Iron Age to Medieval Era: Speedrunning Human History (pt 2)

[@kittyprydekissme]

I love how you're able to make me sit through more than three and a half hours of stuff I've already seen multiple times. And you've done it twice! Can't wait for part three.

[@pernie4576]

>Goes down to train tracks "There's a large supply of iron here." >Camera focuses on train tracks "It'll help us supplement our iron supply."

[@SuperGuy250]

-After we unlock the required technology we will be able to use modern materials and tools to make it a learning experience and not realy a grinding process , skipping alot of time .

[@amistry605]

😂😂😂

[@Dapstart]

>Cuts to timelapse of Andy slowly burning through hacksaw blades >"ok plan B, we're going to get our metal from another local source" >Puts on a skimask and begins walking toward home depot with hand behind back >Next scene is in a cell. "As you can see the iron in these bars is highly pure and..."

[@amistry605]

@@Dapstart LMAOOO!

[@A_youtube_channel_]

I think the iron part was cheating since they never actually used a naturally occuring supply.

[@Godless_Guru]

Honestly one of the best concepts on KZbin, always exciting to catch up on where they are literally progressing on their journey through time ❤

[@Hogbellylife]

If you look into traditional Japanese blacksmithing. They used ash & rice paper to wrap the small pieces to consolidate. I think it is to prevent oxidation of the metal.

[@RensStoryteller]

My friend argued that due to our harvesting of all our earth's resources we would be knocked back to the stone age and never reach more than the early iron age in the event of total societal collapse, but I argue that that very thing would make it easier to get to not only the early iron age, but maybe even the roman iron age, because yeah, we don't have a lot of metals in the earth to mine up for resources, because we've already dug it up, but that means it is easier to reach because it's all on the surface now, the hardest part being recycling it from the remaining modern monoliths of the concrete jungles of the steel age.

[@frrapp2366]

i believe both scenario's might be true because yes all the easy iron/ minerals have been gathered up and yes it is all on the surface BUT it is in alloy form and many of the alloys are harder to forge or re refine back to base minerals so yes and no:)

[@RensStoryteller]

@frrapp2366 an interesting take. I suppose only time will tell, but I'm going to Hold out hope.

[@frrapp2366]

@@RensStoryteller hoping we dont have a REset , fingers crossed

[@TheDarkMaw]

Question just rests in whether we'd be able to scavenge enough usable tools to jumpstart our ability to start recycling and working less conveniently shaped material

[@ratemisia]

If anything, I take this series as evidence that society COULD NOT collapse back to prehistoric levels - all the trades and generations of experience we've built up from being in an industrialized society will carry over, and all the people in the world like the collaborators on HTME would be able to restart production of our most basic resources quite quickly. Sure, there might be shortages of things like computer chips and other things that require massive global supply chains to exist, but the skilled trades and technological knowledge would be preserved, as long as people who are alive today are either still around or their recordings (like this series) continue to be preserved. I believe that if even a significant fraction of the human population survived any cataclysm, we'd be largely back to standards of living from after WW2 in urbanized areas within a generation. (That is, if they ever dropped very far below that - depending on the cataclysm, it might amount to a few months long blackout while the power grid was repaired or whatever else!)

[@dingodog5677]

I love the way Alex makes tongs. I now have multiple home made sets. Tongs for holding everything. Tongs make tongs, to make a punch, to then make a drift, then a hammer. Then everything and anything you want from there.

[@RFMongoose]

You know what... I think your channel would benefit from a second channel of a guy who comes along after you've unlocked the tech, and refines it with a slower more skilled hand.

[@captainjack9354]

You know this is my dream I would love to build as much as I could with practically nothing and refine the tech build it like primitive technology on KZbin but become fully self sufficient

[@markcoloma2913]

“Riveting!” actually made me laugh. Great vid

[@MayaPoremskis]

Been around since the sandvich. Love your channel

[@QuinnDenning]

Pootis

[@T____K]

the amount of work is mindblowing, not sure if you could call it "speedrunning" , even though it is , kind of.... amazing piece of art 🤩

[@brandonlewis2599]

Thank you for making it abundantly clear why civilization cannot be allowed to collapse. All your efforts, aided and abetted by modern knowledge and technology, are so paltry compared to what even the least of us can take for granted today. In comparison to the true past, It's hard to know what life was truly like for people living then, but at least we can lay to rest any idea that rebuilding society after some cataclysm is a simple matter of having some handbook available that explains how to do it. What you need instead is true community, and generations of practice.

[@donaldhobson8873]

Part of it is that, in the past, blacksmiths had many years of experience, and advice passed down from the previous generation of blacksmiths. It was a skilled job. After 10 years of running smelters and black smithing every day, you will be able to do a better job a fair bit quicker.

[@bloodsmithgamer5071]

Man, right as I lie down for bed... Welp. I'll enjoy watching this tomorrow 👍

[@bernardodc9631]

I love to see human history sped run, but also, I'm interested in reseting the world with modern knowledge and building from scratch. How would we do it? Desert Island thing, just you and wilson

[@vincentrandles8105]

A friend of mine found an axe head made in the Indian tradition, (some call it a celt) but it is an axe. It was found in one of those river side fields that we find lots of Adena artifacts in. Was found on top, no rust or pitting. It never did rust AT ALL, but is clearly iron, but in the shape of many stone axe heads we find in this area. The only thing we could come up with is, that it's metoritic iron. It's only thing that makes sense, they certainly didn't smelt it!

[@derskalde4973]

In case you didn't know: when drawing out wire like that, it helps to rub/coat the end of the wire that goes through the wire die first with a bit of bees wax. That helps lubricating the wire a bit, making it easier to pull through. Just get a block of bees wax, use it to press the wire against something like a working table, and pull the wire through that.

[@themightypen1530]

The miniature Whacky Flailing Arm Inflatable Tubeman is where you earned my subscription, just fyi.

[@Dacovalu]

I love this! as an amateur historian and reenactor seeing the practical side of how different technologies are achieved and used is fascinating

[@kiwigurn]

When's the uranium episode?!

[@elijahlong7791]

Cody’s lab??

[@ittositto6494]

@@elijahlong7791noice.

[@The-One-and-Only100]

Nuclear power is just fancy steam power instead of coal or wood it's uranium

[@majorkurn]

Thats the last one. Everything goes boom.

[@The-One-and-Only100]

@majorkurn no

[@AstroAF]

Good boy Shadow!! That was a beautiful take of garnets! Congratulations!

[@LaserFur]

and there is a old painting with 3 fires going up a hill. I think they were using the lower fire to preheat the air for the next fire. by making a chimney inside a chimney you can preheat the air for the next fire. With 3 fires you could melt steel.

[@YourAtool]

Been watching this from around the time of the tshirt and right when i went to watch the full reset in order this came out and i prefer it this way over my brain forgetting where in up to in a playlist

[@Shadowgen-2022]

Dawg turned his life into minecraft and I’m all in for it, this is part two and I’m awake at 1:01 AM watching this lol

[@matanuskabutler7566]

Please tell me these re-enactors also have their own channel because I could listen to her all day explaining and describing even the way the wool was harvested...

[@starlightpastel279]

For true (self healing btw) roman concrete you need to mix some lime chunks into your stones to form deposits of it throughout which when in contact with any water salty or not (like rain) would react and form new calcium carbonate and seal any cracks giving it the ability to self heal so long as those pockets of lime remain, which they will of course run out over time as more and bigger cracks form but it allows it to last *much* longer (also all of this is *on top of* the seperate interaction the volcanic ash has with salt water which you mention in this video)

[@RIPBlueInk]

Nice to see Alex in a video where they actually make something. This along with their titanium damascus videos is getting me optimistic that there's going to be a return to form.

[@josephstanley200]

Ya his latest one was great 👍

[@ethanbilodeau3633]

Another banger thanks for the great video

[@isobarkley]

wtf dym this only has 1.5k likes? yall deserve so much more praise!!!

[@Bjork-holt]

Been around since the bread. Cool to see how far youve come

[@hunnybunnysheavymetalmusic6542]

I could not find actual channels for many of these people when searching on youtube.

[@MikeM-s7s]

Efficiency is needed here. 15:01

[@ThePoliticalBulldog]

Shout out to Good & Basic and Codyslab. True inheritors of grants dream.

[@Clappedfiero]

100 likes tf this should have at least a million

[@AnonymousJohnAutobon]

After an hour?

[@jamesMwebber]

Those handles need to be fastened to the heads properly the way you have them now is not only unsafe but also unsightly... make it so you have a solid shank thru the head and make a cut down thru the center of the shank so that you can install a wooden shim. Also do not cut the shank flush with the top of the head be sure to leave 1/8 to 1/4 inch above so that as the wood swells with the shim it can be wider than the opening and keep the head secure to the handle

[@stephenokelley6356]

Love your videos. Thanks for bein you

[@herbilishes]

Loved this video so interesting thanks

[@vincentrandles8105]

The Roman's also mixed in small pots to their concrete that must be the secret ingredient. (Since the buildings they used it in, not only are still standing, but seem to get even more durable every year!)

[@TheCapns]

This Is the information age.

[@jamesjohnston8098]

Just a suggestion, but I didn't see much, if any, measuring and calibrating. If you attempted crafting things a little less crude and with more precision, I think you would get much better results. Reducing overall time put into most projects. For example, the screw you made could have been made far more precisely with very simple measuring techniques. Perhaps do a short series on measurements and calibration. You will need it for your end goal, "the Steam Engine" that's a lot of parts working together with small tolerances. Good luck, and keep up the great work.

[@cheese22]

Honestly if i were a “prepper” like for the end of the world. Id bring a harddrive with all your youtube videos. We would be able to recreate society with it.

[@josephstanley200]

That’s awesome you you got Alex on there too I watch him a lot

[@theoriginaltoast420]

That's the cutest blacksmith I've ever seen

[@JTL1776]

How long till PT3?

[@DrakeOFlame-u1z]

Long this is a compilation video this one is four years of content and the first is two years of content which makes sense it was stone to bronze and the Iron Age is more complicated as he advances through the ages it will become longer so more years of content to build up you could just watch the videos as they come out though

[@holycogs2706]

Comment for the channel support

[@ardennielsen3761]

the industrial revaluation started in the spite of time where castles with surrounding walls were built, more then 800 years ago... as the air goes cold. the symptoms of exiles stay outside just for thinking that the foundry hole at the top on one of the towers was a place to poop. twelve 150 foot towers, winches stairs etc. 280lb bloom, winched back up 11 times after the first, keeping the walls hot at the same time. 300~1000lb hammer heads for a A-frame pendulum that goes back to the rock quarry.

[@georgeec3]

Hey music is CRAZY GOOD❤

[@16spartaman]

I’ve always been impressed at the educational aspect of this and how you go at it with an average persons effort. All the people you get advice on how to do things. You always only do 75% effort.

[@nickcallahan3781]

the part where they’re all smithing the anvil together reminds me of RuneScape.

[@kavijackson868]

This is so Awesome!!! But for the love of humanity can we please do Day R Survival type how to make anything series along with a survival chemistry when you get done with these!?

[@Bandit-u3u]

Two years from now: how to build an enrichment centrifuge

[@ALEXANDERBELL0]

28.27: The moment he dealt it 😂

[@AustinCameron]

The Great Flood could act as a trigger event for the GOE by: Eroding and delivering nutrients to the oceans. Accelerating cyanobacterial blooms and oxygen production. Increasing the burial of organic carbon, reducing oxygen sinks. Transforming ocean chemistry to favor oxygen accumulation. Disrupting anaerobic organisms, reducing oxygen competition.

[@deanatkins69]

Love ya work 😊 Try wetting the stick before scraping the bricks might give you a better finish 😉

[@jackieow]

3:31:18 Anything under tension can snap free and whip back to injure your eyes or neck. To avoid a sorry outcome this guy should have on goggles and shielding clothing. In making pretensioned concrete with steel cables, various people have been cut in half across the torso.

[@repairfreak]

No Thighs were harmed in the filming of this video. 😂58:11

[@p0fity882]

Ad after ad with this one

[@JStaker12]

God who is this metal forging guy interrupting my KZbin ad watching experience?

[@kikolektrique1737]

THE MEDIEVAL PERIOD!!

[@harrychristenson4938]

Why didn't you make a press? You can make it out of wood, with a windless lass to hold it in pressure. Why didn't you shave notches into the wood so you could use a cord to hold the fabric tighter? There's so many things that could have made the paper tighter and nicer.

[@GooseGooseYT]

Let's go dude!

[@pepperdude]

I *do* like timelapses!

[@scythesinguialuciferkronos8599]

I'm not even a blacksmith and watching you forge hurts

[@Zizie_sc]

Swing that thing! 36:02

[@silenthbomb2025]

"distilling is very similar to brewing" ok thank you for that gem of stupidity

[@gabrielf.martins3368]

Dr. stone irl

[@derskalde4973]

Couldn't help but wonder: did you ever try to make something, only to notice halfway through, that you need another tool or something to finish this one, but you can't use that thing because "we haven't invented that one yet"?

[@MR-fx5td]

YEEESSS FINALLYYYY

[@david.e376]

6:13 pretty sure it was the same reaction they had when inventing one lmao

[@pazsion]

they still would have boiled it and given a filtration over charcoal. every 3 days its about 5% alchy up to 14% at that point it will need to be restarted or distilled to increase alchy content.

[@suz4keeps]

THREE hours? Started Nov 5 2024 Use a magnet? 11:00 Love this thanks

[@DayrusBPB]

6:30 "It's Pi Ka Chu!!! PHUCCCCCCCCCCC!" LOL

[@alexbouchard3880]

You must be incredibly patient

[@alanchoichang8336]

this channel does not have the following it deserves... this series does not have the views it deserves.

[@marktyler3381]

I am looking forward to this. But I didn't see part one

[@theboston3386]

I didn’t see a link for your collaboration? May I get his channel?

[@MaxC925]

@18:01 we've sourced 6 metals 1 copper 2 tin 3 gold 4 silver 5 and iron 6 ???

[@givennamesurname2565]

Lead.

[@coleeolee]

I started this video at 1:20 am and didn’t realize it was 3 hours. Rip sleeping ig

[@TheChairmen777]

All you needed was a magnet to pick up the iron around the railroad tracks just a suggestion For next time

[@ShowAnNDTeLL]

long fiber paper is actually strong paper like the japanese paper room dividers

[@extinctprism8958]

14:07 BRUH…🥹🍑🥹❣️❣️❣️😍😍😍😭

[@extinctprism8958]

1:11:52 ❣️

[@themightypen1530]

Man, all that falls off the trains around me are friggin` sugar beets and onions. Wish I could get free iron ore.

[@mmbatrider2]

Why not using an anvil for hammering and forging

[@user-fr2qk9op8t]

Is the music mixing and placement in the Anvil episode absolutely fucked for anyone else? It's SO much louder than it usually is

[@wermiak8426]

There is technique You make 2 of them one filled with charcoal and ore and second filled only with charcoal and you have to connect them that second's top Is connected with some pipe to bottom of first

[@MarSchlosser]

Where are the books on your films? Tools make tools: give us how-to books!

[@TangyWayne]

That furnace lookin a little sus

[@TheDarkMaw]

I know Alec loves his tongs, so you've got yourself a set of proper ones for sure!

[@aarcusisloading9991]

Alec raised the energy of this vid i actually stopped to highlight that... Felt you could of put more energy into your gratitude lol.

[@007Welder88]

Whens Rogan going to have you on.. someone needs to make it happen..i bet he'd have a good conversation with you

[@nateryan8167]

Combustion flight and space travel to come?

[@bezceljudzelzceljsh5799]

Are you the guy from "this is my girlfriend meme"? Where bunch of people made it painfully aware that she looked like she was held captive?

[@ShowAnNDTeLL]

try adding okra juice on your slurry to make it sticky sliding

[@jasonbouvette1077]

Talking about using crude tongs to make better ones. I remember reading a fictional book where there was a lot of blacksmithing. I remember the book saying the only thing you can make without a hammer is a crude hammer to make a better one. Is this true? Edit After watching you use a rock as a hammer, yes you definitely could make a hammer without a hammer. 😂 And watching you gather wood to use in your yard is painful. If you want a source of logs I am sure you can get some off my or my parents land in central MN.

[@cosmicmutant33]

I didnt relise this was a compilation only 1h into the video

[@DingaLingr]

Lmao the hammer fell off 1000 times

[@totalcardetailing2022]

Someone so smart lol build a fire next to tall grass and wooded area. I made that mistake when I was about 10 years old. Not again. Because nothing happened this time don’t mean it won’t. It doesn’t make a difference if the grass looks green.

[@slippinjimmy897]

WTF I've been watching styro for years and just figured out he lives in the exact same area as me. I will absolutely lose my mind if I run into this dude at Lowe's or something. I saw once in a moth video (I think) that he lived in the same general area as me, but something specific in this video let me know very likely lives very close to me.

[@london_vivere]

2:12:37 I dont think we say that word anymore

[@insomniac.100]

I fell asleep with youtube on again

[@rolfosterberg1901]

2:04:05 What's that music?

[@SamRobinson-i1c]

i like my cheese drippy bro 8:24