Primitive Technology: Palm Thatched Mud Hut
This is an old hut I built 2 years ago and have since demolished. It was a 2 m square floor with wattle and daub walls 1.5 m high topped with a pyramidal roof thatched with Alexander palm fronds. The building method is my usual plan- get a roof up first then build the walls. From start to finish it took 27 days (it could have been faster though- this was at a casual speed). This was the first wattle and daub hut I built and is larger than the other one I built later (my idea for now is to build small but well although I’ll try larger huts again in future).
The roof lasted for a few months before becoming rotten and bug eaten. As an important note the species of palm used in thatching makes all the difference. Had this hut been built in the mountain with wait-a-while palm fronds it would have lasted 2 years at least.
Instead it was thatched with alexander palm fronds that deteriorated quickly.
I wasn’t to know this and was trying to adapt hut building practice I learned in the mountain to low land conditions (I’ve built similar huts up the mountain with the same roof shape that have lasted a long time). I hope in future videos to explore better roofing options to use in areas like this.
Also of interest in the video is another pot I make showing more detail than previous videos. The fire place for the hut is a simple pit in the center of the floor. It is a good hut design though it requires a simple ladder to construct.
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I love this channel. this dude is the shit at primitive survival. he is the epitome of ‘work smarter not harder.’ he totally makes it look easy.
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When you make dable huts are they just mud or some other mixture
This is the coolest guy in ze world!
Impressive! Where was this built?
Where is your home anyway? U look like u are lost
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your videos are absolutely fascinating to watch and very informative, thank you so much for your hard work and please don’t stop making these videos
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How do you avoid being bitten by mosquitoes and other insects?
I love what he is doing
this guy is cool.how did he learn how to do this stuff
Turn on captions, he explains what he is doing
this mud hut lacks of an air conditioning.