Check out Primitive technology! He's the OG, the guy that every "primitive" youtuber took their name from. It's a different cup of tea than this, but I like his a bit better. Way more bushcraft savvy and physics based
You could decorate the inside of the house, i know it isnt a big technology, but man, this house got so awesome!!!! Never stop making videos, youre amazin!!!
I hope, that your channel never dies out, as it is such a contrast to the otherwise stupid, mainstream youtube stuff. It really brings a smile to my face, when a new video gets uploaded. Thank you so much from germany!!
I was watching all your old videos! I impressed from out nothing you made everything! You made irrigation system farming into different level and you became craft man making all baskets and mats and you became a Potter and you became blacksmith you made iron out stones and made all your tools and you became carpenter and finally you built your own house. Everything you done single handedly
I just love this channel Others primitive channels are only based on eating food hunting But this guy show you the series of his life style with primitive skills That's why he is legend
@@iansmith8944 Actually they did. We've had metal tools for over ten thousand years, and while there are still nomadic tribes today, there's evidence of human settlement as far back as 50,000 years ago. Read a book Ian.
Adding a raised floor to avoid sleeping on the ground would also be a good improvement. Wouldn't have to be the entire floor, but even just a bit would prevent a large amount of insects etc from getting to you
If he does make a drain/gutter, it'd be good for him to coat it with clay and then have a long fire all the way around in order to harden it and make it more water friendly. Bamboo would also help.
Years and years of watching RU-vid videos but first time subscribing and first time adding a comment. Your work is incredible, educational, inspirational. Living with nature, building with nature - the way it should be. I am truly motivated to build a home following your example. Thank you so much for sharing.
Liturgicaly Egyptians made similar way with crushed limestone caused by drying with water can be possible the science didn't try his way I hope they will even in old east European s used similar method with land lime and straws;!
I enjoy watching your videos. While other channels of the same genre are still in the stone age, you have taken your channel into the iron age. The earth tamped walls were a treat to watch. Thank you for all your hard work and dedication to sharing your Primitive Skills channel with your subscribers.
ive said it before and i'll say it again. You are the best primitive Skilled worker by far on RU-vid! I cannot believe how hard you work and take the time to film and upload the footage also, just incredible!
yeah ... being raised by the national state making sure we go to school to learn how to depend on it ... only to push for genocide with fake corona news
The way it goes together at this stage, I get the feeling he's in a part of the world where this type of construction isn't a lost art. I could picture a modern rural house there being about the same, but with the addition of electricity being run in places and perhaps fiberglass or metal panels in place of the palm fronds on the roof.
Fun fact. This style of carpentry is the main reason very few houses in Asia fell in earthquakes. It allows the entire building to shift and Shake separately
Yeah.. actually the interlocking mechanism used is very nice and strong. In India even temples more than 10 storeys tall were constructed with just interlocking granite and other stones..no mortar of anykind is used. They stand tall even today after 800-1200 years. But as it takes more time and we are in fast paced world we nail it down..just not realising we are nailing to ourselves.
If you look at the mountain in the background it’s mainly limestone, making lime is easy and a white wash will last for some years before needing a recoat
I'm not a billionaire, or even a millionaire really, but after 14 years in webdev, i'm seriously considering doing it right now. Like buying a big plot in bum fuck nowhere, plant a forest and live of the land with my daughters. Build a house from straw bale, wood and mud and farm mushrooms or something...
Just wanted to let you know that in the short time I know your channel, you are already in my Top 3 of favourite channels I'm subbed to right now :) You do so much work for your videos If you just think about if for a second how much time goes into those projects, it's incredible and all so well put together! I really appreciate finding your channel, keep it up!
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@@robot797 at first, yes but over time the roots would grow thicker and force the wall apart. Another advantage of Lyme is that it's normally quite light and reflective which will make the inside brighter especially if he blocks up the gaps between the roof and walls
And lordy! He's got a lot of lime lying around! When he made kaolin pottery I wondered what would have happened if he used the wrong limestone clay and upon firing, his pots turned to a powder that gets hot when it gets wet.
Clay and straw is called cob and was common in places like England and Europe for a long, long time. Rammed earth is more akin to manmade sandstone due to being rammed the way it is, the walls cure and harden just like concrete over the next few months... though I don't think he rammed it quite enough, soil mix looked like it has a little too much clay content and he should not have used topsoil. This is almost a halfway thing between cob and rammed earth but should still work fine as long as his drainage is good, you do NOT want earth walls soaking up water from the ground.
Adding straw means it won't pack as well tho. If he baked the clay into bricks with straw maybe. With consistency of soil he's using it doesn't look to be a problem. Way tackier than Canadian soil
@@coreyhouse2647 I have seen quite a few people on RU-vid making Cobb style walls where they add straw to clay and sand. According to the logic, the straw is supposed to act like fiber to hold the materials together if it should crack. This is what I was talking about.
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I was amazed watching you build this house with no modern tools. You put a lot of hard labor into the building of this house. I compliment you on your completed job.
As a child left to my lone adventures and misadventures, building a world of my own from the ground up was my favorite thing, ever. This process of survival to thriving as a game back then helped me build other things in my life. Self reliance was the key. From business to a full and loving relationship *eventually, that was harder than the rest*, I have reached nearly sixty years old and am frail but very grateful that I got the chances to do these things. Freedom that I gave myself, constricture and control by others I fought against. Now, I enjoy what is left of the fruits of my labor and get to watch others do what I either did, or wanted to do. From National Geographic magazine, Mother Earth magazine, TV shows and movies, I was taught how to survive anywhere. I soaked up the knowledge like a sponge. Firefox books, my own journals which were mostly drawings done at night by candle light and a few times of running away from the chaos and often abusive and neglect at home, I became the woman who could sleep in a mud puddle or drip with jewels and furs. Enjoy every moment people, it could be gone on the next breath.
Great work, man! I discovered your channel just a few days ago and love your videos. Don't know how good your English is, but here are a few questions: - Where did you learn how to do all this stuff? What's your profession? Did you learn a trade? - What are you going to do to protect the earth walls from heavy rain? - Do you have to pick the small plants from the walls or can you just let them grow? Will they destroy the walls or rather protect them? Keep up the great work! :-)
I began to realize that this video effort requires more effort that the one star of the video can produce. As we're seeing him sometimes get hurt and he mentions safety in this video he had better NOT be attempting all this completely alone! A fall from the roof could break a leg. Which you can survive if someone comes to you but not so easy without help.
Dear Christian, Congratulations on your new house, it is a lovely large and very sturdy house you have built, hope that you must have many good times in that house. Have fully you for many years, was also with when you built the old house and workshop etc. All good wishes to you
A sufficient roof overhang will protect the walls quite well. The further, the better. The walls aren't structurally holding the roof up, anyway, so it's not a big deal to the whole house if a small section fails.
Rammed earth can be almost as strong as concrete once it cures and is one of the best loadbearing materials used through history (along with stone and cement obviously). I doubt this one will get that strong, too much clay and he should not have used topsoil, but it'll still be plenty strong enough for a one story house. Overhanging eaves protect the wall from rain and it's quite water resistant once cured anyway. I'd be much more worried about drainage, you do not want water soaking up the base of a rammed earth wall from the ground as that can weaken it.
@@williammakepeace36 I'd expect some sort of shutters and a door to be added later. The open eaves may get closed up or some sort of bamboo screen, but he still wants a lot of ventilation since airflow is the only real way to keep a high mass building cool in the tropics... helps prevent mould becoming a huge problem too.
@@yematosan8837 He is Vietnamese, and he has earned himself an excellent university degree. But he hasn't found a suitable job for him yet. and so in the meantime he was transferred to RU-vidr. He is an ethnic minority by the way, and the peasantry is always available in him
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Wow. That’s some serious amount of work this young man has performed. This’ll be something to show and tell his grandkids. They will be in awe. If they have a sense of what this takes to accomplish. Very nice.
impressionante, casa feita de taipa de pilão estilo português colonial, só falta uma camada de call nas paredes para proteger da chuva e evitar nascimento de plantas.
This is probably my favourite part of this particular build because this is honestly a really great (if somewhat labor intensive) way to build a home. The only thing that makes me squint a little is that I know that traditionally there was some sort of binding agent (hay, dried grasses, sometimes even sticky rice!) and water added when the soil was, and mixed so that the walls were more stable than just earth. Don't ask me why I know this weird stuff, I fall down educational rabbit holes a lot. And I don't see him using any binding material or water to pack the earth more tightly and smoothly?
To think that only 3 years ago people were accusing you of stealing the Primitive Technology's channel ideas, but still you undauntedly persevered; now you are considered one of the best of the Primitive Lifestyle channels, congratulations on that accomplishment.☺
This type of house has been used for over ten thousand years in warm climates. Put a tighter roof and eaves on it and you can use it for colder climates. The thick earth walls make excellent insulation.
I was expecting something different then an earth walled house. Plus maybe a roof that would last longer like clay or wooden shingles instead of plant and bamboo that will have to be replaced
Patrick Croteau i guess he needs to complete it quickly as his old shed was gone..it could be slowly be upgrade tho while more content for us to watch..haha
When the title said: "rammed earth wall", I had exactly this picture in mind... but then I thought NAAAAHHHH. He is not gonna do that. But you did. Unbelievable. Bro? Are you alright? And the rest of the title - wtf? - what exactly are you thinking? Yes. You do such things and yes, you amaze... but you should not say this about yourself - I will say it, just wait.
@@bigbossadidoss8678 No one to be seen, just one guy on his own. I don't guess things the RU-vidr does not show in his/her video(s). What? You say PewDiePie is just one foot tall? Nope. He does not show that problem in his videos - so I don't believe what you are saying.
Wow. Unbelievable. Man, when you can build such a house with almost no serious tools, then I wanna see, what you are capable of, when you get some serious machines and tools. Perfect.
Questions: 1) Will those plants grow large enough to cause the walls to break apart? 2) Rain falling off of the roof and splashing on the ground makes droplets hit the walls and cause erosion. This is even a problem for modern homes. Will the rammed earth also be eroded? 3) Do you plan to coat the walls with a protective substance? Purified clay? Slaked lime? Oil? 4) Are the winters very cold there? Will that open roof make it difficult to live during winter? 5) Can you shut your windows or do you have a cover for the windows?
If left in place and those plants continue to grow then yes, they will damage the wall over time. The wall should harden as it cures, well made rammed earth can be almost as hard as concrete but obviously it depends on many factors... I suspect this one will not get quite that hard, too much clay in the soil mix and he should not have used topsoil. Pull little plants out as they grow and less and less will be able to take root over the next couple months till it's plant free. Rain is one of the major factors, big eaves are highly recommended. In many places it's usual to make the first course out of stone then have rammed earth above (also to prevent rising damp). I'm guessing he'll just repair any splash damage at the wall base as it happens. Earth plasters, lime renders or whitewash are often used and can help prevent damage, but are not normally required as long as the house is kept maintained. I'm guessing winters are not cold there, never seen him wear anything more than shorts and a light shirt. Tropical climates usually don't have much in the way of summer/winter variation... more likely they have the storm season and the not quite so stormy season. Wouldn't be surprised to see him make some kind of shutter for the windows. Lots and lots of ventilation is important for high mass buildings in tropical climates or they can get unbearably hot, the constant airflow also helps prevent condensation and mould on walls. He probably doesn't want to close off airflow too much.
Rammed earth is a real wall, it's been used to make homes, fortifications and castles for thousands of years. Great Wall of China is mostly rammed earth.
@@lucasriley874 yeah, but the great wall is compacted and surrounded with strong materials as rocks . It also has a pyramidal foundation, strong big rocks, gravel and earth at the top mixing and compacting the stronger materials. This plain earth wall may not resist too much time without a strong coating or a surrounding with stronger matterials. Specially in a wet climate area such as this one. That is my thinking...I can be wrong though.
I mean, he can slowly upgrade his house. He can add tiles as roofing instead of leaves; he can create a gutter, which will slow erosion more than the rocky foundation. He can line the bottom of the wood beam structure with cement, as the gap allows - after which he can go at upgrading the walls too. This structure, rammed earth, can be even a viable long-term solution
@@mauriciomarchesotti2910 Oh, I sort of agree... rammed earth (pretty much manmade sandstone if made correctly) is not what I would have chosen for a house in a tropical climate myself. I think he should have made better drainage/foundations and the bottom course of the wall could maybe have been stone to prevent splash damage and rising damp at the base. There is the potential for a lot of problems with this build but the rammed earth and eaves he made 'may' be up to the task. We'll have to see how it does over the next year or so.
Yeah me too. Don't really understand the building choices. He could have made the walls the same way he did for his old house or made planks out of wood (tho that would take a very long time). Even tho dirt does have relatively good insulating properties he didn't build the walls up to the roof so yeah. I'm a bit puzzled.
he could have used fired brick for the lower half of the wall and bamboo for the rest of it..the dirt wall kinda made the wooden frame lost its charm..
@@Cerbenix_ It's a tropical climate, not like you need to heat the place. Lots and lots of ventilation is ideal in order to stop the high mass walls heating up and turning it into a pizza oven in the tropical heat, also the high airflow will help prevent condensation and mould problems.
@@lucasriley874 Sorry my previous comment didn't come out sounding like I wanted it to. I was trying to say that EVEN IF he wanted to use dirt as an insulating material for whatever reason the fact that he didn't build it up to the top makes it useless for insulating. I'm just trying to understand the choices that he made. He built an awesome wooden frame just to cover it up with dirt that's not going to last long. Also insulation could be used for the opposite effect like staying cool in hot weather but that depends on a lot of factors and isn't his goal probably.
@@Cerbenix_ Well, it's rammed earth not dirt. Properly made rammed earth can last for thousands of years... they used to make fortifications (like the majority of the Great Wall of China) out of the stuff. Did he make his rammed earth properly? I kind of think not, looked like it had too much clay content and he didn't ram it enough. As long as he protects the walls from direct rainfal with overhanging eaves they'll still probably be fine for a long time though. Will be interesting to see how they stand up over the next year. Everything ends up air temp in the tropics, which is on the warm side since day/night is about the same temperature. For insulation to keep a house cool there it would need some form of active cooling like an AC unit inside the house. Other than active cooling increased ventilation (or maybe shading the whole house with trees ect) is about the only way to stop it becoming an oven once the sun warms those walls up.
Have been following this page since the day he started almost two years ago. A very ardent admirer of your work, skills, endurance, hard labour, patience, knowledge, etc etc.. you possess all things. You're an amazing person. Keep up the good work.
I think everything you bild is more solid than the other man and more useful . Don't have to bend down when you walk in to the house .very hard job to build this house by yourself. I'm very impressive. Very good job.
When I saw the skeleton of the house, I was quite hopeful for the house you were going to build. Skeleton of the house was perfect. These house was disappointing for me. These walls gonna be collapse after a while. Wish you made mudbricks and built the walls with mudbricks. Also you can make roof tiles instead of palm leafs. God sake you are making ceramic, iron tools and you can make mudbrick and ceramic roof tiles too. Make a steady home please.
Çağlar GÜVEN I was thinking the same. Would he even need the wooden skeleton in this type of building? It seems unnecessary to me, since he built the earth wall around it.
Das ist ein sehr schönes Haus geworden. Mit dem hast Du sicher für längere Zeit viel Freude. Alle Deine Unternehmungen die Du bis jetzt gezeigt hast sind sehr interessante Einblicke in Dein Leben. Angefangen von der Fischzucht, Reis-Anbau, Schmiedearbeiten, Hausbau und allem anderen, lassen Erkennen, dass Du für das einfache Leben wie geschaffen bist. Ich wünsche Dir weiterhin alles Gute und bleib gesund!. It has become a very nice house. You will have a lot of fun with that for a long time. All of the activities you have shown so far are very interesting insights into your life. Starting with fish farming, rice cultivation, ironwork, house building and everything else, let it be seen that you are made for the simple life. I wish you all the best and stay healthy! Gruß, Erwin
You are an amazingly talented young man. Strong and resourceful, you are a real pleasure to watch. I have been watching your videos for a few years now, and I am always fascinated with what you accomplish with little or no tools. Keep up the good work! I look forward to seeing all that you have to offer. A job well done!!! !Much respect from Canada.
I'm really been waiting for the new video, after i see the other video, when you old house have been destroyed. You're so good and I love your videos and work! Greetins, from Mexico!
Please also make a bamboo carpet for your house,to keep it clean and also add a proper clean kitchen,will love to see it. Am a great fan of your skill.you should Post your vedios more often.
