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Practice Hand drill (pics added)
Outbackbob48:
Wind was blowing pretty good and snow flying every direction, then rain and then sun would shine for 15 minutes then repeat, Needed to get a fire going so I was up for a practice challenge. I got out a horseweed spindle and whitepine hearth board. Got a coal pretty quick and had a nice tulip poplar inner bark tinder bundle and the wind made it easy to get a flame, a little birch bark and no problem nice fire. Having a little trouble with pics on this one ,Computers are way more difficult than primitve fire. UGH Bob
BrianS:
Bob,
Have had limited success with a bow drill but I never was able to use a hand drill to get a coal. My hats off to you.
Recently I learned the fire roll method. Never saw it before until Dino showed me. Works very well. I have used both wood ash and believe it or not Rust
brian
Russ:
i got smoke with the, get a soft stick, dull a side and rub it against a plank trick. learned it from a Polynesian friend who then fire danced with his fire knives at our scout camp. set his tongue on fire, along with his hand. scared a counselor half to death (he was kinda a jerk to us anyway), and then let me try! good times.
Hawkdancer:
Haven't tried it yet, but if you got smoke, fire ain't far behind! Got to make a hearth board and spindle, got a neat antler hand piece in the Christmas trade a while back. Soft wood for the hearth board and stiff wood for the spindle?, and a bit of tinder at hand! Maybe magnesium shavings! (=) (lol). Must have been a neat scout camp! All of our staff were a bit crazy, but that was "Dragons and Dundeons" era! We even built a running deer target on my rifle range for black powder shoot night! The scouts loved it!
Hawkdancer
GlisGlis:
--- Quote ---Haven't tried it yet, but if you got smoke, fire ain't far behind!
--- End quote ---
I used to believe that until I tried :fp
hand drill is so simple concept and so hard to learn (lol)
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