Primitive Technology: Episode 01

I built this bush shed using naturally occurring materials and primitive tools. The hut is wide and 2m long, 2m high, the side walls high 1m and the ridge line (highest point) giving a roof angle of 45 degrees high. It is built into a bed and takes a little less than half to a hut. The tools used were stone hand ax for breaking wood, fire pots for carrying water to water and fire for clay sticks, make a digging stick. The materials used in the hut were abundant and mud frames on the walls, vine and lawyer cane wood. Broad leaves were used as instruments that initially worked for about four months before they began to rot. The roof was then covered with paper bark sheets which proved to be a better roofing material (peeling the outer layer of bark that does not kill this kind of wood). An outside fireplace and chimney were also built to reduce smoke inside. The hut provides a small yet comfortable shelter and space to store tools and supplies out of the air. It took 9 months from the beginning to the end of the whole club. But only the actual work took 30 days (I leave for a few months before adding shell roof, chimney and extra Daub).