Setting fire in the stone age

Making bowdrill set without a knife and rope

 

 

One day we may find ourselves in a situation where we urgently need to light a fire but we do not carry matches.Skill Foundation of fire with bare hands gives us the opportunity to dominate this natural element and use it to your advantage or saving lives yourself or someone else. This situation can not occur ever. Knowledge, however, did not appreciate and can be worn on the go.

 

Established methods of fire by friction of wood is more. For example, the method of rotation of the drill in his hands - handdrill , is more suitable to desert areas. Are necessary to the specific materials and is also very physically demanding. It is unlikely that a person who's never tried it succeeds.

 

The most effective method for our country is setting fire by rubbing wood bow - bowdrill . Production set is admittedly difficult, but the effort we return from the actual drilling. Luk gives us a mechanical advantage, because at one stroke bow drill makes much more speed. This increases the chance that they will manage to ignite a fire in worse conditions or with different kinds of plants.

 

Wood must be well dried. The best is hanging from a tree branch or fallen, so that does not affect the wet ground. I used poplar wood, and I took a now dried up and phloem under the bark. On fire by friction using a bow are particularly suitable soft wood such as linden, poplar, willow, etc.

Of dry branches had made two pieces of wood. One thick around as a thumb, as far as straight as possible.Will it drill. The second piece of wood should be slightly wider, so that it can be manufactured fire board.

We can make you some tools for working wood. The best hard rock that can be split. In my neighborhood there are only limestone. He is completely inappropriate, because it is soft and flaky. I was spoiled, but I finally treated wood and stone tools from limestone.

Drill should be as long as two fists. Konár adjust to size. Location sharing what cropped up around the sharp edge of the stone. After thinning diameter wood easily at this point we break the arms.

We find a rough flat stone on which end of the drill should be sanded to the required shape. The best would be sandstone but he also does not occur everywhere. The picture above shows the grinding of limestone.

Worked drill. One end should be sharper, he will go into the thrust bearing. I drill a little rubbed with fresh resin, so I increased friction between the drill bit and the bowstring.

The second piece of wood fire to produce the plate. The lower part'm just a little aligned to me when drilling nekotúľala.

At the top of the recessed create, which comes into rounder part of the drill.

We will make you a thrust bearing. It is basically a piece of hardwood with a dimple. I used hornbeam. To reduce friction in the bearing tight close to the hole either add mashed herbs, or crushed, oil nuts, beechnuts and other seeds.

Next, we need to bow to spin the drill. On the shape and type of wood does not matter, the best is slightly curved branch of green wood, about one cubit long. Looked out the appropriate branch and side branch paragraphs edge of the stone. The word hack is a bit exaggerated. Rather the crushing of wood fibers thud, until the wood is not separated from each other.

The hardest part of the compensation may be set the same direction. Sometimes we do not carry any rope or shoes with laces or straps of the backpack. But at least we are wearing some clothes that we sacrifice for making rope. Just tear off a strip of the substance and the twist or confuse the shape of twine. Stretch the string to the bow so that the drill not to slip.

The picture is drawn all set to fire by rubbing wood using a bow. Foot proceed fiery plate. Chord to snap the drill bit so that the loop chord went out from the bow. Drill rounder put aside into the recess fiery boards. On the side of the drill bit sharper Put the thrust bearing. Hand which hold bearing oprieme on foot, so that the drill bit during drilling is still perpendicular to the ground. Shake my hand drill results popping up.

We start slowly drill, so we burned in fiery well plates. This is paired with a fire drill plate. The end of the drill is so much arches into a ball

Sharp edge of the stone create a V-shaped notch Below the subsoil cut thin slice of wood or bark. Here we will collect charred dust, which will begin later friction stir

Re-assemble the whole set and start tinkering. At first lightly to keep warm woods. If wood smoke rises, it's a good sign. Speed ​​up your bow and try to move as quickly as possible. Be to put all the power. If it is cut dust filled to the brim, slow the pace, stop drilling and choose carefully drill the hole to lift fiery plate.

If a pile of dust, smoke rises, we carbon. It is already half the battle. Carbon will now smolder for several minutes. We gently ovievať palm to quickly grew.

 

Carbon transfer that to the nest of dry grass and blows the flame. Instead of grass can be used dry leaves or dry moss or other soft material that easily flares up. I used a nest of dry grass and dry poplar bast, which I put down even at the beginning of the collection timber.

 

This was just a simplified guide on how to work towards ignite the fire using things found in nature. Individual components may also look different, depending on what material we have available at the moment. The method of ignition of fire by friction of wood is needed to train us to embrace it.

 

 

Where to continue?

Bowdrill - termokamera : Termovideo - Onen by friction of wood