ShareTweetShare Making Primitive Charcoal – The Mound Method Primitive Technology made a batch of charcoal using the mound method then stored it in baskets for later use. Charcoal is a fuel that burns hotter than the wood it’s made from. This is because the initial energy consuming steps of combustion have taken place while making the…
ShareTweetShare The Unsung Hero: Has anonymity been replaced by the viral circus. This video with its 27.4 million views epitomises all that is so incredibly great and invariably personal when we give a little something anonymously. A little of our money, our time, some food… A smile! Although clearly a fantastic piece of drama, the message is extremely…
ShareTweetShare Fingers Mitchell Cullen: Performing Freedom Rides Live At The Denmark Markets 2012 FINGERS Mitchell Cullen Australian Tour 2012 Steam Roller with Special Guest Will Blackburn. Albany (Australian) guitarist, prodigy, and singer song writer. At this time he was 18 yrs old. This Multi-instrumentalist rocks the 12 string guitar performing to the crowds of Denmark Markets WA…
ShareTweetShare Mike Love: Permanent Holiday – HiSessions.com Acoustic Live! If you haven’t seen, heard or listened to Mike Love, your truly missing out. A friend of mine shared this with me a year or so ago. Since then, Mike Love Music has become a once a week must listen for me. Take the next ten minutes of…
ShareTweetShare Primitive Technologies: Creating Fire With Self Constructed Cord Drill And Pump Drill Fire Sticks. Primitive Technology made a primitive cord drill and then upgraded it to a pump drill. A primitive cord drill is basically a spindle with a fly wheel attached so it looks like a spinning top. the middle of a piece of cord…
ShareTweetShare Primitive Technology: Creates a primitive stone hatchet & constructs hand woven baskets. Primitive Technology makes 2 types of basket and a Celt hatchet. The first type of basket made was a coil basket. Bunches of palm leaves where wrapped in thin strips of lawyer cane to for a coil. This was then coiled into a spiral…
ShareTweetShare Primitive Technology: sling shot fabrication & demonstration A primitive sling shot is a weapon used to fire rocks farther and harder than could be thrown by hand alone. Primitive Technology made this primitive sling shot from bark fibre that he made into cord. The cord was then tied in such a way to produce an area…
ShareTweetShare Primitive Technology: Building a chimney and hand crafted pots, the primitive way. Primitive technology installed a fireplace and chimney in the tiled roof hut. This is for for lighting and cooking. Heating is already taken care of by the underfloor heating system. He knocked a hole in the back wall and made it from the same mud…
ShareTweetShare Primitive Technology: Tiled Roof Hut Construction Using Primitive Tools Primitive Technology completed this tiled roof hut construction in the bush using only primitive tools and materials. The tools Primitive Technology used have been made in his previous videos. It should be pointed out that he does not live in the wild and that this is just a hobby. It…
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…