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How to make fire
How to make fire
Knowing how to make a fire is one of the most fundamental wilderness skills. Practice and learn different methods, so you know how to make a fire anywhere and under any condition. For a fun way to learn or to test the skills you learn in this article check out www.buccaneersandlobsters.com.
Gather firewood
Gather several handfuls of kindling, typically tiny pieces of wood in various sizes: some that are as thin or thinner than a toothpick, but longer; several handfuls of wood about the thickness and length of a pencil; and lots and lots of wood bigger than this, up to about the thickness of your arm.
Avoid wood laying on the ground (it may be damp); instead look for snags (dead branches that have fallen off trees but get caught in lower branches or on bushes, so they aren't just laying on the damp ground).
It is possible to snap dead branches from trees but only take those that immediately snap free; if it bends without breaking, it's still alive or not dry enough. Avoid green wood since most won't burn well at all. See the Things You'll Need section below.
Make a nest. Use small fiber, such as cattail, to ignite the coal and slightly thicker fiber on the outside such as dry leaves to shelter the nest. Make sure you leave a hole for the coal. A cotton ball size of tinder will do.
Make a bow. Use slightly bendable wood for the bow. You'll be putting a lot of pressure on the bow, and dead wood is more likely to break than similarly sized green wood.
Beginners should make a bow 1.5 to 2 feet long.
Use as thin a piece of wood as you can so the bow will be as light as possible. A lighter bow is easier to control and takes less strength to push back and forth. However, it has to be stiff enough to not bend when you're using it. The bow doesn't actually have to have much of a curve to it.
Use a shoelace, drawstring, small rope or whatever cordage you can find. Leave a little slack in the cord so that you can twist the drill into the bow. Once the drill is in the bow, the tension should be nice and firm. But that's getting a little ahead of things.
Make a fireboard. The fireboard and the drill both need to be some kind of light, dry, non-resinous wood. The best wood for this won't have any sap, and will be light and soft enough to easily dent with your thumbnail without gouging. Shape whatever wood you choose into a piece about an inch thick, 2-3 inches across, and at least twelve inches long. Set it aside for now.
Make a drill. Your drill can be made of the same kind of wood as the fireboard or a different kind, as long as it doesn't have any pitch in it, is light and fairly soft.
Your drill should range between about 1 - 1/2 inch thick. If you're little and light, smaller drills are better. Start with a stick about as thick as your thumb or index finger. It should be at least eight inches long, and the straighter the better.
If possible, use a knife to whittle your drill until it is straight and round. The top end of the drill should be shaped like the end of a pencil, the bottom end should be more blunt. Take some time to get the drill just right. It will pay off. The top of the drill must be sharper so that there is less friction than the bottom.
Find or make a socket. Your socket can be made of bone, wood, or rock.
Look for a rock with a smooth dimple in it. Ideally, the rock should be about fist sized. It should fit easily in your hand but not be too small or it can heat up very quickly. The ideal rock has a deep dimple with smooth sides.
If you can't find a rock, the easiest socket to make is wood. It should be small enough for you to comfortably hold in your hand, but big enough that your fingers don't wrap all the way around it and touch the drill as it's turning. It is best to make the socket out of hardwood if possible, or use a knot in softwood as a naturally lubricated socket. Use the tip of a knife or sharp rock to drill a hole no more than halfway into the wood.
You can also improvise a socket from many other materials.
Look for things that will keep the narrow end of the drill stable, but still allow it turn easily. Of course, other things can be used as sockets.
Lubricating the socket with lip balm or resin is a good practice.
Find a coal catcher. You need something to catch the coal that's created, keep it insulated from the cold ground while it becomes a coal, and carry it from the ground to the tinder. This can be a dry leaf, sliver of wood, piece of paper, bark, etc. Whatever it is, make sure you can pick it up without fumbling around and dropping it.
Starting the fire
Determine where your drill will spin on the fireboard. You need to know where your drill is going to spin on the fireboard before you cut the notch. Take the fireboard and mark a spot about 1.5 times the drill's diameter from one of the fireboard's long edges. Dig a crater there about 1/4 inch deep and about as wide as your drill.
Burn a hole. Note that the following steps are written from the perspective of a right-hander; reverse for lefties.
Put the fireboard on the ground.
Put your left foot on the fireboard about one inch to the left of the crater. The arch of your foot (not the ball or the heel) should be over the fireboard. Make sure the ground is pretty flat or bed the fireboard into the ground; you don't want it to wiggle or rock much if at all.
Kneel on your right knee. Make sure that your right knee is far enough behind your left foot that you make all 90 degree angles. (More about that later.)
Hold the bow in your right hand, drill in your left.
Put the drill on top of the string with the pencil-sharp end pointing right, and twist it into the bow. If it's too hard to do, loosen the string a bit but the string must not slip once wrapped around the drill.
Put the blunt end of the drill on the crater. Put the socket on the drill.
Grab as close to the end of the bow as you can. Put some downward pressure on the socket and start to pull back and forth on the bow. It's a delicate balance between putting too much and not enough pressure on the drill, and having the bow string too tight and not tight enough.
Assuming everything goes right you'll saw back and forth with the bow faster and faster, and put more and more pressure on the socket, and finally you'll get some black powder down around the bottom of the drill, and some smoke. Excellent! Now stop and pick up the fireboard.
Cut a chimney. Use your cutting device to make a V-shaped notch that reaches from the edge of the fireboard almost to the center of the hole you just burned in the fireboard.
The most important thing is to make sure that it's not so wide that when you start spinning the drill in the hole again, it just slips out through the notch. About a "sixth of a pie" is good.
Make sure you don't cut right to, or past, the center of the hole, but you do want to get close to the center. Like Goldilocks, you want it just right.
Make a teepee or "house" out of wood. If you like, make a floor to absorb moisture. Putting sticks at right angles works well. Remember the order tinder, small sticks, larger sticks, larger, larger. Do not forget to leave a hole in your house to put the coal into and spaces between sticks so your coal can breathe.
Make a coal. Now it's time to make fire! You do everything the same way you did when you burned a hole in the fireboard, just don't forget to put your coal catcher under the chimney.
Start pushing and pulling on the bow, and pushing down on the socket. As you get into a rhythm, saw faster and put more pressure on the socket.
Eventually you'll get black powder collecting in the chimney. Keep going, and you'll get some smoke.
When you've got smoke coming out of the punk all over, you've most likely got a coal. If you're not sure, keep going until you just can't go anymore. If it starts to squeak, you're starting to glaze the set and need to push down harder while keeping up the speed.
Sometimes you'll actually see the tip of the punk turn white (or if it's getting dark, red) and then you'll know for sure that you have a coal.
Blow the coal into flame. Carefully remove the drill and lift away the fire board, using a twig to hold the new ember down if it gets stuck in the notch.
Use one hand to gently fan air over the coal, making it bigger and more solid, using up more of the punk. Don't blow on it unless you blow very gently, as you might knock it off the coal catcher. This isn't necessarily a disaster, as the coal usually won't fall apart. But if the ground's wet, it'll put the coal out, and if you're not careful picking it back up you might put it out.
Once you're sure the coal isn't going to go out, transfer it to your tinder.
Begin blowing softly through the bundle while gently squeezing the tinder around the coal. As more tinder catches, you might have to turn and/or reshape it to keep the ember spreading into more and more of the tinder.
Keep blowing and working with the tinder bundle until you get actual flames. Put it on the ground where you want your fire. Keep blowing if you need to to keep the flames going, and add the toothpick size sticks on top of the bundle, then the pencil sized sticks, and bigger and bigger stuff until you have your campfire.
by: aenima
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