All videos for the tag : Primitive Technology (23 videos)

  • Bow and Arrow
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    I made this bow and arrow using only primitive tools and materials.The bow is 1.25 m (55 inches) long and shoots 60 cm (2 feet) long arrows. I don’t know the draw weight – safe to say greater than 15 kg (35 pounds) perhaps? The stave was made from a tree that was cut with…

  • Cord drill and Pump drill
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    I made a cord drill and then upgraded it to a pump drill. A cord drill is basically a spindle with a fly wheel attached so it looks like a spinning top. the middle of a piece of cord is then put into a notch at the top of the spindle. The ends of the…

  • Baskets and stone hatchet
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    I made 2 types of basket and a celt hatchet. The first type of basket made was a coil basket. Bunches of palm leaves where wrapped in thin strips of lawyer cane to for a coil. This was then coiled into a spiral with each coil being tied to the last to keep it in…

  • Chimney and pots
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    I installed a fireplace and chimney in the tiled roof hut. This is for for lighting and cooking. Heating is already taken care of by the underfloor heating system. I knocked a hole in the back wall and made it from the same mud used to build the hut. Some left over roof tiles were…

  • Building a tiled roof hut
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    I built this tiled roof hut in the bush using only primitive tools and materials. The tools I used have been made in my previous videos. It should be pointed out that I do not live in the wild and that this is just a hobby. It should be obvious to most that this is…

  • Palm Thatched Mud Hut
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    This is an old hut I built 2 years ago and have since demolished. It was a 2 m square floor with wattle and daub walls 1.5 m high topped with a pyramidal roof thatched with Alexander palm fronds. The building method is my usual plan- get a roof up first then build the walls….

  • Wood shed and Native bee honey
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    It has been raining here quite a bit in what should normally be the dry season. The wattle and daub hut is standing up well despite this (see video). However this has held back some other projects I had planned. So I decided to build a wood shed across the creek in Eucalypt woodland (where…

  • Learn how to survive as we walk you through the steps we took on a week-long primitive survival outing. ****Next Class coming in late 2017****. I know its long, but it’s packed with cool skills. Skills shown are shelter, primitive coconut opening, gathering food, friction fire from Bamboo, basket weaving and traps, primitive spearfishing, rope…

  • I built this hut in the bush using naturally occurring materials and primitive tools. The hut is 2m wide and 2m long, the side walls are 1m high and the ridge line (highest point) is 2m high giving a roof angle of 45 degrees. A bed was built inside and it takes up a little…

  • This video describes a couple of different useful ways of preserving meat in a long term survival situation. If you support SIGMA 3 Survival School, then please share like and subscribe. Also please click on ads. Clicking these ads provides us extra revenue to make more and better videos! So please help support us and…

  • A step-by-step demonstration on how to bake foods (catfish and foraged edibles) in the ground using only primitive means. If you have the ability and desire to support this channel please visit the link below: My Patreon: Bitcoin Address: 1AtaFo7aZkdyNPh6oRGScppDUj7LXBEyFa Join My Facebook Page for Updates:

  • The start to finish build of a Basic Primitive Fish Trap. Set and check, the trap is effective, effecient, and as shown highly successful. If you have the ability and desire to support this channel please visit the link below: Disclaimer: This trap was built for educational purposes only and is not a suitable or…