New footage starts at 36:20, The first part is a compilation of the last 2 months. I built this design of hut to see if two walls could support a roof, the advantage being less labor and materials from not building side walls. In future I'll build a kiln with 8 times the capacity to reduce the number of firings significantly, but that will be next year as the wet season is coming and drying bricks and tiles is difficult then.
@mockspeed33 This channel is one of the few actually real ones. Most of the "building a 5 star hotel with nothing but a sinkhole"-type videos are fake af, excavator tracks etc.
Me and my buddy were talking about this channel at work one day and he mentioned captions and I was like... whaaaaaat? And got the pleasure of watching older videos with more info lolol. But the fact that they're that entertaining without them shows how great his videos are hahaha
I'm sure achieving financial independence helped out quite a bit. He can really just do this is a pure for fun hobby at this point and not worry about the lights turning off. He deserves it.
Came here to say just that. And the multiple camera commenter... have you ever seen a transition that just changed the perspective? Every time the angle changes things have altered, he's at a different step or has altered his pose. He might have many cameras, but there's only one at any given time.
Thank you for this channel! As a former archaeologist who was also involved in some experimental archaeology, I get a lot of nostalgia and very much appreciate your humble approach, the helpful subtitles, and humorous tidbits. Greetings from Germany and best wishes for the wet season!
Lmao right man must've made three dozen of those palm frond huts over the years, but I'll watch him do it so he can use it to dry a bunch of tiles every single time
Not his style. He only goes out to these places once in a while and all of it is just a learning experience for him. He doesn't live out there or anything like that. He just enjoys seeing what he is capable of while limiting himself to ancient knowledge and what's available around him.
@RedTail1-1 It's why all the copycats just aren't as enjoyable to me. This guy is the real deal. No skidsteer and mini excavator tracks accidentally revealing how fake everything is in the distance like all the other channels. No chainsaw marks. His is pure hobby and education to challenge himself and it being entertaining is a secondary result, not the primary mission.
@primitivetechnology9550You have certainly become a quite proficient potter. Few potters, source their own clay, build a temporary kiln and then prepare, dry and fire their pieces. Are you going to progress from mud bricks to fired clay bricks in order that your structures might survive the wet season? Or would that reduce the opportunities for making videos? Mark from Melbourne Australia
@markfryer9880 He already has fired clay bricks - watch his other videos! He built a brick and mortar, tiled-roof hut with a 4m^2 interior if memory serves, over 3 years ago and it stood for 2 years and 8 months before a tree fell on it. It's the one you see right at the beginning of the video - 0:00. You even see them being used and fired (15:45) in this very video so I'm not sure how you missed it.
That's funny, this channel got me interested in experimenting with pottery which then led me to finding Florian gadsby. Its been several years at this point and I still haven't gotten any further than refining clay from soil in lieu of pursuing other hobbies but now I own a home and can finally build a kiln and give pottery a shot
I like that his pinned comment is telling people exactly where the new footage starts so we COULD skip to it if we wanted, even though that is detrimental to his watch time statistic. Am I still gonna watch the full 48 minutes, you bet I am, but I like that he cares about his viewers experience more than metrics, and informs us so we can skip ahead to the new stuff if we want.
When he carried the tiles away to reveal two big spiders hiding in the stack, I expected some remark, like, “Australia.” The fact that he didn’t say a word, but held the shot because he knew we’d all be thinking it, is real craft.
I've been lucky enough to watch your channel progress from very early on. It's quite meditative for me. Thank you for sharing your incredible efforts. Cheers.
The sun comes up, a man rises to work. The sun goes down, a man rests so that he may rise with the sun to work another day. It is how civilization is built and is one of the most honorable things a man can do with his life. I'm glad the world is coming back around to appreciate this. It was lost for a while.
4:14 I love that like the rest of us, prim tech has a shed full of dusty tools and crap. It's just, y'know, made of mud bricks and full of sticks and stones.
Some things are simply a constant of nature. I bet stone-age husbands also wandered off to their shed to have some alone time, whacking stones together and working with fibres and sticks to invent the new cool thing (called rock on a stick with fibres). And I am pretty sure at least one dude was hacking away at a never finished dugout canoe, he named after his ex-wife.
I would like to emphatically correct here that the shelter of his you're referencing was NOT constructed of mud bricks! Those are fired clay and wood-ash mortar bricks equivalent to our modern red brick and mortar. They could stand for hundreds of years given some decent luck. (Sadly a tree fell on it not long after this video.) He does build with mud, but it's much quicker and easier to use the mud directly like he does here, rather than spending the time, energy and precious sheltered floor space to form and dry the bricks, only for the outcome to be the same.
The best primitive survival content on RUclips hands down, no ads, no sellouts, just peaceful and quality content on youtube for free and for years Had to donate now because I always get a really nice kick when I see you upload a new video, really makes my day/night, whenever I happen to see it 😁😁
I'm literally watching an ad right now. People always forget that they have adblocker or something. See this comment every video while I'm watching an ad haha
He certainly does put in the hard yards. No Bobcat or Mini-excavator tucked away just out of shot for our lad. Hard-core is the only way. He saves a fortune on gym fees as well, but misses out on the opportunities to pick up a primative lady or two. 😂 Mark from Melbourne Australia
While not primitive tech, you might enjoy Erik Grankvist. He does an (almost) entirely hand tools log cabin build in the forests of Sweden on his own (he once uses a tractor to haul trees he felled). The videos are amazing, and have a similar vibe to Primitive Technology :)
@blainehale Yet the relaxing sounds of the woodlands and the monotonous work, only interrupted by captions like "A wallaby eating grass as is their custom", makes us come back time after time.
what I find amazing is that this channel has spent years working on all of these projects and has determined that something as simple as a fired clay roof tile is the missing link holding him back from progressing because the rain and weather just destroys anything that isn't covered by tile in about 1 year. Crazy how something seemingly insignificant or overkill is actually critical to progressing.
Well, I am currently driving from Melbourne to Cairns via the Inland Route, and when it rains around here, it really rains! Mark from Melbourne Australia In Emerald, Qld, just outside the Tropic of Capricorn. Headed for Townsville Qld tomorrow.
@Jack_Richards Thanks Jack. My son and I made it to Townsville, but it was a bloody long bouncy drive. Yesterday, we drove from Townsville to Innisfail, helped to set up and pack up the Orchestra performance in the Town Hall. Lovely Art Deco building, repaired after damage from Tropical Cyclone Larry in 2006. Handed the truck over to the next driver and caught the buses with the Orchestra to the hotel in Cairns. Spent today snoozing in the room, to buggered to do anything else. Fly home to Melbourne tomorrow and back to normal work on Thursday. Mark from Melbourne
@markfryer9880 had to look it up (American) yikes. 31 hours from the top of Aussieland to the bottom. For reference, the drive from mid-Maine to mid-California is 48 hours.
He's also just determined that trees & the wet season & tile roofs aren't a good combination & hold him back too. When you consider that in this video he is averaging making just 6 tiles a day, I wonder which option is actually more efficent, a 1 year lasting one or a far more labour intensive one that lasts less than 3 years
Same here. It seems like the prehistoric version of misplacing your keys or your glasses. "Okay, where did I leave my phone this time? I swear I _just_ had it..."
this guy is the one of the only legit channels who actually does everything themselves instead of having help. props to you for making real content man!
I love how you try to better your techniques over the years I've been watching. One advice from a roofer when working with roof tiles, make sure that your first bottom row tiles are lifted by at least thickness of the tile and upper bottom row tile is shorter by the amount of overlap, in your case about 10cm. All of that results in much straighter looking roof. Big ups dude.
Was gonna mention that lifted tile thingy also, called a "kicker" in some places. Prevents them falling off causing the others to follow suite, too, though ya probably knew that already I'll leave it for the curious.
@soggycheese8485 True. Over four years of a desk job with long hours that cut down my outside activities, I packed on 20 lbs. After a couple of years of a part-time physical job, I am back down 20lbs.
I discovered John in, I don't know, 2019 or 2020, maybe. Earlier than that? I don't remember when. But he immediately became my favorite YTer. I felt sad when he went for a year or more without putting anything new up. I thought the best channel I had ever seen had become defunct. Then, like a year or two ago, he started up again. That was a very happy day. Thank you, John Plant, for making the best channel on RUclips. And I don't say that lightly; I have subbed to over 100 channels, and I enjoy several of them very much. But yours is #1.
I'm subbed to over 200 channels on this account (only around 100-150 are active) and I have a second profile specifically for channels relating to hobbies. John is still easily one of my top 3 youtubers at all times. I like channels that take things slow and help me disconnect. What he does is so small in the grand scheme of things, but the amount of effort he puts in to everything always makes the final product feel so fulfilling.
Bro's stone age axe has outlasted the Gerber I just threw into the garbage after a season of use (handle snapped and the steel is about as hard as ripe bananas). Queue the "made em better back in the day" sentiment
Want a mind fuck? That broken tool you casually threw away after one season of use. contained 1000 times more iron than all of the iron this man has worked a few hundred hours to gather, process, and smelt. It's mind boggling how advanced the knowledge was to bring us these resources today. To the point that the resource itself is no longer valuable to the common man haha
@grillsidepickin2397 Oh I'm well aware, and it boils my blood. Like bro, why even extract all these resources out of the earth to make garbage. I know better now and invested into quality.
@andersjjensen Who says I haven't already used his tutorials to make 21 of em? I ain't no filthy casual and Xmas is right around the corner. Friends and family will rejoice this year after I gift them with these freedom enabling homeowner's dream tool.
Is this an extended and combined version of the two earlier videos? Primitive Technology: A-frame Roof Tile Factory Primitive Technology: Tile Capped Mud Walls Edit: The last 10ish minutes are all new.
It is, I thought I was going insane with deja vu but the rat paw prints clicked that it's definitely footage from previous videos. In fairness, the description says this whole project took _2.5 months_ so splitting it and then repacking it again is, imo, entirely fair for that amount of work, it still equates to about 3 weeks of work per video uploaded!
Nine years, yes 9 years of watching PT. Love long form, shorter form, (anything but "shorts") all his content. Amazing and captivating once again. I dig watching through once before subtitles, and then with, and sometimes re-runs for hours. Handsdown one of the very best of Humanity on RUclips. AI will never do this. Heck, I won't do this, but I have enjoyed it for years and it feeds my soul.
I realise you are more focused on technology itself, but I would be curious to see how you would tackle "civil engineering" like making a latrine, food storage, multi-person shelters, and so on
@MoreOrLessUA It was a mention in one of his viewer question answering videos. The title doesn't indicate it but it was in the last 6 months or so. Sorry I can't be more help.
I can't tell you how many times I have fallen asleep while watching these videos. It's the combination of the noises of the Far Nth Queensland bush and John working away quietly. It works in John's favour as I end up rewatching the video once or twice. 😂 Mark from Melbourne
relying on just the friction of the tiles against the wood to hold them in place is terrifying to me, I feel like one day they'd all just slide off and all that work would be gone
This video showcases very well how long preparing the materials to begin building takes. I also really enjoy the clips of the wildlife around you as you work.
Every upload feels like a reprieve. We set aside the slop, the news, the chaotic whims of civilization, to find peace through a calm stay in the woods.
It’s like he’s sharing his vacation time with us, and in so doing letting us have a small reprieve as well. Through his patient labors do we find succor and rest.
Never have I learned so much from someone who doesn't speak. Actions truly do speak louder than words. The amount of time and effort is impressive. Nice one Mr Plant.
i'm always amazed how quickly you can make an ember, from start to finish, it's 30 seconds. A minute later, you've turned that ember into fire... Thanks for the upload! I always stop what i'm doing or watching if i catch you've uploaded
Man, I was hoping to find something good to watch to chill with a beer after a long day. I don't care if I've seen some of it already, I'm just watching the whole thing. **Relax mode ENGAGED** ✌️
This man’s patience and dedication to life’s simplest questions are profound and inspiring to me. Imagine, these skills would have been rudimentary to our ancestors for thousands of years, but are all but forgotten in our modern world. To rediscover the answers to our basic needs is to understand ourselves.
Here in France, they used to form the tiles over their upper leg and always put animal prints on one to guarantee a good firing. But someone beat us all and did it for you. Love how you show that with a bit of knowledge you can build safe shelter. By the way, if you make the bottom beam larger , or raise it up, your tiles will all settle into each other. Normally we put on a double lath to kick the bottom tile up as there is no tile for it to go into.
I LOVE watching this edited footage, but I can’t imagine the hours spent doing the same tasks over and over and over again. True dedication. Thanks for another great video.
Hi, as natural builder I have few improvements. Try make stone foundation higher, at least 20cm above ground. The splash water will not erode the base that quickly. Put larger stones, ceramic shards (1 - 4 cm) into clay mixture + some fiber (longer grass, leaves etc). This prevents cracks. And the most important: put diagonal bracing onto that wooden structure :) Otherwise it is so relaxing to watch you. I admire your dedication.
You can see erosion at 46 minutes already. The wall didn't dry properly, so in rainy region as he is in, structural damage can happened in a year or so, without repairing.
@AppleseedVending well he try to make it simple. Japan is not that far ftom Australia, but the technique is younger :) He would need also oil to preserve charciol wood.
@MarianOntkoche's probably only using this hut for the tiles and stash fired bricks. I'm guessing he'll make a new brick house/hut soon and use the tiles and stashed bricks, so this hut won't be needed for long
I just randomly remembered your channel and was surprised to see you had been uploading for a while since the hiatus. So glad to see more content. Hope all is well.
I have often thought the same thing. Man, why aren't you using your back for transportation but instead always carry everything with your bare hands. But I guess it is not easy to build something like that. For one, he has no fibers suitable to make some straps from (I think, don't know if it is possible to get the lianas soft enough in order to weave them). Next he would need some way of smoothing the wood. A backpack is not good if it constantly scratches the skin.
He could easily make a backpack. I suspect he just doesn't have to travel that far to collect wood. I would think it would at least be worth having a strap to bundle up the sticks into faggots but 🤷♂️ The fibre he gets from the inner bark of a tree which he used when he made a trebuchet would work well.
Thank you so much for your videos. I got my patents hooked during covid. Now they send me notifications of your videos (even tho I'm subscribed and see all the notifications). Thank you so much for everything you do and giving my parents peace. Much love ❤️
New footage starts at 36:20, The first part is a compilation of the last 2 months. I built this design of hut to see if two walls could support a roof, the advantage being less labor and materials from not building side walls. In future I'll build a kiln with 8 times the capacity to reduce the number of firings significantly, but that will be next year as the wet season is coming and drying bricks and tiles is difficult then.
A Interaction for the Interaction God, a Comment for the Comment Throne, for the Almighty Algorithm
Awesome stuff! I was wondering what your plans were for those mud walls
Hi! Have you ever considered attempting to make glass?
You should do the compilation videos more often. I'd rewatch them all in long format, and they statistically do well monetarily for RUclipsrs.
How heavy does the wind get in your area? With nothing but gravity holding them down, I'd be worried about wind taking tiles off of the roof...
The added animal documentary bits is much appreciated
i agree, feels very much more real than those other fake accounts
Especially when he also zooms in to the seedling in the wall as though it would run if he got closer, made me chuckle
@mockspeed33 This channel is one of the few actually real ones. Most of the "building a 5 star hotel with nothing but a sinkhole"-type videos are fake af, excavator tracks etc.
Don't forget to turn on the closed captions / subtitles! He uses those to describe what he is doing in lieu of speaking.
"A water rat being a rat in water."
"a wallaby eating grass as is their custom" and "a water rat being a rat in water." deeply delightful commentary. thank you
I’ve watched this guy for years and your comment just made me finally realize to put on caption 🤯
I quite enjoyed those fauna additions...
@madmike017 now you get to go back and watch them all over again with captions on.
Me and my buddy were talking about this channel at work one day and he mentioned captions and I was like... whaaaaaat? And got the pleasure of watching older videos with more info lolol. But the fact that they're that entertaining without them shows how great his videos are hahaha
I loved "Nature's bureau of meteorology predicts rain" during the close up of scurrying ants.
John should go on a podcast and have the producer put in subtitles while sitting there silent and shirtless
That would be so funny
I'd watch the whole thing
Yup.
I'm pretty sure the captions have slowly gotten funnier over the last almost decade this man has been alone atop his field.
When PT was playing in the mud as a kid, who knew he was developing valuable career skills!
I'm sure achieving financial independence helped out quite a bit. He can really just do this is a pure for fun hobby at this point and not worry about the lights turning off. He deserves it.
100 fronds!
He's like a mountaintop sensei
I have been watching this man for over a decade and I am just now learning that he has Subtitles. FML
bro got three different shots of him walking with that massive boulder. So he picked up that boulder 2 extra times for the video... a true champion
Or he has more than one camera?
I reckon this guy is a bricklayer or something, he's got that tradie strength.
@andrewniconwell I think building things the “primitive technology” way is an effective body building program.
He’s got almost 11 million subscribers on RUclips, he ain’t working a 9 to 5 anymore
Came here to say just that. And the multiple camera commenter... have you ever seen a transition that just changed the perspective? Every time the angle changes things have altered, he's at a different step or has altered his pose. He might have many cameras, but there's only one at any given time.
Thank you for this channel! As a former archaeologist who was also involved in some experimental archaeology, I get a lot of nostalgia and very much appreciate your humble approach, the helpful subtitles, and humorous tidbits. Greetings from Germany and best wishes for the wet season!
It's good to get recognition from from an authority in the archaeological field. Much appreciated!
@primitivetechnology9550😂"authority", well, I wish I could even come close to having the sheer amount of experience that you have...
Subtitles? Whaaaat now I have to rewatch everything
@shadrakshanyes, do. It's so calming to binge.
Please do turn on closed captions, im 5 years in and discovered the magic on year 2 lol @shadrakshan
How many times have I watched this man make tiles? Yes. How many more times will I watch him make tiles? Same answer
Lmao right man must've made three dozen of those palm frond huts over the years, but I'll watch him do it so he can use it to dry a bunch of tiles every single time
@Imperial_Squidevery single fucking time! :)
@Imperial_SquidIt never get's old!!!!
It's like the satisfaction of turning on a factorio mega base and watching it fill up. Always. Satisfying. A L W A Y S.
@Imperial_Squidwhat a beautifully worded comment that perfectly sums up my feelings
Years of watching this dude and he's never fallen into the trap of trying to one-up himself every video. Just steady, incremental progress.
Not his style. He only goes out to these places once in a while and all of it is just a learning experience for him. He doesn't live out there or anything like that. He just enjoys seeing what he is capable of while limiting himself to ancient knowledge and what's available around him.
@RedTail1-1 well said
@RedTail1-1 It's why all the copycats just aren't as enjoyable to me. This guy is the real deal. No skidsteer and mini excavator tracks accidentally revealing how fake everything is in the distance like all the other channels. No chainsaw marks. His is pure hobby and education to challenge himself and it being entertaining is a secondary result, not the primary mission.
It quite nicely illustrates how our ancestors slowly but gradually lifted themselves out of the confinement of the animal kingdom.
Honestly doesn't seem like much progress at all. If you watch every month you will eventually find that it's quite repetitive.
the parallels between these videos and the work of my other favorite RUclipsr potter Florian Gadsy are beautiful. can't get enough of them
I'll check his channel out. I often watch other pottery channels on RUclips to compare notes. Much appreciated.
@primitivetechnology9550You have certainly become a quite proficient potter. Few potters, source their own clay, build a temporary kiln and then prepare, dry and fire their pieces. Are you going to progress from mud bricks to fired clay bricks in order that your structures might survive the wet season? Or would that reduce the opportunities for making videos?
Mark from Melbourne Australia
@markfryer9880 In this video, he has a shed with fired bricks, that he made a while back.
@markfryer9880 He already has fired clay bricks - watch his other videos! He built a brick and mortar, tiled-roof hut with a 4m^2 interior if memory serves, over 3 years ago and it stood for 2 years and 8 months before a tree fell on it. It's the one you see right at the beginning of the video - 0:00. You even see them being used and fired (15:45) in this very video so I'm not sure how you missed it.
That's funny, this channel got me interested in experimenting with pottery which then led me to finding Florian gadsby. Its been several years at this point and I still haven't gotten any further than refining clay from soil in lieu of pursuing other hobbies but now I own a home and can finally build a kiln and give pottery a shot
I like that his pinned comment is telling people exactly where the new footage starts so we COULD skip to it if we wanted, even though that is detrimental to his watch time statistic.
Am I still gonna watch the full 48 minutes, you bet I am, but I like that he cares about his viewers experience more than metrics, and informs us so we can skip ahead to the new stuff if we want.
Don't forget to turn on the closed captions / subtitles! He uses those to describe what he is doing in lieu of speaking.
I, uh, missed that comment. Didn't look until I was almost finished the vid. 😅
in it to win it.
I thought I had seen this footage before still awesome though
I started at the beginning, and was like "I've seen this before, right?" Eventually I wondered if he was trying to see if we were paying attention.
저는 당신의 영상을 9년 째 시청하고 있습니다. 모든 영상들은 저에게 언제나 흥미로움과 평온함을 전해 줍니다. 앞으로도 건강하시고, 꾸준한 활동을 기대합니다. 감사합니다.😊
Thanks, much appreciated.
A water rat being a rat in water hahaha i dont recall much humor in the previous videos but its a nice addition
Once in awhile he drop bangers but more recently it more common
I also love the animal highlights
Bei uns sind Schermäuse Wasserratten , wenn sie an Gewässern leben , werden sie um ein Viertel größer !
When he carried the tiles away to reveal two big spiders hiding in the stack, I expected some remark, like, “Australia.” The fact that he didn’t say a word, but held the shot because he knew we’d all be thinking it, is real craft.
Don't forget to turn on the closed captions / subtitles! He uses those to describe what he is doing in lieu of speaking.
Thanks for explaining what the Water Rat was doing at 5:24 . This was very helpful.
"A wallaby eating grass as is their custom"
He has an international audience, so many will not be accustomed Australian wild life. But as usual our man delivers.
The ants carrying their larvae out of their deep nests to avoid rain floods as the 'weather prediction' was amazingly spot on and hilarious.
imagine there are people who watch primitive technology without subtitles
@_intrepidyes. Me. I had. No idea.
I've been lucky enough to watch your channel progress from very early on. It's quite meditative for me. Thank you for sharing your incredible efforts. Cheers.
Thanks, I'll continue to do so, much appreciated.
"This can be avoided by simply having more rest days, but the wet season is coming thus work must continue"
Amen I feel you there brother
The sun comes up, a man rises to work. The sun goes down, a man rests so that he may rise with the sun to work another day. It is how civilization is built and is one of the most honorable things a man can do with his life. I'm glad the world is coming back around to appreciate this. It was lost for a while.
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"The wet season is coming..." clacks away at spreadsheets.
4:14
I love that like the rest of us, prim tech has a shed full of dusty tools and crap. It's just, y'know, made of mud bricks and full of sticks and stones.
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Some things are simply a constant of nature.
I bet stone-age husbands also wandered off to their shed to have some alone time, whacking stones together and working with fibres and sticks to invent the new cool thing (called rock on a stick with fibres). And I am pretty sure at least one dude was hacking away at a never finished dugout canoe, he named after his ex-wife.
@robertnett9793😂 Please stop. I am having a laughing fit here! 😂😂 The dug out canoe got me!
I would like to emphatically correct here that the shelter of his you're referencing was NOT constructed of mud bricks! Those are fired clay and wood-ash mortar bricks equivalent to our modern red brick and mortar. They could stand for hundreds of years given some decent luck. (Sadly a tree fell on it not long after this video.) He does build with mud, but it's much quicker and easier to use the mud directly like he does here, rather than spending the time, energy and precious sheltered floor space to form and dry the bricks, only for the outcome to be the same.
4:06 "a wallaby eating grass, as is their custom" 😂
I don't like ads but I *do* like supporting creators, especially ones with such dedication to quality. I never get tired of these!
Thankyou for the support. Much appreciated.
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I find it rather incongruous to see ads for diamond jewelry, luxury cars and iPhones on this channel. 🤔
@Tesserae I'm not sure if he gets to select the exact ads that play on his channel.
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That shot at 40:54 lingering on the surprised spiders was excellent.
"Wait, where'd our roof go?!"
40:59 RIP their buddy
I didn't see surprised spiders, I saw doomed ones. Their pal who didn't jump ship found out.
Old hiding place is no longer a good hiding place.
@klchu I think maybe it climbs out when the heat begins. Might even be light enough to get caught in the updraft and just fly out.
Baby huntsmans
I am still waiting, like everyone, for a metal hatchet. I love your videos and your work!Keep it up!
Thanks I'll keep working on it. Much appreciated.
Gaining access to large logs will be an incredibly useful help in architecture
Awesome to see those footprints. I've seen multiple roman roof tiles in museums which had cat paws on it. Just makes history really relatable
The best primitive survival content on RUclips hands down, no ads, no sellouts, just peaceful and quality content on youtube for free and for years
Had to donate now because I always get a really nice kick when I see you upload a new video, really makes my day/night, whenever I happen to see it 😁😁
Thanks for the donation and the encouragement, much appreciated.
I don't know the exchange rate, but it's nice to see Donkey Kong Kountry representing.
I'm literally watching an ad right now. People always forget that they have adblocker or something. See this comment every video while I'm watching an ad haha
@jose2226 dude, he means an ad read
@jose2226 he means where he's not like "this video is sponsored by raid shadow legends"
Your humor improves with each video, incrementally and steadily - like most of your projects! Keep it up!
Will do, much appreciated.
His videos will never get old and are never long enough 😂
Oh, and anyone that's new to his videos, be sure to turn on closed caption
Sure they will. They'll just age soooooo much better than others and remain relevant for when civilization collapses.
I remember when I learned about the captions. Brought my viewing experience to a completely new level.
@justusmorelos2347same, i feel like I can hear him talking now 🤣
Just learned about captions 3 seconds ago. Bringing my viewing experience to a completely new level!
And he also takes few years hiatus before coming back on early 2023.
Massive shout out to the only real primitive tech channel on RUclips. Old mate's putting in the hard yards here and we appreciate it.
He certainly does put in the hard yards. No Bobcat or Mini-excavator tucked away just out of shot for our lad. Hard-core is the only way. He saves a fortune on gym fees as well, but misses out on the opportunities to pick up a primative lady or two. 😂
Mark from Melbourne Australia
@markfryer9880
We all need to start signing comments online like you. I appreciate it.
- Alex from Chicago IL
While not primitive tech, you might enjoy Erik Grankvist. He does an (almost) entirely hand tools log cabin build in the forests of Sweden on his own (he once uses a tractor to haul trees he felled). The videos are amazing, and have a similar vibe to Primitive Technology :)
@Stiffo90 Thanks Stiffo90, sounds like an interesting recommendation.
Mark from Melbourne Australia.
@Greendogblue Thanks, Alex from Chicago, IL. In my younger days (back in the 80s) I a Blues Brother at the Valhalla Cinema in Melbourne. 😂
I loved the dramatic Tarantino zoom at 20:19, as if that pile of bricks had killed your loved ones years ago and you were facing up for revenge.
48 minutes of pure primitive technology
half of video is from reupload from couple of weeks...
@lootenant. yeah i realized that, still ill watch it entirely
We didn't realize this until later.
Of the same thing we've seen him do dozens of times.
@blainehale Yet the relaxing sounds of the woodlands and the monotonous work, only interrupted by captions like "A wallaby eating grass as is their custom", makes us come back time after time.
45 minutes? Dude. Hell yeah.
48 minutes!
half of video is from reupload from couple of weeks...
Men be like: hell yeah
The next one gonna be many minutes long.🤯
Don't forget to turn on the closed captions / subtitles! He uses those to describe what he is doing in lieu of speaking.
what I find amazing is that this channel has spent years working on all of these projects and has determined that something as simple as a fired clay roof tile is the missing link holding him back from progressing because the rain and weather just destroys anything that isn't covered by tile in about 1 year. Crazy how something seemingly insignificant or overkill is actually critical to progressing.
Well, I am currently driving from Melbourne to Cairns via the Inland Route, and when it rains around here, it really rains!
Mark from Melbourne Australia
In Emerald, Qld, just outside the Tropic of Capricorn. Headed for Townsville Qld tomorrow.
@markfryer9880long drive! Wish you luck, and make sure you have breaks!
@Jack_Richards Thanks Jack. My son and I made it to Townsville, but it was a bloody long bouncy drive. Yesterday, we drove from Townsville to Innisfail, helped to set up and pack up the Orchestra performance in the Town Hall. Lovely Art Deco building, repaired after damage from Tropical Cyclone Larry in 2006. Handed the truck over to the next driver and caught the buses with the Orchestra to the hotel in Cairns.
Spent today snoozing in the room, to buggered to do anything else.
Fly home to Melbourne tomorrow and back to normal work on Thursday.
Mark from Melbourne
@markfryer9880 had to look it up (American) yikes. 31 hours from the top of Aussieland to the bottom. For reference, the drive from mid-Maine to mid-California is 48 hours.
He's also just determined that trees & the wet season & tile roofs aren't a good combination & hold him back too. When you consider that in this video he is averaging making just 6 tiles a day, I wonder which option is actually more efficent, a 1 year lasting one or a far more labour intensive one that lasts less than 3 years
For some reason I find it really funny that he keeps loosing his little pots
Someone downstream is going to be really confused, one day.
I think there could be a link with here...
Same here. It seems like the prehistoric version of misplacing your keys or your glasses. "Okay, where did I leave my phone this time? I swear I _just_ had it..."
I've been watching your videos since day 1 and they have brought me immense joy over the years. I wish I could give more.
Thankyou, I'll continue making them as long as possible. Much appreciated.
@primitivetechnology9550 a patreon with ad free videos could be beneficial
40:58 that little spider on the middle of the right tile is about to learn what immolation is. XD
The first legend of (Primitive Technology), often imitated.... never duplicated.
Right!!! How many imitations have fallen off. And how many inspirations are still going because of this man
Well said
Don't forget to turn on the closed captions / subtitles! He uses those to describe what he is doing in lieu of speaking.
@tulipalll Indeed I did!
@epicperson53 OH... like the ones with excavator dig marks and tracks found in their videos of underground shelters? 😂
Finally! He developed some kind of primitive writing at 06:05!
Don't forget to turn on the closed captions / subtitles! He uses those to describe what he is doing in lieu of speaking. ❤😉
this guy is the one of the only legit channels who actually does everything themselves instead of having help. props to you for making real content man!
I love how you try to better your techniques over the years I've been watching. One advice from a roofer when working with roof tiles, make sure that your first bottom row tiles are lifted by at least thickness of the tile and upper bottom row tile is shorter by the amount of overlap, in your case about 10cm. All of that results in much straighter looking roof. Big ups dude.
Was gonna mention that lifted tile thingy also, called a "kicker" in some places. Prevents them falling off causing the others to follow suite, too, though ya probably knew that already I'll leave it for the curious.
Anyone else noticed this bloke is steadily becoming more and more of a unit?
I have admired this mans physique for years.
Not before you told us, but yeah! He is getting really muscular.
What hard work does to a mf
@soggycheese8485 True. Over four years of a desk job with long hours that cut down my outside activities, I packed on 20 lbs. After a couple of years of a part-time physical job, I am back down 20lbs.
You can really see it in his hands
Rewatching the old bits was still cool.
I discovered John in, I don't know, 2019 or 2020, maybe. Earlier than that? I don't remember when. But he immediately became my favorite YTer. I felt sad when he went for a year or more without putting anything new up. I thought the best channel I had ever seen had become defunct. Then, like a year or two ago, he started up again. That was a very happy day.
Thank you, John Plant, for making the best channel on RUclips. And I don't say that lightly; I have subbed to over 100 channels, and I enjoy several of them very much. But yours is #1.
word
What about super eye patch wolf
I'm subbed to over 200 channels on this account (only around 100-150 are active) and I have a second profile specifically for channels relating to hobbies. John is still easily one of my top 3 youtubers at all times. I like channels that take things slow and help me disconnect. What he does is so small in the grand scheme of things, but the amount of effort he puts in to everything always makes the final product feel so fulfilling.
super eyepatch wolf is also named john
That may have been a two walled tiled hut at first, but after that first fire it’s a two walled tiled home. Thanks so much, John!
Very pleased he let the neighbors get into some of the shots.
Bro's stone age axe has outlasted the Gerber I just threw into the garbage after a season of use (handle snapped and the steel is about as hard as ripe bananas). Queue the "made em better back in the day" sentiment
Want a mind fuck? That broken tool you casually threw away after one season of use. contained 1000 times more iron than all of the iron this man has worked a few hundred hours to gather, process, and smelt. It's mind boggling how advanced the knowledge was to bring us these resources today. To the point that the resource itself is no longer valuable to the common man haha
Welp. Our man, here, has shown you exactly how to make one. You just need some rocks, a piece of wood and a whole lotta patience.
@grillsidepickin2397 Oh I'm well aware, and it boils my blood. Like bro, why even extract all these resources out of the earth to make garbage. I know better now and invested into quality.
@andersjjensen Who says I haven't already used his tutorials to make 21 of em? I ain't no filthy casual and Xmas is right around the corner. Friends and family will rejoice this year after I gift them with these freedom enabling homeowner's dream tool.
@MassiveReactiveImagine rocking up to a job site and the homeowner offers you their hammer and it's a fucking stone hammer lmao
I liked that you were showing the locals in this video. A good addition.
The skill in his fire by friction always blows my mind
I love this channel. No talking , No music , just nature and a peaceful man living life to the fullest.
Salute .
My dude hasn’t aged in the 4+ years Ive been watching, absolutely love this channel
The power of exercise
But he got more buffed every year.
You have beytefoul 👍 good
@TheIhplodur every now and again you get a shot like @27:58 where you see the size of the guns he's packing
u don't know about exercise
Two people who I never skip ads on; That Chapter & Primitive Technology
Is this an extended and combined version of the two earlier videos?
Primitive Technology: A-frame Roof Tile Factory
Primitive Technology: Tile Capped Mud Walls
Edit: The last 10ish minutes are all new.
I thought a lot of this looked familiar…
Yeah seems so to until he almost drops the huge rock on his foot to really click can’t believe the wallaby and water rat weren’t enough
It is, I thought I was going insane with deja vu but the rat paw prints clicked that it's definitely footage from previous videos. In fairness, the description says this whole project took _2.5 months_ so splitting it and then repacking it again is, imo, entirely fair for that amount of work, it still equates to about 3 weeks of work per video uploaded!
@Imperial_Squid yeah I had deja vu when I saw the rat paw prints and the little animal hiding under a tile.
Yes, but now you get the whole story from, beginning to end.
"A water rat being a rat in water". I'm loving the funny subtitles.
You can see the greenery from the leaves of the workshop gradually fading as he progresses showing how much time has passed doing all that
Nine years, yes 9 years of watching PT. Love long form, shorter form, (anything but "shorts") all his content. Amazing and captivating once again. I dig watching through once before subtitles, and then with, and sometimes re-runs for hours. Handsdown one of the very best of Humanity on RUclips. AI will never do this. Heck, I won't do this, but I have enjoyed it for years and it feeds my soul.
4:09
"a wallaby eating grass as is their custom" love that description
I love your content so much. Haven't been this relaxed in years.
This video is full of little friends, please keep this trend up, it's lovely to see the woods alive
I realise you are more focused on technology itself, but I would be curious to see how you would tackle "civil engineering" like making a latrine, food storage, multi-person shelters, and so on
Bump, id dig that avenue
How about water pipes?
@laurdy Bamboo
@John_Smith_86diverting fresh water to the hut with some level of piping would be nice. Reduce having to carry water for pottery
Civil engineering takes a lot of labor. He spent a lot of labor just making a 2 walled tiled hut. He'd need more people to complete "public works".
Every time a new PT video comes out I can feel my attention span getting healed in real time
This man turned down a visit from Adam Savage just to rush for the wet season. The dedication!
Adam Savage is kind of a dork, anyway.
They did have lunch, though. Adam talked about it and said he was very impressed by his attitude, outlook and general philosophy of life.
Can anyone tell how to find it? Searched "Adam Savage Primitive Technology" and sadly got nothing 😢
@MoreOrLessUAsame id like to see that
@MoreOrLessUA It was a mention in one of his viewer question answering videos. The title doesn't indicate it but it was in the last 6 months or so. Sorry I can't be more help.
I like watching this guy as asmr before going to sleep or just relaxing after a very busy day
I can't tell you how many times I have fallen asleep while watching these videos. It's the combination of the noises of the Far Nth Queensland bush and John working away quietly. It works in John's favour as I end up rewatching the video once or twice. 😂
Mark from Melbourne
After many years the algorithm has brought me back to learn more.
relying on just the friction of the tiles against the wood to hold them in place is terrifying to me, I feel like one day they'd all just slide off and all that work would be gone
Hell yeah 48 minutes of pure kino
half of video is from reupload from couple of weeks...
whats most impressive to me is every video, its the same jungle but a new spot.
everytime u take the finished clay things out of your oven , i get a goosebump. the sound of the burned clay is just beautiful
I'm impressed with how long that stone axe has survived. It looks in perfect shape even with all the years of use.
He never leaves it outside so it doesn't rust.
😂@johnshite4656
I really appreciate you videoing and including more of the local fauna in this video
I feel like there should be something binding the tiles to the roof. One good wind and the whole thing goes.
This video showcases very well how long preparing the materials to begin building takes. I also really enjoy the clips of the wildlife around you as you work.
Very cool to see the local wildlife just chilling, doing wildlife stuff around you.
Years-long viewer and I'm still amazed at the amount of patience and persistence he has. Bravo, man. I love it
We just going to ignore that he picked up a boulder and walked off with it like it was regular 10lbs sack of potatoes?
I really love the wildlife shots in this one!
Every upload feels like a reprieve. We set aside the slop, the news, the chaotic whims of civilization, to find peace through a calm stay in the woods.
It’s like he’s sharing his vacation time with us, and in so doing letting us have a small reprieve as well. Through his patient labors do we find succor and rest.
(This is a poor translation support.)
I do not understand where you are going.
Nevertheless, I will charge you to continue your way.🙀
Thankyou, I'll continue to the projects. Much appreciated.
hey man, you should leave comments in japanese. youtube let's you translate comments, and the translations are usually pretty good
@cvspvr ありがとう。
気になって自分の文章を再翻訳したら、応援のメッセージが命令の文章に変わってました😰
次からは母国語でメッセージを残します。
cvspvrさん、忠告有難う御座います♪
@595submarine8haha yes, it does sound like you're commanding him to make more videos
@primitivetechnology9550 今回は母国語で文章を書きます。
cvspvrさんとのやり取りで、間違ったメッセージが貴方に届いてたことに気付きました。
前回のメッセージは応援の内容でした。貴方に命令するつもりは微塵もありません。
貴方の動画が末永く続くよう応援しています🥰
Dude this long format compilation could be on Netflix for sure, I'm sure lots of people would be interested
Never have I learned so much from someone who doesn't speak. Actions truly do speak louder than words. The amount of time and effort is impressive. Nice one Mr Plant.
turn on subtitles
i'm always amazed how quickly you can make an ember, from start to finish, it's 30 seconds. A minute later, you've turned that ember into fire... Thanks for the upload! I always stop what i'm doing or watching if i catch you've uploaded
IIRC his record so far on camera is 5 reps (repetitions with the fire sticks)
@Sphendranaon this vid his best was 5. I'm pretty sure I've seen him do it in 3. Ambient humidity will have a big part to play
Usually 3 reps to first smoke and a total of five to the ember. Amazing technique and watching it never gets old.
It's so satisfying how the clay changes color and rings when tapped after being fired.
Man, I was hoping to find something good to watch to chill with a beer after a long day.
I don't care if I've seen some of it already, I'm just watching the whole thing.
**Relax mode ENGAGED** ✌️
This is my chirstmas gift ill watch this with pure joy
This is easily some of the best content on RUclips
This man’s patience and dedication to life’s simplest questions are profound and inspiring to me. Imagine, these skills would have been rudimentary to our ancestors for thousands of years, but are all but forgotten in our modern world. To rediscover the answers to our basic needs is to understand ourselves.
Here in France, they used to form the tiles over their upper leg and always put animal prints on one to guarantee a good firing.
But someone beat us all and did it for you.
Love how you show that with a bit of knowledge you can build safe shelter.
By the way, if you make the bottom beam larger , or raise it up, your tiles will all settle into each other. Normally we put on a double lath to kick the bottom tile up as there is no tile for it to go into.
So good quality. Keep up the good work!
This guy is a legend already and haven't spoken ONE word. WOW! Just perfection his work.
@Bouzoukos, do remember to turn on the subtitles...
it took me years before I realised the narration is in the subtitles
When/if he finally speaks I hope he sounds like Gilbert Godfrey.
I LOVE watching this edited footage, but I can’t imagine the hours spent doing the same tasks over and over and over again. True dedication. Thanks for another great video.
Two and a half months straight. For fun. That’s dedication to the craft.
This video really highlighted some of the Aus wildlife he gets to see on the daily.
yea baby we r so back
Thank you, this is best channel on youtube
Thankyou
POLSKA RAHHH🇵🇱🇵🇱🇵🇱🇵🇱
The sheer dedication of this man finishing a project is inspiring.
This is the best channel on youtube hands down
Hi, as natural builder I have few improvements. Try make stone foundation higher, at least 20cm above ground. The splash water will not erode the base that quickly. Put larger stones, ceramic shards (1 - 4 cm) into clay mixture + some fiber (longer grass, leaves etc). This prevents cracks. And the most important: put diagonal bracing onto that wooden structure :) Otherwise it is so relaxing to watch you. I admire your dedication.
That’s exactly how mad wall is built in my country.
By the way, how long do you think the one built in the video would last?
You can see erosion at 46 minutes already. The wall didn't dry properly, so in rainy region as he is in, structural damage can happened in a year or so, without repairing.
He could also borrow from the Japanese style of making foundations for his wooden structures.
@AppleseedVending well he try to make it simple. Japan is not that far ftom Australia, but the technique is younger :) He would need also oil to preserve charciol wood.
@MarianOntkoche's probably only using this hut for the tiles and stash fired bricks. I'm guessing he'll make a new brick house/hut soon and use the tiles and stashed bricks, so this hut won't be needed for long
really enjoy the longer videos, hope you make more!
I love that you go to the trouble of putting captions in. Great video again.
Long format, love it!
I just randomly remembered your channel and was surprised to see you had been uploading for a while since the hiatus. So glad to see more content. Hope all is well.
RIP tiny spider at 40:04
With the amount of firewood you gather, wouldn't it make sense to make a carrying-aid in a back-pack-esque style to transport more in one go?
I have often thought the same thing. Man, why aren't you using your back for transportation but instead always carry everything with your bare hands.
But I guess it is not easy to build something like that. For one, he has no fibers suitable to make some straps from (I think, don't know if it is possible to get the lianas soft enough in order to weave them). Next he would need some way of smoothing the wood. A backpack is not good if it constantly scratches the skin.
He could easily make a backpack.
I suspect he just doesn't have to travel that far to collect wood.
I would think it would at least be worth having a strap to bundle up the sticks into faggots but 🤷♂️
The fibre he gets from the inner bark of a tree which he used when he made a trebuchet would work well.
I've watched every one of your videos over several years, and I'm still amazed every time you start a fire.
Thank you so much for your videos. I got my patents hooked during covid. Now they send me notifications of your videos (even tho I'm subscribed and see all the notifications). Thank you so much for everything you do and giving my parents peace. Much love ❤️