Fire By Friction
11 videos • 23,957 views • by Survival Lilly In this video you will learn how to make fire by friction. It does not matter if you prefer the handdrill or the bowdrill, or slight variations from it. Friction fire is one of the most challenging ways to make fire because there are so many odds against you and a lot of mistakes can be made when for example bow drilling. However, if you accomplish to make fire this way it is one of the most rewarding survival skills that you can attain in the wilderness. Being able to make fire with rubbing two sticks together looks easy and the viewer might think that he does not need to practice because he is so sure that he "knows" how it works. If you watch a lot of bow drill videos on youtube, it is true that you probably know how to do it, but that is far away from "being able" to do it, because fire making techniques like this need practice. It is like shooting with a bow and arrow. You need practice. And strength. And stamina. A lot of people take their bow drill sets or hand drill kits home with them, to dry them out and practice. That is a good thing to do for beginners. But later when you have learned to make a bow drill ember, it is important that you try to make bow drill sets from wood you have freshly collected in the woods. There is a huge difference, and the choice of wood gets even more narrow. I prefer following woods for the bow drill: Basswood (Tilia), Willow (Salix), Poplar (Populus), Alder (Alnus), Yucca flowering stem (Yucca). These woods will always work when you find them dry and dead standing.