“I built a thatched workshop as an area to do future projects in out of the rain and weather,” writes John Plant, the man behind the Far North Queensland-based Primitive Technology YouTube channel.
The 2022 video, one in his series of stone age and iron age construction videos, is his first since 2019.
“The structure was a 4 x 4 m square covered with a gabled thatched roof where the lowest point was 2 m above the ground and the highest point was 4 m. This is the largest hut I’ve built to date taking 5 weeks to build. The structure sheds rain quite well and being open and without walls allows smoke to exit without issue.”
Watch more Primitive Technology on TKSST, including:
• Making a celt hatchet and an A-frame hut
• How to build a grass hut
• Woven bark fiber mats made by Primitive Technology
• Making a cord drill & pump drill from sticks & rocks
• Barrel Tiled Shed & Tiled Roof Hut
h/t Kottke.
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