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Kegan:
--- Quote from: bigcountry on May 19, 2010, 06:39:29 pm ---Many thanks guys. I know what I am looking for. Watch me never find it now. I know I can get cedar and poplar around my house. Just looking for spindle material. Try to make my first ember.
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If you're using the bow drill youalready have spindlematerial right there :). I've used aspen on aspen before for the bow drill with success, and that's supposed to be a bad combo. For hand drilllook along the side of the road when you're driving through. Some of the stalky plants are pretty good, including mullien, horseweed, and goldenrod.
aaron:
my favorite combo is yucca on WRC. or yucca on yucca.
not all yucca is equally good, so try a few different plants if one does not work.
3 minutes, huh?
my hand drill "record" is about 20 seconds
bigcountry:
I am on the lookout for horseweed, beargrass, and goldenrod. I can't say I have seen much bear grass if any around.
WOODSLORE:
Dad and I use a maple drill and a cedar board and we can usually get a fire going in about 5 min.
Outbackbob48:
Hey Woodslore, Get some softer spindle an you will cut your time in half, Are you an your Dad coming to the Presque Isle shoot this weekend? I'll throw in some yucca an mullien stalks that I have an you'll throw that ole maple out for sure ;D, If you look closely in fine print on the mullien it says caution highly flammable :o. Bring your Knappin tools also , gonna be some good rock crackin goin on . Later Bob
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