You can put it to use whenever you want, it just depends on how willing you are to take the time and go outside, and prepare all this stuff with a knife and some sticks.
RU-vid's what to watch threw your video at me. Very well illustrated. You deserve to have many more subs. Good production quality. Glad to have found you. Atb, -The Solo Hiker.
@BushcraftJones I see, thank you for the reply. I always watched "dual survival" and "survivorman" and always thought "hey that would be cool to learn". Who knows it could come in handy one day :)
Cool video. This is what are ancestors had to do only they did not have steel knifes if you go back far enough. They used stone tools instead. Learning to make fires was very important.
The drill creates a lot of sawdust when it is spun into the hearth board. The friction from the spinning then starts to heat up that dust and turns it into coal.
can you re-use that base and drill and if so, how many times do you recon? can we just carry the base + drill in our pockets in a plastic bag, as if they were a box of matches, and use them throughout the week or so? few days maybe?
I would have like to see close how he made the bearing block? Is it literally one solid piece of wood with a small hole carved in, or did he split it in two carve it and put it back together?
@Twisted86 In Ray Mears video he says that you should use the same type wood for both the drill and base/hearth-board so they won't consume one another.
Actually a phenomenom by which energy changes from cinetic to thermal. It is usually considered a force because it does apply a negative force to whatever movement happens in any enviroment where friction > 0.
made a bow and the other pieces "drill, baring block etc...I couldn't get it to stay in one place. Maybe my body wasn't positioned right? Maybe the drill was not carved well enough to fit into the bottom block of wood. Maybe you could give me a tip on getting the drill to stay in the bottom block?
