Primitive Technology: Belt and pulley blower
AdultsDIYEngineeringTechnologyI made a belt and pulley drive to power a blower. Up until now I had been using a rope and stick to spin the fan rotor of the blower.
Primitive Technology: Water powered forge blower
AdultsDIYEngineeringTechnologyI made a water powered forge blower to blow air into a furnace. Getting running water to power a blower had been on my list for a while now and the weather had been wet enough to cause enough flow in the creek to try one.
Primitive Technology: Brick hut destroyed by falling tree
AdultsConstructionDIYNatureSurvivalThe brick hut was destroyed by a falling tree. It had lasted 2 years and 8 months and would have lasted quite a bit longer if it were not for the accident.
Primitive Technology: Two Walled Tiled Hut
AdultsDIYSurvivalThis video follows a person building a two-walled tiled hut. They start by cutting wood and thatching a roof, then create a tile-making area and kiln. The person then builds the walls of the hut using mud and stone, and finally lays the tiles on the roof.
Primitive Technology: Tile Capped Mud Walls
AdultsCreativityEducationNatureConstructionDIYEnvironmentHow-toI built Mud walls and capped them with roof tiles to protect them from rain. Mud walls if left uncovered in wet weather will dissolve in the rain and collapse.
Primitive Technology: A-frame Roof Tile Factory
AdultsConstructionCreativityEducationDIYSurvivalTechnologyScienceEnvironmentWith the wet season only 2 months away and thatch being an impermanent material, I needed to make more roof tiles for a new hut that will withstand the next deluge.
How To Draw: Cute Mushroom Friends
KidsArtCreativityHow-toDIYFollow along with us and learn how to draw cute mushroom friends!
Primitive Technology: Water Bellows (uses water instead of leather)
AdultsConstructionCreativityEducationDIYEngineeringI built a Water Bellows. It’s an upside-down clay pot with an inlet valve and an outlet spout. The inlet valve is simply a hole in the pot with a leaf plastered to the inside with wet clay so that it forms a one-way flap valve.
Primitive Technology: Geopolymer Cement (Ash and Clay)
AdultsConstructionCreativityEducationScienceTechnologyDIYI have made wood ash cement before under the assumption that it was the calcium in the ash that gave it its cementitious properties...
Primitive Technology: Wet Season Destroys Thatched Workshop
AdultsConstructionCreativityEducationNatureEnvironmentDIYThe thatched workshop where I produce bricks, pottery, cement and charcoal for various projects was destroyed by prolonged rain from the wet season.