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Survival Fire Making – Friction Fire with Bow Drill

Survival, bushcraft, and primitive skills instructors shares bow drill friction fire tutorial at Maine Primitive Skills School. More survival tips and primitive skills tutorials at our website http://www.primitiveskills.com. Check out our advanced friction fire methods for wet conditions with the Strap Drill at https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DN7Vf1Hr3fc

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  4. That was extremely attractive to watch lmao thanks, gonna go practice so I don't die when I go camping.

  6. Hi. The hardest part of making fire this way is finding the materials and making the bow. The rest is easy in comparison. In the wild, finding sone sort of string for the bow is near enough impossible. Luke

  7. I live in nh and just made my first bow drill fire today but I used pine for the spindle and maple for the board. it was a pain. im going to try a pine board tomorrow because I have a good dead pine tree behind my house. can you use all hardwood or is that not gonna work?

  8. Wow, working the bow to create a burning ember was much quicker than I assumed it would be. Apparently I had it all backwards, because I thought it would take forever to work the bow to ignite the coal, but then you'd have to rush to move the coal to the tinder before it burned out. I've done a lot of camping and hiking, and I even had a store bought bow/drill fire starter kit when I was like 12 years old in Boy Scouts, but I couldn't get it to work then. but I didn't actually NEED it to work either. We always had matches/lighters. I came here after clicking onto that 'Naked and Afraid' show in the middle of their attempt to start a fire using this method, and for the longest time they were unable to create an ember, until much later(of course it's probably scripted for drama). How did you carve out the bowl in the board? How long did it take you to become this proficient with this method, and what if you were in another environment without ideal wood varieties like you have here, would it still be as reliable?

  9. Hey I used pine (some regular pine I guess not white) for my hearthboard and the dust collected was not black. What went wrong? Thanks in advance if you answer me.

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