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One of my favorite videos is a documentary of a village in Africa that goes through the process of producing iron tools from scratch, even though it is not requ
by oflannabhra 6y ago
One of my favorite videos is a documentary of a village in Africa that goes through the process of producing iron tools from scratch, even though it is not required anymore, to pass on the knowledge.
They find ore, construct furnaces, smelt the ore, refine the iron and then work it.
It takes an entire village weeks to do this.
https://youtu.be/RuCnZClWwpQ https://youtu.be/RuCnZClWwpQ
- asab 6y agoI watched the whole thing. 2 things stood out to me. - It really illustrated the point made in the article of how labor is really what makes it difficult to accomplish. Weeks of effort sourcing materials, constructing furnaces, bellows, and refining. When it came to extracting ore, they just dug a hole nearby. - If the Wealden group (the attempt cited in the article https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zsywnQJMJEk&feature=youtu.be https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zsywnQJMJEk&feature=youtu.be) had watched this documentary, they might have had less furnace cracking and less trouble forming a bloom. I didn't see them add flux for example