Literally Every Way to Start a Fire

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[–]raven9 2 insightful - 1 fun2 insightful - 0 fun3 insightful - 1 fun -  (3 children)

I dont believe the bow drill method really works. One time I put a wood dowel into an electric drill chuck and tried to get it to make an ember in a flat piece of 2x4. That bitch was spinning at 2000rpm and you think I could get it to make anything like an ember? Hell no. I dread to imagine how many hours it would take with a bow drill to spin it equally as much and all for nothing.

[–][deleted] 1 insightful - 1 fun1 insightful - 0 fun2 insightful - 1 fun -  (2 children)

I had to make a fire with two sticks in boy scouts, no bow drill. A bow drill would have been a luxury. You need hard wood, either that or you didn't do it long enough, it's not a quick process.

[–]raven9 2 insightful - 1 fun2 insightful - 0 fun3 insightful - 1 fun -  (1 child)

I hope my life never depends on that because my experiment with the power drill taught me if I couldn't get an ember at 2000rpm I damn sure wont get one by doing by hand.

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I went to find a video of someone doing this and damn, here's a guy failing to start a fire with a power drill. But you know what that redneck is neglecting is kindling. Here's a crazy Russian doing it successfully.