How Charcoal is Made 

Definitely down for for the growing operation. Curious to see the process of different growers.

I get the sense that he is normally a man of few words until you kept asking so many questions that he finally got in the groove and started volunteering the info 😁

It's great to check out how people are doing in this Native American area. Thanks for covering this, Scotty.

Hehe, we can see your enthusiasm from making a new video. Glad you found yet another interesting and informative subject!

Madlad start from reviewing tech to reviewing ancient arts

good to see u healthy and delivering alternative content during this period. keep it up!

Wow I had no idea how much of a process this was. What a Great Gentlemen this man was too. Thanks!

It's amazing how this video fits in! Be it a PCB factory in Shenzhen or making coal in an open field, the maker knows what and why of each step (eg. Air flow, keeping it natural) and this channel beautifully brings out the art in making anything. You're amazing!

Nice , very interesting. I worked with similar methods in Northern Greece where I am originally from. Haven't done this in years though. It is a great aspect of keeping bush or forested areas clean from dry and useless biomass so that, if there are fires, the whole system won't burn down and become useless. Please show us the hemp operation too:)

I really like to learn/discover things "as simple" as this, thank you !

These guys are fantastic! Make sure they know how much we appreciate them sharing their knowledge. Not just how they do it but all of the other economic details of the process. Fascinating!

from strange part to strange material. nice video, remind me of my neighbour who also making charcoal during my childhood.

please show us that grow operation cause this one was really interesting to watch and people get more interested what to buy and where to buy to get such natural char coal ... instead of chemical treated choal. That understanding makes the buyers interested and willing to pay more for such bag of natural char coal that fires their oven and steak.

Not gonna lie, I would LOVE more videos like this. Maybe some kind of metallurgy or engineering or something would be cool. It’s in the same vein as your usual stuff in showing how interesting the parts that make up our modern life are.

Easily my favorite content you've produced .... please keep showing more.

What I love about this is their problem solving, they know the destination with the wood in the crates, don't really know how to get there, so are experimenting and working each problem out along the way. That's what I am in engineering for, the iterative journey solving each problem in turn until you get a desired result! Keep up these videos! I know it isn't 'tech' but the problem solving methods are the same here as a factory in China!

Man, Cody's looking weird today...

Great video! Covering the life of the people that offered you to stay with them in times like these is great. Even though this is a technical channel, I would love to see more videos like these. Greetings from Germany! Stay healthy.

never stop learning! being humble is the greatest virtue anyone could have! thanks for sharing!!

Glad to see your safe and well.... and still finding interesting things to share with us...I’m sure you can find a few more

In China: How iPhone is made. Back to US: How charcoal is made.

I used to LOVE watching your home bullt iPhone videos (and associated content) years ago and here I am, back for something completely different and it's you again!! Awesome work, sir. Appreciate your informative and direct style always 🙏🏼

Dude, I really enjoyed this; just genuine people out here, doing their jobs and having natural interaction.

Yes please, I would love to see the grow operation.

Really happy to see you still making videos even if this isn't an ideal situation for any of us. I thought this was a pretty good substitute for your usual technically factory video and I'm looking forward to more stuff. Would love to see you taking things apart/soldering/modding stuff in the future too if that's at all possible.

If I could send a note to the makers you watched and interviewed, it would be that we out here in "the rest of the country" REALLY appreciate the labor that goes in, and the quality that comes out, of the work they do. I live on the opposite side of the country, but would cheerfully pay 3x, 4x, or more to support their work AND have great charcoal for my cooking. Great video. One of the most interesting I have seen in a long time.

What a neat video. Man watching your phone mods and factory tours... and now this! Badass channel.

Its really nice of you Scotty, to think outside of the box. These people are never really appreciated for what they do. I think you should do more of these kind of videos. Thanks.

The strange stuff you get up and behind the scenes stuff you'd never think to watch otherwise is great.

Its not "how its made" its "how the people make it". Keep the stories coming.

please show the hemp operation!

Great job! I never thought how charcoal was made would be so interesting. You had me watching the whole time. I think you should definitely make a video on the commercial grow operation.

Idk why im enjoying watching this video, but it's pretty awesome..

Love this. I’d appreciate you posting more of these kinds.

It’s interesting to see you apply what you learned about exploring and learning about computer technology and using those tactics to explore technology made near where you are now.

I live in New Mexico! Glad you are here. Make sure to try the food!

Loving the adventures out into the local places

3:42 "spanish people call it ocote" OCOTE MY MVP, my big dawg, never disappoints when lighting a fire.

This tribe is incredible!!! I could learn so much about sustainability from them!

Would love to see the hemp operation. I'd love to see more about what reservation and tribe life is like now days.

scotty we love how you provoke conversation and knowledge rather than conflict

Love seeing you interview people Scotty. You've got a skill for getting folks to open up about their work.

I don't usually comment on videos but I love your videos in the native American community. What a strange and beautiful evolution of this channel.

I’m actually more interested with these Native-American reservation videos. Not everything that’s made has to be high tech. This method of charcoal production oven is actually unique. Just set up the wood, light it up, seal it with soil, leave & come back tomorrow. I hope he figures out how dry lumber by recycling smoke and getting cold water circulation soon. Scotty you’re an engineer help him out. BTW I hope you do a video about the mushroom farm too.

it is great to see you once again running around, thanks for sharing some of the knowledge of the people that took you in, cheers from Mexico

Thank you Luther and Nate!

Scotty you are indeed one of a kind...during tough times like now, you still manage to make interesting videos and show some primitive, but unknown old school tech for many of us... I've enjoyed the video... keep up the good work.

"With propane I can taste propane." TASTE THE MEAT NOT THE HEAT I TELL YOU HWAT (Hill, Hank)

This man single-handedly inspired me to take apart my iPhone 7. Tip: don't take apart your daily driver, because now I'm spending bank on a Pixel 3xl.

That is one hell of an operation. Really cool to watch. If you still have contact with them tell them they could run the return pipe, for the water, about 4 feet under ground before it goes back into the tank. The ground should pull some of the heat out of the water. Have to go that far down in that area since it gets so freaking hot in the summer.

I always wondered how they do it! Amazing video and amazing people. Also I think in my country they use a different method for charcoal so it was even more entertaining seeing other utilisations of the same principle!

Scotty thank you for sharing the world with us

I think you have found your real destination. It’s not technology, not China, it’s people. You do have a real talent to bring people to talk about their craftsmanship.

Some real ingenuity and effort going on there. Really interesting fellow too.

Not only would I be interested in seeing the Grow operation but also ANY & all jobs that are taking place throughout the Tribe!

This is awesome, keeping it interesting, subtle but creative editing style and impressive work, especially since it seems like(?) it's done one the "fly".

I used to see your videos from recent times ,all those videos are quite interesting and learned much about it 👍❣️

Not only because there is something after Chinese factories that show us how our daily goods are produced but also that you're showing the things we use daily here that are produced here as well, great Scott!, great Scotty.

Excellent video. Please do more like these with people from “far out” super interesting and they have a lot of knowledge to share!

This was WAY COOL and totally unexpected from you. A very “clean” charcoal production operation!

Great video, everything about it was just, pleasant.

Keep finding interesting things to video. You make all of your videos fun to watch.

Great change of pace, lots to learn here, who knew even charcoal is technical.

Glad to see you getting content out and you are well.

Love this type of video, Scotty. Good to see how things are done for generations. A way of life that is lost on most of us, simply amazing.

Codydon : Let me introduce myself 👨‍🏭

One of the most underrated inventions of the 20th century!!! There is no better way to grill & bbq than over charcoal briquettes ;-) !!!!

Very interesting and informative. There are probably a lot of interesting activities or businesses where you are that your followers would like to see.

Not sure if you'll read this but I love your videos from China and what not and all the cool tech stuff you see but as a New Mexican it's awesome seeing you in the state and promoting a local business. That's awesome man!

I really enjoyed this episode. so different, but also good.

Thanks for highlighting a cool business that supports the tribes! They could use the earth as a heatsink by burying the tubing down under the surface 5-7 feet and run it underground for a distance to cool the water down without needing to really add any additional infrastructure beyond piping. I would love to see the commercial hemp grow, too!

Loved this. Thanks to everyone involved

Fantastic video & information, thanks! I was explaining to someone the difference between briquette & lump wood and how they're made, this popped up on my feed as a perfect accompaniment to my discussion 👍

Curiosity of how things are done. Great job, Scott.

8:11 me too bud, me too

This was a very good and informative video. Thank you and keep up the good work.

Good to see you after a long time

That's a very cool guy to explain the process like that...Very nice 😎

Really enjoyed this video

Fascinating. thank you for the perspective!

Hey just wanted to say I like this content during the SIP. Even tho it's not your usual content I truly appreciate you trying! Miss your old content but am sticking with ya through your channel evolution!

This was awesome to see. Its little things that I honestly never thought about that I find in your videos that I love seeing. Thank you for your hard work and thank the people involved in helping you show us the interesting projects and journeys you go on!

Also, seems my suggestion went through. I asked you to visit local factories. I'm so glad you do that. I'd like to see some big American factories, like foundries, or mines, or oil rigs, if you can go there of course, when you get out of quarantine. That's very interesting stuff!

This was really interesting.

Love the new content... Really interesting!

Great idea with little equipment, thanks for showing us Scotty 👍🏻

What a soft spoken cool guy Luther is. You should help him with his thermal equilibrium problem, I'm pretty sure a simple heat sink would be a fun thing to build!

This is actually really useful. I am a computer engineer but one of my hobbies is blacksmithing and I make my own charcoal. The method shown here seems simpler and more efficient than what I have been doing. I will have to experiment!

Thank you for this. I'm actually looking for ideas for a side project related to excessive resources like this in my country, mainly at my state. Might have a look into this subject. I appreciate it so much! 🙏

Good too see you back with new stuff 🙂take care of you. Good too see you doing better then this season started.

You must be in NM! Tell the guys doing that, thanks for their hard work & efforts!

Thanks a lot from all those great barbeques

Love your videos, Scotty.

Interesting process to see. Good to see people utilizing what is taken from the land and not just letting it turn to waste much like what Henry Ford did when he started producing charcoal with the wood scraps left over from the production of wooden automobile frames in his early car production days. Keep the stories coming and stay safe my friend.

Interesting Scotty, these are good informative documentaries.

Nice video. Many thanks for making it.

I really like the mixed content on the channel. I originally subscribed for the electronics projects but stuff like this is really interesting. Thank you.

Excellent video. I learned a new skill.

It would be great to see the "grow operation" as well as, i'm sure, anything else that we "wouldn't be expecting" to see on the reservation. I love how you have "taken what you know" and adapted it to other things. Getting an inside look into what happens on reservations is something, i'm guessing, that would interest a lot of people. I'd be curious as to "the next step" in the charcoal operation, too. I'm guessing they don't have a multi-million-dollar press like the "big guys" do.

Loved this video, really lifted up my day.