How the hell were people able to figure this stuff out. Like who thought to dig in the ground, find some rocks, make a oven, put the rocks in there, get a chunk of metal, bang on it and reheat it a hundred times until it could then be reheated again and formed into some useful object. Humans are so incredibly smart. This is just awesome.
Here in Brazil we have dish(maniçoba) that you need to cook for 1 week because some ingredients are toxic/poison and can kill you. I ask myself the same thing or "how many people died to someone discover this recipe?" lmao.
They made a fire on a stone which happened to be iron ore, after few days of continuous fire as it provides heat during winter and cooks food, they saw the slag, then curiosity took over
Right, like how did we get first tools to manipulate molten iron? I think kids figured it out originally. Cleaning out ashes from a bon fire subjected to wind near a cave entrance, maybe found these little ingots. They are hard. How hard the kids wonder, and challenged, they start hitting it with various sized stones of different sizes, and they learn it can be shaped, etc. 'What are you kids messing with there?' 'Look Pa, a hard but shapeable stone!' 'hmmm', etc. Casting was probably first origin of tool to get tools to manipulate iron.
seriously, I don't care what medium, era, age, who or what it is. There's just something magical about craftsmen deep into their work that draws you in to keep watching.
These are largely lost skills in modern times. Beyond the dedicated few who have re-learned how to do these things, it is wonderful that you have documented these heritage crafts in a video record. Well done and thank you for posting this.
What an absolutely beautiful video. Thank you all so much for your passion for age old crafts and trade skills and taking the time to share this wonderful knowledge with us.
Excellent production! This Documentary is better than ones put out on BBC, Discovery Channel and History Channel, BIG THUMBS UP you got yourself a subscriber!
I think this is one of the most beautiful videos on RU-vid. It kept me interested for the whole time and I loved the music and how the only commentary was about very important parts (like taking out the slug). Also, I really wanted to see a video with very basic way of making Iron and the medieval theme added much to the video. Thanks!
this video is great, compared to the old ones they have online, you can see how much they improved on their working techniques over the years. really nice.
Prachtig werk Thijs. Je hebt ooit de borst van mijn lieve moeder Lucia gemaakt. Het prijkt nu op het Viking-schild van de partner van mijn zus en wordt nog altijd met zoveel liefde en eer gedragen. DANK !
molten, hot iron puts out non-health-improving radiation. Worked in steel mill, so we had orders to be covered entirely, not to expose skin if possible.
that radiation is probably mostly infrared radiation and that cooks you. there is also a tiny bit of uv and other visible waves of light, but mostly infrared i believe.
When you see the work that went into making this iron, you can understand how a simple knife for even an axe would be some of the most valuable things you would have, not to mention the cost of s single sword, wow! Really amazing doc, yes there is a bit too much jump cutting for my liking, but I still enjoyed this video.
Best video ever. Pitty they dont show it in classrooms. Its one of the biggest milestones in human history and a great deal of physics and chemistry involved in the process. It could explain so many thing with just a small video or yearly presantation demonstration
Thankyou for such a Brilliant Piece of work on showing Living history, People don't realise just what is involved ion Living off he land at grassroots level, Just the amount of Industry involved it making iron , is amazing, When you break it down to what is involved it that one industry , from Having shelter to live in, Clothes, Food, Tools, Knowledge of soil types, Charcoal production, Finding Clay, Leather for the bellows, Making Axes to fell the trees, Finding Flint to make a fire, Weaving, Spinning, Holding and collecting water and on and on the list goes , We we should be Learning more about our old skills before they are forgotten for ever Are we any betting living now or back then ? at least back then you honestly Earnt your obesity!
Thank you Joe for the compliment, it was nice to dive into the world of the Middle Ages. Certainly the handicraft was important for survival. The knowledge was impressive. A time that is often romanticized, but certainly should not be overlooked in terms of practical invention and experience, which they brought into being was important for the development of man. Regards
In what you just said it reminded me of that great TV Series Cadfael with Derrick Jacobi www.imdb.com/title/tt0108717/?ref_=fn_al_tt_1 When you live so close to the land your day is spent just surviving
LoL, nothing like real thing.. Villages at the time were forced to work together, or die young (really young), all due us being social animals. How ever this video lacks all the nasty stuff like noble coming to collect taxes, all the diseases etc.. average life expectancy back then was 30y, so go figure..
Very nicely done. I feel as though this was filmed in the middle ages, it all seemed so accurately produced. Truelly enjoyed watching such high quality work. I learner a lot.
In The Netherlands they stil wear these cloths. We are so behind the technical thing the wold haves lol ;) Dutch: Zo gaaf om die tijd te beleven. Alles zo puur en respect te hebben voor de natuur. Hopelijk dit jaar weer te mogen beleven
I love historical documentaries in which there is reinactment. Thanks so much for a great upload. I have subscribed to your channel to see more. God bless you with a great year ahead.
Moving and thought-provoking at the same instant. Thank you for a glimpse of what may well have been man's earlier tentative steps toward machinery. Mike
This is a crazy amount of energy used for such a tiny end product! How on earth did the Romans/Vikings/Anyone from history forge enough tools for an army? Were there bigger versions of these clay ovens?
I SAW A DOCUMENTARY OF AFRICANS MAKING A PLUME AND TOOLS IN ESSENTIALLY THE SAME WAY. THEY SAID IT WAS A 2000 YEAR OLD TECHNIQUE. THE VIKINGS IN NEWFOUNDLAND HAD A SIMILAR FURNACE BUILT INTO THE BANK OF A CREEK. IT IS INTERESTING TO SEE HOW THIS KNOWLEDGE WAS THROUGH THE WESTERN WORLD. OUR ANCESTORS WERE TALKING. HAVE FUN AND TAKE CARE CARE
With all that effort and resources going into such a small amount of iron, iron most had been worth a lot in trading at the time. Having a few bars of iron meant you were rich.
Yes and no. Iron can be found a lot easier than tin, which is required to make bronze. Tin is only found in specific geographic regions and is fairly rare. You pass iron boulders on your way to work. Anyone with the right know how, can make an iron plowshare or some farming implements, in 3 days, with local materials. Is impossible to do the same with bronze, there are high chances you have no copper nor tin nearby.
Not really. Making a hundred pounds of iron was a day's labor. Making a hundred pounds of carrots was a day's labor.(just over a season of growing/weeding/tending/planting/watering) Carrots cost about 50 cents a pound today and so does iron. The only real difference with their economy and today was everyone was poor.(instead of everyone being rich)
Production was so different those days. People could provide for themselves and others, and lived off their own labor. I believe we can always take wisdom from the past, even if it is this distant. Even in the times when mankind had to battle the ferocity and unrelenting power of nature, people were able to forge their own lives. I hope that spirit is not lost to the ages.
+Fatih Mustafa Yup simplicity,no medicine as we know,Tetanus-you die -painfully,scorpion,centipede,snakebite-and a miriad others in the forrest,same,no refridgeration,grow,hunt your food,a good video,but look at all the not-so old items used[the bacon and skillet for example]
epidemics could obviously seriously diminish a population, but it wasn't like people worldwide were medically helpless . right at 10:09 i see Fomes Fomentarius.
Fatih Mustafa how old are you? because iam going to do that in about 4-3 years and I'm recruiting people for a "colony" let's say. we will live one with nature. give me a word if you decide you want your life to be existing and natural.
Wow so much work for a little tiny piece of Steel incredible worth Epic great people seems like a place I would want to be to learn that kind of stuff the cooking looks good too
Persona non grata In such a situation, I am sure the skills they know will come in very handy. This is clearly not their first time doing this that is for sure.
@@Bramble20322 More than likely, all surface metal will be highly radioactive when people come out of their holes after the big reset button has been pressed.
chrisdash83 Radioactivity won’t last long enough to be a long term consideration. Nukes are thousands of times less radioactively dispersive than Chernobyl and people live 300m away from its reactors and have done for 15 years now. Not everything in movies and people’s expectations is accurate.
I have some questions regarding the forge. I know in the video you said it was made of clay, sand and straw; but the way it was worded confused me. The narrator said "loam is mixed with sand and straw", but does that mean you mixed (added) sand and straw to already existing loam? This wouldn't make much sense to me cause I thought loam by definition is clay or soil mixed with sand and straw? So how could you be adding loam (made up of clay sand and straw) to clay, sand and straw? It's the same thing. My questions are then, do you have a different definition of loam? Or were you simply stating what loam is made of? What I really want to know is what exactly were the ingredients used in the forge? Was it just clay, sand, and straw? Or was there something else. My last question is why is the straw necessary? I know for construction purposes adding hay or straw to mud or clay reinforce the structural integrity of the bricks but for a forge where high heat is applied I would think the straw would be a bad idea. Wouldn't it burn away leaving air pockets therefore making it porous? I thought for heat applications you want bricks or mud that were very dense, not porous. Thank you in advance for your reply. This is one of my all time favorite videos. I've watched it probably 15 times
Awesome video, but I see what appears to be a mistake ... it looks like they didnt add any sand to the boomery kiln. The vid only shows the addition of charcoal and crushed hematite. You need silica in order to ensure enough slag forms to bind and draw off impurities, without which (AFAIK) the quality of the bloom will be impaired. It also would have been nice to see the charcoal production portion of the effort.
Maneira Ocidental de obtenção do Ferro... foi dessa forma que antigamente o pessoal descobriu o Cobre e após isso o Ferro. Provavelmente, o Ferro foi descoberto com a obtenção do Cobre, afinal, muitos minérios que contém Cobre têm Ferro em sua composição. Devem ter percebido que existia alguma pedra que era rica naquele metal que era mais duro que o Cobre, só com o manejo da forja acima de 1500 C° que foi possível observar isso. Em 21:28, música bonita e majestosa.
it's just to show that we really live in the sholders of giants, so much work for a small piece of iron, no wonder everything made of steel was almost it's size in gold.
