Fanning fire with piece of Eucalyptus bark
Cutting bark with a stone
Splitting wood with a stone
Assembling fan and rotor
Lashing together with strip of bark fiber
Fanning fire
Digging clay from creek bank
Making a fan housing from clay
Hole in housing should be same size as hole in spout
Drying in hut next to fire
Dried housing
Wooden socket
Air is now sucked through top of housing and is blown out towards the fire
Fan always blows air regardless of which way it spins
Clay pipe or "Tuyere"
Now air is forced directly into fuel bed
Wooden stakes
Carving another socket
Lashing crossbar on with lawyer cane
Making cordage from bark fiber
Cord is attached to stick and looped around fan rotor
Rotor spins easier and faster now
Making a furnace from mud
Iron bacteria (orange slime)
Iron bacteria is commonly found in creeks, swamps and springs
Crushed charcoal is added to reduce the ore to iron and white wood ash is added to lower the melting point of the ore
The ingredients are formed into a brick
Charcoal from a previous video
Pulling melted material from furnace
This is mostly slag
A few tiny specks of iron metal from the slag
Parts of the blower
Assembled blower