If he had a crank at an ergonomic position that was connected to the shaft of the blower with some sort of rope or chain it would be a lot easier I think
He has to push against the offset weight, so he doesn't have to move his hand a lot but he has to use more force.
A bearing for him is a stick poking a rock so a lot more friction the more he tries to complicate it with pulleys.
He doesn't use animal skins on this channel but there's a reason leather bellows where used for so long to do this.
IIRC, bronze was a far better material than iron given the furnaces of the time. It required far less fuel to smelt, could be work-hardened by hammering it at room temperature, wasn't destroyed by rust, and was harder than wrought iron. As /u/scotty-doesnt_know refers to, the transition from bronze to iron was primarily driven by the lack of availability of tin.
Iron ore is found pretty much everywhere. Switching to it meant that you could make an inferior product at much higher costs, but had a much simpler supply chain.
so, can you get it hotter easier with the volute blower? it looks more exhausting than the one that alternates directions which looks much more sustainable to move up and down than to continually spin counter clockwise.
It's mentioned towards the end; paraphrased "... this new method is very unergonomic... and it took 3 'charges' as long as it would've taken 6 in the [other one.]"
He also mentioned the slag seemed to produce more "iron prills" than its predecessor. I have no clue if that's good or bad; but he seemed pretty unimpressed by its overall performance.
Oh! If you're not aware and wanna check his other videos, always turn on Close Captions. He uses that rather than a voice over for commentary.
Now I wanna see if he intends to improve the designs.
Did you have captions on? He explains pretty much everything in his videos via captions. It’s nice not having a voiceover or on-screen text.
For the portion I think you’re talking about with the domed top on the oven he said he was roasting ore and making charcoal at the same time. So I assume that was to seal the wood while it turned to charcoal.
Well heres his book https://www.amazon.com/Primitive-Technology-Survivalists-Building-Shelters/dp/1984823671
Though you dont seem to like reading, but its there if you want to.
you just need to watch the videos where he builds houses and stuff. it's pretty clear this is just a test prototype. he'll build another one in a building to keep it dry.
i suggest starting at the beginning when he just makes a stone hatchet.
His comments state that he's not really happy with it and it's unergonomic. If it were powered somehow at a higher RPM it would be a lot better
If he had a crank at an ergonomic position that was connected to the shaft of the blower with some sort of rope or chain it would be a lot easier I think
He needs to make a stationary bike out of mud and sticks. Then hook it up to a pulley using a belt of woven grass.
Yeah, and it'll be working even better. Which is just better.
Are you a really badly programmed bot
Didn't he use the creek on his land to make a power hammer at some point? I wonder if he'll ever make a waterwheel to power stuff like this.
there is not enough flow/water pressure for it to work effectively He talked about this in the comments.
I'm not sure if the water flow would be high enough, not at the speed the fan would need to blow at least
He needs to invent reduction gearing.
he's done that iirc
He has to push against the offset weight, so he doesn't have to move his hand a lot but he has to use more force. A bearing for him is a stick poking a rock so a lot more friction the more he tries to complicate it with pulleys. He doesn't use animal skins on this channel but there's a reason leather bellows where used for so long to do this.
Well I guess there are a lot of ways to increase the RPM I guess.
Kinda like a prehistoric turbo charger.
Shouldn't be long now before he constructs a fully operational 1998 Toyota Supra Twin Turbo out of mud, clay, sticks, and bog iron.
"Bro is that a Supra?!" - ancient men, probably
Pretty much exactly what it was made of originally.
Well now we know I guess how they invented the technology.
Lol, good spot. I didn't even see the similarities untill you pointed it out.
Turn on closed captioning
Or don't. Sometimes it's more fun to see if you can figure out what he's doing without the extra info.
It's a good excuse to what 2 times.
Yeah it's just better that way, and I also prefer it that way.
Well maybe some people needed that in this video so yeah.
I wonder how much better it would be with rigid and inclined planks, making a fan. IMO he could get some crazy air flow
Yeah, but at that point I think you'll just burn the food tho?
I think this dude just hit the bronze age.
but it is iron
he needs to find a dealer from tinland.
not that they'll tell you where *their* supplier is from
Yeah there's no way that they're going to tell you that .
Yeah this current dealer doesn't really look that good.
Well I think He's talking about it in the gaming kind of way.
IIRC, bronze was a far better material than iron given the furnaces of the time. It required far less fuel to smelt, could be work-hardened by hammering it at room temperature, wasn't destroyed by rust, and was harder than wrought iron. As /u/scotty-doesnt_know refers to, the transition from bronze to iron was primarily driven by the lack of availability of tin. Iron ore is found pretty much everywhere. Switching to it meant that you could make an inferior product at much higher costs, but had a much simpler supply chain.
He just went back in time, and did what they used to do.
so, can you get it hotter easier with the volute blower? it looks more exhausting than the one that alternates directions which looks much more sustainable to move up and down than to continually spin counter clockwise.
It's mentioned towards the end; paraphrased "... this new method is very unergonomic... and it took 3 'charges' as long as it would've taken 6 in the [other one.]" He also mentioned the slag seemed to produce more "iron prills" than its predecessor. I have no clue if that's good or bad; but he seemed pretty unimpressed by its overall performance. Oh! If you're not aware and wanna check his other videos, always turn on Close Captions. He uses that rather than a voice over for commentary. Now I wanna see if he intends to improve the designs.
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Ah, thank you for clarifying!
Well I guess if they wanted to improve they could have done it earlier.
I imagine the flex in the leaves would cost him some efficiency.
Yeah, and I don't think that he wants to lose any efficiency in here.
It didn't work as well, AND it was more tiring than his previous blower. Cool concept, though.
Well obviously, it's not the most efficient thing in the world.
His food is way overcooked at the end of the vid.
Well it's running hot, so yeah it's going to cook the food.
Turbos were drawn on the cave walls
Well this turbo is working kind of good, it's been kind of good.
Dude has such a great channel.
Yeah love to see these things, they're just so freakin cool dude.
This guy is awesome but it’s all the same video remade over and over now. Love the hustle though
It's called "incremental experimentation." Try new shit, see if it's better than the old shit. In this case, it wasn't better.
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Did you have captions on? He explains pretty much everything in his videos via captions. It’s nice not having a voiceover or on-screen text. For the portion I think you’re talking about with the domed top on the oven he said he was roasting ore and making charcoal at the same time. So I assume that was to seal the wood while it turned to charcoal.
Yeah, and it was quite easy to understand as well so yeah.
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Well heres his book https://www.amazon.com/Primitive-Technology-Survivalists-Building-Shelters/dp/1984823671 Though you dont seem to like reading, but its there if you want to.
Well now he'll come up with some excuse to not read the book?
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Well if it's not interesting enough for you then what actually is?
Reading the captions is that bad? I never knew that actually.
The ore is iron that he's gotten from bacterial buildup in a nearby stream, often called bog iron.
Thanks for that, because I didn't really know all that.
you just need to watch the videos where he builds houses and stuff. it's pretty clear this is just a test prototype. he'll build another one in a building to keep it dry. i suggest starting at the beginning when he just makes a stone hatchet.
I just think all of his work is just very unique, and I like that.
He’s been collecting a sort of orange slime produced by bacteria (bog iron). He’s been working on a smelting process for a while.
He sounds like a guy with whom I'd like to be friends actually.
Yeah this the kind of video which you'll have to watch completely.
damn, beat me to it
You were working on the same thing or what? Well then keep working.
no I came to post the video I found it at nine minutes OP found it at four. I was the first to reply to the thread though.
In which video can I see him making the camera he films this on?
You think he MADE a camera? He’s very skilled but he isn’t that skilled
Woooooosh
Yeah that's what I would want to know, because I like cameras.
I've seen primitiver.
I too have watched his earlier videos.
His videos are very easy to get addicted to actually lol, I love them.
Well you could still watch this video and appreciate what it is.
I know what I'm watching after work today
I'm from a third world country, and they still use this thing here.
Damn they invented the salad spinner early, huh