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Bow Drill from Scratch in the Wild
Wildwood Trackers Study Group - Nov 2001
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(Photos by Walter Muma)
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In November 2001 eight people from Wildwood
Trackers gathered at a large
semi-wild area west of Toronto. The objective was for each of them to construct a
bow drill set from scratch in the wild using only a knife, and then use it to
make a fire.
The following three-page report of the meeting gives an overview
of making a fire using a bow drill. These pages are adapted from the full
report, which is on the Wildwood
Trackers website, in the Meetings - 2001 - Nov 2001 section.
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Our first activity was to
make tinder bundles from cedar bark.
Here we are peeling bark from a standing dead
cedar tree. |
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Peter showing how to fluff
up the cedar bark into a tinder bundle. |
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Close-up view of the cedar
tree that provided us with tinder. |
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People at work on various
aspects of their bow drill. |
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At work in the woods,
amongst the cedars. |
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Close-up of working the
bow. |
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Click on the small photo to watch
a
movie of the bowdrill being "cranked"
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Windows Media format (WMV)
320x240, 556 KB |
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