I like that this video didn't really sanitize or gloss over the sheer effort required to do this, and how much grinding failure you will endure along the way.
Oh, I think he made it look a lot easier than it is. I recall in Boy Scout none of us could do the stick fire and we took hours to do it with a bow and that is kids and scout masters
@@seanshea8596 I was the only one that could do it in my troop. We had a competition during summer camp to see if any troop could start a fire. There were 8 troops that participated and 2 won with mine being one of the winners.
How to Make Everything did this, and the redheaded girl fought with a bow drill for apparently hours, and hurt herself a few times before finally blundering into actual fire.
This guy really has perfected his technique. I've watched many people attempt the hand drill method and I've never seen someone make it look as easy as this guy does.
“Even though you may never find yourself in a survival situation, I firmly believe that learning and practicing these primitive skills are an essential part of connecting with your past, your environment, and everything that it means to be human.” Lovely quote. Cool to see this return to the primitive. Fascinating to think an ancestor figured this out since it’s so improbable and required a great deal of knowledge of one’s natural surroundings to pick the right spindle, hearthboard, etc.
he is a very good teacher, i've never watched an explanation for this stuff that looked so simple and provided this much information in an easy to understand way. props to the guy
Indeed, what if something happened and life turned back into primetive atmosphere or what if we were end up in the wilderness where there is a lack of modern energy sources.
Bill, you really need to have a greater presence on TH-cam. Whether it's experimental archaeology, primitive bush craft, nose-to-tail meat eating or natural sourdough, this is an enormous audience eager for your knowledge and skills. You need to have your own channel.
Omg lol I imagine a couple of tesnge friends are joking sround tryna create a hole in soft wood for 😉 😉 then they make a fire so they put it on a stick and try to burn each other ten one gets really hurt and they freak out so then they idk go back to putting there weiners in such a significant sight
Lighters can fail you in a variety of ways. If nothing else, sooner or later you'll run out of fuel. Yes, bring them. Bring several. But have the skill to do it without any man-made materials.
@@Ghost_Os Thank you. If these guys were paying attention to the point of this video ( with your BARE HANDS, in the wilderness) you wouldn't have had to point this out. So the moral of this story isnt bring a lighter (or lots of them), when in fact that couldnt be faryher than the truth. It is always a good idea to be as self sufficient as you can especially should the SHTF, however unlikely or not that is. I bought one of those flint/striker gadgets this way I could start as many fires as I could ever need before such a massive flint wears out. A magnifying glass is useful too in the sense that even though it is only useful if there is sufficient sunlight, there are plenty of examples where a fire could be needed even during daylight hours. Just because the sun is out doesnt mean you wont need a fire for a variety of reasons. If your a smoker, you could light your smoke in seconds, without any fire at all, just heat amplification
Me: aight time to sleep TH-cam: How to start a fire Me: nah, I'll sleep My brain: but but wou- wouldn't it be cool if you you can start a fire with sticks?
Wow! The fire style was dead on, but the fire starting with a drill or a bow was really spectacular. Everybody has read the boy scout manuals, survival books...but actually watching it happen was invaluable. I'll give it a try tomorrow. Thanks!
@@solomonheppner government is really pushing it with this,Corona is pretty much just the flu this is all political when Biden gets in all this stuff will be lifted
This is amazing! The creativity, actually the immense leap in imagination that our ancestors did to be able to create this mechanism out of the simplest of materials is simply amazing.
the frick? Bruh there’s a 98% survival rate. Also it only kills people who have health problems or are old. It’s spreads by contaminated surfaces or in contact and your in a forest so that’s not gonna happen
Just remember that when you are trying to make a fire, Make sure you take your left shoe off.... I tried for hours and as soon as my shoe came off almost everything around me burst into flames. Just a little FYI.... 🤣
I did a wilderness therapy program a while back and in order to make fire we had to use friction like what is shown in the thumbnail which is known as a hand drill. Although the majority of the fires we made were actually done with a bow drill. I was better at hand drill than I was at bow drill so when ever I could I would use a hand drill. The only problem with that was it left my hands heavily blistered.
I love how he got angry when the stick broke and just started swearing at it. 😂 But eventually after 5 tries and you can see that on the drill holes he finally got an amber and then fire. he's a good teacher!
His last statement was the best part of this whole video. Learning how to do this connects us with our past, our environment and what it means to be human. At least in part what it means to be human. There are more aspects to humanity than this, of course.
Schools should teach this to children. Primitive skills should be preserved because we don't know if we will ever get struck back to the Stone age. Our long-term survival as a species would be easier if we all had this knowledge.
You didn’t have a wildlife and forestry elective? Even in elementary school we learned to read a map and use a compass. In the class we learned basic first aid, the theory of field dressing an animal we hunted, and basic camping skills, then went camping where we had to make our own fire and set up camp ourselves. It was fun
Wow this is the best video I've seen on the subject. Everyone just tells you how to do it; he actually explained why each step is important and what not to do. Great job brother.
Good tutorial, it's definitely not as easy as you made it look. I've done friction fires just for the novelty and practice, but I definitely prefer my ferrocerium rod. Thanks for sharing!
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I used to be obsessed with this kinda stuff when I was in the Boy Scouts, I’m so happy, most of what I remember is actually accurate down to the making the rope, this is awesome! I hope this guy makes more videos 😁👍👍
absolutely love how informative and direct the information is, very easy to follow and very detailed right down to proper materials. This video is just overall fantastic would love to see more I also liked that even in this instructional video some things still went wrong but he brushed through it and showed you how to correct them just as easily which I find helps make you more prepared for inconveniences you may face and how to quickly requite the situation
Amazing channel! Best teacher I have seen in a long time! Clear, detailed, thorough, passionate, masterful. What Bill failed to say is that all of this takes an amazing amount of dedication, determination, endurance, callus and *strength* (or at least at the beginning of mastery).
Trial and error my dood. Thanks for showing how difficult it really is to start a fire. People assume it's easy because it's normally made to look that way. But you've shown just how difficult it really is.
Saving this to a survival USB thumb drive for when there's no internet servers, and everyone else is whining they don't have toilet paper or lighter fluid.
This guy has great advice, follow his every word, but he makes it look SOOOOOOOOO much more easy than it is in real life. In Boy Scouts it took me hours to make fire with a bow.
Thank you for taking the effort to make this video. And to do so, warts and all and without condescending to your audience! Again, thank you. Hats off.
The knowledge on which the skills are based, combined with a didactic sense of method and concise and essential explanations, make this video a summary of everything you need to know to make a primitive fire; years I see videos on the subject and it is the most complete. Certainly the skills in archelogy and teaching were the two udders of this transmission of knowledge. Congratulations
João Maverick There’s always some douche trying to be a contrarian. Blowing simply displaces the smoke and adds oxygen via your breathe, and the air around you. You don’t blow out 100% carbon dioxide. Not even close.
@João Maverick Exhaled air 16% oxygen thats why CPR requires breaths to be given. By blowing you are able to supply oxygen directly where it is needed.
Only thing i would have a hard time with is finding the right wood for spindle and the hearth but anybody would if you are in the forest You would need the luck of the irish but if u in thewoods and are still alive then you must have luck already so finding the materials would be possible. Great Video Thank You‼️
12:09 when you are actually making the fire make sure you keep your back leg at a 90 degree angle and lean your back to exert downward pressure for the bow drill string you do what he does at about 17:00 but if you dont have that rawhide you can use things like stinging nettle, tree bark and roots but each has a way to be prepared, best bet is to look on youtube stinging nettle, tree bark and root cordage. if you do stinging nettle it will sting your hands so use something like a sleave and then you can either put the nettle into water or you can put it over flame for a second but water is better if you clearly dont have fire already
Once they have been used for lighting fires and moving the burning tinder around, you do not even feel nettles though your calloused hands any more than using them to put burning paper out or stubbing your cigarettes out. .
My survival method in cold weather hunting, is to create a hole about a foot deep, three feet wide, filled with branches of fallen trees(hardwood trees), creating a few shovel loads of hot coals. Place those coals in a bed about six feet long, two feet wide, 10 inches(less than a foot, in extreme cold...below 0), and lightly cover the coals with the soil, and not packing-it-down. Put mattress over the soil bed, sleeping bag(SeaToSummit, makes awesome sleeping bags) on top, climb-in. Oh, the shelter wall/lean-To, would obviously be blocking the wind/cold air direction. Good for a couple hours of heat.
One thing you forgot to mention is if you hear it starting to squeak it means your polishing the end off which will stop any friction. If it starts squeaking you need to apply more pressure downwards, if it's to late and its shiny and polished add a little grit into the hole
Mavrck2711 I have. And I’ve failed a lot too. Even when everything felt the same in my eyes. I just think there’s a gate keeper of fire and will only let humans have successful coals when they feel like it. Haha
@@embeaston Lol I hear ya. The problem is moisture it's always moisture. Moisture in the air or in the wood. The reason why I wanted to see him make a kit is simple he kept saying in a survival situation. In a survival situation you don't have your fire kit you have to go get one. You have to dry it out. There are some tricks to drying wood but ultimately finding that right dead standing not punky tree that is also the right species is as hard as spinning the spindle. Also once you've found it making the board with a primitive edge would also take tons of finesse. He said a cat tail for spindle. Cat tails are in the water. No mention on how to prepare a cat tail just use a cat tail. That's gonna kill someone (ok overly dramatic it probably won't but you get the idea). Those times you couldn't get a coal I'm willing to bet it was just enough moisture to not allow enough air spaces between those tiny dust particles and bam no coal no fire.
@Tiitus Lehtonen You must not know what a fire set is. When you're watching videos like this and you see someone say fire set they're talking about the components of a friction fire (hearth board, spindle, with optional bow, string and bearing block. As far as I'm concerned him bringing a proven pre made fire set into the woods is almost the same as bringing a lighter. He could have just done this in his back yard. Going to the woods was just for added effect.
@@skullcrushers1000 yah I get it all I'm saying is if I got stranded and the sun was getting low and I needed a fire maybe the notches on my stick board wouldnt be so perfect (lol at your profile name)
Apache trick: You rub the pointy part of the spindle on the sides of your nose to pick up your grease. It reduces the friction by 90% it makes it sail like glass in the socket. Try it.
I use to be a canoe guide, grew-up hunting and fishing in Minnesota, etc. A few years ago, a well meaning friend gave me one of those spring loaded flint sparkers for a gift, that did not know much about the outdoors. I reached in my pocket and gave him my bic lighter back. I told him, "when you are drenched to the bone, it is below zero, and it is rainy and windy, wood is wet, which one are you going to reach for first"? yea, yea, I can start a fire with all those other techniques, but a bic lighter, well taken care of, is a very nice "luxury" that will last you a very long time. In fact, if I had the choice of one survival tool, it would be a bic lighter. All the rest can be improvised (e.g. knifes, axes, hot tubs, refrigerators, etc). A fast fire, however will save your life while you are trying to figure out everything else.
just dont forget the nice premade super cured deer hide , taken in summer moon to get that nice soft texture so your hands feel good. rofl... just use your shoes laces gowd. 10-15 min in and he still hasnt made the fire. Dont forget the pre made basket for your wood rods.
Too true man. It is possible via hand drill, but the speed and accuracy of a bowdrill,not mentioning the energy expenditure it saves makes it a clear winner( and no callouses too)
@@SageShadow096 or a nice thing called a ROCK to lay your sticks on. a nice flat ROCK. and im sure the laces aren't storong enough for constant rubbing against a stick to create fire.
I’m interested in where he looked to find the fuel, especially considering the wet conditions. Wondering if he used wet sticks or if he was able to find some good dry ones somewhere; where in the forest would you look to get dry fuel on a wet day?
You would be smart and stack some on dry days, also you could look for places no rain has gotten into. And if you just so happen to be left in the wild and is raining all the time , man , you're just so out of luck :D
So you're telling me that I need to: *_Lick my hands_* to get a *_stronger grip_* at the *_stick_* , and to *_keep the stick on the hole for a long period of time_* . Seems about right
I like that this video didn't really sanitize or gloss over the sheer effort required to do this, and how much grinding failure you will endure along the way.
I really felt for him when that spindle snapped
And he's experienced at it and it still looks difficult! Imagine how hard it would be for a beginner.
Oh, I think he made it look a lot easier than it is. I recall in Boy Scout none of us could do the stick fire and we took hours to do it with a bow and that is kids and scout masters
@@seanshea8596 I was the only one that could do it in my troop. We had a competition during summer camp to see if any troop could start a fire. There were 8 troops that participated and 2 won with mine being one of the winners.
How to Make Everything did this, and the redheaded girl fought with a bow drill for apparently hours, and hurt herself a few times before finally blundering into actual fire.
As soon as he started mentioning all the types of trees, woods, and plants..I knew I would die if I was in the middle of the forest in winter 😂😂
I have this book that might help- Winter Botany: An Identification Guide to Native Trees and Shrubs
Hi
Even this guy wouldn’t survive a winter, that’s why early humans lived in Africa
Mike L Neanderthals were adapted for it, humans like us arrived 40000 years ago
notinspiredatall ~ your comment = phun-knee
This guy really has perfected his technique. I've watched many people attempt the hand drill method and I've never seen someone make it look as easy as this guy does.
Your name is hilarious
I thought about Rhett while watching this only to scroll down and find this masterpiece of an account.
Suprisingly enough I actually managed to get a fire with a hand drill on my first try
John Plant: hold my camera!
Well, then you'll need to checkout the channel "primitive technology"
“Even though you may never find yourself in a survival situation, I firmly believe that learning and practicing these primitive skills are an essential part of connecting with your past, your environment, and everything that it means to be human.”
Lovely quote. Cool to see this return to the primitive.
Fascinating to think an ancestor figured this out since it’s so improbable and required a great deal of knowledge of one’s natural surroundings to pick the right spindle, hearthboard, etc.
Honestly, considering everything, the likelihood of finding yourself in a survival situation increases with each flood and mega-wildfires.
People need to be more connected with nature...
That's the part that got me. I loved it so much it made me cry.. in a happy emotional way... I'm weird. Idk. ❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️
facts
@@MiRandom559it made me tear-eyed as well
he is a very good teacher, i've never watched an explanation for this stuff that looked so simple and provided this much information in an easy to understand way. props to the guy
Indeed. Very informational
Props? What are you some kind of street gangsta?
I hope this guy is in my shelter group during the apocalypse
assuming you can afford one
@@nabilyassin1742 oh i have some skills myself, so I'll be more or less in-demand then :)
i would personally want kim byungman
Or you can ask John Plant to join you
I would prefer bear grylls
I like how he used the flake for everything, not just when creating the hearth board, but also when cutting the meat, he used it. Dedication.
After the camera stopped recording he put it in his mouth to assist in chewing the meat. Then he swallowed to aid his digestion.
That’s archaeologists for you
Me:
*in my bed*
*hasn’t seen the sun in 1000 years*
*will never need*
My brain: yeah, but what if?
@Amelia DeVille yes
You clicked on the wrong video, try : how to start a fire in your bed using only your pillows.
Dave now that’s a challenge (except there’s electrical (plasma) fires, heat source (heat gun/ hair dryer, curling iron, etc)
Indeed, what if something happened and life turned back into primetive atmosphere or what if we were end up in the wilderness where there is a lack of modern energy sources.
Now I just need to bust apart my bedside table and give this a try¡! LoL
The masculine urge to learn how to build a fire at 3 am
What’s “masculine” about it?
lol me rn watching at 2am
@@erickrisdatuin8663same here lmao
@@BeansPredi-ch6xk cause it’s so cool 😎
@@HelperBot That means it’s not masculine at all cause men are the opposite of cool.
I love the fact that he kept the failed attempt, and how to prep all the necessary materials. Brilliant!
Bill, you really need to have a greater presence on TH-cam. Whether it's experimental archaeology, primitive bush craft, nose-to-tail meat eating or natural sourdough, this is an enormous audience eager for your knowledge and skills. You need to have your own channel.
JUST IMAGINE THE AWE ON PEOPLE'S FACES WHEN THEY DISCOVERED FIRE....
Omg lol I imagine a couple of tesnge friends are joking sround tryna create a hole in soft wood for 😉 😉 then they make a fire so they put it on a stick and try to burn each other ten one gets really hurt and they freak out so then they idk go back to putting there weiners in such a significant sight
Chip the Dino they probably hit 2 stones by mistake and saw sparkles... and continued to hit them
GLR Nah a lightning strike probably caused a natural fire and they were like “ooga?”
word
“AY BOIS COME LOOK AT DIS”
Moral of the story people... Always pack a lighter!
And a pocket knife, just in case.
LagiNaLangAko23 make that a beer can, might as well
Lighters can fail you in a variety of ways. If nothing else, sooner or later you'll run out of fuel. Yes, bring them. Bring several. But have the skill to do it without any man-made materials.
@@Ghost_Os
Thank you. If these guys were paying attention to the point of this video ( with your BARE HANDS, in the wilderness) you wouldn't have had to point this out. So the moral of this story isnt bring a lighter (or lots of them), when in fact that couldnt be faryher than the truth. It is always a good idea to be as self sufficient as you can especially should the SHTF, however unlikely or not that is. I bought one of those flint/striker gadgets this way I could start as many fires as I could ever need before such a massive flint wears out. A magnifying glass is useful too in the sense that even though it is only useful if there is sufficient sunlight, there are plenty of examples where a fire could be needed even during daylight hours. Just because the sun is out doesnt mean you wont need a fire for a variety of reasons. If your a smoker, you could light your smoke in seconds, without any fire at all, just heat amplification
CJR Are you talking about a ferrocerium rod?
Me: aight time to sleep
TH-cam: How to start a fire
Me: nah, I'll sleep
My brain: but but wou- wouldn't it be cool if you you can start a fire with sticks?
Literally me right now 😂😂
This is the best comment I’ve seen on the video so far.
Dio... I think it's cool enough that you can stop time itself let alone starting a fire lmao
Why would 130yrs old metrosexual vampire want to start a fire ?
Exactly what just happened to me
Wow! The fire style was dead on, but the fire starting with a drill or a bow was really spectacular. Everybody has read the boy scout manuals, survival books...but actually watching it happen was invaluable. I'll give it a try tomorrow. Thanks!
Primitive Technology got me covered.
13:29 background music will play once you've succeed.
😂
Your profile picture is a demon
It didnt play for me my game bug.
@@GDCilia :D
If only real life worked this way 😭
Finally someone who actually knows. Good job.
this guy: "lick your hands to..."
the whole world right now: "wait, that's illegal"
Government: you got a permit to take off your mask?
@@solomonheppner 😂 I’m here for when China and Russia invade
@@solomonheppner government is really pushing it with this,Corona is pretty much just the flu this is all political when Biden gets in all this stuff will be lifted
The left is evil and all the people who voted for Biden will see how idiotic they are when he gets in
@@godsnotdead1030 stfu
This is amazing! The creativity, actually the immense leap in imagination that our ancestors did to be able to create this mechanism out of the simplest of materials is simply amazing.
Make sure everything you will need is at your disposal, like within arm's reach. Learnt that the hard way changing a baby's diaper.
I hate the word 'diaper'.......'nappy' doesn't sound as gross.
@@SilentHotdog28 no one in the USA west of the Mississippi river knows what a "nappy" is
"you gotta lick your hands, if they get dry lick them again"
sounds good so far.
this guy wants to have corona i think
the frick? Bruh there’s a 98% survival rate. Also it only kills people who have health problems or are old. It’s spreads by contaminated surfaces or in contact and your in a forest so that’s not gonna happen
@@dinh6327 yeah he is in a forest which can lead to more serious diseases and do u think that licking your hands are very healthy
the frick? If you gotta make a fire
Ha, lick your hands.... What kind of survivalist doesn't pack a nice flower scented hand lotion when toughing it in the woods, He's a joke. 🙄 LMAO 😂🤣
I had tried this and failed and now I know why. Also after watching the whole thing its makes sense why this video is 25min long.
well? why'd you fail?
He doesn't have a flint'n steel
Best hand drill & bow drill fire making video on TH-cam. Bonus explanation of the advantages of the teepee & parallel stick fires. Excellent.
we should all appreciate the fact that they showed us how difficult & tedious the process is. making fire without tools is no joke.
now i feel like walking outside, grabbing the nearest stick and rock, and building rome with a space station in the middle.
gimme a half hour.
Just remember that when you are trying to make a fire, Make sure you take your left shoe off.... I tried for hours and as soon as my shoe came off almost everything around me burst into flames.
Just a little FYI.... 🤣
@@xpndblhero5170 was your left shoe full of gasoline?
@@xpndblhero5170why'd you take off the shoe in the first place XDXDXDX
Imma burn this into my memory.
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I did a wilderness therapy program a while back and in order to make fire we had to use friction like what is shown in the thumbnail which is known as a hand drill. Although the majority of the fires we made were actually done with a bow drill. I was better at hand drill than I was at bow drill so when ever I could I would use a hand drill. The only problem with that was it left my hands heavily blistered.
I love how he got angry when the stick broke and just started swearing at it. 😂 But eventually after 5 tries and you can see that on the drill holes he finally got an amber and then fire. he's a good teacher!
Me in the wild trying to make a fire in a spruce forest: “welp…. according to Bill, I’m screwed”💀✋🏼
brambles are great fiber plant.
His last statement was the best part of this whole video. Learning how to do this connects us with our past, our environment and what it means to be human. At least in part what it means to be human. There are more aspects to humanity than this, of course.
Schools should teach this to children. Primitive skills should be preserved because we don't know if we will ever get struck back to the Stone age. Our long-term survival as a species would be easier if we all had this knowledge.
You didn’t have a wildlife and forestry elective? Even in elementary school we learned to read a map and use a compass. In the class we learned basic first aid, the theory of field dressing an animal we hunted, and basic camping skills, then went camping where we had to make our own fire and set up camp ourselves. It was fun
Wow this is the best video I've seen on the subject. Everyone just tells you how to do it; he actually explained why each step is important and what not to do. Great job brother.
Good tutorial, it's definitely not as easy as you made it look. I've done friction fires just for the novelty and practice, but I definitely prefer my ferrocerium rod. Thanks for sharing!
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21:19 Who hates that sound?
sounds like politics
Радослав Вакарелов no i love it
No one:
Roddy Rich: EEE ERR
its kinda satisfying to me
Man has conjured one of the four elements. Man has just demonstrated its strength.
I used to be obsessed with this kinda stuff when I was in the Boy Scouts, I’m so happy, most of what I remember is actually accurate down to the making the rope, this is awesome! I hope this guy makes more videos 😁👍👍
I worked for a wilderness therapy/primitive survival program… this guy taught me more than my time there 😅
*We used the bow drill FYI
absolutely love how informative and direct the information is, very easy to follow and very detailed right down to proper materials. This video is just overall fantastic would love to see more
I also liked that even in this instructional video some things still went wrong but he brushed through it and showed you how to correct them just as easily which I find helps make you more prepared for inconveniences you may face and how to quickly requite the situation
youtube: how to start a fire with bare hands
literally no one:
me: *just in case*
I see you're embracing your basic instinct.
Memes before 2019:
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@@spengbabsquorponts2064 everybody gangster untill....no body is gangster, plz stop.
@@sabinfigaro7334 nobody:
😂yes just in case!
doctor: “you have 25 minutes and 30 seconds left to live”
me:
beef jerky time!!!
Ah yes, learning survival techniques before death because you never know when you may need it, very smart!
Typical millenial... useless! :D
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I don’t why this was recommended to me, but I’m here and I’m intrigued.
Amazing channel! Best teacher I have seen in a long time! Clear, detailed, thorough, passionate, masterful. What Bill failed to say is that all of this takes an amazing amount of dedication, determination, endurance, callus and *strength* (or at least at the beginning of mastery).
That's very cool. Never knew starting a fire was so freaking complicated.
I made my first bow drill fire today. I was so happy! Good bushcraft day
Absolutely encouraging! Thanks a lot! You are among those 4-5 people in the world who can do this!
More of this guy, please. Very interesting and educational at the same time.
Trial and error my dood. Thanks for showing how difficult it really is to start a fire. People assume it's easy because it's normally made to look that way. But you've shown just how difficult it really is.
Saving this to a survival USB thumb drive for when there's no internet servers, and everyone else is whining they don't have toilet paper or lighter fluid.
Could you perhaps share what other videos you keep as tutorials?
I have a whole file about survival in various situations. Army stuff. Boy scout stuff. Etc.
Why not write it down in hard pencil?
Books are a thing you know
Someone call 911. My eyes are stuck in the back of my sockets 🙄
Anyone also watching this because: “ just in case”? Lol
You mean almost “Everyone” lol 😂
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This guy has great advice, follow his every word, but he makes it look SOOOOOOOOO much more easy than it is in real life. In Boy Scouts it took me hours to make fire with a bow.
Him: *makes fire*
Me, a primitive: wo hoh huh hoh huwoh huhah reeeeeeee!
Player Nova this is keck
Thank you for taking the effort to make this video. And to do so, warts and all and without condescending to your audience! Again, thank you. Hats off.
The knowledge on which the skills are based, combined with a didactic sense of method and concise and essential explanations, make this video a summary of everything you need to know to make a primitive fire; years I see videos on the subject and it is the most complete. Certainly the skills in archelogy and teaching were the two udders of this transmission of knowledge. Congratulations
"Oxygen is already in the air" What do you know? You learn something new everyday.
@João Maverick nah we don't use up all the oxygen when we breathe in, so there's both carbon dioxide and leftover oxygen when we exhale
@João Maverick oh yeah, true!
João Maverick There’s always some douche trying to be a contrarian. Blowing simply displaces the smoke and adds oxygen via your breathe, and the air around you. You don’t blow out 100% carbon dioxide. Not even close.
@João Maverick Exhaled air 16% oxygen thats why CPR requires breaths to be given. By blowing you are able to supply oxygen directly where it is needed.
@João Maverick "saliva has water, therefore, oxygen." No he doesn't mean that - He is not a moron.
I’m watching this because of the Corona Virus, just in case
CC87 facts lol
What does making a fire have to do with corona virus
Sameee lawl
Same here 🤣
CC87 yeah cus a virus that is comparable to the flu will end the world , not viruses that have taken out almost an entire continent like the plague
I guarantee it starts raining as soon as I get an ember going
Amber*
Pranay Purohit i think he spelled it right
@@immortal_shrooms6757 it's tinder
This would be exactly my luck tbh lol
@@pranaypurohit7855 you're dumb aren't you?
That requires as he said a strong understanding of the materials you need, shaping them and muscle and observation. The movies make it look so easy.
This guy is an absolute delight to watch.
Only thing i would have a hard time with is finding the right wood for spindle and the hearth but anybody would if you are in the forest You would need the luck of the irish but if u in thewoods and are still alive then you must have luck already so finding the materials would be possible. Great Video Thank You‼️
Especially when everything around you is soaked with rain or snow.
How to start a fire in a survival situation
60000 City Kids: I'm going to need this
12:09
when you are actually making the fire make sure you keep your back leg at a 90 degree angle and lean your back to exert downward pressure
for the bow drill string you do what he does at about 17:00 but if you dont have that rawhide you can use things like stinging nettle, tree bark and roots but each has a way to be prepared, best bet is to look on youtube stinging nettle, tree bark and root cordage. if you do stinging nettle it will sting your hands so use something like a sleave and then you can either put the nettle into water or you can put it over flame for a second but water is better if you clearly dont have fire already
Once they have been used for lighting fires and moving the burning tinder around, you do not even feel nettles though your calloused hands any more than using them to put burning paper out or stubbing your cigarettes out. .
My survival method in cold weather hunting, is to create a hole about a foot deep, three feet wide, filled with branches of fallen trees(hardwood trees), creating a few shovel loads of hot coals. Place those coals in a bed about six feet long, two feet wide, 10 inches(less than a foot, in extreme cold...below 0), and lightly cover the coals with the soil, and not packing-it-down. Put mattress over the soil bed, sleeping bag(SeaToSummit, makes awesome sleeping bags) on top, climb-in. Oh, the shelter wall/lean-To, would obviously be blocking the wind/cold air direction. Good for a couple hours of heat.
Probably one of the best fire primitive tutorials ever.
I've been watching this video for 800 years I hope the fire step starts soon
Big fan of this dude, and his lists.
This man looks like hes done some wrestling
the ears gave it away ; cool video
FINALLY! I could understand how to make fire with woods... Perfect explanation, thank you very much!
One thing you forgot to mention is if you hear it starting to squeak it means your polishing the end off which will stop any friction. If it starts squeaking you need to apply more pressure downwards, if it's to late and its shiny and polished add a little grit into the hole
Was hoping you'd make a fire set since that's easily the most complicated part of this.
Mavrck2711 How so?
@@embeaston Go make a proven kit and you'll find out.
Mavrck2711 I have. And I’ve failed a lot too. Even when everything felt the same in my eyes. I just think there’s a gate keeper of fire and will only let humans have successful coals when they feel like it. Haha
@@embeaston Lol I hear ya. The problem is moisture it's always moisture. Moisture in the air or in the wood. The reason why I wanted to see him make a kit is simple he kept saying in a survival situation. In a survival situation you don't have your fire kit you have to go get one. You have to dry it out. There are some tricks to drying wood but ultimately finding that right dead standing not punky tree that is also the right species is as hard as spinning the spindle. Also once you've found it making the board with a primitive edge would also take tons of finesse. He said a cat tail for spindle. Cat tails are in the water. No mention on how to prepare a cat tail just use a cat tail. That's gonna kill someone (ok overly dramatic it probably won't but you get the idea). Those times you couldn't get a coal I'm willing to bet it was just enough moisture to not allow enough air spaces between those tiny dust particles and bam no coal no fire.
@Tiitus Lehtonen You must not know what a fire set is. When you're watching videos like this and you see someone say fire set they're talking about the components of a friction fire (hearth board, spindle, with optional bow, string and bearing block. As far as I'm concerned him bringing a proven pre made fire set into the woods is almost the same as bringing a lighter. He could have just done this in his back yard. Going to the woods was just for added effect.
Imagine how many lives this video is gonna save in future
Jammy none cause we are all to lazy to go outside and lighters are a thing
Starts a fire in the wilderness, brings all the material in a basket
I'm not a survivalist or an outdoors man but I'm sure some of the details about the materials he used doesn't have to be so perfect
That's not a hard basket to weave in a primitive situation. He just has done preparation which is necessary for success.
@@skullcrushers1000 yah I get it all I'm saying is if I got stranded and the sun was getting low and I needed a fire maybe the notches on my stick board wouldnt be so perfect (lol at your profile name)
Also wears a t-shirt, jeans and boots...and films on digital media. Very unauthentic.
watch Primitive Technology if you're not okay with the preparation
What he said at the end there was powerful. Much respect.
Apache trick: You rub the pointy part of the spindle on the sides of your nose to pick up your grease. It reduces the friction by 90% it makes it sail like glass in the socket. Try it.
i like how the raw meat just magically appeared in the end.
sealobo What? Did you want to see him grab a spear and hunt?
They prolly ate the camera man 😭
@@501thtrooper4 The camera man never dies
The hunters of his tribe don't like to be on camera -- it steals their souls.
Plz interview that guy in the channel of primitive technology! We want to hear him speaking.
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"always keep your material off the ground"
7:39 : *make handle fall on the ground*
I teared up a little at 13:40. "...and we have flame." Beautiful,
One of the best "explainers" I've ever seen.
This guy is awesome, I wish he was my teacher
If I'm in a survival situation and I have 5 different kinds of wood and some leather, I probably have a lighter.
Wood is found in nature and leather isn’t completely needed to make a fire
"Fire needs Oxygen to burn"
My Big Brain: *_We could live on the sun_*
CarlosTomon wtf is wrong with you
@Elijah Kim 김기성 Oh uh...I was kind of...joking...
What if I wanted to make fondue when I was on the moon.... What do I do then¿! LoL
He was joking dude
Comfort, Joy, and War.
I use to be a canoe guide, grew-up hunting and fishing in Minnesota, etc. A few years ago, a well meaning friend gave me one of those spring loaded flint sparkers for a gift, that did not know much about the outdoors. I reached in my pocket and gave him my bic lighter back. I told him, "when you are drenched to the bone, it is below zero, and it is rainy and windy, wood is wet, which one are you going to reach for first"?
yea, yea, I can start a fire with all those other techniques, but a bic lighter, well taken care of, is a very nice "luxury" that will last you a very long time. In fact, if I had the choice of one survival tool, it would be a bic lighter. All the rest can be improvised (e.g. knifes, axes, hot tubs, refrigerators, etc). A fast fire, however will save your life while you are trying to figure out everything else.
I was dead when the spindle broke💀
Ngl the intro looked like he was smokin that bark
Bow drill all day. Forget that hand drill business
just dont forget the nice premade super cured deer hide , taken in summer moon to get that nice soft texture so your hands feel good. rofl... just use your shoes laces gowd. 10-15 min in and he still hasnt made the fire. Dont forget the pre made basket for your wood rods.
That's what I'm thinking, looks way easier, altho it may be a bit more preparation depending on the materials you already have
Too true man. It is possible via hand drill, but the speed and accuracy of a bowdrill,not mentioning the energy expenditure it saves makes it a clear winner( and no callouses too)
@@SageShadow096 or a nice thing called a ROCK to lay your sticks on. a nice flat ROCK. and im sure the laces aren't storong enough for constant rubbing against a stick to create fire.
Probably the best and clearest instruction video on how to start a fire.
we need more people like this man
I’m interested in where he looked to find the fuel, especially considering the wet conditions. Wondering if he used wet sticks or if he was able to find some good dry ones somewhere; where in the forest would you look to get dry fuel on a wet day?
You would be smart and stack some on dry days, also you could look for places no rain has gotten into. And if you just so happen to be left in the wild and is raining all the time , man , you're just so out of luck :D
"I'm gonna take 2 seconds and I'm gonna make a notch real quick"
**shows time lapse**
Bear Grylls: How to start a fire with your own pee
WIRED: How to start a fire with your bare hands
pff...
Watching this at 2am in the middle of a quarantine...
Will try this in the kitchen.
I really appreciate all the details Bill provides.
This was the first lighter advert
No wonder they sold so quick
So you're telling me that I need to:
*_Lick my hands_*
to get a *_stronger grip_* at the *_stick_* ,
and to *_keep the stick on the hole for a long period of time_* .
Seems about right
You're hands are going to slowly move down the shaft
Downward pressure!
-_-
Be sure to stay gentle with the shaft once it finishes
I wanted to say you need God.
But maybe I need God.
Instructions unclear my house is now on fire
sounds like you succeeded
*You know the best part?*
There are tutorials that will be valid for eternity, Never gets outdated!
Thanks for not making this look too easy. I can't wait to give this a go. Thank you!