ShareTweetShare Primitive Technology: Palm Thatched Mud Hut Construction This is an old hut Primitive Technology built 2 years ago and have since demolished. It was a 2 m square floor with wattle and daub walls 1.5 m high topped with a pyramidal roof thatched with Alexander palm fronds. The building method is my usual plan- get a…
ShareTweetShare Primitive Technology: How to build a primitive wood shed. It has been raining here quite a bit in what should normally be the dry season. The wattle and daub hut is standing up well despite this (see video). However this has held back some other projects I had planned. So I decided to build a…
ShareTweetShare Primitive Technology: How to make a primitive stone adze The video shows the construction and use of a stone adze.To put this video in context, the dome hut you see in the video is in the same spot as the wattle and Daub hut is today- only 2 years earlier (first started filming these builds).…
ShareTweetShare Primitive Technology: Removes the poison from “Castanospermum australe” black beans. Cooking and leaching Black bean to remove the poison making it safe to eat. A basket was made to leach the poison out in a stream. Thus making Australian black bean edible. Also shown are Atherton Oak nuts. The Aboriginal artefacts found near by were…
ShareTweetShare Primitive Technology: Making a Celt stone axe by hand. The manufacture of a stone axe including the handle from using only primitive tools and materials. It is a celt (pronounced “selt”) a type of axe with a polished stone head wedged into a hole or mortise at the end of a wooden handle (not…
ShareTweetShare Primitive Technology: How To Make Fire With Sticks Making primitive fire sticks from scratch, making a fire using the sticks and making and firing a small pot to test clay from the hut. The species of wood used for the fire sticks is ‘Abroma mollis’. In the hibiscus/cottonwood family (Malvaceae). Helpful Tips: If you are…