Questions tagged [primitive-tools]
Questions about making primitive tools like cord of stone axes in the outdoors
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How do I make cordage from tree bark?
I'm trying to make rope from tree bark, but I couldn't succeed. Sometimes the cordage is too stiff, sometimes it is too fragile. I tried from a lot of trees available near me. I tried first with 2 ...
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Are wattle and daub primitive shelters suitable for the Adirondacks?
Sometimes natural building techniques just aren't suited for a certain environment. For example, an exposed cob oven in vermont vs. a stone oven would turn out very differently, the cob falling apart ...
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Is there clay soil in the Adirondacks suitable for earthen primitive building?
An example of the earthen material I have in mind, this video shows some daub prepared for a wattle-and-daub house at timestamp 7:45: https://youtu.be/wPWLlVVVDN0
Cob, cobb or clom (in Wales) is a ...
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What in the forest is suitable as a foundation to primitive structures such as log cabins, in northeast USA?
Cedar is a great example of a log that makes a good log cabin foundation. Solid and naturally rot resistant. Are there other species' logs suitable as foundations in northeast USA? Rocks can also be ...
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Is it possible to make a slingshot from "Natural" resources?
According to Wikipedia, slingshots did not exist prior to the invention of vulcanized rubber.
Slingshots depend on strong elastic materials, typically vulcanized natural rubber or the equivalent, ...
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What are uses of red spruce (picea rubens) by humans in a wilderness, primitive, or frontier setting?
What are uses for red spruce (picea rubens) by humans in wilderness settings (e.g. in primitive technologies, bushcraft, wilderness survival, low-tech rural livelihoods, frontier homesteading)? While ...
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What woods have been used to build primitive shelters in northern climates, especially around the Adirondacks Mountains?
I'm exploring primitive shelter building in northern cool temperate climates. I mean primitive as a compliment: the prime, first, original, indigenous, low-tech/base-tech. Things like the ...
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How can I make an obsidian knife?
I have some obsidian and I know that it can be made into knives and other sharp objects such as arrowheads. Historically this was done for a long time in the United States before there were steel ...
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What are some usable sources of iron for producing iron tools in the wilderness?
Hematite is one of the more common ores for smelting iron, but as illustrated in the comments from this question—the answers to which focus on the processing of iron—there are apparently other sources ...
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How to process iron in the wilderness? [closed]
How do you smelt and forge iron sources from & in the wilderness? People must have started somewhere with this sort of thing!
I once saw a video from a primitive technology practitioner on ...
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What materials can be used to make cordage in forests of the Adirondacks?
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Rope, aka cordage, is useful in many bushcraft projects. Cordage can be useful to hang things up, and it is particularly valuable in constructing tools (e.g. bow drills for fire making, ...
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How do you make a stone axe?
If I am in a survival situation with a knife as my only cutting implement, and I need an axe to chop trees (because I know burning through them is not practical) how would I make one?
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Is it possible to use a flint and steel with wet tinder?
We carry a flint and steel instead of lighters to light our camp stoves when backpacking because the flint and steel always works and weighs very little. One of our routine camp activities is to try ...
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