I appreciate that we also get to see the failures, which makes this all the more genuine.

It seems like making a pit lower than your furnace and using the gas from making charcoal might give you the additional heat for smelting that you have been trying to attain.

that flame jet was fuckin awesome. Can you do something with it?? Seems like a really powerful way to get an airflow at least

That wood gas fire looks hot enough for smelting Iron

Primitive technology getting my ass to go "Woah! That's a big pot!"

mission failed. We'll get them next time boys.

Poor mouse.

I'm concerned that if I somehow survive the climate wars and have to help rebuild society, I'm not going have retained a lot of the information in these videos despite having watched them multiple times each. They'll be like, "You saw how he created charcoal," and I'll respond, "yes, but all I remember is wondering when he was going to start mining for iron ore."

Vamos por el 3er. Intento. Se valora subir las derrotas.

have you tried doing decorated pots before? like natural glazes for painting stuff, maybe to put stuff like food in, decorate it with the food type, like a fish

Definitely feel like your original method works better. Awesome to see a different way explored. Always love seeing a new video

I enjoy the quality content that you produce

Going from Michael Reeve's latest video to this truly showcases the spectrum oh human technology.

Would be cool if you could pipe the woodgas back down into the furnace, using that heat and reducing the fuel requirements

Amo i tuoi video, sono di un relax totale, accompagnato da una sigaretta antropologica è un fine serata unico

This is going to be awesome !

This is the truth... I was going to comment if or when you might do a compilation of failures... Not needed now! Still, great content as always.

Nice experiment keep it up .👍Im been wandering could you make a saw from clay and how long would it last.

This is a crazy idea, but would corrugating the pot walls increase flexibility and reduce the chance of cracking?

why not fire the clay before you use it? is it too hard to fire one that size?

When all technology fails and we are left to fend for ourselves, can you head to Parliament hill please? we will need someone to lead us.

Он там по-любому каньон уже вырыл со своими экспериментами с глиной

It would be interesting to see if you could harness the wood gas for something, but without pressurized storage it would probably just be a really inefficient and roundabout way of heating something.

voted "most likely to survive the zombie apocalypse" in his high school graduating class

You certainly made some very aesthetic gas flares tho!

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Everything is fine when primitive technology uploads :3

Great video brother from the imperial county California 👍🇺🇲

God, John, that pot must've weighed a ton if you were struggling so much just to hold it...

I did this is soup cans to make charcoal so that I could make biochar.

Can't win them all. Good to show the fails too. Great video as usual .

Just dig a hole in the ground and burn branches inside it. You are wasting too much wood sir.

숯가마 황토 벽돌 블럭을 쌓아 숯을 만드는 과정을 동영상 주셔서 감사합니다 좋은 찰나 평온과 행복이 함께하는 찰나 되시기를 바랍니다

I used to work with clay a bit when I was younger at elementary school and my teacher always told me to prevent cracks in clay is to make every object from the one piece of clay we get and never add loose pieces. So maybe you can make clay objects from one original piece of clay, it will take more time (Lot's of rubbing and pressing with as little as extra of water possible) but the end product will survive. We had those classes mostly on Friday so the objects could dry off in the weekend, the next Monday we'd put the objects in the oven till the end of the day and let it rest overnight. I still have clay objects from nearly 30+ years ago and they still surviving. Even the parts that are pretty thin. So maybe you could take that as a thing to try out. Cheers from the Netherlands (and yes we have lots of clay here)

Put only vent holes on the bottom so the wood gas can heat the kettle better, but still less practical unless you find a way to stop the fractures.

I guess it would make more sense to use Adobe if it just gets destroyed in the process of making the charcoal, it's certainly a less refined and easier to make encasement.

The large pot looked cool. would thicker walls helped?

Thank you for the video

You learn more through failure than success. I always drop everything to watch your uploads. It's entertaining to watch and learn the processes you go through.

4:17 why the fuck is this so satisfying to watch. it like a fucking slime video

Don’t know if it’s been suggested but next time you try the large pot maybe have multiple small holes to let the gas escape more evenly instead of one. Might help in some way.

Watching @4:09 while on the toilet is something

I have the sudden urge to bake bread

Instead of a pot in a kiln, could you instead build a double walled kiln, with an external fire donut around an internal charcoal making chamber?

Right when I thought the charcoal production skill tree was saturated, Mr. Plant hits us with another development. We need a charcoal production tier list stat! Edit: Was 30 seconds before seeing the pot break. Seemed like this one had lots of potential with higher quality yields.

원시시대 유인원의 생활 방법을 실행하였다!?

When voice reveal

Someone smarter than me, what exactly is this "wood gas" he speaks of?

これだけ大規模になればやはりわれてしまっても仕方ない