Teaching my son Alex to make honest fire.

Teaching my son to make fire with a bow drill. Now he will always be able to build a fire in an emergency with materials found in nature.Ok he might need to use a shoe string to make the bow.

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• primitive
• skills
• friction
• fire

[mymessagetomark]

Soft woods work best because harder woods are more dense and conduct heat away faster requiring more effort.

[firebyehand]

what materails are you useing is it cat tail with something?

[mymessagetomark]

just cattail seed wrapped with dry grass.

[SongSubscribers]

Cat tail?

[mymessagetomark]

cattail plants .Alternatives are thistle down or milkweed down.

[TommyGun8142]

Great fire

[jeffbengtson]

@Briankozmo if you've lost your shoes you can make cordage from bark or other natural materials, it's pretty involved though, google "making cordage"

[sk8zero123]

@Briankozmo shoe lace and a peice of wood

[Briankozmo]

Awesome video. What would you do to make that bow if you had nothing whatsoever in the woods?

[gaiagale]

Brilliant ...simple clear demonstration I'm curious to what kind of wood is used for the bottom indented piece

thanks for sharing ...that is indeed an honest fire

[jessesefcik]

that is very hard people its no as easy as it looks

[Immotalitis]

@sparkiify123 Yeah, i ignite my good ol' pipe several times a day with this method.

Lighters is for pussies!

[RonRay]

What species of wood are you using for the spindle and hearth?

[mymessagetomark]

If you take into account the time spent to earn the money to buy a lighter its faster.