Primitive Technology: Tiled Roof Hut
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Published 2015-09-04
To cut and carve wood I used the celt stone axe and stone chisel made in this video. To carry water and make fire I used pots and fire sticks made in this video. Finally, to store fire wood and dry, unfired tiles, I used the wood shed built in this video.
The wooden frame was built with a 2X2m floor plan and a 2m tall ridge line with 1m tall side walls. 6 posts were put into the ground 0.25 m deep. The 3 horizontal roof beams were attached to these using mortise and tenon joints carved with a stone chisel. The rest of the frame was lashed together with lawyer cane strips. The frame swayed a little when pushed so later triangular bracing was added to stop this. Also when the mud wall was built, it enveloped the posts and stopped them moving altogether.
A small kiln was built of mud from the ground and a perforated floor of clay from the creek bank. It was only 25 cm internal diameter and 50 cm tall. Clay was dug, broken tiles (from previous batches) were crushed and added to it as grog and it was mixed thoroughly.This clay was pressed into rectangular moulds made from strips of lawyer cane to form tiles. Wood ash prevented the clay sticking to the stone. 20 tiles were fired at a time. 450 flat tiles and 15 curved ridge tiles were made with only a few breakages. 26 firings were done in all and the average firing took about 4 hours. The fired tiles were then hooked over the horizontal roof battens.
An underfloor heating system was built into one side of the hut to act as a sitting/sleeping platform in cold weather. This was inspired by the Korean Ondol or “hot stone”. A trench was dug and covered with flat stones with a firebox at one end and a chimney at the other for draft. The flames travelled beneath the floor heating it. After firing it for a while the stones stay warm all night with heat conducted directly to the sleeping occupant and radiating into the room.
The wall was made of clayey mud and stone. A stone footing was laid down and over this a wall of mud was built. To save on mud, stones were included into later wall courses. The mud was dug from a pit in front of the hut and left a large hole with a volume of about 2.5 cubic metres.
The finished hut has a swinging door made of sticks. The inside is dark so I made a torch from tree resin. A broken tile with resin on it acts as a small lamp producing a lot of light and little smoke. The end product was a solid little hut, that should be fire and rot resistant. The whole project took 102 days but would have taken 66 days were it not for unseasonal rain. For a more in depth description see my blog (primitivetechnology.wordpress.com/).
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All Comments (21)
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No sponsored vids, no bullshit,no clickbaiting, no loud talking what even is this,heaven?
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With all the garbage on TV why not give this guy a show? I'd watch the shit out of it.
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This guy 's a lumberjack, carpenter, mason, blacksmith, farmer, cook, camera man, and video editor all in one!
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The only authentic Primitive Technology Channel
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If you turn on the subtiles, it will explain everything he does. Its very helpful.
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This guy got lost in the forest once. When the rescuers found him they decided to sleep overnight to enjoy the spa and the DIY booze before heading back to the city.
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I am still blown away by how this guy seems to be able to just pull anything in half. It's like the world is his cheesestring
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The problem solving an ingenuity of our ancestors lives on in this man. Thank goodness they were this intelligent and resilient, otherwise we would not be here. Skills long forgotten. Thanks for reminding us. Truly inspirational!!
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Yesterday I didn't know you existed. Today you're my favorite youtube channel.
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Thanks this is my plan for when I fail my exams
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Bro. Has anyone seen the SunnyV2 video of primitive tech videos!! There was one guy who left the excavator in the corner of the frame! Props to this guy for being real, doesn’t even have a camera crew.
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3:55 SILENCE! the tile council will decide your fate
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No intro No music No word 64 millions view Best youtuber ever
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Unlike most other channels out there that are clearly fake and leave their destruction behind as a potentially very big hazard that would take a long time to heal, this guy on the other hand gets straight to the point and doesn’t try to accomplish wildly unrealistic feats that are simply untrue, like making swimming pools. (Even the ancient Greeks knew that you had to filter water constantly, lest it turning into something foul really quick, especially in the heat) Just simple materials used in nature like wood, sticks, sand, clay, mud, rocks, fire, and anything in between. He doesn’t always keep uploading every other week either, meaning that this clearly takes a lot of time. He might not live in the wild, but at least he’s honest and that his methods are real. It shows some real ways of how humans could’ve survived thousands of years ago. And this guy is pretty much doing it by himself, in around 60-100 days! (Although I wouldn’t be surprised if he had some occasional help sometimes) Mad respect.
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This man seriously deserves more recognition, as he is one of the last legit primitive tech channels. Bless this man.
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2024 here guys
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Rustic minimalist, single room $3000/month. Tremendous view
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Immagine, your airplane/boat had an accident and you are stranded on an island with this guy... your life standards are probably going to go up xD
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여기는 채널 주인이 직접 출연해서 작업하는 원조 아님? 역시 출연자 계약하고 쓰는 곳이랑은 기본 마인드가 다름..
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Mad respect for not faking this
