• Making charcoal - Primitive technology
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[QUOTE=Aide;49775342]If he starts smelting ore I'm gonna lose my shit.[/QUOTE] It took mankind thousands upon thousands of years to rise up from the stone age into the bronze age... But this guy did it in just several months...
[QUOTE=Daniel Smith;49778217]It took mankind thousands upon thousands of years to rise up from the stone age into the bronze age... But this guy did it in just several months...[/QUOTE] Okay it's not like he had to figure it out for the first time so of course he could do it in several months Anyway, I hadn't seen this one before. Not sure if it was ever posted here or if I just missed it, but what an insanely useful tool. [media]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZEl-Y1NvBVI[/media] [editline]20th February 2016[/editline] Imagine if the world went to shit and humanity reverted to primitive technologies, and exchanging weird tools you made with people around you. Like the next Da Vinci :v:
This man [I]is[/I] Dwarf Fortress. [editline]20th February 2016[/editline] It also goes to show that they're not bullshitting when they tell you that ancient man was not dumb. Ancient man was incredibly intelligent. They just didn't have the millennia of recorded experience and infrastructure we have now.
[QUOTE=JohnnyMo1;49778344]This man [I]is[/I] Dwarf Fortress. [editline]20th February 2016[/editline] It also goes to show that they're not bullshitting when they tell you that ancient man was not dumb. Ancient man was incredibly intelligent. They just didn't have the millennia of recorded experience and infrastructure we have now.[/QUOTE] [url]http://vmashup.com/9nJLolPY[/url] :v: [editline]20th February 2016[/editline] It's so strangely fitting
Everytime I watch his videos I just want to get out an kill a bear for breakfest. Why does this make me hungry?
I wonder what ore he's going to use in N. Australia. Historically there hasn't been any evidence of metallurgy on the island so I'm wondering how he can get the resources for it.
[QUOTE=CabooseRvB;49778928]I wonder what ore he's going to use in N. Australia. Historically there hasn't been any evidence of metallurgy on the island so I'm wondering how he can get the resources for it.[/QUOTE] I saw him say somewhere (forget where), that he got a hold of some iron ore.
How did ancient people even get iron ore since strip mining wasn't really an option? Did they just have to get lucky and find a rock on the ground with iron ore and one of them had the idea to chuck it into the oven?
[QUOTE=Dr.C;49779716]How did ancient people even get iron ore since strip mining wasn't really an option? Did they just have to get lucky and find a rock on the ground with iron ore and one of them had the idea to chuck it into the oven?[/QUOTE] Aliens
[QUOTE=Dr.C;49779716]How did ancient people even get iron ore since strip mining wasn't really an option? Did they just have to get lucky and find a rock on the ground with iron ore and one of them had the idea to chuck it into the oven?[/QUOTE] Basically same way evolution works. Leave a bunch of organisms on a planet for thousands upon thousands of years, you're gonna end up having life's RNG letting some person discover something which would never really occur to you.
[QUOTE=Dr.C;49779716]How did ancient people even get iron ore since strip mining wasn't really an option? Did they just have to get lucky and find a rock on the ground with iron ore and one of them had the idea to chuck it into the oven?[/QUOTE] I'm certain surface ore deposits were very plentiful back then. From obsidian, someone realized how malleable iron was and how durable it could be, someone noticed a bunch of dirt clung to it and connected the dot on how water or fire could remove some of it and lo and behold.
[QUOTE=Dr.C;49779716]How did ancient people even get iron ore since strip mining wasn't really an option? Did they just have to get lucky and find a rock on the ground with iron ore and one of them had the idea to chuck it into the oven?[/QUOTE] Bog iron and meteoric iron would be the obvious answers as both of those occur on the surface. Another possibility is that early man noticed stranged red colored veins in certain areas and started to mess arounf with it.
it must feel so satisfying seeing results of your labour like this
[QUOTE=Kentz;49780777]it must feel so satisfying seeing results of your labour like this[/QUOTE] Pretty damn satisfying seeing the results of someone else's labour, to be honest.
This guy always makes me want to play Wurm.
[QUOTE=Dr.C;49779716]How did ancient people even get iron ore since strip mining wasn't really an option? Did they just have to get lucky and find a rock on the ground with iron ore and one of them had the idea to chuck it into the oven?[/QUOTE] It was easy to find ore back then, a lot of it was just lying on the ground or very close to it so no need for digging out a mountain or special finding equipment, it was pretty much all right there before them. Maybe someone found a random shiny rock and thought, "meh, a rock is a rock" and built a furnace out of it, and then it ended up melting into more shiny stuff, which was judged "pretty cool".
I can almost meditate to videos like this, incredibly satisfying and informative.
Yeah, I've always wondered why there aren't more of this kind of channel. Most of this stuff is just "I'm going to take my modern innawoods gear out to the backyard and be 'tribal' with my store bough flint and steel firestarter and industrial grade steel hatchet". I also like how there's no music, narration or much info at all. The technology is so primitive that the visual is all the explanation it needs, it literally speaks for itself. Pretty good choices all across the board. [sp]Also, the dude is hot af[/sp]
[QUOTE=H4ngman;49784629]... the visual is all the explanation it needs, it literally speaks for itself.[/QUOTE] To be honest a lot of videos do, it's just that many youtubers are so full of themselves.
These videos make me want to go out and try his techniques, it's a shame the trees/vegetation around here are totally unsuitable for anything this guy does
[QUOTE=Kylel999;49784786]These videos make me want to go out and try his techniques, it's a shame the trees/vegetation around here are totally unsuitable for anything this guy does[/QUOTE] I'd love to do this as well, but I'm pretty sure I can't just go to some forest in the UK and start chopping trees down, seems pretty illegal. It's why I wish I lived in America, you guys have huge forests and it's alright to just go and chop wood and camp properly. In the UK, we don't really have that luxury, unless you own a piece of land, or ask permission from a farmer who does.
[QUOTE=loopoo;49784919]I'd love to do this as well, but I'm pretty sure I can't just go to some forest in the UK and start chopping trees down, seems pretty illegal. It's why I wish I lived in America, you guys have huge forests and it's alright to just go and chop wood and camp properly. In the UK, we don't really have that luxury, unless you own a piece of land, or ask permission from a farmer who does.[/QUOTE] I don't know where you get this idea from but there is no "free land" here. If we want to go camping, at least here in New Jersey, we have to go to a state park. I'm sure out even in the mountains in Colorado you can't just go out into the forest and start cutting trees down. People do it, I'm sure, but I think it would be a fine or something if you were caught.
you can't really just go out and chop wood in America either, if you don't own the land. every inch of the country is owned by somebody, and wherever you want to camp you need to have a permit or pass and have to comply by rules that prohibit destruction of the grounds, such that if you want firewood, you have to find fallen branches and dead logs, and usually far away from your camp site so that people don't deplete the same spot of woods over time.
Yup. If the land isn't owned by somebody personally, the local government owns it. There's a big sandy opening in the middle of the woods near where I live that we call "The Pit", a lot of people go down there and drink/party/have bonfires/whatever but nearly every single time they do, the cops show up and shut it down because you're not supposed to be in there
I saw a video of how some African tribes still melt ore today, I wonder if I can find it. [editline]21st February 2016[/editline] Yep, starts around 5 minutes[media]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RuCnZClWwpQ&spfreload=10[/media] [editline]21st February 2016[/editline] Kiln at around 1:04
[QUOTE=Dr.C;49779716]How did ancient people even get iron ore since strip mining wasn't really an option? Did they just have to get lucky and find a rock on the ground with iron ore and one of them had the idea to chuck it into the oven?[/QUOTE] [t]https://s-media-cache-ak0.pinimg.com/736x/5d/fd/60/5dfd6064e8487cfa08b895bfe49d6175.jpg[/t] You can find tons of iron in marshlands, as well as just find it in random surface deposits. Not to mention most things contain some iron, so just smelt that fucker down and you'll probably get something(all though very crappy quality).
man watching this channel always makes me want another [B]proper[/B] survival game like lost in blue instead of FIND GUN IN 10 MINUTES OF SCAVANGING AND KILL ZOMBIES
[QUOTE=UberMunchkin;49784743]To be honest this channel is pretty dodgy, somehow he creates a pair of cargo shorts and a fully working digital camera from primitive materials but he's yet to invent the George Foreman grill :why:[/QUOTE] he should totally go hunting for some animals to skin, naked. then make clothes out of it well that or a leaf skirt
[QUOTE=uitham;49787052]he should totally go hunting for some animals to skin, naked. then make clothes out of it well that or a leaf skirt[/QUOTE] He mentioned hunting is illegal where he lives.
A year from now and he will have a video on how to create a large hadron collider.
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