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"When you go into the outdoors, take
at least two means of making a fire with you, necessary
medications and an easy to carry knife." |
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"The earth is the Lord's and all it contains; the world, and
those who dwell in it."
Psalm 24:1 |
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A debris shelter that
was "home" for a few days. |
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picture is a cat tail (Reed Mace) stalk on a poplar
board. The black band on the drill is the way I mark my
hand drills as being the right density for making a
friction fire (rubbing two pieces of wood together to
make an ember). |
When
making a fire with the hand drill or the bow drill,
watch for smoke rising from the wood dust pile rather
than from around the spindle. When smoke comes from the
pile you can stop spinning the drill. I blew on this for
the picture to reveal the coal. |
I have come up with a unique bow drill method using a
"finger loop" to provide tension for soft spindles such
as the cat tail. The string is made from a
single leaf. This cord was used to make 4 coals.
A hard board and soft drill
allows more fires before cutting new
depressions and notches in the fire board. |
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This modified Paiute trap uses a single leaf cord that I
previously used to make a bow drill fire. I looped the
cord over the trigger because I did not want to cut it.
The angle of the long trigger stick causes a downward pressure on the bait
stick. |
Student has
made an ember with a bow drill and is blowing the ember
into a flame. Location is FDR State Park. To
successfully make a camp fire you must put a lot of time
into the preparation of your materials. |
A pan fish (blue gill)
broiled on a sweet gum basket over coals. |
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Using a soda bottle filled with water and a piece of
fungus to make a coal. See video. The indentation in the
side of the bottle is where I "burped" the air from the
bottle so as not to further distort the light |
I am using a credit card lens to focus the sun
light on "pine straw" to make a coal and blow into a
flame. |
Here I am using reading
glasses 1.5x magnification to ignite saw dust to form a
coal for making a fire. Sand a stick on a rock to make
wood dust. (I love to experiment!)
See video |
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"God is great; and God is good;
Let us thank Him for our food.
Amen, and dig in!" |
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Rainbow trout cooking on a hot rock |
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Baked chicken with a
strip of bacon (on clay platter), toasting the tops of
biscuits on a hot rock, Steak on a stick basket, and
just barely seen at the bottom is a spit with rattle
snake and chicken. |
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