Useful Primitive Skills

This is by far the best video I've found on primitive skills.  Includes demonstrations of a variety of skills that include sourcing natural materials and how to use them for making fire, biochar, pottery, forged tools, basketry, fish traps, building a structure, and more.  This one video alone just unlocked a number of mysteries for me!  Can't wait to put this knowledge to use!

Really neat video!

I probably watch these videos with my mouth wide open. So many cool things being done.

I saw this video recently where the guys dug a well and then built their own water purifier. So amazing.

Steve, I follow the guys in the video you posted too!  LOL!  What did you think of the technique used to excavate rock in the spot where the guy in my video built his house?  I'm sure my mouth was wide open when I saw that!

Yeah everything he did was pretty incredible. I still am amazed that he forged his own tools. Wow!

I'm amazed too.  I learned about making molds and casting metal in sculpture classes, but evidently it doesn't have to be as complicated as what I was taught, (unless of course, your aim is to make a flawless piece).  Will definitely give this method a try.  I've run across some interesting alternative (non-primative) ways of melting metal.  If I can find it, I'll share a video of a micro furnace that, if I remember correctly, uses an electrical arc as the heat source.  Another method uses a fresnel lens.

Hi Suzanne, Wow! talk about ruffing it huh. :D  I just happened to pop into permies today :) and found this to watch....I've also been thinking of you lately, I hope all is going well as can be for ya! My Vans been broke down for a while now.... been busy changing out fuel system parts trying to fix the issue of my Van not staying running(not getting fuel issue) Im now stumped on the 'fuel pressure regulator' change out(who the heck engineered that...lol) Wow  what a job, its so difficult to even get to the mounting bolts Im going to have the Van put in the shop to have fixed.... I just dont know how to do it, or have the knowledge or tools to even do that job. :( I did do many other things as I could trying to fix the issue..... BUT some things are best left to the pros I guess. ✔ :)

Anyways back to that vid.... Im in okay shape & pretty healthy, BUT damn there is not to many Americans fit or healthy enough to even do all that man did. (including even me) :D  Just WOW again!!! I enjoyed watching that vid and did learn many things! ✔ Thanks for posting the vid.....

May God Bless You Always,
Mark

Mark!  Glad you enjoyed it and so good to hear from you!  Sorry for all the vehicle trouble... Having some of that myself lately!

I find it hard to believe how accurate the skills genuinely are in a video like the first one. Almost all of the skills he demonstrated, our ancestors would have done as part of a community, or at least as part of an extended family. Not only was there safety in numbers, things like charcoal making require monitoring at all hours, if I'm to believe reports about making it in coppiced woods in Britain, where they always used a team of at least 2 people. Metal tools were so precious just because of the huge embodied human and resource intensive they were to make.

I guess what I'm saying is that I wish there were more videos like this that stressed the need for cooperation, rather than promoting the "Lone Wolf" attitude.