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Primitive Technology: One-Way Blower Iron Smelt & Forging Experiment (youtu.be)

submitted 9 months ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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[–] [email protected] 6 points 9 months ago* (last edited 9 months ago)

If you're looking for reliable, primitive gears: look at an old watermill's wooden "crown wheel" and pinion.

That being said, you'd get the same effect with pulleys and belt. Hand carving wooden pulleys or turning them on a simple pole lathe with a sharp or abrasive rock would much easier than making gears.