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DC:
We were out camping and decided to start a fire with a cord drill. We used wood we found on site but used paracord. After two days with three guys trying we gave up. I took the wood pices home and chucked the spindle in my drill press. After and hour or so of lots of smoke and two holes drilled through the board I decided that the wood must just be too damp with our RH. Granted it was our first try but everything was according to the drawing and videos I've seen. I would have thought the drill press would have done it.
willie:
It's damp like that where I came from, and there's probably a reason the old timers carried what was called a tinder box. having good tinder is often harder than getting a spark or hot spot to ignite it.
GlisGlis:
clematis vitalba base and bramble (rubus fruticosa) spindle. First try with this materials
clematis collected a week ago and left to sun.
dead bramble already dry picked from the shrub today
very fast and easy coal with handdrill.
Definitly a good combination also because both plants are very abundant were I live
Jodocus:
These two are everywhere indeed. I'll give them a try!
Outbackbob48:
I haven't messed with a hand drill since last summer, Decided today to give it a whirl and see how out of shape I gotten, Had a pc of Mullein that had been drying since last winter, Found a pc of white pine board and started drilling , got smoke in awhile and stopped leaving my spindle in the board, caught my breath and on round 2 got a beautiful big coal almost immediately, Not bad for a 69 yr old young guy. Bob
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