Opening the Prehistoric Iron Smelting Furnace www.thijsvandemanakker.com

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When the pit is full, the furnace is destroyed, in order to be able to grab the iron bloom.

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  • I don't know much about this, so please excuse my ignorance :) :

    - Was the liquid the slag?

    - Was the glowing material that you lifted out of the liquid pure iron?

    Thanks to whoever answers this! Great video, by the way.

  • @Sauron012

    Only the slag is liquid. he iron contains a lot of slag but very less carbon

  • why not use hammers to beat it . it s kind of rough with these large unshapely stones to pound hot bloom. let me guess, hammers were in the making

  • @korgho5757

    When you hit the bloom, the slags, you squeeze out, will ruin hammer and anvil.

    And ofcourse: the first hammer on earth was a stone!

    Thijs.

  • @aVampireTear Why not make a wooden sledgehammer?

  • @Kingofsomething87

    Only farmers do so !

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  • @ohvnaq  Only slagpit furnaces were destroyed.

  • shouldn't there be a way to take the bloom out without destroying the furnace?

    great videos, thanks so much for uploading!

  • @sutrar This process is written in "Early Iron" on my website.

  • How do you manage to to weld the smaller lumps of bloom together into a larger piece before proceeding to beating out the slag? Thanks sutrar

  • @debater96 7 kg of bloomery iron. Watch the last shot: 9.16-9.20

  • What exactly did you get out of doing this? What was the product?

  • I LOVE the stuff you guys do! this is amazing!

  • real men use rocks pussies use hammers :)

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