Primitive Technology has a comfy new video https://www.yout

Aw yiss

Yay

I'm glad he isn't rushing to do more complex projects like everyone wants him to.

Like how the fuck is he going to smelt iron.

This is much more realistic. Everything is about getting food.

Looks like such a comfy life desu.

Nice I love his vids, I wish there where more channels like this.

>>771655
Exactly like he's pure content, what we watch channels for- not dubstep intros, second channel plugs and all that bullshit even those who produce good stuff seem to surround it with

>>771659
Whether or not he himself knows it (I tend to think he does), his videos are a strong critique of the narcissism of direct-to-webcam "Hay Guys" channels. He clearly goes out of his way to have NO voice whatsoever on his videos, and does subtle clever things like rapping his knuckles against his clay bowls to let you know that they should have a nice *ring* when properly fired.

>>771712
He does all the explaining in his wordpress.

>>771659
>>771712
>make a few instructional videos on firearms ~5 years ago
>do the same style, concise, no talking, 1/10th the length of videos on the same topics
>somehow a few vids get 50-200k views despite me doing no promotion or anything
>most common email/message: "HEY MAN COOL CHANNEL YOU SHOULD DO MORE TALKING AND MAKE THE VIDEOS LONGER"

>>771726
Well let me thank you for keeping them short and concise. If I'm looking for a video demonstration of a simple task like making natural cordage, cleaning a weapon, or tying a tie, I will click away almost immediately if the youtuber wastes my time with webcam monologue. Misleading thumbnails are even worse.

I wish I was less of a faggot so I could achieve this level of comfy.

I wish he'd make himself some shoes.

>>771782
Why?
No shoes are the comfiest shoes.

>>771618
It's definitely going to be a process. If he does go that route, we'll see a lot of infrastructure videos leading up to it. It's definitely not the sort of thing he can throw together in the same video like with the shingle kiln

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Love this guy's channel, really nice change of pace.

So I really would like to commit a couple years and give this a go full time. Here's my question, where do I do it? I'm down to buy land as I'm flush with beekeeper money what's the cheapest way to get a chunk of land surrounded by wilderness in the Pacific Northwest?
Trained permi farmer/hunted and killed a boar with a knife, being out 24/7 isn't an issue.

>>771915
Do some googling. Here's what I found immediately.
http://www.stimsontimberlandsales.com/pacific-northwest-land-sale
All I did was search "land for sale Pacific Northwest" and it gave me lots of hits.

>>771732
>those guys with the fucking 30 second intro plus a foreword, plus 20 goddamn minutes of insane bullshit before actually getting to the topic at hand
>somehow manage to stretch a task that could be completed in 5 minutes to another 15

If I'm looking for an instruction video, and it's longer than 10-15 minutes, I won't even click on it.

>>771841
naaah, comfy hot shoes on a cold winter days are the best.

He doesnt even havw adds, What a good guy!

>A study of Fijian farms using manual labour howed that ratio of energy put into farming vs yield of energy was 1:17 for rice and 1:60 for sweet potato.

why are the chinese so crazy about rice then

>>771989
Part cultural (I grew up eating rice), partly because rice can be stored 100 times longer. If you have crop failures next season with sweet potato, you're kinda stuffed.

>>771966
>Covering your feet.
Honestly disgusting.

>>772002
>This
Storing your food is much more important.

Potatoes are part of the nightshade family. If i remember correctly, all parts of the potato plant (except the tuber) are poisonous. So why is he eating the leaves? Does the boiling destroy the poison? I sure as fuck hope so cuz i've eaten green potatoes before and it fucked me up bad.

>>772170
It's probably the leaves from the sweet potatoe. Apparently they're edible

>>771989
Funny thing is most of Asia's rice is grown in California using conventional method (no labor)

>>772170
Sweet potatoes arent nightshades

>>772170
These are purple potatoes not green dummy.

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>>772174
The whole of the US grows about 4% as much rice as China alone. The top ten Asian rice producers grow over one hundred times as much rice as the whole US. Considering California accounts for only 1/6th of US production and assuming it exports all its rice (the US as a whole exports less than half its production) California contributes less than 0.16% to Asias rice.

What on earth made you think that one small dry state on the other side of the world had any relevance to the Asian rice market? I mean it is absurd on the face of it.

>>772174
this really sounds like something you would hear a stupid person say at a party

>>772170
>Potatoes are part of the nightshade family.
Potatoes are nightshades, sweet potatoes are not.

>>772178
>>772193
>>772215
why isn't anybody pointing out that potatoes are not poisonous at all since everyone eats them and nothing happens

>>772197
Bitch slapped.

>>772229
>leave potato /out/side in the sun for a couple of days
>eat potato
>?¿?
>profit

I'd love to live in a place work a regular day job and do this in my free time. I'm a Britbong, can anyone recommend where I can do this?

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>>771841
>Getting rocks and sticks jammed into your feet is comfy

>>772387
Learn how to watch where you're going you slack jawed jack ass.

Is ceramic work as easy as this nerd makes it look?

>>771960
The feature where you can see the frame at the time along the progress bar where you hover your mouse is beyond useful to help with this shit- I like what the other guy in this thread was saying about Primitive Survival being aware of it.. Do most you tubers just give it no thought like its the convention or what, they can't think we want to see the same thing again and again surely ?

>>772387
Your feet toughen up after a while - I never wear shoes when going bush.

>>772371
Same question, other Europoor country.

>>772807
Feet never toughen against spiders, unfortunately. Or ants.

>>773006
Look where you're fucking walking.

>>773007
I fucking do, I have to pick my way through the bed of rocks and sharp sticks that you get in eucalypt forests. You can't fault me for trying, it's just fuckin hard.

>>773006
The soles of your feet do so as long as you're walking they don't get the sides. Shoes are certainly better but the lions, dogs, monkeys and great apes have no problem running at great speed on their feet.

>>772204
kek I was going to berate him but this was perfect

>>772803
>The feature where you can see the frame at the time along the progress bar where you hover your mouse
what do you mean?

>>772434
It's not necessary hard work, just a lot of repetitive work. But with your autism that will work out just fine.

So there is nothing like this guy's channel?

Great vids and its always comfy as fuck. His shelter video was amazing.

>>773071
Well to my half city boy mind he just took some clay shaped it let it dry fired it and had some pretty quality roofing. Am I missing something?

>>771599
I was wondering when I'd see this thread.
I'm really impressed watching him progress. It also demonstrates that our ancestors knew what they were doing. I'm sick of this ancient alien shit.

>>771915
>I'm flush with beekeeper money
Could you elaborate? This sounds interesting. How did you get into it in the first place?

>>772204
There's always that "guy" at a big party that spews bullshit about the world to look smart and interesting. Chicks see right through it. so while Stacey is getting fucked by Chad thunder cock he doesn't get it and keeps talking, killing everyone's buzz.

>>772803
This is crucial as fuck. I love how porn sites have had it forever and it YouTube years to implement it.

>>773027
Hover your mouse over the time progress bar. Move it along the line without clicking to see sample frames. See something you like? Click.

>>774635
He murders and steals from Beekeepers.

cant wait til he builds a cool ass flintstones car desu

>>774644
Didn't know beekeeping was so lucrative.
>>774666
Devil trips checked

>>774666
>Creates internal combustion engine out of mud, sticks and eucalyptus leaves.
To be fair, he's done more in a couple of years, than Aboriginals did in 40 millennia.

>>775484
Kek
I have a bunch of abo memes on my laptop I want to post now.

>>773007

Must be fun having to watch the ground all the time instead of what you're doing / carrying

>>771960

I skipped through a review of a bivvy sack the other day where the video was 20 minutes long and the cunt never took it out of its stuff sack. Just kept telling stories about when he's (supposedly) used it in the past.

That's what I like about lilly.

>Hi everyone, today I'm going to talk about X. Stay tuned.
> >5 second intro
>Ok so here is X [has X in her hands showing the camera]

It's like how 99% of videos that are music tutorials (How to play X song on guitar) the fuckwits spend 3-5 minutes fucking rambling on before they even start playing. Fuck that gives me the shits.

The worst part is, don't the people who make these videos know how annoying it is from watching OTHER fucking videos? Or do they just blindly do their own shit without ever having seen a single fucking video themselves? AGH

>>771989

Because if there's one thing that Asia has, it's an abundance of cheap labour. Also, rice is kind of like bread to Asians, and think of all the processing and labour that goes into processing bread in the west; with rice you just dump it in the pot. Plus, it's the perfect climate.

>>772371

Either move to Scotland and go stealth or buy your own land.

>>777377
>I like about lilly
Are you talking about that austrian chick with glasses? I wathed her videos few days ago about her urban survival kit and i thought she's retarded.

>>771599
maybe im just retarded but how does one hammer those stakes in without risk hitting yourself?

>>773022
your feet might do a fine job protecting you against the floor, but lets be honest. its not that hard to strap a pair of sandles together and shoes > no shoes

>>778096
why would you hit yourself instead of the stake?

>>777392

Yeah the thing is the content is mostly basic or taken straight from the SAS survival guide, but she knows how to make good videos, and on YT that's the majority of what it takes to be successful. Also, she has a vagina.

>>772170

Sweet potatoes aren't related to normal potatoes.

>>772229

The tubers of potatoes aren't poisonous.

>>777377
Link to lilly pls

>>778589
not him but:
https://www.youtube.com/user/alonewolverine1984

>>771854
I'm not sure if this works in Australia, but you actually produce iron with just that kiln he built.


Its a process where you collect bog iron (only works if you have bogs), and refine it by burning off the slag in a forge (his kiln would work)

>>778925
Wouldn't it melt and fall into the fire making it shit-tier?

>>778925
He's in a tropical region, I don't think he has bog available.
The region he's in has a lot of iron ore though, so much so that most of the dirt in some places is almost blood red.

>>778946
The melting point of iron is 2,800 F, while the average fire temperature is about 1,100 F +.

>>779156
>Using Fahrenheit
Shit son, get it together.

He's hitting some crazy temperatures in that kiln though, easily 1,000C, with a better oxygen supply he could easily smelt iron.

>>779197
Speaking of this, I'm expecting him to make. Some leather bellows.

>>779266
Speaking of leather, when is he going to get some meat? Or will ausfalia shut his shit down.

>>779741
Well, he's made a sling and a bow, but I doubt he'd be able to take a roo, camel or water buffalo with it.

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>>779893
His bow is pretty mediocre. However, with practice and a bit of time you can make an excellent hunting bow from primitive materials which is more than capable of taking large game. This guy made a bow using only primitive tools and methods and shot a flint-tipped arrow straight through a deer.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1VCYlg9w7dE

>>779955
Neat.
But yeah, the bow in the video seems to be mainly for small game, if he put work into one like that, he could take a small roo, maybe.

To be honest, I'd be fine with him just skipping that step and buying a fresh hide/carcass, prepping and tanning it himself.

>>779962
It'd be really hard for him to make a video about tanning hides, simply due to the time requirements of primitive methods. Depending on the type of hide and the methods used it can take weeks or even months to tan a hide.

Even if he used relatively modern methods like liming and bark-tanning, it would still take at least a week or two.

But yeah, it would be really interesting to see that. Even a video on skinning with stone tools would be pretty neat. This guy's method would translate pretty well to stone tools:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=J-oWBdxxMfA

He's got other videos about making lime putty, liming skins, and bark tanning but he uses steel tools and talks too damned much.

>>779966
>Depending on the type of hide and the methods used it can take weeks or even months to tan a hide.

He's got plenty of time. His whole theme is to do it the way it was done, no cheating. He's already dedicated a lot of time into the processes.

>>779966
As the other anon said, his main resource is time - it took over 100 days to make one of his videos.

>>779741
He's said that he can't hunt due to it being illegal to do so.

>>780050
True, lack of crown land hunting sucks a thick one.

>>780050
That's insane. Surely there is a way for Australia to allow reasonable hunting laws. What's their issue with hunting?
Maybe he can get a special historical education permit. Don't tv shows occasionally do things the general public can't?

>>779741
In the bow and arrow video he was filming a bird and followed it up with a hard cut to himself holding it's feathers. Old mate is a killer at heart, the government is just trying to hold down the Aussie battlers.

>>780258
Citycunts are against guns.
We've had a massive outbreak of pest species in the last two decades and it's only getting worse.

>>777377
>lilly in charge of not sucking product placement cock

>>780325

Sure she does, but not nearly as much as many people do. And when she does it, it's not nearly as obnoxious

>>779124
That's just clay. Australia has a lot of iron-rich clay.

>>778925
You can smelt iron in a bloomery furnace constructed from the same materials, but it would be significantly different in design from the kiln he made. Much taller for one, with tuyeres and a slag tap.

Also, it would need to be charcoal fired instead of wood fired. Wood doesn't burn hot enough and has impurities that would fuck up the bloom.

If he's going to make the leap out of the neolithic, he really ought to start with copper or bronze first. Easier to deal with, and having metal tools would be incredibly useful prior to making the leap to iron smelting. Most importantly, tongs.

>>780348
>Also, it would need to be charcoal fired instead of wood fired.
He has already made charcoal.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GzLvqCTvOQY

>>780348
Wouldn't you need copper deposits to do that?

>>780707
It'd be interesting watching him mine with primitive tools.

>>780707
Well yeah. Any metal you intend to smelt is going to depend on the availability of the ore. And you can't just use any ore; some ores require additional chemical processes or levels of heat not achievable with a simple clay furnace.

You really can't just grab anything that has iron in it and expect to get a useful bloom out of it. Bog iron tends to have lots of impurities such as phosphorus that really can't be dealt with by primitive methods. Sure maybe you'll get lucky and find some nodules with low phosphorus, but maybe you'll spend weeks making a couple hundred pounds of charcoal for your furnace, and end up with a bloom that just shatters into a bunch of useless rusty chips of slag.

Hematite is what you want for a primitive iron smelt, and malachite for copper. Malachite is more forgiving to smelt though, and requires lower temperatures. With hematite, if you don't bust your ass pumping the bellows and getting the furnace as hot as possible, you'll end up with a poor bloom:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gPf08sFpNXA

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>>780801
I think that malachite was discovered from surface deposits originally, somewhere in Jordan or Syria. It can still sometimes be found in surface deposits, though most of them have been mined out over the millennia.

If one could find such a deposit all you'd need to do is pick up some scree.

>>780801
>>780802

I'd love to see whether he could make metal tools. It has always intrigued me as to why the aboriginies never progressed to this level.

>>780839
Go to an aboriginal community, you will find at least one reason.

>>780839
as in the aussie ones? no long-term storable food for craftsmen. everyone had to go on the walk abouts

>>780913
>Never heard of smoking meat.

>>780913
That's a big part of it. Another part of it is that refining, smelting, and casting/forging metals requires an enormous amount of charcoal, which in turn requires an enormous amount of wood, which simply wasn't available in the required quantities in Australia.

>>780944
Have you been to Australia?
Outside of the desert we have a shit load of trees.

>>780271
Oh yeah, that's right. He alluded to it but he can deny it saying he found those feathers.

>>780839
Because abo.

>>780944
I saw a couple of trees the other day so I dunno what your talking about mate

>>780944

Yeah nah there's shitloads of trees here mate. Everyone outside Australia thinks that abos only live in the desrert, but we have coastal, mountain and rainforest tribes too. There was even abos down in the snow fields down south.

Think about it; Australia is almost as big as murrica in land mass, and we have a huge diversity of biomes.

And yet; abos didn't farm, or develop processed metallurgy.

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>>781162
I think you're really underestimating the amount of wood we're talking about here.

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>>781187
And while I've never been to Australia, it doesn't seem like on the whole you guys have the sort of forest resources that ancient Europe had.

>>781189

Isn't that because ancient Abos burned it all down for easy hunting?

>>781686
I don't think they burned down the trees, just the all the low lying shit that got in their way.
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fire-stick_farming

>>771599
He will make a magnet and use it to generate electricity before the end of the year.

>>781686
Most of our trees actually need fire to germinate

that being said yes they did but it didn't reduce the amount of forest coverage.

>>781162
To be fair they did make massive eel farms but yeah they didn't farm plants

http://www.abc.net.au/science/articles/2003/03/13/806276.htm

>>781189
>>781187

You can fit the UK into Australia 60 times.

So you see those little smudges of forest? Yeah, they're fucking massive.

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>>771599
What I'm wondering is, if anyone would give me their opinions, if you were instantaneously stranded innawoods and wanted to keep yourself fed, what would you do? look for? farm? first reactions?

>>784569
Look for sheep. :^)

>>784569
In Canada you would need perfect knowledge of local edible plants. Lots of stuff that's edible, but also lots of stuff that'll give you the shits or just kill you. Lots of wild blueberries, strawberries and raspberries were I live, as well as other berries that taste like crap but are edible. Very easy to pick a bucketfuls in some places, though I guess you'd deplete them eventually. There are various edible leafy plants and tubers, but I have no idea which are which and wouldn't try eating them unless desperate.

Fishing would probably be your main source of protein because it's just so much easier and more reliable than snaring small game or bow hunting. Building a fish trap would be the way to go in most places. Lot of shellfish around the coasts. Some places have fairly large gamebirds like partridge which are dumb as stumps and pretty easy to kill. Seal is a possibility, though probably a tall order for a single primitive hunter - they're just heavy and going on the ice alone is dangerous as hell. Large game like deer, caribou, moose, or bison are not practical options in this situation: if you were dropped in the wilderness you wouldn't easily be able to construct a bow capable of killing one, and in the unlikely event that you were able to stalk and kill one the majority of the kill would rot before you could eat it. Just not calorie profitable for an individual with no tech to draw upon.

It also depends on where you are of course. Some places would be much easier to live in than others. BC and Southern Quebec & Ontario would be relatively easy, which is why they had much larger native populations than say Newfoundland or the Maritimes.

>>780271
I thought he said he picked up feathers off the ground?