MADE FIRE WITH A BOW DRILL.
Jul 9, 2021 16:27:17 GMT -7
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Post by woodyz on Jul 9, 2021 16:27:17 GMT -7
So, since it rained 3” yesterday I decided it would be a good day to practice my fire making skills. I wish I could do pictures, but I can’t so I will just be extra wordy.
First, it got up to 91 today and the humidity was about 51%.
I tried o find dried leaves and pine straw off the ground but they were all pretty wet and it rained again this afternoon.
So my tinder was part of a birds nest that was made on our front porch this spring, cotton balls in petroleum jelly, very fine steel wool, dryer lint from cotton T shirts, newspaper, toilet paper, fatwood shavings, wetfire, Magnesium ribbion, pencil shavings from a pencil sharpener. Dead log pieces, char-cloth made from the ends of a cotton rope,
The “Ferro” rod was easy, everything lit right up like it always does.
I used pool shock powder and brake fluid and got them all started.
The “fire drill/bow” was what I was most interested in trying,
I like yucca flower stalks for spindles and a softwood hearth board about ¾” thick.
I like cedar, cottonwood, willow, elederberry, fir, magnolia, sycamore, apple, Kentucky coffeetree, locust, maple, mesquite, oak, osage, pear, pecan, walnut, and spruce.
But for this “test” I tried
a fruitless pear tree worked ok
a virgina pine tree didn’t work, I think too wet
a white mulberry tree worked ok
a tulip popular tree worked ok
and
a water-oak tree worked good
These were trees I had easy access to.
I used dead limbs from these trees for the spindle, the bow and the hearth board.
I used a 6” pipe, with one end between 2 saplings and the other end as my bearing block, because that’s hard for me to keep up and I wanted consistent and equal pressure. In the woods, I can just use a tree limb.
I watched several video’s on the process and the only thing I think I do different is not get in such a hurry with moving the coal to the tinder, it seems like they are all in such a hurry and it seems like the coal will work for quite awhile after it’s made.
First, it got up to 91 today and the humidity was about 51%.
I tried o find dried leaves and pine straw off the ground but they were all pretty wet and it rained again this afternoon.
So my tinder was part of a birds nest that was made on our front porch this spring, cotton balls in petroleum jelly, very fine steel wool, dryer lint from cotton T shirts, newspaper, toilet paper, fatwood shavings, wetfire, Magnesium ribbion, pencil shavings from a pencil sharpener. Dead log pieces, char-cloth made from the ends of a cotton rope,
The “Ferro” rod was easy, everything lit right up like it always does.
I used pool shock powder and brake fluid and got them all started.
The “fire drill/bow” was what I was most interested in trying,
I like yucca flower stalks for spindles and a softwood hearth board about ¾” thick.
I like cedar, cottonwood, willow, elederberry, fir, magnolia, sycamore, apple, Kentucky coffeetree, locust, maple, mesquite, oak, osage, pear, pecan, walnut, and spruce.
But for this “test” I tried
a fruitless pear tree worked ok
a virgina pine tree didn’t work, I think too wet
a white mulberry tree worked ok
a tulip popular tree worked ok
and
a water-oak tree worked good
These were trees I had easy access to.
I used dead limbs from these trees for the spindle, the bow and the hearth board.
I used a 6” pipe, with one end between 2 saplings and the other end as my bearing block, because that’s hard for me to keep up and I wanted consistent and equal pressure. In the woods, I can just use a tree limb.
I watched several video’s on the process and the only thing I think I do different is not get in such a hurry with moving the coal to the tinder, it seems like they are all in such a hurry and it seems like the coal will work for quite awhile after it’s made.