Primitive Technology: Mud Bricks

Cutting timber Stuck on branches Measuring 50 cm Splitting wood with stone chisel Carving tenons (a type of carpentry joint) The two ends of the mold Carving mortises Assembling mold Lashing with cane to hold it together Clearing weeds Water Digging mud pit Palm fiber stops mud cracking as it dries Forming a brick Setting out bricks to dry Stacking semi dry bricks Making half bricks by cutting with bark fiber string 140 bricks were made Assembling bricks into a kiln Fire box level Ware chamber level Plastering kiln with mud Making fire Drying out kiln Ash Making tiles from mud (not clay) 30 tiles drying Tiles in kiln Covering with broken tiles Half an hour in 1 hour 1.5 hours 2 hours 2.5 hours 3 Hours Finished. Closing up kiln (stops cold air getting in) The next day Stones in the tile melted slightly due to the heat The mud was high in sand and silt so there were 7 broken tiles They can be used as grog next time Tiled roof over kiln Brick and mold

Channel: Primitive Technology

Views: 32,330,731

Rating: 4.8875761 out of 5

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Id: D59v74k5flU

Length: 10min 46sec (646 seconds)

Published: Fri Sep 22 2017

Reddit Comments

[u/9ninety_nine9]

When I was a kid my parents had friends who were building a mud brick house. They would host big bbqs on their property and invite all the friends with kids. For fun they would show us how to make a mud brick. Then being kids we would get excited and keep making bricks all afternoon while our parents socialized. They tricked us into child labor and we didn't even care.

[u/McRathenn]

The close up of him making fire was pretty sweet. Never seen it from that perspective before.

[u/iwillcontradictyou]

My monthly time to watch a shirtless man run around the woods in Austrailia. And love every minute of it.

[u/SeegurkeK]

So so break the monotony of talking about the general videos on this channel, let's talk about this one in particular:

I wonder what made him make another kiln, since his last one worked really well already from what I remember.

Though it was nice to see him make such.. similar bricks. Makes you hope for bigger buildings utilizing this method.

[u/[deleted]]

Holy shit... did he just accidentally smelt metal when making the roof tiles?

Edit:

From the video description:

Interestingly, the kiln got hot enough so that iron oxide containing stones began to melt out of the tiles. This is not metallic iron, but only slag...

Wouldn't it be extremely awesome if this guy took his channel from stone age to iron age? Now I want to see him make a kiln that gets hot enough to get actual iron.

Also, this really gives you an idea of how things like metal smelting were accidentally discovered.

[u/PapaKrunk]

"Dope mud bricks, maybe he makes a brick house"...makes kiln..."Ok another kiln, this one is certainly an upgrade"...makes shingles..."How many shingles does a man need here?!?!"

[u/Murder_redruM]

Instead of shorts he should have a big leaf covering his penis.

[u/snobbysnob]

How does this series end? Will he eventually just build a mud and stick car and drive off into the sunset or does he go until he has a full blown silent mud house society in the woods?

[u/ZacDD]

Where does he do all this???