Ever since John Plant has been back from a two year hiatus of his hugely popular Primitive Technology YouTube channel, viewers have been carping that he was basically remaking all of the same tech he'd made previously. Well, take this, naysayers. He made his first trebuchet.
Building a trebuchet with Primitive Technology
Making a wood ash-insulated furnace for smelting iron
John Plant of the popular Primitive Technology channel continues his advance into the iron age. In this video he builds a new smelting furnace with insulated walls of wood ash… READ THE REST
Primitive Technology: Making cement out of iron bacteria
In the video, John Plant collects iron bacteria from a stream, decants it down to a mud, sun-dries it, then forms it into pots. Once dry and hardened, the pots… READ THE REST
More Primitive Technology's explorations of the Iron Age
John Plant of Primitive Technology continues his explorations of Iron Age technology. In this video, he attempts to remove the carbon (decarburize) from some iron prills he produced using a… READ THE REST
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