Cutting bark with a stone

Splitting wood with a stone

Assembling fan and rotor

Lashing together with strip of bark fiber

Fanning fire

Digging clay from creek bank

Making a fan housing from clay

Hole in housing should be same size as hole in spout

Drying in hut next to fire

Dried housing

Wooden socket

Air is now sucked through top of housing and is blown out towards the fire

Fan always blows air regardless of which way it spins

Clay pipe or "Tuyere"

Now air is forced directly into fuel bed

Wooden stakes

Carving another socket

Lashing crossbar on with lawyer cane

Making cordage from bark fiber

Cord is attached to stick and looped around fan rotor

Rotor spins easier and faster now

Making a furnace from mud

Iron bacteria (orange slime)

Iron bacteria is commonly found in creeks, swamps and springs

Crushed charcoal is added to reduce the ore to iron and white wood ash is added to lower the melting point of the ore

The ingredients are formed into a brick

Charcoal from a previous video

Pulling melted material from furnace

This is mostly slag

A few tiny specks of iron metal from the slag

Parts of the blower

Assembled blower