Primitive technology

[Constance]

This is John Plant's youtube channel.

Bucky Fuller coined the term ephemeralization in 1938, a term which means doing more and more with less and less until eventually you can do everything with nothing.

Source: https://youtube.com/watch?v=P73REgj-3UE

[Kryztian]

I love to watch people cook. Here are a few low tech ways of making bread from Morocco, Tajikistan and Pakistan.

Source: https://youtube.com/watch?v=-gPznNDa0h4

Source: https://youtube.com/watch?v=XSocqMT0hr4

Source: https://youtube.com/watch?v=v-EE9LYxdZU

[Strat]

Constance, have you seen this? It's an oldie but a goodie. It's kind of hypnotizing in a way. I hope you like it!

Source: https://youtube.com/watch?v=hy-4NxJRxNQ

[Marbelo]

As a mountaineer, I have always been fascinated by nature.
Since I was a teenager I know about this book by Johan Van Lengen it is indicated in some design colleges. We have a Portuguese version here. If you don’t know, it’s worth checking



The Barefoot Architect






Here a little text about the book

A former UN worker and prominent architect, Johan van Lengen has seen firsthand the desperate need for a "greener" approach to housing in impoverished tropical climates. This comprehensive book clearly explains every aspect of this endeavor, including design (siting, orientation, climate consideration), materials (sisal, cactus, bamboo, earth), and implementation. The author emphasizes throughout the book what is inexpensive and sustainable. Included are sections discussing urban planning, small-scale energy production, cleaning and storing drinking water, and dealing with septic waste, and all information is applied to three distinct tropical regions: humid areas, temporate areas, and desert climates. Hundreds of explanatory drawings by van Lengen allow even novice builders to get started.

[palehorse]

Hi Marbelo, do you have a copy to share with us, I personally have interest in this subject, I am reading about Cob Houses and what grabbed my attention was "materials (sisal, cactus, bamboo, earth)".
Thanks.

[Marbelo]

Posted by palehorse (here)
Hi Marbelo, do you have a copy to share with us, I personally have interest in this subject, I am reading about Cob Houses and what grabbed my attention was "materials (sisal, cactus, bamboo, earth)".
Thanks.

Hi my portuguese friend from Ilha Grande


I do have a copy in PDF, only in Portuguese. Here is the link to download the portuguese version, i didn't insert the pdf because it is 7 mb, i don't know if it has any limitations.


https://copyfight.noblogs.org/galler...calco_pt_1.pdf

[Bill Ryan]

Posted by Marbelo (here)
As a mountaineer, I have always been fascinated by nature.
Since I was a teenager I know about this book by Johan Van Lengen it is indicated in some design colleges. We have a Portuguese version here. If you don’t know, it’s worth checking

The Barefoot Architect

Posted by palehorse (here)
Hi Marbelo, do you have a copy to share with us?

Here it is in English, now in the Avalon Library.

• https://avalonlibrary.net/ebooks/Joh...0Architect.pdf

[Marbelo]

Posted by Bill Ryan (here)

Posted by Marbelo (here)
As a mountaineer, I have always been fascinated by nature.
Since I was a teenager I know about this book by Johan Van Lengen it is indicated in some design colleges. We have a Portuguese version here. If you don’t know, it’s worth checking

The Barefoot Architect

Posted by palehorse (here)
Hi Marbelo, do you have a copy to share with us?

Here it is in English, now in the Avalon Library.

• https://avalonlibrary.net/ebooks/Joh...0Architect.pdf

Thank you very much Bill, now everyone can have access to this fantastic book

[Constance]

Part 2 of the video Dick made

Source: https://youtube.com/watch?v=cTHLpA4267Q

Dick Proenneke in Alone in the Wilderness part II

[Constance]

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[palehorse]

Posted by Marbelo (here)

Posted by palehorse (here)
Hi Marbelo, do you have a copy to share with us, I personally have interest in this subject, I am reading about Cob Houses and what grabbed my attention was "materials (sisal, cactus, bamboo, earth)".
Thanks.

Hi my portuguese friend from Ilha Grande

I do have a copy in PDF, only in Portuguese. Here is the link to download the portuguese version, i didn't insert the pdf because it is 7 mb, i don't know if it has any limitations.

https://copyfight.noblogs.org/galler...calco_pt_1.pdf

Posted by Bill Ryan (here)

Posted by Marbelo (here)
As a mountaineer, I have always been fascinated by nature.
Since I was a teenager I know about this book by Johan Van Lengen it is indicated in some design colleges. We have a Portuguese version here. If you don’t know, it’s worth checking

The Barefoot Architect

Posted by palehorse (here)
Hi Marbelo, do you have a copy to share with us?

Here it is in English, now in the Avalon Library.

• https://avalonlibrary.net/ebooks/Joh...0Architect.pdf

Thank you Bill and Marbelo good to have both versions.

The chapters "Humid Tropics" and "Materials" provide good information, I was struggling to find things like this on internet, today mostly is concrete and modern materials that is very bad for environment and also it is not durable as it seems to be, the house I live right now has a serious problem with termites, it is a concrete house, if you ever question, do termites eat concrete? the answer is no, but they can explore tunnels and cracks in the poor mortars and help to expand it and things can just get worst with time. The termites can break through poor mortars easily, what I am seeing here is just a confirmation of a poor developed house with cheap materials and low grade concrete, the house is relatively new about 3 years old, and already going to be compromised with termites unless the owner do something about!

In the other hand there is cob houses hundreds years old, termites doesn't seem to like to eat earth or clay, but for what I researched they do like to eat straw which is part of the mixture in order to prepare the "dough".

I am relatively new to all this cob thing and I am planning to build my own house in the land, and I am considering Cob or something else natural, definitely I am not going the traditional/conventional way of building, specially after living on a rent contract all these years and seen all the poor developed structures, also building materials had a surge in price in the last few years, in my opinion is just too much useless things with a nice price tag..
I am also considering doing my own cob/clay bricks since clay is widely available in our land and we already got a cob oven that could be used to cook the cob bricks/blocks.

I very often say to family and friends, we are paying for the packages and marketing, the content itself cost a fraction of it.

This is what a cob home looks like, there is many different designs and sizes, this is a comfy small one, good for 3 person to live in..



Nothing like one day after another, living and learning.

Thanks.

have a good weekend everyone

[Marbelo]

Posted by palehorse (here)

Posted by Marbelo (here)

Posted by palehorse (here)
Hi Marbelo, do you have a copy to share with us, I personally have interest in this subject, I am reading about Cob Houses and what grabbed my attention was "materials (sisal, cactus, bamboo, earth)".
Thanks.

Hi my portuguese friend from Ilha Grande

I do have a copy in PDF, only in Portuguese. Here is the link to download the portuguese version, i didn't insert the pdf because it is 7 mb, i don't know if it has any limitations.

https://copyfight.noblogs.org/galler...calco_pt_1.pdf

Posted by Bill Ryan (here)

Posted by Marbelo (here)
As a mountaineer, I have always been fascinated by nature.
Since I was a teenager I know about this book by Johan Van Lengen it is indicated in some design colleges. We have a Portuguese version here. If you don’t know, it’s worth checking

The Barefoot Architect

Posted by palehorse (here)
Hi Marbelo, do you have a copy to share with us?

Here it is in English, now in the Avalon Library.

• https://avalonlibrary.net/ebooks/Joh...0Architect.pdf

Thank you Bill and Marbelo good to have both versions.

The chapters "Humid Tropics" and "Materials" provide good information, I was struggling to find things like this on internet, today mostly is concrete and modern materials that is very bad for environment and also it is not durable as it seems to be, the house I live right now has a serious problem with termites, it is a concrete house, if you ever question, do termites eat concrete? the answer is no, but they can explore tunnels and cracks in the poor mortars and help to expand it and things can just get worst with time. The termites can break through poor mortars easily, what I am seeing here is just a confirmation of a poor developed house with cheap materials and low grade concrete, the house is relatively new about 3 years old, and already going to be compromised with termites unless the owner do something about!

In the other hand there is cob houses hundreds years old, termites doesn't seem to like to eat earth or clay, but for what I researched they do like to eat straw which is part of the mixture in order to prepare the "dough".

I am relatively new to all this cob thing and I am planning to build my own house in the land, and I am considering Cob or something else natural, definitely I am not going the traditional/conventional way of building, specially after living on a rent contract all these years and seen all the poor developed structures, also building materials had a surge in price in the last few years, in my opinion is just too much useless things with a nice price tag..
I am also considering doing my own cob/clay bricks since clay is widely available in our land and we already got a cob oven that could be used to cook the cob bricks/blocks.

I very often say to family and friends, we are paying for the packages and marketing, the content itself cost a fraction of it.

This is what a cob home looks like, there is many different designs and sizes, this is a comfy small one, good for 3 person to live in..


Nothing like one day after another, living and learning.

Thanks.

have a good weekend everyone

This channel that constance mentioned at the beginning called primitive technology has a video about making clay bricks. I found a channel that has a video teaching how to make Roman concrete bricks (that I don't know if it has the same properties as our current concrete) and other impressive things. I think you could take a look at the 2 channels, it's full of interesting things for construction.

Roman concrete video

Source: https://youtube.com/watch?v=CcWmpe-Jpao

[Constance]

The technique that John uses to build the mud walls is called Wattle and Daub. If you don't have access to good sticky clay on your land, builders hardware stores also sell what they call "builders clay".

Source: https://youtube.com/watch?v=vAuO3bHxSpc

[palehorse]

Posted by Marbelo (here)

Posted by palehorse (here)

Posted by Marbelo (here)

Posted by palehorse (here)
Hi Marbelo, do you have a copy to share with us, I personally have interest in this subject, I am reading about Cob Houses and what grabbed my attention was "materials (sisal, cactus, bamboo, earth)".
Thanks.

Hi my portuguese friend from Ilha Grande

I do have a copy in PDF, only in Portuguese. Here is the link to download the portuguese version, i didn't insert the pdf because it is 7 mb, i don't know if it has any limitations.

https://copyfight.noblogs.org/galler...calco_pt_1.pdf

Posted by Bill Ryan (here)

Posted by Marbelo (here)
As a mountaineer, I have always been fascinated by nature.
Since I was a teenager I know about this book by Johan Van Lengen it is indicated in some design colleges. We have a Portuguese version here. If you don’t know, it’s worth checking

The Barefoot Architect

Posted by palehorse (here)
Hi Marbelo, do you have a copy to share with us?

Here it is in English, now in the Avalon Library.

• https://avalonlibrary.net/ebooks/Joh...0Architect.pdf

Thank you Bill and Marbelo good to have both versions.

The chapters "Humid Tropics" and "Materials" provide good information, I was struggling to find things like this on internet, today mostly is concrete and modern materials that is very bad for environment and also it is not durable as it seems to be, the house I live right now has a serious problem with termites, it is a concrete house, if you ever question, do termites eat concrete? the answer is no, but they can explore tunnels and cracks in the poor mortars and help to expand it and things can just get worst with time. The termites can break through poor mortars easily, what I am seeing here is just a confirmation of a poor developed house with cheap materials and low grade concrete, the house is relatively new about 3 years old, and already going to be compromised with termites unless the owner do something about!

In the other hand there is cob houses hundreds years old, termites doesn't seem to like to eat earth or clay, but for what I researched they do like to eat straw which is part of the mixture in order to prepare the "dough".

I am relatively new to all this cob thing and I am planning to build my own house in the land, and I am considering Cob or something else natural, definitely I am not going the traditional/conventional way of building, specially after living on a rent contract all these years and seen all the poor developed structures, also building materials had a surge in price in the last few years, in my opinion is just too much useless things with a nice price tag..
I am also considering doing my own cob/clay bricks since clay is widely available in our land and we already got a cob oven that could be used to cook the cob bricks/blocks.

I very often say to family and friends, we are paying for the packages and marketing, the content itself cost a fraction of it.

This is what a cob home looks like, there is many different designs and sizes, this is a comfy small one, good for 3 person to live in..


Nothing like one day after another, living and learning.

Thanks.

have a good weekend everyone

This channel that constance mentioned at the beginning called primitive technology has a video about making clay bricks. I found a channel that has a video teaching how to make Roman concrete bricks (that I don't know if it has the same properties as our current concrete) and other impressive things. I think you could take a look at the 2 channels, it's full of interesting things for construction.

Roman concrete video

Source: https://youtube.com/watch?v=CcWmpe-Jpao

It is an amazing video thanks, it is called the "lime cycle" what he did, when he heats the rocks and turn it into limestone also known as calcium carbonate (they sell it in hardware store in big bags of 50 kilos, I think it is called dolomite or something like that), then he turned it into lime when hydrated with water, I am not sure if he added salt, a geologist could confirm it, but my guess only normal water will trig the reaction, because it occurs in nature, but of course it take ages to form. In our land we have ready available limestone from the hills around, I saw some folks smashing it once.

It is not only good for construction but also good for plants when properly mixed with magnesium and the industry make fertilizers with this stuff, but not all soils require it, some soils are very rich in calcium.

Posted by Constance (here)
I'd always wondered how the whole top thatch cap thing worked

The technique that John uses to build the mud walls is called Wattle and Daub. I've built a couple of walls this way, and apart from cob, it is probably the easiest method for building a wall. If you don't have access to good sticky clay on your land, builders hardware stores also sell what they call "builders clay". I've mixed builders clay with perlite, wheat paste and fermented straw with great results.

Source: https://youtube.com/watch?v=vAuO3bHxSpc

He is a great builder, not a single drop of water inside, it seems very solid construction, I imagined a round seat right close to the wall in the inside of the hut, for meetings
Amazing, thanks for sharing it.

[Constance]

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[Kryztian]

How to build an "airplane" in the jungle:

[Matthew]

This is only primitive technology from a post-modern point of view, it doesn't really count. But it tickled me, like using coffee filters to cook rice. I'm trying to think of a pun or play on words for the picture but I can't get one. Anyone think of a good one?

[palehorse]

Today was reading some blogs on off grid living and look the gem I found

Source: https://youtube.com/watch?v=gsfIHiBB6xE

Think again before considering to buy a new lawn mower hahaha

Posted by Matthew (here)
This is only primitive technology from a post-modern point of view, it doesn't really count. But it tickled me, like using coffee filters to cook rice. I'm trying to think of a pun or play on words for the picture but I can't get one. Anyone think of a good one?

that's brilliant! Now know what to do with mine, they are quite a big and heavy piece of junky!

[Bubu]

Posted by palehorse (here)
Today was reading some blogs on off grid living and look the gem I found

Source: https://youtube.com/watch?v=gsfIHiBB6xE

Think again before considering to buy a new lawn mower hahaha

Posted by Matthew (here)
This is only primitive technology from a post-modern point of view, it doesn't really count. But it tickled me, like using coffee filters to cook rice. I'm trying to think of a pun or play on words for the picture but I can't get one. Anyone think of a good one?

that's brilliant! Now know what to do with mine, they are quite a big and heavy piece of junky!

Excellent way to cut the grass, stay fit and not be dependent on petrol (controllers). Yes I have put off buying a grass cutter after I have tried my neigbors grass cutter and my bolo.
That steel cabinet reminds me of my plan to make an smoking cabinet to smoke (preserve) meat and fish and to dry anything that needs to. I am cooking with wood and made a cook stove with chimney. I am going to replace section of that chimney with a steel cabinet that I will fabricate according to purpose.

[palehorse]

Posted by Bubu (here)

Posted by palehorse (here)
Today was reading some blogs on off grid living and look the gem I found

Source: https://youtube.com/watch?v=gsfIHiBB6xE

Think again before considering to buy a new lawn mower hahaha

Posted by Matthew (here)
This is only primitive technology from a post-modern point of view, it doesn't really count. But it tickled me, like using coffee filters to cook rice. I'm trying to think of a pun or play on words for the picture but I can't get one. Anyone think of a good one?

that's brilliant! Now know what to do with mine, they are quite a big and heavy piece of junky!

Excellent way to cut the grass, stay fit and not be dependent on petrol (controllers). Yes I have put off buying a grass cutter after I have tried my neigbors grass cutter and my bolo.
That steel cabinet reminds me of my plan to make an smoking cabinet to smoke (preserve) meat and fish and to dry anything that needs to. I am cooking with wood and made a cook stove with chimney. I am going to replace section of that chimney with a steel cabinet that I will fabricate according to purpose.

now you got me Bubu, what is "bolo" ???

The old archive is just amazing haha