You've probably seen walls like this in different countries, where the tops are covered with roof tiles it's to keep the water off. I'll keep building till it's tall enough to put a roof on. It should make a good experimental 2 gable end wall structure. Thanks for watching.
Great video! I love to see the little efficiency improvements you make between videos, like making a bunch of clay cubes to then turn into tiles. Also, any guesses on what minerals melted out of the tiles/bricks from the kiln?
It really does seem like it points to that direction. Perhaps the first people to discover metallurgy were also the ones who collected various knick-knacks for personal reason, with those prills being one of them?
Wow, thank god we got people like you who are WELL OVER THE AVERAGE to tell us about this... it's some arcane few people in the know kind of knowledge......
i love those little personal touches in the last few videoes, from joes crematorium to the little vlog of the lizards and random animals that came by in the last one
According to legend, someone accused him of using a lighter once, and ever since then he's always included the full shot of him making fire the way our ancestors did.
I think it's also a great reminder of the principle "Practice practice practice." He averages around 90 seconds from cold sticks to flame. Anyone who can't match that zen repetative mastery can pretty much stfu. Most people can't get a fire started that fast WITH a lighter. At one point he made a cord-pump-drill firestarting rig on the notion that it might save wear on his hands, but he found that it took too long to get out, set up, and run it compared to just twirling the right stick the basic "old fashioned" way.
@@Louzahsol everyone has a sound like that. i know a guy that cant stand the sound of styrofoam rubbing against itself. i for my part cant handle a wirebrush on a thin piece of metal.
@@Heroo01That, and also, by now he has to have like lvl88 skill at making friction fire. I'd actually like to see him make a firestick and board, just to observe how someone with a ahitload of experience does it.
Amazing things can be achieved using simple tools and available resources but it never ceases to astound me how labor, time, and fuel intensive these methods are. This is a life of constant toil, and development of these techniques would have to come at the expense of time spent gathering food. Every scrap of knowledge that could be identified and passed down was a monumental achievement and advantage, but now it's difficult to appreciate the value of this knowledge because we don't use it as much anymore.
The fact you aren't a sponsor ridden channel when you could make 200k a month if you did. MAN I can't even express my respect for you. I'm stuck at this point, desperate to express the magnitude of my emotion about my respect for you. I wish I had the words man.
People don't realize how much work this is in one video. I tried building a mud hut a few years ago, i got to about half a foot high on my walls and ended the project. And forming bricks and tiles? Insane amounts of time and energy.
I know he's getting to be more efficient but I'm interested in how long it took to make that many tiles and bricks. Especially having to walk back and forth from the warehouse to the water pit etc. Must be a full day of work
@@anonony9081 as someone who made a few mud bricks and clay bricks whitout a mold if you have the materials ready and all very nicely watered down it takes 2 minutes to make a not carricature brick as the MAXIMUM , if you have the mold its easy and actualy good bricks , the hardest thing is digging especialy if you dont have a Fire hard pointy stick ---- a pointy stick makes it alot fasta
@@anonony9081It looks like each batch of tiles and bricks is a day of work with all the prep and cleanup. I bet he could do a couple more batches a day if he was doing it all day and had multiple kilns and didn’t have to film, but that’d take the fun out of it. I bet he’s also working on the mud walls at the same time he’s doing more batches, so that’s quite efficient anyway.
@@jacobjuenger4454 Australia, so it would be bunyips, yowies, drop bears or maybe even bilbies taking them. If he's leaving burning embers in them, then it could be one of the fire raptors too, they steal fire to use in hunting
Hey - I've made cob walls before - mud with a binder, like straw or animal hair. If you do this again, you might want to 'key' each layer after it's finished, or it's surprisingly easy for them to come unbound and slip across one another. Just grab a blunt stick or stone and jab a load of dimples in each layer after it's done, then push the bottom of the next course firmly into those.
A nod to the OP for making cob walls as they are a lot of work and using cob in PT's structure might add even more work as he'd need to chop a lot of straw with primitive tools, but the wall would be stronger; cob is incredibly strong if the layers are keyed or "sewn" into one another properly and never soaked through with water. The straw adds volume and make the clay and sand go a bit further, but requires the production of *lots* of short straw or the acquisition of lots of cow patties that stink once wetted ;). Silt should be avoided as much as possible, though this doesn't seem to be a problem where this series is located; lots of silt where I live. Cob was traditionally built like in the video with just a few layers at a time so that lower ones would dry instead of being pressed or bent. His "stomping" pit is exactly how you would make cob, though.
A minute and a half. This man has gotten the fire by friction technique down so well, it's beyond impressive. For context: I'm counting from when he first started rubbing (3:26) to when the first flame jumped up from the tinder pile (5:02)
My late husband was a fire aficionado and when I first found this channel, I showed him the video and said, "Watch this guy make a fire." And in the first few seconds, he scoffed, saying he could start a fire with friction; it was no big deal. But I said, "Keep watching." And at the end, he was really impressed by how fast John could start a fire.
As I lay in my hospital bed recuperating from heart surgery, these videos or hypnotic. As a former big game and wilderness guide in Montana, I greatly appreciate the amount of work that this man is putting in to his craft. The skills that he is displaying our basically a lost art in many cultures. Things go south on an ocean cruise. I hope he is in the lifeboat next to me.
bear in mind that as soon as the occupational therapist (*not* the physical therapist) says you can go home, you go home. they sent me home after i demonstrated that i could go up and down a few stairs unassisted. the fact that i couldn't get out of or into bed without assistance didn't matter! so yeah, i got sent home to care for myself, by myself, a few days after a triple bypass. it sucked SO hard. be careful and good luck!
It can definitely be imitated (the point of the channel is literally to be imitated since these are technically tutorials), but it takes an immense amount of effort that not very many seem to be able to invest.
3:26 - starting fire 3:58 - firestick snapping 5:02 - fire starting one of the only ones that still posts the entire process to this day, please continue doing so! great content as always 👏👏
Building mud walls and roofing tiles to withstand the rain is so creative! The combination of a solid foundation and a protective layer of tiles is a great solution for humid climates. It is impressive to see the effort involved in each step from firing the tiles, digging the foundations to building the walls in thick layers of mud! Thank you for sharing this completely primitive construction method.👏👏👏👏
This is still done today, in many parts of the world. If you'd like to know more about primitive construction, I recommend the book "Barefoot Architect" by Johan van Lengen.
How to watch PT videos for the first time, twice: 1. Watch without captions and try to figure out what's going on just by his actions 2. Watch with captions to get his perspective
@@krzysztofmazurkiewicz5270 3. There's always that one comment who figured it out just now by another comment, doesn't matter if we're talking years ago or today :D
Did the spare bowl confuse you the first time you watched? Before the cc explained it i couldn't figure out its purpose in the kiln. Lo and behold, there was none.
I'm impressed at his logistical ability. Even though he's working with only the objects in his surroundings, he has a setup where he can achieve a pretty basic system for mass production. Making things in bulk is one of the best ways to cut costs, in terms of material loss during the process, the amount of fuel/energy used, physical fatigue and the amount of time it takes between batches. Additionally, the time between steps in individual batches can be efficiently used by preforming another step in the process while, for example, one batch of tiles is drying. Furthermore, the 'waste' products of the firing process can also be used for other manufacturing processes. Everything has a use, therefore; there is no waste. Paleo-Industry, I guess the term could be coined as. Not only entertaining, but it offers a bit of a scientific anecdote about how humanity progressed in our disciplines and trades. It was all built upon something, iteration upon iteration. His dedication is noble.
Loved the episode, it had so much unexpected things - bent tile, broken firing stick, crematorium joke, the suddenpans to the side to show how close some things are to each other, the cute bowl making, mysterious shadow at 12:45, it was all super fun to see!
Imagine if this was an ARG the whole time and it just starts getting really fucking scary out of nowhere next video... Like he's just working as normal, shaping bricks, starting fires the old fashioned way, etc., but then out of nowhere there's a shot of him working during what looks like a solar eclipse and the trees are swaying as if there's a strong breeze, but there's no sound besides his breathing and the frantic rustling of him trying to start a fire quickly.
a video I would love to see you make is just a little tour of the area, just walk through and show all your structures and work spaces in relation to each other
In the earth-mounted walls I've seen in Brittany, they used to put fibers, mainly heather, between each layer of earth. This reinforced the wall and made it more resistant.
That's kind of like what mechanically-stabilized earth is today where they sandwich dirt between layers of strong plastic so that it can withstand a lot of weight. I doubt heather grows in Australia though.
I always save up a few since I usually play other videos in the background while playing EVE or Fallout. RUclips must think I'm interested but not interested at the same time.
While possible, it would take so much work even for a small one those things are quite complicated even with modern tools much less alone with sticks and stone axes,
As unpopular as it is to say, I feel sorry for his competitors. They probably assumed he was rich or cheated like they did. Then they found out he was very committed by how angry the Internet got towards them for their fake videos. I'm sure some of the guys really admired him and wanted to be like him but money took over and other people wanted to make their channels fancier and now we have hundreds of videos of underground pools with suspicious tool marks.
In the years of watching this channel, although he’s tried to keep it focused on the content and not him, little moments of personality/ humor shine through. This video had the multiple moments, between the stick snapping while make a fire or frying those flies that had me chuckling more than most stand up comics. Always excited for each upload!
Proper firing just means that the tiles/bricks won't dissolve from water, the water test is to check for cracks. You can see at around 6:50 the broken bricks and tiles.
That's literally that came to my mind, even paused at 8:09 to tell friends who also been watching him, and I saw this comment. I love that over the years of watching him you can see how jacked and swole he got over the years of doing all this work for his videos.
In my headcanon those sticks have been the same and with us for years and many videos. Them breaking is a huge event in the Primitive Technology timeline.
Well Tube Log and Tile Mold have been there since the beginning. Not sure about Measuring Stick or Fire Stick, though, but I agree it does feel like they've always been there.
It's incredible that he can light fires as quickly as he does in this manner. By now we've seen him light them enough times that we could just assume that's how he lights fires, but he consistently shows the full process in every video that involves fire... which is most of them... and I respect that. I look forward to seeing what this building turns into. The drainage foundation is a really neat concept.
Every year or so, you pop into my head, and I wonder if you're still making videos - and you always are. You're like a constant in my life, and watching your videos always takes me back to a simpler time with fewer worries. Thank you so much for what you've done and continue to do.
The two mud walls were built without a deep base under ground, which might allow strong winds to flip them down when they are high. It might be a good idea to deeply plant several wood poles in the middle of a wall to support it.
You'd have to build a rain water dam. Have a drain around a roofed structure that collects the water and sends it to the dam. The mud excavated from the dam could form the walls. Thanks.
@@primitivetechnology9550, thank you for the reply. With almost 11M viewers, I'm amazed you even saw it. I look forward to every video you put out. I learn SO much.
I learned this summer that ‘horse flys’ (March Flys) have a natural predator that they mortally avoid: Dragon Flies! This was discovered by a North Canadian naturalist that manufactures and sells the “Dragon Fly Wingman”. I was skeptical of the flimsy plastic dragon fly look-a-like, but after spending three weeks in the bush wearing one on me and a few around my campsite the horse flys/march flys stayed well away! Amazing and non-lethal.
So much labor! Been watching your videos for years. Love them. You put as much into the video production as you do the primitive technologies. Thank you. 🏆
John, that's a very impressive amount of work done in this video. I have watched every one of your videos and I am always glad to see you've posted another. Very informative and thought provoking content. Thank you.
I can watch all the videos over and over again.That man, for me is perfect.Putting aside his great knowledge he is beautiful.I am completely dumbfounded
I can imagine some archeologist 500 years from now discovering your site. He'd come up with a theory that a one man, uncontacted tribe lived in the area.
Have you ever thought about learning to knap stone tools? It was a vital primitive technology around the world and is significantly less work intensive than what goes into smelting iron (not that isn't fascinating, of course). Your content is yours, so keep up the amazing work, I only mention it because it could give you some ideas for new projects.
@@jacehardin7828 The axes weren't knapped with a technique that would leave a sharp edge by itself, it was only to give it a rough shape and then grind it down. Still useful for tools made out of regular stones but that technique is useless for flint since it's about twice as hard as most other stones.
I'm guessing he has no source of flint to knap, otherwise he would have done it. I pains me to watch him chop a tree with that blunt axe he uses. He is blessed with an abundance of trees, water, clay, and a warm climate. Other places would be more challenging.
@eduardobarreto5555 yeah but most axes aren't supposed to be razor sharp and his worked for what he was using them for so im guessing he didn't think it was needed
Most of Australia doesn't have good sources of flint, chirt or obsidian. Most common rock hard enough here is quartz but doesn't knap well.@@eduardobarreto5555
i cant believe it has been 9 years since the first video, im subscribed since then i would have never thought you will become as big as you are now and i would also never have thought so many people will copy what you are doing thanks for all the effort, i still love it
Well, he regularly posts around the start of the months. I honestly hadn't expected him to post for a couple of days. But I knew it would be around this time. So 4-5 weeks for the next one.
I just want to point out something for the millions of people watching. This man intentionally refuses advertisements. Not only does he not do any sort of ads in his videos, but he also doesn't allow RUclips to place ads inside the videos themselves. This man does NOT CARE about making money.
You are simply the best channel when it comes to these outdoor activities. We get a sense of how much work all of your projects take and discover new techniques alongside you. Thanks for your amazing content over all of these years.
For collecting firewood, try using a sling to carry it. A simple cord about 2 or 3 meters long with a loop at one end. Stack a bundle of firewood across the sling, pass the free end through the loop, cinch it up and throw the bundle over your shoulder. You can carry more with each trip, and still have a hand free.
Wonderful!!! Great job. I would like to see a project where you make a "water pump" or something to get water up to a holding pond when/where you need water... instead of having to go down and haul water from the stream. Thanks again for creating and sharing!
See, he's trying to get us to think that he's building mud walls, but I can see the similarity to his coiled pots. It's actually a gigantic water vessel he's putting together... This is clearly going to turn into one of those "We Built a Hot Tub in the Jungle" channels!
Rough day at work. Nothing bad, but enough to complain. Get home: new Primitive Tech video? things got just a bit better. It took me almost three years of watching your videos to realise you use subtitles. I only ever went off your technique and body language. Thank you for this.
You've probably seen walls like this in different countries, where the tops are covered with roof tiles it's to keep the water off. I'll keep building till it's tall enough to put a roof on. It should make a good experimental 2 gable end wall structure. Thanks for watching.
It would be a good workshop structure
Great video! I love to see the little efficiency improvements you make between videos, like making a bunch of clay cubes to then turn into tiles. Also, any guesses on what minerals melted out of the tiles/bricks from the kiln?
@@b4kk3rYT Yes, open on both sides, plus the roof is fireproof. Thanks.
Can you try glass making
could you please show how you select the materials to start a fire by friction? how dry things must be, where to find them, how hard they must be?
Seeing melted minerals on the tiles gives a good demonstration of the theory of metallurgy originating from observations during pottery.
You're quite an intelligent man, i like you
It really does seem like it points to that direction. Perhaps the first people to discover metallurgy were also the ones who collected various knick-knacks for personal reason, with those prills being one of them?
Wow, thank god we got people like you who are WELL OVER THE AVERAGE to tell us about this... it's some arcane few people in the know kind of knowledge......
You can see how mankind evolved his techniques over time.
@@TrasherBinerand what did you contribute to the conversation?
i love those little personal touches in the last few videoes, from joes crematorium to the little vlog of the lizards and random animals that came by in the last one
i think hes starting to loose it a little LOL
"Joes Crematorium, you kill em we grill em" is from the Simpson's. Bart says it when he answers the phone in one of the early episodes.
Actually started laughing a bit to "You kill em; we grill em!"
I love how there is always an uninterrupted shot of him starting a friction fire. It never gets old for me
According to legend, someone accused him of using a lighter once, and ever since then he's always included the full shot of him making fire the way our ancestors did.
Its a great reminder of how even a humble lighter is a huge tool making achievement.
@@joshschneider9766 Even a lighter without lighter fluid might be a great tool here
I think it's also a great reminder of the principle "Practice practice practice." He averages around 90 seconds from cold sticks to flame. Anyone who can't match that zen repetative mastery can pretty much stfu. Most people can't get a fire started that fast WITH a lighter.
At one point he made a cord-pump-drill firestarting rig on the notion that it might save wear on his hands, but he found that it took too long to get out, set up, and run it compared to just twirling the right stick the basic "old fashioned" way.
The stick snapping this time was interesting to see, he played it off well though
1:10 I love when he pulls the roofing tiles out of the ovens. It's my favorit sound - the hollow sounding scraping just sounds so great!
thats how you know you got some mighty fine pot
It makes my skin crawl. I can’t stand that sound
@@Louzahsol everyone has a sound like that. i know a guy that cant stand the sound of styrofoam rubbing against itself. i for my part cant handle a wirebrush on a thin piece of metal.
As someone within the asperger spectrum, I just love that sound. It's like a morphine hit or something 😂
@@yowtfputthemaskbackon9202 the texture of ceramic does the same thing to me
Just realized I've watched all of these videos and never seen his fire sticks snap once except for this one. Pretty impressive
I've noticed that. I'm sure it's happened many times over the years. It has had to happen before. Just not on camera.
"Fire by friction." *every single video*
He's said multiple times you don't make the ember by pushing hard; you make it by rubbing quickly, so I'd imagine fire sticks breaking is pretty rare.
him breaking his stick and still successfully lighting the fire is fucking dope
@@Heroo01That, and also, by now he has to have like lvl88 skill at making friction fire. I'd actually like to see him make a firestick and board, just to observe how someone with a ahitload of experience does it.
6:01 Joe's Crematorium, you kill em we grill em lmao
I was not expecting that!
I miss Joes Apartment!
Every camper feels this
🤣🤣🤣🤣
You stab em we slap em
I've rewatched the stone break at 13:10 a hundred times. So clean.
honestly an amazing knap job. You can tell just how comfortable he's gotten with these primitive tools.
Settle down, okay
@@GaiusCaligula234 With a technique like that, finding a wife and settling down should be quite easy.
Slate likes to break is clean lines. Still impressive.
@@cailco100 Well, yeah, that's a core feature of the knapping process.
Amazing things can be achieved using simple tools and available resources but it never ceases to astound me how labor, time, and fuel intensive these methods are. This is a life of constant toil, and development of these techniques would have to come at the expense of time spent gathering food. Every scrap of knowledge that could be identified and passed down was a monumental achievement and advantage, but now it's difficult to appreciate the value of this knowledge because we don't use it as much anymore.
Everything in the modern era is still fuel and labor intensive. We've just offloaded the fuel and labor to far away from us.
The fact you aren't a sponsor ridden channel when you could make 200k a month if you did. MAN I can't even express my respect for you. I'm stuck at this point, desperate to express the magnitude of my emotion about my respect for you. I wish I had the words man.
He doesn't need any sponsors as he has so many subscribers. He's doing very nicely even without them.
@@yUm666 it's refreshing
It's kinda funny how a "cave man" who never speaks is one of the best paid RUclipsrs.
I love the idea of sponsorships on this channel. "Today's video brought to you by dirt. Dirt, building stuff since 35,000 B.C."
@ElizabethGreene who would the company be in this case?
People don't realize how much work this is in one video. I tried building a mud hut a few years ago, i got to about half a foot high on my walls and ended the project. And forming bricks and tiles? Insane amounts of time and energy.
I know he's getting to be more efficient but I'm interested in how long it took to make that many tiles and bricks. Especially having to walk back and forth from the warehouse to the water pit etc. Must be a full day of work
@anonony9081 I reckon this video was maybe even more than a week worth of full time days.
@@anonony9081 as someone who made a few mud bricks and clay bricks whitout a mold if you have the materials ready and all very nicely watered down it takes 2 minutes to make a not carricature brick as the MAXIMUM , if you have the mold its easy and actualy good bricks , the hardest thing is digging especialy if you dont have a Fire hard pointy stick ---- a pointy stick makes it alot fasta
@@anonony9081It looks like each batch of tiles and bricks is a day of work with all the prep and cleanup. I bet he could do a couple more batches a day if he was doing it all day and had multiple kilns and didn’t have to film, but that’d take the fun out of it. I bet he’s also working on the mud walls at the same time he’s doing more batches, so that’s quite efficient anyway.
He makes a living out of this. Anyone would love to make a living out of passion.
The documentation in the subtitles is always great, I especially liked "I'm making another bowl because I lost the last one" lol
He isn't losing them... Sasquatch are taking them for sure. #SquatchesAreReal
😂 I had a great laugh with “I keep losing them”
@@jacobjuenger4454 Australia, so it would be bunyips, yowies, drop bears or maybe even bilbies taking them.
If he's leaving burning embers in them, then it could be one of the fire raptors too, they steal fire to use in hunting
Hey - I've made cob walls before - mud with a binder, like straw or animal hair. If you do this again, you might want to 'key' each layer after it's finished, or it's surprisingly easy for them to come unbound and slip across one another. Just grab a blunt stick or stone and jab a load of dimples in each layer after it's done, then push the bottom of the next course firmly into those.
like legos!
@@dimitar4y 😅I always type too much. Yes - mud Lego.
Plus the straw or other fibrous binder you mentioned. Was wondering about these mud-only walls.
That reminds me of Mechanically Stabilized Earth
Practical Engineering made a great video on it watch?v=0olpSN6_TCc
A nod to the OP for making cob walls as they are a lot of work and using cob in PT's structure might add even more work as he'd need to chop a lot of straw with primitive tools, but the wall would be stronger; cob is incredibly strong if the layers are keyed or "sewn" into one another properly and never soaked through with water.
The straw adds volume and make the clay and sand go a bit further, but requires the production of *lots* of short straw or the acquisition of lots of cow patties that stink once wetted ;). Silt should be avoided as much as possible, though this doesn't seem to be a problem where this series is located; lots of silt where I live.
Cob was traditionally built like in the video with just a few layers at a time so that lower ones would dry instead of being pressed or bent. His "stomping" pit is exactly how you would make cob, though.
A minute and a half. This man has gotten the fire by friction technique down so well, it's beyond impressive. For context: I'm counting from when he first started rubbing (3:26) to when the first flame jumped up from the tinder pile (5:02)
My late husband was a fire aficionado and when I first found this channel, I showed him the video and said, "Watch this guy make a fire." And in the first few seconds, he scoffed, saying he could start a fire with friction; it was no big deal. But I said, "Keep watching." And at the end, he was really impressed by how fast John could start a fire.
I feel like with the amount of work you put into this, it should be considered "Experimental Anthropology". Truly incredible work!
Does anyone else feel that this is one of the best and most respectful communities on RUclips?
Except for the one off trolls that the snide just extrudes from
Because there are no clickbaits and fake content
Talk to @TrasherBiner he’s a psycho. Not a nice guy. 😅
Perhaps 👀... 😆
@@Puedeser-0 TrasherBiner ain’t lol, he’s a big jerk.
As I lay in my hospital bed recuperating from heart surgery, these videos or hypnotic. As a former big game and wilderness guide in Montana, I greatly appreciate the amount of work that this man is putting in to his craft. The skills that he is displaying our basically a lost art in many cultures. Things go south on an ocean cruise. I hope he is in the lifeboat next to me.
Get well soon man. BTW, how'd you get to watch RUclips from your hospital room?
@ WiFi and my iPhone
I hope your recovery goes smoothly!
get well soon...
bear in mind that as soon as the occupational therapist (*not* the physical therapist) says you can go home, you go home. they sent me home after i demonstrated that i could go up and down a few stairs unassisted. the fact that i couldn't get out of or into bed without assistance didn't matter!
so yeah, i got sent home to care for myself, by myself, a few days after a triple bypass. it sucked SO hard. be careful and good luck!
Welcome back, friends, to the one and only original, inimitable, truly legit primitive technology content creator on YT!
Don't you feel that this is one of the best and most respectful communities on RUclips?
@@Puedeser-0 don't you
I have to come back here to gain back the brain cells I lose by watching other channels
It can definitely be imitated (the point of the channel is literally to be imitated since these are technically tutorials), but it takes an immense amount of effort that not very many seem to be able to invest.
Chad Zuber is also legit
3:26 - starting fire
3:58 - firestick snapping
5:02 - fire starting
one of the only ones that still posts the entire process to this day, please continue doing so! great content as always 👏👏
Building mud walls and roofing tiles to withstand the rain is so creative! The combination of a solid foundation and a protective layer of tiles is a great solution for humid climates. It is impressive to see the effort involved in each step from firing the tiles, digging the foundations to building the walls in thick layers of mud! Thank you for sharing this completely primitive construction method.👏👏👏👏
This is still done today, in many parts of the world. If you'd like to know more about primitive construction, I recommend the book "Barefoot Architect" by Johan van Lengen.
How to watch PT videos for the first time, twice:
1. Watch without captions and try to figure out what's going on just by his actions
2. Watch with captions to get his perspective
Dang i was unaware of those caption all that time O_O
@@krzysztofmazurkiewicz5270
3. There's always that one comment who figured it out just now by another comment, doesn't matter if we're talking years ago or today :D
@jayhill2193 well yes... Never thought to use subs here as there is no dialog involved... The law of surprise ;)
Been watching for years and i forget the captions to this day sometimes
Did the spare bowl confuse you the first time you watched? Before the cc explained it i couldn't figure out its purpose in the kiln. Lo and behold, there was none.
I'm impressed at his logistical ability. Even though he's working with only the objects in his surroundings, he has a setup where he can achieve a pretty basic system for mass production. Making things in bulk is one of the best ways to cut costs, in terms of material loss during the process, the amount of fuel/energy used, physical fatigue and the amount of time it takes between batches. Additionally, the time between steps in individual batches can be efficiently used by preforming another step in the process while, for example, one batch of tiles is drying. Furthermore, the 'waste' products of the firing process can also be used for other manufacturing processes. Everything has a use, therefore; there is no waste.
Paleo-Industry, I guess the term could be coined as.
Not only entertaining, but it offers a bit of a scientific anecdote about how humanity progressed in our disciplines and trades. It was all built upon something, iteration upon iteration. His dedication is noble.
a technology can be any collection of knowledge and techniques
the name is a perfect description for this channel
@@Kronyx-k3r I am in complete agreement.
Wow
Well, he is an engineer.
@@fran4kingReally? I can't recall seeing that information anywhere, how do you know that?
But it makes sense :-)
Dayum, legend breaks his fire stick 3:57, but shrugs it off, fire is already lit
He knows the secret name of fire, all he has to do is whisper it to the kindling.
@@Runsofourlives Is this a reference to something held back in the depths of my memory?
Fire lit itself out of respect.
@@RussTi Wizard of the Earthsea, probably
@@Runsofourlives The name of the fire was 420, and thus it was *lit.*
Loved the episode, it had so much unexpected things - bent tile, broken firing stick, crematorium joke, the suddenpans to the side to show how close some things are to each other, the cute bowl making, mysterious shadow at 12:45, it was all super fun to see!
I've literally just paused and spent a few minutes trying to figure out what it was before I came to the comments. Looks so weird on camera
It's the root ball of a fallen-over tree. You can see it in different lighting at 13:18 and even more clearly at 14:30.
Imagine if this was an ARG the whole time and it just starts getting really fucking scary out of nowhere next video...
Like he's just working as normal, shaping bricks, starting fires the old fashioned way, etc., but then out of nowhere there's a shot of him working during what looks like a solar eclipse and the trees are swaying as if there's a strong breeze, but there's no sound besides his breathing and the frantic rustling of him trying to start a fire quickly.
a video I would love to see you make is just a little tour of the area, just walk through and show all your structures and work spaces in relation to each other
In the earth-mounted walls I've seen in Brittany, they used to put fibers, mainly heather, between each layer of earth. This reinforced the wall and made it more resistant.
That's a good insight, I never would have thought of using a mechanical stabilizer.
@@Bl4ckw0lf1 Cob walls always have straw or something in them. In PT's case, the mud will be full of roots.
That's kind of like what mechanically-stabilized earth is today where they sandwich dirt between layers of strong plastic so that it can withstand a lot of weight. I doubt heather grows in Australia though.
5:56 Bill's Morgue. You stab em. We slab em.
no matter what im doing when a video comes out i stop and watch, this man is a internet national treasure!
so would you say he's an ... internetional treasure?
I always save up a few since I usually play other videos in the background while playing EVE or Fallout. RUclips must think I'm interested but not interested at the same time.
I appreciate the use of panning shots in this one
We notice the effort you put into both primitive technology and filmmaking and greatly appreciate it. Please never stop what youre doing!
17 minutes you spoil us! Awesome
The "Joe's Crematorium" part hit me unprepared🤣🤣🤣
Nobody was ready
Can't wait for a remastering of the Tiled Roof Hut
Perhaps your take on the Venetian "funnel well" for clean water would be pretty cool too
one of those would be a lot of work though
While possible, it would take so much work even for a small one those things are quite complicated even with modern tools much less alone with sticks and stone axes,
The only primitive technology channel I'll watch.
As unpopular as it is to say, I feel sorry for his competitors. They probably assumed he was rich or cheated like they did. Then they found out he was very committed by how angry the Internet got towards them for their fake videos. I'm sure some of the guys really admired him and wanted to be like him but money took over and other people wanted to make their channels fancier and now we have hundreds of videos of underground pools with suspicious tool marks.
O TILINTAR DESSA CUIA DE BARRO FOI O SOM PERFEITO DE UM FILTRO DE BARRO.
4:00
"The fire sticks snapped"
Good heaven's!
"But luckily the coal is already smoking"
HUZZAH!
I do say good sir, 'twas an endeavour.
One of the last good channels on RUclips...
Thank you guy for your time and efforts. I truly enjoy watching you work. :)
The "Joe's Crematorium You kill 'em, we grill 'em" got me good. I'm also a fan of "Bob's Morgue, you stab em we slab em"
In the years of watching this channel, although he’s tried to keep it focused on the content and not him, little moments of personality/ humor shine through. This video had the multiple moments, between the stick snapping while make a fire or frying those flies that had me chuckling more than most stand up comics. Always excited for each upload!
This guy has playing this level for so long, the Bronze Age can’t be far away.
"The tile got so hot that mineral blobs formed, and the tile became soft and bendy"
"Let me test for proper firing just in case"
a couple do break later on, water getting inside the pores probably exacerbating a crack or something
Proper firing just means that the tiles/bricks won't dissolve from water, the water test is to check for cracks. You can see at around 6:50 the broken bricks and tiles.
Procedures, mate! Proper procedures must be kept, to ensure end product quality. QC team wont find slackin' the tilemaking brigade! 😃
@@markd.s.8625 nah at that temperature they meltet togheter theres no point in testing -- maybe if it was glowing Red
@@SuperGuy250 ...yes there is a point in testing did you simply not watch the video?
8:05 He looks exceptionally jacked in this shot
That's because he IS jacked.
Dudes been carrying mud, rocks and water buckets for like 10 years ofc hes absolutely jacked
That's literally that came to my mind, even paused at 8:09 to tell friends who also been watching him, and I saw this comment.
I love that over the years of watching him you can see how jacked and swole he got over the years of doing all this work for his videos.
I literally stopped the video to comment this, and then saw you beat me to it
He's back again! 🎉
In my headcanon those sticks have been the same and with us for years and many videos. Them breaking is a huge event in the Primitive Technology timeline.
Well Tube Log and Tile Mold have been there since the beginning. Not sure about Measuring Stick or Fire Stick, though, but I agree it does feel like they've always been there.
My man could've chosen any hobby, and he chose confusing archeologists a 1000 years from now. Gotta respect that.
I was thinking the same thing
Finding old stuff in younger layers is not confusing. Finding contemporary stuff below older layers however...
@@valentinmitterbauer4196 Aliens
@@valentinmitterbauer4196 i hate it when i find a t-rex hugging a flux capacitor
I mean dinosaurs are already fooled everyone else by making museum full of fossil before us.
I love primitive technology
Dont forget to put on the subtitles to get his comments!
Cant believe for how long this Channel has been a core part of my entertainment here. Cheers
It's incredible that he can light fires as quickly as he does in this manner. By now we've seen him light them enough times that we could just assume that's how he lights fires, but he consistently shows the full process in every video that involves fire... which is most of them... and I respect that. I look forward to seeing what this building turns into. The drainage foundation is a really neat concept.
Every year or so, you pop into my head, and I wonder if you're still making videos - and you always are. You're like a constant in my life, and watching your videos always takes me back to a simpler time with fewer worries. Thank you so much for what you've done and continue to do.
Когда я смотрю эти видео я счастлив!!!🎉❤
The two mud walls were built without a deep base under ground, which might allow strong winds to flip them down when they are high. It might be a good idea to deeply plant several wood poles in the middle of a wall to support it.
like historically done i think
Or just go whole hog and make a wattle and daub hut.
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I was thinking whie watching "Why has he never used wattle and daub?"
@@professorScott-l9s he did, thats actually his first video lol
@@ldalcinm
Damn, I don't remember that one. Still, it was a year or two ago, right?
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What would you do if you didn't have any natural water flowing through your property. That is truly a blessing.
You'd have to build a rain water dam. Have a drain around a roofed structure that collects the water and sends it to the dam. The mud excavated from the dam could form the walls. Thanks.
@@primitivetechnology9550, thank you for the reply. With almost 11M viewers, I'm amazed you even saw it. I look forward to every video you put out. I learn SO much.
I learned this summer that ‘horse flys’ (March Flys) have a natural predator that they mortally avoid: Dragon Flies!
This was discovered by a North Canadian naturalist that manufactures and sells the “Dragon Fly Wingman”. I was skeptical of the flimsy plastic dragon fly look-a-like, but after spending three weeks in the bush wearing one on me and a few around my campsite the horse flys/march flys stayed well away! Amazing and non-lethal.
So much labor! Been watching your videos for years. Love them. You put as much into the video production as you do the primitive technologies. Thank you. 🏆
John, that's a very impressive amount of work done in this video. I have watched every one of your videos and I am always glad to see you've posted another. Very informative and thought provoking content. Thank you.
Your videos are not just information, they are true art. Thank you for your contribution to the culture on RUclips!👺😚🐹
13:11 That was a CLEAN break
Nice to know I wasn't the only one who caught that!
I thought it was crazy how he just does it so fast. Time between measure mark and cut was so short.
all these years later and still one of the most engaging things on this site
Love the longer videos with more uncut sections
seeing the grilled insects fills me with such joy
I was searching for an interesting Video and then I got a notification. Perfect!!
6:03 Funny!!!!! "Joe's Crematorium, you kill'em we grill' em".
The productivity of this guy boggles the mind. I love these videos. It's meditative
I can watch all the videos over and over again.That man, for me is perfect.Putting aside his great knowledge he is beautiful.I am completely dumbfounded
"joe's crematorium, you kill em we grill em" lmao
I can imagine some archeologist 500 years from now discovering your site. He'd come up with a theory that a one man, uncontacted tribe lived in the area.
Have you ever thought about learning to knap stone tools? It was a vital primitive technology around the world and is significantly less work intensive than what goes into smelting iron (not that isn't fascinating, of course). Your content is yours, so keep up the amazing work, I only mention it because it could give you some ideas for new projects.
Hes made a couple axes in the past and I think a knife out of both wood and metal too
@@jacehardin7828 The axes weren't knapped with a technique that would leave a sharp edge by itself, it was only to give it a rough shape and then grind it down. Still useful for tools made out of regular stones but that technique is useless for flint since it's about twice as hard as most other stones.
I'm guessing he has no source of flint to knap, otherwise he would have done it. I pains me to watch him chop a tree with that blunt axe he uses. He is blessed with an abundance of trees, water, clay, and a warm climate. Other places would be more challenging.
@eduardobarreto5555 yeah but most axes aren't supposed to be razor sharp and his worked for what he was using them for so im guessing he didn't think it was needed
Most of Australia doesn't have good sources of flint, chirt or obsidian. Most common rock hard enough here is quartz but doesn't knap well.@@eduardobarreto5555
i cant believe it has been 9 years since the first video, im subscribed since then
i would have never thought you will become as big as you are now and i would also never have thought so many people will copy what you are doing
thanks for all the effort, i still love it
this has got to be the only channel where I will stop what I'm doing and set aside time in the evening to watch the vids ASAP
Often imitated, never duplicated! There’s only one Nature Boy.
He returned when we needed him the most
Well, he regularly posts around the start of the months. I honestly hadn't expected him to post for a couple of days. But I knew it would be around this time. So 4-5 weeks for the next one.
Now this is my day better!
And I just want to add, your format and content is highly appreciated. I am curious about the continous journey of your videos.
You are the best channel on RUclips and have been since your first video.
Notification club!
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Here!
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7:38 One day I hope to be rich enough to have a pile of scrap clay.
same
Remember captions for explanations!
And humour!
I just want to point out something for the millions of people watching. This man intentionally refuses advertisements. Not only does he not do any sort of ads in his videos, but he also doesn't allow RUclips to place ads inside the videos themselves. This man does NOT CARE about making money.
Thank you for your genuine content. I've seen some copycats who are fake and use machines behind the scenes just for views.
How did this man know that I needed a chill vid. Did he build the youtube algorithm from rainforrest wood and mud bricks?
0:48 wait, where’s your sundial that says that?
"Joe's Crematorium, you kill 'em we grill 'em" 😆
Смотришь как работает другой человек, как горит огонь - расслабление 100500%. Спасибо! )
Забыл, как течёт вода тоже видим )
The people on here are the kind of people make me feel safe knowing that humanity is still awesome ! Thank you 🙏
This video JUST posted and I'm watching the "likes" come POURING in!! This guy is incredible
Imagine someone having watched these videos without captions on.
I mean, they are great without them, relaxing,
but they add sooo much.
Imagine someone commenting about imagining what others do or don't do
"A small bowl is made to be fired as I keep losing them" fuckin, palaeolithic problems
Maybe I should start doing that too because all my bowls are either dirty or have just vanished somewhere.
You are simply the best channel when it comes to these outdoor activities. We get a sense of how much work all of your projects take and discover new techniques alongside you.
Thanks for your amazing content over all of these years.
The amazing organisation of your production line is almost on industrial level.
good evening EU
Good night baby
For collecting firewood, try using a sling to carry it. A simple cord about 2 or 3 meters long with a loop at one end. Stack a bundle of firewood across the sling, pass the free end through the loop, cinch it up and throw the bundle over your shoulder. You can carry more with each trip, and still have a hand free.
Turn on those captions for information of each step of the way!
Wonderful!!! Great job. I would like to see a project where you make a "water pump" or something to get water up to a holding pond when/where you need water... instead of having to go down and haul water from the stream. Thanks again for creating and sharing!
Wtf nine years now and I'm still happy to see your YT notifications. Thx 🙏
See, he's trying to get us to think that he's building mud walls, but I can see the similarity to his coiled pots. It's actually a gigantic water vessel he's putting together... This is clearly going to turn into one of those "We Built a Hot Tub in the Jungle" channels!
please put a notice somewhere that the captions have additional information in the form of silent commentary somewhere pls. many people don't know!
Rough day at work. Nothing bad, but enough to complain. Get home: new Primitive Tech video? things got just a bit better. It took me almost three years of watching your videos to realise you use subtitles. I only ever went off your technique and body language. Thank you for this.
will we ever hear your voice sir?
Hope NOT
Ruin the BEST channel on YT!!! 👍👍
man this really shows how much we're benefitting from technology nowdays
Ive watch this channel for years without the captions on.... Bravo for keeping my interest😅🤣