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Fire - Hand Drill
Hand Drills made by
Allan
"Bow"
Beauchamp
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(Equipment, text and photos on this page by
Allan
"Bow" Beauchamp)
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Here are three different hand drills:
made from sumac, mullein and burdock!
I call them "bow's" take-down hand drills.
They all fit into my pouch, and are easy to assemble and use.
Neat ah?
Note that the middle one has thumb holders.
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Hand drill made from cattail. Many people find this to be
very difficult to use.
Note that it is being used on a piece of Tinder
Fungus.
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Hand drill set using
Tinder Fungus as the fireboard |
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Here is a photo of some of the many materials that can be
utilized for the hand drill. | |
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Look closely at this...it comes from my
"one stick" fire board, and I am using a conventional hand drill in
it!
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Here you see my hand drill with "thumb
holders".
The small branch on the right I have split in two, then turned it
back to back, applied some cordage, and made it into a "two stick
fire board", shown on the left.
Already I have had some use out of it -- works great!
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This is my "milk weed hand drill" and
"fungus fire board". It also has an added "cedar plug".
This system is good in wet weather.
I keep the little "end cedar plug" in my pocket as I walk the
bush, then, when you stop, just insert it into your milkweed hand
drill, and use a found fungus (Tinder
Fungus).
Great system. As you can tell from the photo I have made many
fires this way! | |
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This photo is a close-up of the "end
cedar plug" of the above hand drill. | |
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