5 Minutes to Better Bushcraft Building a Friction Fire Ember

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morning folks I'm Dave Canterbury with self-reliance Outfitters the Pathfinder school back in a number in our series 5 minutes the better bushcraft we're going to talk about today is the elements it takes to create an ember for a friction fire and when you're creating an editor for a friction fire the biggest mistake I see people make is they try to go too fast too fast and get excited to quit what you need to understand is the elements for an ember are really the same basic elements you need for any fire but you're restricting the amount of option flow because of the way you're doing it so you've got oxygen heat and fuel just like any other fire the option is restricted so you've got less oxygen your heat comes from your spindle whether that's a hand drill or a bow drill and depending on how fast and how much downward pressure you have you're going to create heat and friction with a primitive fire like bow drill hand drill you need friction to remove material which becomes the fuel and you need that fuel prior to adding the heat it's just like building a fire if you strike a match and you don't have any fuel to put the match to you're just burning the air you have to have fuel to put that heat to it's the same thing with our friction fire so what we've done is what we're going to do is we're going to create a notch and we're going to fill that notch with material by drilling down into it and removing material from both the spindle and the board in combination to create this material once that material is there we've created our fuel then we can add heat through speed and friction to be able to ignite this material and create the Ember which won't burn completely because you're restricting the oxygen because you have a compact area of material here you don't have a lot of oxygen foil so that's what you need to understand so when you're looking at what you're doing and I'm going to show you a close-up view of a hand drill fire that I'm gonna do here on the floor just a minute you're gonna see that I add friction to remove material and fill the notch and what the notches full then I'll start to speed up so that I can ignite that fuel on fire stay with me and now we're just pushing down we're not trying to turn the drill at a high rate of speed even though it's smoking a little bit all we really want to do now is remove material to begin to fill the knotch once we've accomplished that then we can begin to increase speed and maintain downward pressure

alright guys I appreciate you joining me today for another video out here in our five minutes to better bushcraft the elements of creating a friction fire coal or friction fire ember I appreciate your views I appreciate your support I thank you very thing you do for school for a family of four business follow our sponsor instructors affiliates of friends and I'll be backed into the video as soon as I can thanks guys