Survival Fire Making - Friction Fire with Fire Plow

http://primitiveskills.com Primitive Skills School head instructor Mal Stephens teaches the Fire Plow friction fire method.

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[chuckbyf1]

Tom Hanks you're not.

[primitiveskills]

@chuckbyf1Thanks for your kind words about our fire making instructional vids. If your interested we can send you a list of your local woods that can be used for fire plow, fire saw, bow drill, and hand drill. Hope to see you at one of our courses sometime!

[hotheadedjoelhaha]

Way to complicated, special types of wood from another country, all kind of rawhide, make sure you breath, special tinder! I want to see some one run into the freaking woods, come out with some sticks and start a dang FIRE! If Im lost in the woods. How do I start a FIRE!

[primitiveskills]

@hotheadedjoelhaha Hey Joel, the goal is to never be "lost" in the woods, but to gain a proficiency in these skills so that any natural environment is home. "Wilderness Survival" is for lazy people, or peole who don't have the time or commitment to devote toward being connected on that level. If you find yourself in that situation, just carry a lighter.

[Brokennock]

It's amazing how many viewers can't seem to grasp the concept that someone in Maine or thereabouts might travel to a desert region. Should they wait to learn the technique then? Obviously not!

[primitiveskills]

We teach both bow and handdrill as our "survival fire starting" techniques and you can check out our videos on that if your concerned about our survival methods. However, we dont teach or learn the fireplow to use it in a eastern survival situation. We like it for its historical primitive roots and we use it to A: Work on an ancient primitive skill and B: To utalize it if or when we are in the Deserts out west. As we dont live in the desert, we had to get desert materials brought to us

[guila1001]

WOW it actually worked!but i dint have the strength or will to continue until i managed to create fire....but i know it works!thanks for posting this video! 

[branni79]

@Balgore8

it matters not to me if your ray mears secret love child. No lecture here just have respect dude the vid is free. Let us know how you get on in the woods. All the best...

[branni79]

@primitiveskills

great reply and bang on the money dude.

[Balgore8]

@branni79 Well you are right that I should be easier on the guy for uploading his video on this stuff, you are right. But dont lecture me about patience or ability. You have no idea who I am or what my experience level is. Sure, I could be a mouthy little high school kid who has never been in the forest, or perhaps I am veteran military survivalist, who has simply just not used this technique specifically before.

[branni79]

@Balgore8

its called practice dude. Once you get the technique down you can use loads of different woods. Pay attention to the technique for now and find out what woods are suitable in your area then the sweating begins. If your this impatient now what you gonna be like when you start proably the hardest friction fire technique? Your not paying this dude money he is sharing his knowledge freely. Have some respect bro as he didnt have to upload this vid and you'd be even more frustrated.

[primitiveskills]

@Balgore8 Willow, if wild harvested, would need to be dried for some time, basswood (Tilia americana) is my preferred, and cedar, while harder than most with this technique, seems to be the most abundant in the north woods. Be sure to gather from a dead, standing tree whe possible.

[Balgore8]

@primitiveskills I live in southern Ontario (canada). What types of local wood are good for these friction based fires?

[Balgore8]

@primitiveskills Makes sense. It was still a good video, I just expected with "survival" in the title, it was going to be completely foraged materials. Tonight im going to go out in my local forest, and see if I can craft a bow-drill friction fire using forest debris. So maybe ill get back to you tomorrow with my success, or absolute failure lol. I imagine, any of these techniques can be done with any type of wood, it will just take longer and be harder.