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PatrickKn



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Primitive Technology 5
#23519398 - 08/07/16 04:16 PM (7 years, 5 months ago) |
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Watched through all of this guys videos last night. Pretty impressive stuff.
Forge Blower -
Hut with tiled Roof -
Check out his channel, he has a bunch on there.
Edited by PatrickKn (08/07/16 04:42 PM)
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Midnight_Toker
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Re: Primitive Technology [Re: PatrickKn]
#23519645 - 08/07/16 05:45 PM (7 years, 5 months ago) |
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I've been watching him for maybe a year now myself. I know he's done no shortage of amazing things, but the video where he made that freaking loom to weave the tree bark was freakin'
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PatrickKn



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The loom was pretty damn amazing.
From his site:
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I made a rough type of textile from bark fiber. This is the same tree I use for making cordage though I don’t know its name. It has been raining a lot here lately (the video also shows how well the hut stands up to rain) and this caused a large wattle tree to fall down taking a few smaller trees with it. One of the trees was the type I use for fiber. So I stripped the bark from it and divided it into thinner strips back at the hut.
I spun the fiber strips into a rough yarn using a drop spindle. The drop spindle was basically the spindle and fly wheel I used in the pump drill video I made a while ago. A small stick was tied to the top of the drop spindle to act as a hook to make sure the fibers spun. I tied bark strips to the spindle and spun the spindle so it twisted the strip. When one strip ran out a new strip was added and twisted into the thread.
I then made a loom by hammering stakes into the ground and lashing cross bars to it. Stakes were hammered into the ground to hold every first string while a movable cross bar held every second string. When the bar was lifted a gap was formed where every second string was above every first string. Then when the bar was dropped a gap was formed where the opposite was true. So in this way the weaving thread could be drawn through over and under one way and then under over back the opposite way. The alternative was to weave by hand which would have taken longer.
Collecting, stripping and drying the fiber took a few days to do. Spinning and weaving took just over a day per 70 cm square. The result was a rough material about as stiff as a welcome mat. So at this stage I’m using them as mats. In future I will investigate finer fibers, such as those from banana tree stalks, as a possible material for cloth. They take more processing but produce a finer product. I may also make a permanent, portable loom that can be taken indoors when it rains
Sounds like he could potentially make clothing out of it.
I wouldn't mind making a similar housing structure for kicks, I don't know if there is enough clay around here though.
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Re: Primitive Technology [Re: PatrickKn]
#23519817 - 08/07/16 06:27 PM (7 years, 5 months ago) |
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Any idea how long it actually took him to make that hut?
Pretty inspiring stuff..
-------------------- Let it be seen that you are nothing. And in knowing that you are nothing... there is nothing to lose, there is nothing to gain. What can happen to you? Something can happen to the body, but it will either heal or it won't. What's the big deal? Let life knock you to bits. Let life take you apart. Let life destroy you. It will only destroy what you are not. --Jac O'keeffe
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never saw that last video, that's dope. and yeah, when i first saw that i thought immediately that was the way that i had seem fabrics being made. crazy
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Re: Primitive Technology [Re: 404]
#23520401 - 08/07/16 09:16 PM (7 years, 5 months ago) |
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modern people are so ready to dismiss previous people's understanding and techniques of the world. a very egocentric mistake.
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