You can cut a hole in the top of the barrel lid and have non in the bottom have the fire outside. This heats the inside wood turning it into charcoal and gas. You get a lot more charcoal

8:42 primitive technology?????

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Learn all this now next respawn u might need it

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Bravo and as always- Amazing and well done! Critical history is not always clean and academic- the techniques and technology is a hands on education. Beautiful and BRAVO gentlemen!

I would have loved to watch your documentary what are sole looked very interesting and you'll look very professional if it wasn't for that damn harmonic

1 Iron ore (2.00) 2 Charcoal (6.55) 3 Furnace (9.45) 4 Smelting (21.34) 5 Iron to steel (30.26) 6 The Axe (38.04) 7 Axe handle (47.09)

The amount of organisation and labour required to equip an army in centuries gone by, using methods like these, must have been truly epic.

Where are y’all located? I noticed the narrator has a southern accent. Kentucky? Tennessee? North Carolina?

Watching a lot of videos about bloom iron and steel, I did not find any as informative as this one. Also music, atmosphere, all very enjoyable. In the first method, Theophilus, how much time do you keep the knife with clay cover inside the fire white hot for reaching to adequate carbon?

awesome stuff. I hope the algorithm picks up this video. This is amazing

You lads are the real deal for this historical recreation: preventing the old methods from being forgotten. Amazing film.

The dog: I have to do all the job here...

There's a couple of sources of Iron Ore. Banded Iron Formations or BIF's hold most of the Iron today. They formed during the Oxygen Catastrophe, when the world literally rusted. The ancient seas that were shallow then are now dry land today. Then there's bog iron which is formed when water from some source washes the iron out of rocks, including BIF's to low-lying areas that fill with water. Iron Bacteria precipitate this iron as iron hydroxide. Then Volcanic Iron. A volcanic eruption throws iron rich minerals onto the surface and it's eroded into black sand. This is how the Japanese got the metal for their katanas. Then there are meteorites which have been forged by man even before the Iron Age, when the primary metal was bronze. Iron bearing rocks can also wash out from ore beds upstream during a flood. Some iron bearing rocks can be brought out by glaciers and strewn across the landscape but harvesting them is not practical.

Holy metal Batman.

Great "how to video". These guys know what they are doing and do an excellent job explaining the process. Note how they hold the sledge when striking. I was taught this method by Francis Whitaker, who worked in Yelliins shop and rarely see it used. Also look at their shop and how their side draft forge pulls the smoke. No need for a hood.

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this good channel for learning keep it up thanks 🙏🇮🇩 i am from indonesia

Thanks so much for this video. It answered a huge question I had about the process of iron to steel. Other videos seem to just gloss over this part.

Great project documentary. I like to think most of us understand the primordial call of attempting to build essential technology from scratch (hence the broad appeal of the Primitive Technology channel)... but... as your film shows, inserting just a few modern upgrades in the process allows for superior and more predictable results, which end up being a bit more satisfying when coming out the other side. With only a few exceptions, modernizing the air blast variable is what most "build it from scratch like our ancestors would have" enthusiasts end up doing.

this looks fun, learning a lot over here. hope to make it my first tool from my forge this summer

Can you add more wood to the top once it is half-burned, or would it not be fully carbonized by the time the vents need to be shut?

What rocks did you use

good movie, awesome music too.

47:08 - how long that process took in that particular case? Whole time, how much time was left to cool, and how long it took to make welding heat?

Nice!

I honestly can't tell if this is a joke. If it is, it is very funny.

the amount of sheer labor is incredible - amazing human men in 2022 still possess this knowledge

grog is any prefired ceramic material not just furnace lining.

Best charcoal video for me thanks for going in depth about the process 👍

Get an e-ssist electric trolley. They're really good for outdoor stuff. Essentially an electric, all terrain wheelbarrow.

Excellent discription! Enjoyed every minute.

Like this method, have tried a lot of different ways, pit, retort, sealed cans in stoves, etc. Going to give this a try. I have a lot of branch wood to clean up and this looks like a way I can do it without babysitting it the whole time.

@ore dog productions I wanted to ask you guys about this primitive channels. I’m thinking they’re mostly fake, but, after watching the process by you, I’m almost sure they are. I want to ask you because you know this subject very well and I’m sure you could give a definite answer. I can’t post links here, but, one of the channels that does a lot of iron and tools from it, is called, primitive skills. I’m not sure that you would even see this comment, but, if you do, I’ll be very grateful and honored to know what you think. Thanks in advance if you take the time.

WOW!! Just WOW!!!! 👍

This is so educational. Thank you

Excellent. Really adds perspective on the cost of this essential and ubiquitous tool 200+ years ago.

Probably would have been a good call to bring a backpack with you to gather 50 pounds of ore in the woods, rather than just bringing a flour sack with you lol

I didnt even know ore dogs were a thing. Makes sense as iron oxides definitely have a scent to them. That is insanely cool

I don't know why, but the blooper had me rib-ache laughing so hard.

Just made my own blast furnace, going to melt down some pre I found next week. Do I need to be concerned about the fire getting TOO hot?

I know it's been one year but I got to say, this is the most beautiful thing I've ever seen

Absolutely glued me to the screen. Well done

As a mechanical engineer its fascinating to see all the different process and the understanding of the material that the olf ones already have, thanks for the excellent video

48:52 "We have come full circle this has been a journey to understand the ancient means of making iron to reproduce that method and to generate a material that has not been available to western blacksmiths for nearly 200 years" ?!

A fine example of the whole process, complete with the end product. Thank you, well done guys.

Maybe I need to rewatch it But during the reheat process to make it steel, was it the first made bar of iron placed into the pit and then heated with the slag or was this the iron pills potentially in the slag reheated to make a new bar of ore?

this is excellent

Phenomenal. Well done fellas.