Starting a Fire With a Bow Drill Fire Starter : Wood for Making a Bow Drill Fire Starter

The best wood for making a bow drill fire starter includes sycamore and cedar. Discover what types of wood are best for making bow drill fire starters in this free video on starting a fire in survival situations.

Expert: Rocco Spinelli
Bio: Rocco Spinelli has been training in survival for over seven years; he's certified and has diplomas in Advanced Tracking & Awareness, Wilderness Survival, and Search & Forensics.
Filmmaker: Nili Nathan

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• bow drill
• bow drill fire starter
• starting fire
• primitive fire starting

[DieTheDeath]

i heard what is needed is one soft wood on one hard wood. the hard wood grinds dust off the soft wood which turns into an ember.

is this untrue? can soft woods be used together and hard woods used together?

[JefafaSB]

SanRafaelSwell... Although its a year later I figured I'd speak my peace. You are correct in saying true cedars are not native

To north America but regardless of their father land, true cedars are alive

And well in the pacific northwest of the US. Example; the Deodar cedar, the Atlas cedar as well as the cedar of Lebanon. Kinda in the same way 99% of the people living in this country aren't native.

[rlmccullough]

Couldn't see for the all the paragraph.

[SanRafaelSwell]

I wish people realized that THERE ARE NO CEDARS in the US. This genus (Cedrus) is NOT native to the Americas. Everything that people call cedars in the US are actually junipers (Juniperus) or Arborvitae (Thuja). They are NOT cedars, sorry.

[dongisselbeck]

I saw this done in 50 seconds (pick up tools to open flame) at the winter olympics in Salt LAke City.

[arunalf]

u mean harD wood

[jasonx1214]

lol.

har wood