Bow drill fire making

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Bow drill fire making

by Trevin
(Kannapolis/N.C/USA)

Bow drill

The first thing you should do is to get a flat piece of wood. Put a shallow hole in the middle of it and make sure it is not all of the way through.
Take a strong stick and put a string on both ends and pull it tight to make a bow.

Then take a straight stick with a point on the end of it.

Wrap the string around the stick and put a rock or something hard on top, to not hurt your hand, take the bow and pull it back and forth until you get a fire.

Prepare to be a wilderness survivor.

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Dec 08, 2008
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Not very accurate
by: jon

the described method will never get a fire using the fire bow. It is obvious they have never tried it themselves. The kind of wood makes a difference, soft-medium woods work better then hard woods. If you have access to sagebrush, it works. Cottonwood root works amazing for the fireboard(the flat piece). doing it in the middle doesn't allow oxygen to get in and will prevent it from making more then black sawdust. And the the board doesn't just explode into flames like most people seem to think, the fire drill creates punk(black sawdust) when you combine oxygen and heat(friction from the bowdrill) it will ignite the punk into a ember. then you have to put the ember into tender and gently blow it into flames.

Dec 07, 2008
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fire
by: Anonymous

it actually works better if you put the shallow hole right near the edge of the boar then make a small notch in the board edge connecting to the hole position your tinder under this notch and the friction heated particles will fall into your tinder causing it to burn.

Feb 23, 2008
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Try this
by: Ben

Every traveler in the wilderness should try this technique. However, practice it before you need to use it.

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