guys we are back once again with my
friend Joseph and today we’re going to
use some of the things we’ve made before
including the bag fellas from the
previous video and this furnace that was
teased also in the previous video and
today we are going to try and extract
[Applause]
so blacksmithing is primitive you’re
like raw dealing with the elements
beating on a piece of iron but where did
the blacksmith get the iron and that’s
what we’re doing today we are going to
make iron so what materials are we going
to start with I know we’ve got our
bellows and we’ve got our bloom furnace
which is basically a cylinder of clay
yes a cylinder of clay with a hole in
the bottom so that we can pump air into
it all right what else do we need we
need to make basically a lasagna out of
ore and charcoal and what’s gonna happen
is as the fire burns it’s gonna sink
down into the fire and what we’re gonna
keep doing is adding a little bit more
charcoal and then a little bit more ore
and it’s gonna make layers like lasagna
on its way down and on its way down it’s
gonna get hot but the heat is not what
converts this into metal you could get
this crazy hot and what you would have
is multiple red rocks in order to make
iron you need a chemical reaction to
happen and for that our secret
ingredient is charcoal charcoal is
basically pure carbon and when it burns
it produces carbon monoxide this is why
you should never ever burn it inside the
temperature is going to melt off all of
the glassy stuff all the silica and then
the carbon monoxide is literally going
to rip off oxygen atoms from the iron
ore leaving us with iron so we’ve got
this full there’s a little bit of wood
down at the bottom the top layer is
pretty much all charcoal at this point
and then we have our first batch of iron
oxide it’s not even slightly warm yet
because not much oxygen is getting into
this so the fire is staying very low
until we use the bellows to flood it
with oxygen and just get it blazing hot
and you can think of it in different
temperature zones up here it’s like it’s
drying off if there’s any moisture in
the or or the charcoal and as it gets a
little bit lower it’ll heat up and then
right around here it’ll get hot enough
that it will start converting and then
it’ll get close to the oxygen again
but what we’re pumping in is oxygen and
that’s exactly the thing we’re trying to
get rid of so what will happen is the
iron bits are going to turn into iron
and then as they come past here there’s
a danger that will turn back into rust
fortunately we have a secret ingredient
also included in an ore and that is the
glassy stuff the sand and so that’s
gonna melt and coat all of those little
particles of or protecting them from the
oxygen until they settle down here
in the bottoms of the fire pump some air
let’s do it
so we’re doing right here is we are pre
roasting the or and this is particularly
useful for hydrated orders and other
words orders that have water molecules
bounded on to them similar to the way
the concrete has water bound onto it and
so we’re doing is we’re roasting it and
the other thing that does is it makes it
way easier to grind down into the pea
gravel and powder size that we need to
put it in the furnace Joseph and I tried
grinding this up like normal and it was
miserable
so roasting it is a good thing when you
find reddish rocks like in say the Grand
Canyon area it doesn’t take very much
iron to stay in a rock red so just
because it’s red doesn’t mean there’s a
lot of iron there the first smelt I did
with iron failed miserably because I had
red rocks and I assumed that they were
iron turns out they only had like three
percent iron I tested that after I
failed with it
[Music]
all right we want to do an update this
has been running for several hours and
although we did use the bag bellows for
many hours we also did decide it’s ok if
we achieve a little bit especially since
we ran into a problem where we were not
going through enough or fast enough to
finish within like a day in order to
speed things up we got an electric air
pump and that goes a lot faster bag
bellows was working we were getting
everything processing it was just
processing slowly and it was so cool
well except for the fact that it was hot
and in the Sun and next to a 2,000
degree furnace but other than that it
was cool we opened up the back of it to
try and let some slag burn out slag is
everything that’s in the iron ore that
isn’t the iron itself and we found that
we believe we have a good sized lump of
iron now this could be just a bunch of
swag or it could be a bunch of iron and
swag so let me cool that off first yeah
[Music]
what do you think it was mostly iron
emotionally slag mostly slag mostly slag
or kid big old blob of slag so the way
to tell is you whack it with a hammer
hit that shatters that slag if a dense
at iron and as you can see it’s probably
a little over 200 degrees the cool thing
about this is the partially reduced bits
I can just throw back on the fire and we
[Music]
at this point we have enough heat in our
bloom furnace that we have slag pouring
out this stuff looks like lava and since
a lot of its melted rock it kind of is
lava it’s just lava from rocks that used
getting slag this runny is a good sign
because it usually means there is a
higher concentration of iron in the ore
and so the fact that we are seeing this
so the furnace has been burning for a
very very long time you may notice from
the lighting that it’s late afternoon
and what we’ve done is we’ve managed to
get through all the ore in those layers
and I can feel with this thing that
there’s a big lump of something right
there is it iron
please be iron oh now you can see how
thick the walls are on this thing oh boy
that’s a big old blob of something is it
iron I can’t tell you I’m gonna clear
out some of that charcoal and again
right here more yes you go keep going
keep going
nice okay is it loose
[Music]
oh you were really close to cracking
that that is an iron bloom let me see
okay let’s try to get a piece out put it
on this wooden angle and then compress
it back it now is the time to compress
it Nate go for broke you want to be
gentle at first but just even get it to
[Music]
okay so this purplish red rust that you
see up here that’s a really good sign as
is that blueish stuff right there like
this that lump maybe I’m gonna join a
heavy metal band because of how loss in
this feels that is so cool
so there’s is there still slag in this
or do you think this is pure iron at
this point this has got tons of slag and
probably even some charcoal in it all
right Joseph so we started out with a
bunch of red dirt yes and a bunch of
actually we started out with Red Rock so
we had to grind them down into red dirt
yes so we just burned it for like six or
seven hours yes yes we just burned it
for and now we got this yep very cool so
this right here should be able to be
turned into a block of iron similar to
what Joseph has made before to get this
to turn into something like that it will
involve some heat some hammering maybe
gathering up pieces as it smashes out
all the remaining slag and charcoal
that’s stuck in this but this should
have quite a bit of good refine a bowl
in it and next Joseph is going to take
this and turn it into a brick kind of
like this and at that point you can
start blacksmithing so hardcore this is
so cool yeah he’s a little bit excited
yeah this is pretty cool I haven’t done
this five times before to varying levels
of success to have his same level of
excitement but I am quite happy that
this turned out I’m quite happy for the
knowledge he already had and shared with
us to make sure this did turn out and
I’m really interested to see what gets
made out of it thanks I’ll have to show
you it will be great guys that’s it for
today but there’s always more for you to
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friend Joseph and today we’re going to
use some of the things we’ve made before
including the bag fellas from the
previous video and this furnace that was
teased also in the previous video and
today we are going to try and extract
[Applause]
so blacksmithing is primitive you’re
like raw dealing with the elements
beating on a piece of iron but where did
the blacksmith get the iron and that’s
what we’re doing today we are going to
make iron so what materials are we going
to start with I know we’ve got our
bellows and we’ve got our bloom furnace
which is basically a cylinder of clay
yes a cylinder of clay with a hole in
the bottom so that we can pump air into
it all right what else do we need we
need to make basically a lasagna out of
ore and charcoal and what’s gonna happen
is as the fire burns it’s gonna sink
down into the fire and what we’re gonna
keep doing is adding a little bit more
charcoal and then a little bit more ore
and it’s gonna make layers like lasagna
on its way down and on its way down it’s
gonna get hot but the heat is not what
converts this into metal you could get
this crazy hot and what you would have
is multiple red rocks in order to make
iron you need a chemical reaction to
happen and for that our secret
ingredient is charcoal charcoal is
basically pure carbon and when it burns
it produces carbon monoxide this is why
you should never ever burn it inside the
temperature is going to melt off all of
the glassy stuff all the silica and then
the carbon monoxide is literally going
to rip off oxygen atoms from the iron
ore leaving us with iron so we’ve got
this full there’s a little bit of wood
down at the bottom the top layer is
pretty much all charcoal at this point
and then we have our first batch of iron
oxide it’s not even slightly warm yet
because not much oxygen is getting into
this so the fire is staying very low
until we use the bellows to flood it
with oxygen and just get it blazing hot
and you can think of it in different
temperature zones up here it’s like it’s
drying off if there’s any moisture in
the or or the charcoal and as it gets a
little bit lower it’ll heat up and then
right around here it’ll get hot enough
that it will start converting and then
it’ll get close to the oxygen again
but what we’re pumping in is oxygen and
that’s exactly the thing we’re trying to
get rid of so what will happen is the
iron bits are going to turn into iron
and then as they come past here there’s
a danger that will turn back into rust
fortunately we have a secret ingredient
also included in an ore and that is the
glassy stuff the sand and so that’s
gonna melt and coat all of those little
particles of or protecting them from the
oxygen until they settle down here
in the bottoms of the fire pump some air
let’s do it
so we’re doing right here is we are pre
roasting the or and this is particularly
useful for hydrated orders and other
words orders that have water molecules
bounded on to them similar to the way
the concrete has water bound onto it and
so we’re doing is we’re roasting it and
the other thing that does is it makes it
way easier to grind down into the pea
gravel and powder size that we need to
put it in the furnace Joseph and I tried
grinding this up like normal and it was
miserable
so roasting it is a good thing when you
find reddish rocks like in say the Grand
Canyon area it doesn’t take very much
iron to stay in a rock red so just
because it’s red doesn’t mean there’s a
lot of iron there the first smelt I did
with iron failed miserably because I had
red rocks and I assumed that they were
iron turns out they only had like three
percent iron I tested that after I
failed with it
[Music]
all right we want to do an update this
has been running for several hours and
although we did use the bag bellows for
many hours we also did decide it’s ok if
we achieve a little bit especially since
we ran into a problem where we were not
going through enough or fast enough to
finish within like a day in order to
speed things up we got an electric air
pump and that goes a lot faster bag
bellows was working we were getting
everything processing it was just
processing slowly and it was so cool
well except for the fact that it was hot
and in the Sun and next to a 2,000
degree furnace but other than that it
was cool we opened up the back of it to
try and let some slag burn out slag is
everything that’s in the iron ore that
isn’t the iron itself and we found that
we believe we have a good sized lump of
iron now this could be just a bunch of
swag or it could be a bunch of iron and
swag so let me cool that off first yeah
[Music]
what do you think it was mostly iron
emotionally slag mostly slag mostly slag
or kid big old blob of slag so the way
to tell is you whack it with a hammer
hit that shatters that slag if a dense
at iron and as you can see it’s probably
a little over 200 degrees the cool thing
about this is the partially reduced bits
I can just throw back on the fire and we
[Music]
at this point we have enough heat in our
bloom furnace that we have slag pouring
out this stuff looks like lava and since
a lot of its melted rock it kind of is
lava it’s just lava from rocks that used
getting slag this runny is a good sign
because it usually means there is a
higher concentration of iron in the ore
and so the fact that we are seeing this
so the furnace has been burning for a
very very long time you may notice from
the lighting that it’s late afternoon
and what we’ve done is we’ve managed to
get through all the ore in those layers
and I can feel with this thing that
there’s a big lump of something right
there is it iron
please be iron oh now you can see how
thick the walls are on this thing oh boy
that’s a big old blob of something is it
iron I can’t tell you I’m gonna clear
out some of that charcoal and again
right here more yes you go keep going
keep going
nice okay is it loose
[Music]
oh you were really close to cracking
that that is an iron bloom let me see
okay let’s try to get a piece out put it
on this wooden angle and then compress
it back it now is the time to compress
it Nate go for broke you want to be
gentle at first but just even get it to
[Music]
okay so this purplish red rust that you
see up here that’s a really good sign as
is that blueish stuff right there like
this that lump maybe I’m gonna join a
heavy metal band because of how loss in
this feels that is so cool
so there’s is there still slag in this
or do you think this is pure iron at
this point this has got tons of slag and
probably even some charcoal in it all
right Joseph so we started out with a
bunch of red dirt yes and a bunch of
actually we started out with Red Rock so
we had to grind them down into red dirt
yes so we just burned it for like six or
seven hours yes yes we just burned it
for and now we got this yep very cool so
this right here should be able to be
turned into a block of iron similar to
what Joseph has made before to get this
to turn into something like that it will
involve some heat some hammering maybe
gathering up pieces as it smashes out
all the remaining slag and charcoal
that’s stuck in this but this should
have quite a bit of good refine a bowl
in it and next Joseph is going to take
this and turn it into a brick kind of
like this and at that point you can
start blacksmithing so hardcore this is
so cool yeah he’s a little bit excited
yeah this is pretty cool I haven’t done
this five times before to varying levels
of success to have his same level of
excitement but I am quite happy that
this turned out I’m quite happy for the
knowledge he already had and shared with
us to make sure this did turn out and
I’m really interested to see what gets
made out of it thanks I’ll have to show
you it will be great guys that’s it for
today but there’s always more for you to
see that box up at the top will take you
to our last video needs to check that
one out the other box will show you what
YouTube thinks you should be watching
next and if you hit this bomb in the
middle you will be subscribed to the
channel and that way you’ll never miss
out on the cool video don’t forget to
ring that Bell and we will see you in the next one doctor then
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