Fire: Bow Drill

Making fire with a bow drill

Category:

Howto & Style

Tags:

• Bow
• drill
• fire
• survival
• woods
• making
• board
• smoke
• fun
• flame
• surviving
• coal

[chrissygillo]

wat kind of string did u use ?

[huntingbob05]

@chrissygillo I used a boot lace.

[poopmcscoopface]

how come the wood piece that spins wont spin when i do it

[huntingbob05]

@poopmcscoopface It probably wont spin because your string in not tight enough around the spindle. Tighten it up and try it.

[Vurtsk8er2297]

i cant even get mine to start smoking there is dust in the bottom but no coal. i have actually burnt myself on the spindle but i cant seem to lite the dust please help

[huntingbob05]

@Vurtsk8er2297 Try slightly less pressure and more speed.

[purplejugnut]

now he just needs to make a shirt.

[housemandoc23]

I've been practicing this for 2 days now, got smoke finally yesterday but my spindle fell out haha. They make it look so damn easy.

[munch2006uk]

my spindle bit has a shinny coat on the end does this mean its resinous wood and no good ?

[putkonen]

Can someone tell me which Finnish wood would be best for this?

[mmiller6465]

@GhillieNova hey thanks for the advice! i actually figured it out, basically what has worked for me was alot of downward pressure and slower spinning at first to build up a pile of "dust" then let up the pressure so that you dont create more dust and then had alot of speed, which will turn the dust to a coal! i dont know about you but it works for me every time!

[GhillieNova]

@mmiller6465 im no expert but a little bit more downward pressure should do the trick.

[SuperStraightShot]

Well done. Great video. Man make fire! You hadthe coal going in like 60 seconds. Two thumbs up.