Primitive Skills: Iron

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[NoCheeseNoMercy]

Great job man! You have quickly become my favorite primitive channel! You are so creative and have great content! Way better content than other “primitive let’s build pools” channels! Keep up the hard work! Can’t wait to see the rice harvest!!

[sxmple]

This guy is out there speedrunning human evolution

[BarelySentientBraincell]

13:50 My god, what a money shot. This is so awesome, a chunk of pure iron from just some ore, clay and bamboo.

[chowricku]

Your bloom may contain too much slag. So there is some advice.
1.Make a proper furnace
Your furnace is too short.Try to make it high because it need space for combustion smelting and reduction.
2.Try to use a pumping bellow
Pump air into the furnace is much better than fan air into it
3.Make better charcoal first
Charcoal is the key to success
The Conclusion:
You made a good start. But the temperature it not high enough to reach the standard of producing useful iron. BTW try to burn the ore before put it into furnace. Sorry for my bad English

[MrKittke]

maybe connect the wind making machine to a water wheel so you can focus on other stuff except fire

[LegoLordPro]

5:37 Nobody:

Marijuana Enthusiast at 4 a.m. in the morning smoking wed:

[elterga]

Dont let anybody downplay your achievement. This is a very good piece considering the process and tools used to make it.

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[EdwinWiles]

Well done! I had my doubts about the blower, but you did it!

Suggestions for future attempt:

1) move blower outlet higher in stack.

2) keep it going longer, you need to get more of the slag to melt away from the iron.

3) More Air! The flame should come out the top almost blue.

[eluive]

it's mostly slag and very little iron.
the temperature was too low.
even if you make the furnace 3 times higher and the ventilator 10 times bigger - the only thing that will heat up enough to flow will be slag. the iron will be soft, but still not fluid. that's ok though, because at least you'd be able to separate them this way.

a wooden hammer needs a stone head for metal. you need to figure out how to make primitive pliers for later when you reheat the iron for shaping

[matejjesensky]

omg... why none of these survival chanels use water flow as power source???

[mbaitoff]

This is quite unexpected result from that level of furnace and fuel. Other channels, or even entire tribes that mastered the iron smelting with proper fuels, fluxes and furances didn't manage to obtain a whole piece of metal iron, only iron blooms - the mixture of iron pellets and bypass smelting stuff. I'm sceptically assuming this video is kind of a hoax.

[aquatus]

Nicely done. If I may offer a suggestion, your next bloomery should be narrower at the bottom than at the top (internally). The natural construction inclination is to make the bottom wider and the top narrower, but for a bloomery, a narrowing shaft (an inverse cone), helps concentrate the iron together towards the bottom, making for a denser bloom with less slag.

[goma]

Nice. I been getting tired of all other primitive channels building houses with pools. Suggestion - make a stone hammer to shape the iron when heated.

[codycox]

Give me a break, all of these primitive channels are amazing! All of these men are showing yreat skills that few men have anymore. I give all of you men showing off your great skill much respect! Thank you for showing us what you can do!

[SV_Try_Magic]

congrats, nice bloom, you should defiantly consider putting a pulley or gear on that blower though so you can get it spinning faster without wearing your arm out.

[airforce]

Unfortunately, I think this is faked. There's just simply no way he produced that large of a bloom given the amount of ore he put in the furnace, let alone the fact that it couldn't possibly get hot enough with the constructed bellows setup. Slag comes out of the furnace in a liquid, of which there was none.

[Inadharion]

I love how these videos give the modern man a bit of historical perspective. Well. SOME of the modern men :p

[SyuaibarIqbal]

Dr. Stone in real life. Very inspiring. Good job man.

[keeganfoster]

This guy and primitive technology are pretty good.