Making a wood ash

John Plant of the popular Primitive Technology channel continues his advance into the iron age.

In this video he builds a new smelting furnace with insulated walls of wood ash to try and improve his efficiency in producing iron.

Several takeaways: This guy has built a dizzying number of different fire pits, furnaces, and kilns, and smelting iron is time-consuming and hard.

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