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How To Make CLAY from DIRT


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Hey, what’s up guys welcome back to the lab!
I have a very exciting DIY project for you today
Because I’m going to show you how to dig into the depths of the earth and make your own clay
Now this project is inspired here a few years ago, when I stumbled on a primitive channel named
Technology all about a boy in Australia, which goes out into the woods and uses nothing
But the materials around him to build cool stuff like houses
Looms and even foundries and the basis for all of his experiments involved clay so a few years ago
This really got me thinking if we were stranded in the middle of nowhere. What exactly would the
Take for some good clay that’s exactly what we explore in this video today
Now collect the material for this experiment today
I just went down to the local river and walk along the riverbed
I found a nice spot under the bridge where there is a lot of traffic
Took a second to enjoy the scenery and then started digging down into the soil as close to the water as I felt comfortable
Now the reason why I went to dirt through the Riverbed because clay sedimentary meaning it flows down to the lowest point
Well, I actually won clay dirt from my backyard
I think
It is much better with the river so take a trip down your local river grab some dirt
And you want to look for the dirt when you squish this species is that plastic feel it sticking together
In a large lump, you can find something. You’re well on your way to making clay so here
We have guys that we have a nice little amount of dirt here and the first thing you notice it was
It is not very clean. There are all kinds of rocks
There is sand, there is little sticks and twigs, this stuff is very dirty and although you can squish it and put it in different
form
It was not super clean you can see by stabbing all organic materials and large pieces of rocks
So to actually get the clay from this foul mixture
we need to put it through a very simple process and the only thing that we are going to realize that if
A few different containers and a little water
So quick update guys you can see
I’m a little water to this mixture added
And I use just reach my glove down there and stir it around
What we actually do is that we are breaking all the different parts in the dirt itself. We have rocks
We have sand, we have clay we have organic materials and what happens when we mix with water that they separate their different layers
Now over time Clay and send all to the bottom, so we want to do is stir vigorously
I will get all suspended and then give it about five
Seconds to settle and then transfer all the liquid into a separate container Look what happens when I do
Sweet now if we stop here with casting
You can see most of the heavy stuff is left. Back when we look down the bucket. You can see all gravel rocks
That’s hard, you can even a little sand left here at the bottom of the tank, so we basically take this stuff and we
Can throw it away because we did not intend to require such large stones after is already the stuff
That is, in this liquid here now the second passage comes a little different
We will have had something like a sieve to use your shirt you can use your socks or in this case
I’m just going to use a screen for convenience
We’re going to go ahead and clean out the container
After that we are going to pour the liquid through the filter back in it and hopefully that will remove the bulk of the organic material
Almost looks like concrete gravel
very cool
So I have to washed clean in this way bucket
We got our little screen here as I said you can use your shirt or any kind of fabric
We just try to express these organic compounds, but do not forget that before we pour the mixture through the strainer
It is very important to stir it and shake it so all the clay particles back in suspension in the water again
So you can see when we stretched out all
We have a lot of organic material left behind, we leave sticks twigs something that floats to the surface
and if you want to be extra careful
You can go and clean your screen and filter again to catch everything you might miss
Oh
Start looking a bit like chocolate
What is interesting about this is every time we pour your notes back and forth
there is a kind of a
standing remnants left behind that is because the sand is actually heavier than the clay and sinks reported to the bottom, so
theoretically now we have two containers
And we just transfer back and forth, cleaning the stand every time
Ultimately, it will be reduced the greater part of the sand. We’re going to have a very fine clay. So here. We are boys
What we have now is a bucket full of water in clay essentially they had a bit of sand we
Used weight and density of the materials in filtering the rocks
We have used a filter to filter out most of the organic materials and so now we have only one solution of clay suspended in water
And the longer we let it sit more of that sand and clay will be down to the bottom now
We do not want the clay to actually settle down yet
We want to unpack for the first time so I’m going to do is use these two containers they cycle back and forth and extract
layers of sand each time we do and
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back to making our clay
we have guys I gave it back and forth about four times taking a little bit of sand each time we
Has now we can continue almost endless process
We’re just at this point to get some of those really fine silt, but here
We have a relatively clear relatively fine
Clay water and the only thing we really need to do this is now down to a desk where it will not be
Disturbed for about an hour to separate the layers a chance just to provide fun
We had some water left, so I transfer it into another container
I’m just going to put this down here, so we can watch over a period of time and see how they settle
Quick update guys we let it sit for about five hours now. You can see the clay is so fine
That’s basically it take quite some time for the water to rise even to this level if we leave this
Maybe a day or so, I am sure that the clay even more but we could compress the top lake water
There is a faster way to get water than is now the first thing
We need to do this water that we are on top of the top and there are a few ways we can do
We just can tip over and pour it out if we can use something like a trap to try and suck
Now both options are its pros and its cons
But ultimately, all we want to do is make sure we are here this clay without any of this stuff here
So first things first, I’m just going to take this long for glass
We’re going to just fall over very slowly, very carefully to make the most of the water from the top as we could
I’m just going to pour off the top layer of clay just as well for extracting most of the water
And we call it pretty good
Most of that is going to be really fine clay. We can see that it is very humid
So we have to clean it up with a towel
Now the second method of extracting this water transfer we can use it to suck up the liquid here
But before our mouth touches we can dump here and gravity will suck everything out very similar to a vacuum cleaner
even more moisture from our clay we want to use something like a towel or shirt get something
Very strong and has a lot of fiber in this case. I’m going to take this towel
I’m going to double up on themselves
We almost want a piece of fabric that the clay will not go through, we all want it to stay indoors and care
So possibly got a little makeshift filter here
We’re going to pour this hopefully
It is tight enough that the clay will keep within so that we can tie it into a ball
we can hang and let the
Atmosphere suck the moisture out of it for a few hours until we are simply left with the clay itself
You can see this towel time
It sucked down
but we do not want it and hopefully this is thick enough that it did not intend to
Go through the towel itself. We want to be able to retrieve it and be very little or nothing
Passing through the bottom of the tray
We want it all, they are so it looks good so far would even want to quell clearly in
Wild nature would not clips, but you can improvise us something else
We just do not want the towel to actually draw down in the bucket here. We’re going to round two
Now get heavy
Beautiful here we go. There is all of our clay in our towel
And we’re just going to fold this tape it off and hang it for a bit
Now, if all goes well, we want to take all the edges of the towel folding them together
And make a nice ball of liquid look. I just fill in. It’s okay. We can save it
Here we go. It looks very good very good
Okay, so we got to make our Slipknot and now all I have to do is shake. Shake it. Shake. Shake it shake
May not be cleaned have to be this functional
There, what do you think?
Okay, so this is pretty much what we’re going for boys
We got our clay wrapped in the towel, and you can get some moisture dripping refraining
But much of it is relatively clean water
It does not have the clay because clay is trapped by the fibers inside cloth
Now, if we just hang for a few hours most of the moisture is going to come out
We should be left with a nice ball of clay
Alright guys. We are back
It’s about an hour ago that we took out of our pocket and hang on the railing
Now in the interest of time
I actually did squeeze the bag a little help to encourage a bit of moisture a little faster come out
In addition, I sacrificed a little of the clay itself, but I do not think it’s going to bring the proof-of-concept in danger
So here we are with our towel with most of the water squeezed out when we open up a little and take a
Watch it
You can see it has begun to cure a large proportion of clay on top Edges
And it is very plastic, the stuff on the inside, however, is still very liquidy. It’s a bit like runny nose
Diarrhea when we left this out exposed to air moisture would eventually evaporate and the clay would be difficult
However, there is a way. We can speed things up
There is a way we can cheat and all we need is a bit of paper towel
Everything we do is rip off a few sheets of paper towel fold it in half I’m going down to roost
In the table like this then we create our clay put it in the middle of our paper towel
And we’re really just going to lay it flat
The paper towel, a large portion of the moisture in the clay and as soon as it reaches the consistency
We are looking for we can peel off the paper towel and wrap our clay in Saran wrap or a plastic bag for later use
now again
If you do not have a paper towel are all you need to do is just let it sit in the open air a little
Longer and let it evaporate on its own, but we are only using this technique to speed up the process a bit
I’m just going to take a few more sheets of paper towel
Put them on the top shelf and help it out from the top
From here to help you absorb the moisture a little faster, and now as easy as it
Oh wow. I love this peel it back and take a look at this, we have some very nice
beautiful
Ready-to-Use clay just ended and
Mold in the palm of your hand to
Is amazing this stuff is very malleable. It is very easy to work with very plastic
You can use this to virtually anything you want to bowl a game a little dish as you sink
With a smooth surface you can go and throw it in the sink and just work it around a bit
Help develop a bubble bursting of the gaps and things of that nature
Now if you get a little clay to
is dry you can add a little more water to the surrounding work to make a little more plastic on the other hand, if
It’s too wet, you can just leave it to evaporate in the open air for a few hours and
Harden matter now before we did this experiment today?
I went to the river and I got a lot more of this river mudd
And I leave it in five-gallon buckets over a period of three days
And I changed it to this now this piece of clay
I worked back and forth a bit more
I got more out of the sand and let it sit overnight
Until all the water came up to the top was a little easier to work with and you can feel
If you just put your finger along the side of this it feels almost rubbery
It has a very plastic texture as we cut into it with something like a fork or a spoon
You can see how it just peels now
You can see the roles these works you can use it to make pottery
food pretty much anything you want if you have the right temperature to fire it in a kiln or oven to put you in
Pottery as a terracotta planter pot and possibly ceramic
So here you have it guys, we successfully turned river mud clay blocks we can use now to put in pottery
Pottery and ceramic possible fire in all the things we are trying to do in the future project videos
Let’s quickly recap. How we here
We started this project to proceed this morning to the river and pull dirt and rocks directly from the Riverbank?
We brought it home soil
We put it in a bucket of water, and we swirled around until everything was broken
Then let it sit for a few seconds and already poured dirty water in a second container, our first
Observation was that everything was badly behind all the pebbles and rocks left most of the heavy sand next grabbed a sieve
We poured all the water to help pull from organic materials such as leaves or sticks floating on top
That would also work in a survival situation with a piece of clothing like your shirt?
We passed through the water and again several times
Try to get as much of the sense that we could and we left with a very dirty gray water, we finally
Transferred to a towel
Pulled in all four ends to form a ball then tied with string and hang on the railing we
Let it sit for about an hour when we squeeze the bag to help get rid of excess fluid where we brought in
Open the towel and saw that we had a very muddy clay
We transferred the clay to a paper towel to absorb more moisture
Scraped it off and ended up with this beautiful ball of clay that we can get what we want
So there you have to take the guys that’s how you go down to the river mud and turn it into a free
Processed clay home what we end up doing with this stuff is completely up to you
So let me know what you want to see in the comments below. Thanks for joining us today for this experiment
We will be looking for you next Doc you?
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You look right out towel. Oh there
It makes a nice malleable clay as easy as it really does look like chocolate
And clay is not really so bad for your diet. No, it’s really bad. Do not drink it you can put it on your face
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