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Impressive! Of course technically he’s building it not by himself but with the help of a lot of technology. ;) This man is building a house including the tools

• gkya 8y ago
  Primitive Technology is an awesome channel, one of the marvels of youtube. To anybody who decides to follow his videos: please do not skip reading the description of the videos. He's not just making some primitive-looking stuff with crap he finds about, he actually often tries to replicate what actual primitive peoples did, and explains the historical period and some other details. There are those other channels that copied the concept, but they are just bad copies, half naked men doing silly things for the views.
  • underko 8y ago
    And don't forget to turn on captions, as his commentary is there.
    • gkya 8y ago
      Oh crap I didn't know that now I have to watch them all again! Thanks!
    • Bromskloss 8y ago
      It seems like some YouTube videos have captions on by default. Maybe he should turn that on.
      • gkya 8y ago
        Curiously I don't see any captions since some time, even though I haven't touched any settings anywhere.
    • Cthulhu_ 8y ago
      I've learned about this a while ago (also via a comment), but, I've never turned it on; I like just watching it silently and going "Aaaah he's making an <x>!".
      • edaemon 8y ago
        I usually watch the video twice, first with no captions and second with them on. I also like trying to figure out what he's doing in each part, but he uses the captions to explain a lot of interesting things that I didn't catch/understand.
    • erikb 8y ago
      This reminds me a little of the surprise it was when I found that xkcd has mouseover comments that can be ridiculously funny.
  • agumonkey 8y ago
    And it's only "primitive" in some sense, his threaded leave baskets have some beautiful symmetry in the threading process. There's nothing crass about how it's done, on the contrary.
  • saalweachter 8y ago
    There was an interesting article on here last week about trying to replicate primitive carpentry for archaeological purposes. An illustrative example of the why was that in their first attempt they broke all their stone axeheads in the first hour; after they got some practice they were able to estimate the acreage they could clear with their techniques. Reconstructions both tell you what you got wrong and provide new information about the capabilities of our ancestors, as well as providing context on the archaeological remains.
• ryan-allen 8y ago
  That guy is amazing. I've watched all of his video many times over. For the new to the channel, he does all commentary via subtitles so if you want explanations of what he's doing and why turn them on! Some people seem to like watching them without the commentary as it's relaxing, others want to know what and why. I watched 5 videos before I realised there was explanations. I hope he goes back to his furnaces and metal, I'd like to see some metal tools from nothing!
  • agumonkey 8y ago
    Him and Mathias Wandel (woodwork shop) have some tangible zen effect on my mind. It may be subjective but crafting with simple material, and mostly your hands* is extremely satisfying to watch and also very tempting to do. Society creates a distortion in which every pleasure sits behind some door but here they do tons of fun stuff outside just like that.
    • tedeh 8y ago
      I totally agree with you and I love Primitive Technology, but let's not lose track on that these videos are edited too. All the failures and retries are left out, what is left is only a clear path from start to finish that looks deceptively easy.
      • ryan-allen 8y ago
        Well, yeah, the advantage he has is all the accessible knowledge available via the internet. He would have done hours upon hours of research before embarking upon experiments that took humans thousands of years to discover and develop. It's still bloody cool!
      • agumonkey 8y ago
        Heh good point. It's mentally more pleasuring in timelapse where every steps only takes half a second instead of 10.
      • jnellis 8y ago
        Some of the woodworking videos I've seen solve this by speeding up the video during the boring parts after you get the general idea. That way you can see there's no man behind the curtain. The ones that include the sped up audio as well are fun.
• trumped 8y ago
  He's not trying to make his life harder... he is building it by himself the same way that some contractor would be doing it with perhaps 4-5 guys. Although primitive, the video that you linked to is also based on previous technology/knowledge...
  • jklinger410 8y ago
    >Although primitive, the video that you linked to is also based on previous technology/knowledge... Yet one is possible to do literally by yourself without another human being alive as long as you possess the knowledge. It is a real difference.
    • trumped 8y ago
      If you have all the knowledge, wouldn't you know both ways? Sure you might need to build a few tools with your knowledge before you start, but then you could build a city.