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…
ShareTweetShare Primitive Thatched Dome With Primitive Technology Primitive Technology built this thatched dome hut on a mountain ridge using completely primitive tools and materials. The frame was 2.5 m in diameter and 2 m tall. It was made from 8 thin saplings 2.75 m long, the thatching material was split palm fronds and vine was used…
ShareTweetShare Primitive Hut With Wattle And Daub Primitive Technology built this primitive hut in the bush using naturally occurring materials and primitive tools. The hut is 2m wide and 2m long, the side walls are 1m high and the ridge line (highest point) is 2m high giving a roof angle of 45 degrees. A bed was…
ShareTweetShare Primitive Technology, North Queensland, Australia. Mid 2015, less than twelve months ago from the writing of this post Primitive Technology crafted a YouTube channel and began uploading videos. In his words “Primitive Technology is a hobby where you make things in the wild completely from scratch using no modern tools or materials. This is the…