit.
It made the pottery, the kiln, the tiles, the walls, the chimney, the heated bed, and the mortar-- I have a new-found respect for mud huts.
There's something really relaxing about this guy's videos
It's almost hypnotic, watching him go through the steps of quite literally building this stuff from the ground up with no other sound but the woods and the working
This guys videos are my favirote
Literally Rust irl
But damn, I just kept thinking how if this was hundreds or thousands of years ago, someone with his skills would be like the village elder or something. It was pretty cool to think how a little community would have people specialised in each aspect of building: you'd have the guy who just constantly churns out clay tiles in his kiln, or fire-hardens a potters items, then you'd have a lumberjack just chopping wood all day, and then guys who were skilled at actually putting all the different aspects he used in the video to use to build a house.
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Seems like a really peaceful way to live life if I'm being honest.
[QUOTE=loopoo;48618222]Literally Rust irl
But damn, I just kept thinking how if this was hundreds or thousands of years ago, someone with his skills would be like the village elder or something. It was pretty cool to think how a little community would have people specialised in each aspect of building: you'd have the guy who just constantly churns out clay tiles in his kiln, or fire-hardens a potters items, then you'd have a lumberjack just chopping wood all day, and then guys who were skilled at actually putting all the different aspects he used in the video to use to build a house.
[editline]5th September 2015[/editline]
Seems like a really peaceful way to live life if I'm being honest.[/QUOTE]
until god smites ur village with plague
Has anyone talked about how he shoots everything and the way he edits, so great.
I like this guy's videos because it's 14 minutes of content, not 6 minutes of introduction and unrelated bullshit, 2 minutes of content, and another 6 minutes of conclusion and unrelated bullshit.
[QUOTE=Headhumpy;48618520]I like this guy's videos because it's 14 minutes of content, not 6 minutes of introduction and unrelated bullshit, 2 minutes of content, and another 6 minutes of conclusion and unrelated bullshit.[/QUOTE]
The camera work speaks for itself, he doesn't need to add "filler" with commentary
[I]"I am making tiles"
"Yes, we can see that"[/i]
it's primitive editing too
I somehow felt a sense of satisfaction when he showed the shot of the finished hut, despite me sitting on my ass the whole way through.
[QUOTE=angelangel;48617560]i wonder how coarse his hands must be from all this work[/QUOTE]
Sorta small note from someone who has done similar before: When you are working with clay, it acts as a natural balm for your hands, and if that doesn't work fully whenever you start persay working on animal hides with the oldschool method of eggs and brains, it'll really make your hands and skin feel nice rather quickly.
[QUOTE=angelangel;48617560]i wonder how coarse his hands must be from all this work[/QUOTE]
Considering all the clay and fine grained mud he works with his hands are probably INCREDIBLY smooth.
[editline]5th September 2015[/editline]
Ninjas
His videos really underscore how much of an impediment food gathering was for human technological development. This hut would require a huge initial time investment, but would probably hold up much longer than one covered with leaves. That huge initial time investment would be almost impossible to overcome in a hunter-gatherer society (not to mention they'd have to get the idea as well).
[QUOTE=GoDong-DK;48619652]His videos really underscore how much of an impediment food gathering was for human technological development. This hut would require a huge initial time investment, but would probably hold up much longer than one covered with leaves. That huge initial time investment would be almost impossible to overcome in a hunter-gatherer society (not to mention they'd have to get the idea as well).[/QUOTE]Why so? Huts could be built by children while taught by elders. There's nothing that a child under guidance couldn't do here for the most part. Not everyone in a tribe is out hunting/gathering all day. Someone needs to stay and protect the weak, look over stuff and so on. These people could be building while nothing is going on.
He literally made a heated bed. I also like this guy from an historical stand point because he is actually showing us how people thousands of years ago would have maybe built their homes and tools. I would however like a time table on how long it took to make the house.
[QUOTE=Dbot;48619795]He literally made a heated bed.[/QUOTE]
That's what impresses me the most. By the standards of your average lost-in-the-woods-but-know-a-few-survival-tricks, this guy lives in [i]luxury[/i]. And he made it himself.
Also notice how pretty much every part of his huts becomes more advanced with every video. First it was just twigs and leaves and some mud, now he uses actual carpentry, forms clay into all sorts of useful and somewhat precise shapes, and has a [i]heated bed[/i].
There be [i]science[/i] in this.
I crave more videos of this nature (no pun intended). Does anyone know about anything that's remotely as relaxing and interesting as this? I have watched all of his videos and I crave more!!
[QUOTE=Dbot;48619795]He literally made a heated bed. I also like this guy from an historical stand point because he is actually showing us how people thousands of years ago would have maybe built their homes and tools. I would however like a time table on how long it took to make the house.[/QUOTE]
there is one, on his blog
[url]https://primitivetechnology.wordpress.com/2015/09/05/building-a-hut-with-a-kiln-fired-tiled-roof-underfloor-heating-and-mud-pile-walls/[/url]
[QUOTE=Naught;48619976]there is one, on his blog
[url]https://primitivetechnology.wordpress.com/2015/09/05/building-a-hut-with-a-kiln-fired-tiled-roof-underfloor-heating-and-mud-pile-walls/[/url][/QUOTE]
[quote]Some days the wind blew into the kiln and raised the temperature to the point where the some tiles started to soften and sag with some minerals beginning to melt out of them. These tiles were like stone in hardness.[/quote]
I'm imaging this guys land and all I picture is a house surrounded by huts. I wonder if he keeps the ones he builds up until they just naturally decay or if he tries to maintain them.
[QUOTE=loopoo;48618222]Literally Rust irl
But damn, I just kept thinking how if this was hundreds or thousands of years ago, someone with his skills would be like the village elder or something. It was pretty cool to think how a little community would have people specialised in each aspect of building: you'd have the guy who just constantly churns out clay tiles in his kiln, or fire-hardens a potters items, then you'd have a lumberjack just chopping wood all day, and then guys who were skilled at actually putting all the different aspects he used in the video to use to build a house.
[editline]5th September 2015[/editline]
Seems like a really peaceful way to live life if I'm being honest.[/QUOTE]
These darn new-age kids and their 'I was born in the wrong age of humanity' shit!
I wanna see how dry it stay inside when it rains
[QUOTE=Killuah;48620631]Some days the wind blew into the kiln and raised the temperature to the point where the some tiles started to soften and sag with some minerals beginning to melt out of them. These tiles were like stone in hardness.[/QUOTE]
so you could make a channel of air to funnel the wind into a small point and have the furnace become more powerful.
[QUOTE=Dbot;48619795]He literally made a heated bed. I also like this guy from an historical stand point because he is actually showing us how people thousands of years ago would have maybe built their homes and tools. I would however like a time table on how long it took to make the house.[/QUOTE]
Heated floors is actually an ancient Korean thing. Massive fires would be lit under raised stone floors in order to heat a room.
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