Good video. A couple more good hand drill spindles that grow all over the US is Horseweed and Goldenrod. Those two are even easier to use than Mullein. If you have the skill then just about anything will work. I've seen a guy use Oak as a hand drill on a Maple board.
Horseweed is excellent. It's what I learned using. Other materials that work really well here in Florida, that are prevalent is cattail (for the spindle), eastern red cedar and cypress (for the hearth board).
It's dependent on your location. In my area, yucca and cattail are my two favorite spindle materials to use for a hand drill, and eastern red cedar and cypress for the hearth board.
When blowing your tinder bundle into a flame when ever possible its a good idea to put the wind to your back helps to blow the ember it to a flame and it also takes the smoke away from your face so that it is less irritating to your eyes and lungs just food for thought
1.your hands come to the botom later this way (imagine A vs V shape) 2.If you would place the large end upside, there'll be more MASS in the top of spingle - result- more vobbling as you go down on spingle 3. That way you can spin a spingle faster (bigger the diameter-slover it is,. smaller the diameter-faster it rotates. Ps sorry fot my inglish
Chase Green definitely the other dude just needs to stick to asking the questions. Let the man that's has actual real world experience give instructions.
In Texas, yucca is so common you probably wouldn't need to look further. However, in practice, flint cobbles are very common in stream beds. With a carbon steel knife or even a hard enough stone, sparks fly.
If it's not true......then why does it work? Your going to be really hard pressed to prove what your saying as we have all seen with our eyes his method works....just as you too witnessed.
@@UserUser-ke4ti as I said I do this daily, he omitted a lot of very pertinent information, such as moisture content of your materials and the ambient temperature and conductivity of the surface your using to place your hearth on. He most certainly had not just collected the materials he used, he had stored them indoors and seasoned them to almost 0% moisture content. His form is not very good either, he's a very big man that can put a lot of weight and muscle behind his strokes but a smaller person would have an almost impossible time succeeding with his standing technique, his knee in the way. He talks about the importance of long strokes but if you watch him in action his strokes are very short. Someone with his mass can get away with it , a smaller person will fail. I could go on but why should i???
Great 🔥🔥🔥
Good video. A couple more good hand drill spindles that grow all over the US is Horseweed and Goldenrod. Those two are even easier to use than Mullein. If you have the skill then just about anything will work. I've seen a guy use Oak as a hand drill on a Maple board.
Horseweed is excellent. It's what I learned using. Other materials that work really well here in Florida, that are prevalent is cattail (for the spindle), eastern red cedar and cypress (for the hearth board).
makes.it look.so easy. great tips
Alan is the man!
That was another awesome video. Thanks Alan.
Thanks! I've never seen anyone demonstrate the floating hand method, will try it out. Great tip on using paracord!
I wish you’d have talked about types of wood. Hard; soft, etc.
It's dependent on your location. In my area, yucca and cattail are my two favorite spindle materials to use for a hand drill, and eastern red cedar and cypress for the hearth board.
When blowing your tinder bundle into a flame when ever possible its a good idea to put the wind to your back helps to blow the ember it to a flame and it also takes the smoke away from your face so that it is less irritating to your eyes and lungs just food for thought
nope, wind must flow aside
I think this is probably my favorite of your videos! Keep up the great work!
Any suggestions for those of us living in Finland. Mostly pines and birch in the southern part.
Great instruction Alan.
Kiitos (Thanks)
+Kent Greenough
birch is good for fireboard, for spindle try lakritca also birch on birch
What other types of woods to use?
Very impressive. 👍👍
Any particular reason why you always want to use the large end of the spindle, stated at 7:34?
1.your hands come to the botom later this way (imagine A vs V shape)
2.If you would place the large end upside, there'll be more MASS in the top of spingle - result- more vobbling as you go down on spingle
3. That way you can spin a spingle faster (bigger the diameter-slover it is,. smaller the diameter-faster it rotates.
Ps sorry fot my inglish
Great advice, I like the idea of a string for a hand prop. Well done team awesome video
Seems to me the cradle you use needs to be harder than the stick you turn in the cradle. Any truth there?
Good stuff bro thanks for sharing your knowledge with us hillbillies
This channel deserves 1 million + subscribers for Alan's content alone.
Chase Green definitely the other dude just needs to stick to asking the questions. Let the man that's has actual real world experience give instructions.
hahaha, whats interesting, when ur going down with ur hands ur still only using 2 inches of ur hand. just what u said not to do lol
don't worry about him he's probably just jealous he couldn't do it any of the ways you did! 😂
Okay so I'm totally new to survival skills but... Why don't more people just use some gloves?? 🤔
Awesome explanation. Thanks for sharing with all of us.
What about cotton wood, sycamore, & China berry?
In Texas, yucca is so common you probably wouldn't need to look further. However, in practice, flint cobbles are very common in stream beds. With a carbon steel knife or even a hard enough stone, sparks fly.
How about Pine? We have tons of Pine in Illinois. I always thought you wanted to use a hardwood. I learned a lot from this.
What part of that commie state do you live in? Go south east north or west and you'll find more hard woods than you could shake a stick at.
Alan is that a benchmade your using?
I make hand drill fires daily. Much of this info is not true
If it's not true......then why does it work? Your going to be really hard pressed to prove what your saying as we have all seen with our eyes his method works....just as you too witnessed.
@@UserUser-ke4ti as I said I do this daily, he omitted a lot of very pertinent information, such as moisture content of your materials and the ambient temperature and conductivity of the surface your using to place your hearth on. He most certainly had not just collected the materials he used, he had stored them indoors and seasoned them to almost 0% moisture content. His form is not very good either, he's a very big man that can put a lot of weight and muscle behind his strokes but a smaller person would have an almost impossible time succeeding with his standing technique, his knee in the way. He talks about the importance of long strokes but if you watch him in action his strokes are very short. Someone with his mass can get away with it , a smaller person will fail. I could go on but why should i???