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Does this guy lives in the perfect spot to do these things? Making clay seems to be easy. Large quantities of metals in the ground. Never cold, plenty of wood e
by holoduke 4y ago
Does this guy lives in the perfect spot to do these things? Making clay seems to be easy. Large quantities of metals in the ground. Never cold, plenty of wood everywhere.
- drexlspivey 4y agoHe bought a plot with everything he needs
- Narretz 4y agoI think so. A few years ago, he moved his operation to a different spot of land because it had more / other resources he wanted.
- soperj 4y agoHe used to live in the city in Australia and go out to a piece of property owned by a friend, based on the amount of money that he's made from his channel though I think he now bought a property just to do this. He was a lawn maintenance guy if I remember correctly.
- gus_massa 4y ago> Never cold, plenty of wood everywhere. From https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Primitive_Technology https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Primitive_Technology > Primitive Technology is a YouTube channel run by John Plant. Based in [Far North Queensland] in the Australian state of Queensland, From https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Far_North_Queensland https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Far_North_Queensland > Far North Queensland has a tropical climate and as such, the name Tropical North Queensland is sometimes used to refer to the region, mostly due to the tourism industry. > Making clay seems to be easy. I agree. [At least the rivers I know have plenty of clay.] > Large quantities of metals in the ground. I guess this is the most difficult part. It depends a lot on the exact place you are. It would be nice to know how much sand did he process and how much iron he got.
- augusto-moura 4y agoTrace amounts of iron are present almost every where on the planet, most of it is bound to other elements though. You can easily find small "lines" of it in streams and river beds
- bcrosby95 4y agoYep, and this was the initial benefit of iron despite bronze generally being better - you can find it anywhere, vs needing to source both copper and tin which tended to come from different, far flung places.
- aaaaaaaaaaab 4y agoBut the Bronze Age preceded the Iron Age...
- Lariscus 4y agoBronze has a lower melting point compared to Iron making it much easier to work with. I think you also have to invent charcoal first to reach the temperatures necessary to melt iron ore.
- pfdietz 4y agoIron was originally produced without melting it at all. Instead, iron ore was reacted with reduced gases, and a flux (limestone) causes the silicate contaminants to melt instead. The solid iron that's obtained (sponge iron) is then forged into shape (and also beaten to remove residual silicates.)
- mod 4y agoI googled it, and apparently we still do that, at least for some of the production.
- avidphantasm 4y agoNever mind where he lives. Where does he get the time to do this amazing stuff?
- 13of40 4y agoJust this summer I noticed that the magnets on the back of my barbecue thermometer were picking up a lot of magnetic sand from the local riverbank. I went back with a super-duper magnet-fishing magnet and found that probably 20% of the rocks there were magnetic. I've explored a little bit, and (mind blown) there are magnetic rocks all over the place, from cliff sides to rocks in my front yard to gravel from my friend's driveway. I haven't looked anywhere outside of Oregon and Washington though, but it seems like rocks with significant (presumably)-iron content aren't rare at all.
- pfdietz 4y agoIron is 1000 times more abundant in the crust than copper.