Primitive Technology: Natural Draft Iron Smelt

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• Dmian@lemmy.world ⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  Works for a week, gets fully covered in coal, gets 5 grams of iron.

  I love this guy. He constantly reminds us we live in a privileged era.

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  • Treevan@aussie.zone ⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    He also demonstrates how industry was responsible for significant deforestation around their centres. It has also been linked to collapse of civilisations.

    A good book to see how critical wood was to people: aforestjourney.com

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    • IonAddis@lemmy.world ⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      Yeah, I’ve come to realize even in the medieval world, people had a huge impact on the environment even then. Esp. regarding wood. There’s a reason cutting wood and gathering sticks was valuable–people needed daily cooking fires, and heat in the winter.

      Add industry, even just smelting iron, bronze, copper, or firing bricks, and that’s an even bigger need for fuel.

      I imagine natural game was under similar pressures, which is why people moved to herding/farming instead of relying on hunting and gathering. And game was also affected by trees being cut for industry and fuel.

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• sturlabragason@lemmy.world ⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  Doesn’t the piped bot crawl this community? Anyone know if I can invoke that?

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  • Treevan@aussie.zone ⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    You can but sometimes it’s nice to not see it.

    You just message it with the community “!community@blah.blah”, I believe.

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  • saddlebag@lemmy.world ⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    I recently added this to Firefox LibRedirect. It doesn’t work for mobile but solves the problem on all other websites too. Plus you can point it to any instance

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    • sturlabragason@lemmy.world ⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      Sweet 👌

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• Crampon@lemmy.world ⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  This guy is a treasure. Its always a treat ending the day with a calm video of the man just breaking som sticks and pounding some rocks for us.

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• Thorny_Insight@lemm.ee ⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  On other similar channels they make one video demonstrating how the iron is obtained and in the next video they have enough material to build an axe and a knife and in the third one they’re making a railroad.

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