Primitive Technology: Making Charcoal (3 Different Methods)
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With more iron smelting experiments coming up, I demonstrate 3 different methods to make charcoal, ranked easiest to hardest.
The first method was in a simple clay lined pit where a pile of wood was neatly stacked over and lit from the top down. The pile then completely carbonizes without turning to ash. When the sticks at the bottom burn the coals fall into the pit and are extinguished with water. This method is the easiest and takes the least time. But the charcoal is wet and smaller pieces are made as it tends to over burn before extinguishing.
The second method is the mound which involves making a conical pile of wood and coating it in mud leaving openings around the base and one n the top. Again the pile is lit from the top and the fire burns back down against the draft carbonizing the pile. The fire is then snuffed out by closing the openings. This method produces better quality charcoal of larger lumps with less fines. But it takes more time and labor to make as the mound is demolished each time a batch is used.
The final method was the charcoal kiln. This was a cylindrical furnace with holes in the base that was filled with wood and only the top was covered with mud. It works the same way as the mound method but instead of coating the whole mound with mud each time, only the top was covered. This makes good quality charcoal with less labor once the kiln has been built.
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Cant you just uave a small "farm"
of the iron bacteria somewhere? that could increase your output…
可愛い❤❤❤
yuki先生鉄部長
With the charcoal done, all you need now is to source some sulfur and potassium nitrate and you can make good old fashioned blackpowder.
When he said scorpions in the roof I literally said “what the fuck” out loud
5:45 Oh, "good"…
The second method is close to what German charcoal burners used, but in a larger scale and not on the inside. The mounds were big enough to climb up onto, or even into at the end, basically using proper big tree logs on the inside. As a kid I once saw some on a school trip, so I guess it is still used in some rural places.
It would Probably be a better decision to sift the coal on top of where you’re putting the smaller bits instead of transferring from place to place
hello everyone
8:40 – this is how Biochar is made by the Amazonians, except they use a big hole in the ground and cover it to choke the air
Your way actually looks easier than digging 🤔
جيد
claymer
Suzaku
Stop destroying nature and land , mf
Fake
This is my bedtime asmr
centipede and scorpion living on the roof
lets get the fuck outta this place 💀💀
Love all these videos
This brada looks like jack robinson… can anybody confirm?
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When are you going to advance your technology? 😅
I’ve seen videos of people who make charcoal for a living and it’s seems like they don’t let the flames touch the wood that they’re making in to charcoal like it just cooks it. Wouldn’t that create more yield or is it more complicated?
"NOW [THE VENEMOUS CENTIPEDE] LIVES IN THE ROOF WITH THE SCORPIONS." WHAT THE HELL AUSTRALIA, are you ok?!?
All this charcoal creation is making me hungry for spaghetti carbonara.
At 5:25 I would have packed it up and moved to a high-rise apartment in Norway. That is horrifying.
Rust player preparing for a raid (he doesnt have enough charcoal)
I know it's not nice to kill things and it doesn't feel good doing it, but that centipede is venomous and could really hurt you, just grabbing some wood off the pile or walking through some weeds. So, do you do pest control or do you really just let them come and go as they please? i don't kill small spiders or most snakes, but with kids and a dog around, i'll kill anything that could hurt someone.
Man upgraded from open air workshop to an all weather brick mortar lab. Nice!
Watching this stoned is just wild
I love how the captions are in tutorial style formatting
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9:58 That's a big, steaming pile.
"Now it lives in the roof with the scorpions" ok never entering a shed in Australian woods ever.
Man, the exhibits at Epcot keep getting better
Eu abandonaria na hora ao ver aquele lacraia
i want to grill a steak with that charcoal