Fire Making with Pump Drill
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- Опубліковано 27 лис 2024
- This video demonstrates how to use an ancient pump drill to create fire. The history of the pump drill is discussed followed by a fire making demo. Afterward I reassemble the pump drill components to explain their proper function and provide some useful tips to improve performance.
You're very articulate and pleasurable to listen to. You'd make a great teacher, sir. Thank you for this video.
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now that was a masterpiece of engineering thousands of years ago
Torsion + momentum, beautiful device
Necessity is the mother of invention….
If you want to shortcut the job, use a part worn bench grinder wheel for the flywheel. It is already round and is almost certainly pretty well balanced. Saves a lot of time if you just want to demonstrate the method for kids.
I'm always blow away by ingenuity of our ancestors.
Wow, awesome. I've been looking at bushcraft vids for a couple years now and never came across this before. Brilliant.
Sure miss your videos, Jim. The amount of information I learned from you over the years is amazing - you made me the flint knapper I am today! Best from Montana, hope you're well.
Thanks and best to you as well. I do love Montana!
Thank you very much brother for the video! I am from Colombia South America here for the indigenous communities it is very important to produce the sacred fire in this way in fact it is called "origin fire" or "original fire" and this is always used in this way for important rituals or ceremonies with power plants , word circles, etc... Fire is considered something sacred, it is also a grandfather, the oldest in the Universe! Thank you
Well said! Thanks
*I made one of these from just wood and rope and tree sap when I was about 12 years old. I used a knife, hatchet, and machete as my tools for crafting one of these. I used a heavy piece of fresh wood as the counter weight. I used dry wood for the rest of it. The fresh wood as a counter weight was still filled with moisture which made it a little heavier than dry wood but dry wood can be used as a counter weight as well. I used only materials I found out in the woods next to a river except for the rope. I split the handle and counter weight wood in half in order to create the hole in the middle for the spindle to go through. I coated the inner part that was split with sap and bound it with rope. The sap acts like glue when it dries. It also helps keep the rope in place where it's tied. The Pump Drill works really well for making fire and it's the easiest to use next to a magnifying glass and sun light. I never liked the bow drill but the pump drill is awesome.*
Thanks for sharing
another perfect video to watch at 2am
Glad you enjoyed it!
I've seen many fire making techniques, but I have never seen anything like this. This is super cool! Love it!
Nick Luecke Hope you give it a try, lots of fun....
You Sir are a pleasure to watch and you explain things nicely down to the smallest detail.
Thank you for passing your knowledge to us.
I am always looking for knowledge diamonds like this one to pass down to my son and hopefully he will pass them to his kids some day.
It is sad that we loose things like this with all the technology that we have this days.
Thanks again and keep passing the knowledge.
Bill Moutaftsis Thanks Bill
This is such a cool devise. It's one of those things that you don't need but you just got to have one. Can't wait to start on mine. Thanks for sharing this. Great video.
icanfix1 Yeah, it is cool and a lot of fun to share with the family, especially kids
".. burk.. uhm.. bark.. " ;) Great vid, as always, Jim. So instructional and full of expertise. Big thanks.
Great demo. I havnt used a pump drill yet... but its on the to-do list.
it's my first time watching your UA-cam channel sir I'm from Philippines this helps alots..This is amazing techniques👏👏Godbless you..
And Have a Great day😊☺☺
great job, i have seen this method before, but never constructed this in the field. I need to do this in the field. very good video .thanks
Old world tech and still a scout! I wonder if young people are paying attention? Fine video! Need one in every home!
Silver Schooner Some of the old skills of the past may be needed in the future.....thanks
paleomanjim You are welcome, sir! My philosophy: The more you know, the more you Know! Great channel and I subscribed!
my 10 year old daughter and i just started a fire w our bow drill. totally worth the effort. she is enthralled. pump drill next
+Silver Schooner And don't forget, "No matter where you go, there you are"!
Very very nicely done PaleomanJim .
The engineering behind this is genius.
I have seen this drill used in making abacus's in chineese wood joinery. Drilling a hole and using bamboo as a pin to lock dowel rods into place. It is pretty efficient.
It is wonderful to know a different use for this tool - making embers.
Thank you for taking the time to show this tool. You're pretty cool to show this.
It looks a lot easyer than making fire with a hand drill, I guess even children could manage it to get a ember ...
Good video
Very cool. I need to come visit you and learn
great video, I have never tried to make a friction fire,I hope to do so this year and I will be on the lookout for bamboo. g8 Tony
THis is the first vid I saw that told the weight of the flywheel. Good stuff man
What is the counter weight made out of and how might you go about making one? Great vid, thanks!
The counter weight is made from sandstone. Any material will work, even wood, but heavier materials will work better. I have another video showing how to make a pump drill from start to finish using easily available materials. Even cement or clay will work for the counter weight.
I always enjoy and learn so much from your videos!
Absolutely amazing! I'm trying my best to learn as much as i can about survival / outdoors tips🤟🏾
Great skills to have, especially in todays world!!!
Very cool. Thanks. Never seen that one. Would probably be hard to put it together in a pinch if you found yourself in the woods with no tools but if you had it with you could be a life saver
we need to teach our kids these kind of things. very valuable lessons. once you learn how you don't forget
Never saw anything like this before...Neat idea and I might have to try it some time if I can make it right !!
Thank you very kindly for the demonstration and tutorial!
You're very welcome!
thank you is good way to make fire you are a good man .iam from morocco.
Cool. I've never seen that before.
Thanks for sharing.
Learned something new today thanks for sharing this technique with us.
Nice!! Awesome lesson of survival skills
Thank you a lot really i enjoyed when i watched this film it is so useful and you explain very nicely
Thank you again
Brill video n easy to understand. Great work and thank you sir.
Absolutely brilliant mate ,keep drilling 👏
Thanks, will do!
Excellent Video and Presentation!!!!!
Thank you kindly!
Fantastic demonstration my friend thank you for sharing your success with us! Cheers from Vancouver Island in Canada! Cheers, Jerbs #22ADAY 👍🏼🇺🇸🔥🔪🔥🇨🇦👍🏼
Great effective demo on fire starting
Great tutorial, like all of your vids!
i will make one to practice in the backyard.....good video!!
Yes it's for the backyard. You don't really want to carry stones in your backpack.
Great lesson. How have I not known about this very old method of making fire?
Thanks for watching!
This is a great video. Thanks for sharing.
Only 30 pumps to get that ember and no hurry.. Wow love the information ty
What an amazing technology! How could someone in the wilderness think something like that?
I wonder the same thing myself! The invention of the bow and other simple machines may have been accidental but the pump drill is complex and a lot of thought must have gone into making it. Oskar Nendes
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Great demonstration, thanks for sharing,
Great video...definitely going to make one!
I just found your channel and you are fascinating to watch and listen to . I noticed you haven't put up a video in a long time . I hope you are well and still making things . Best wishes to you Jim .
Glad you enjoyed the videos, all well here, I just have a lot of hobbies, maybe too many!
@@paleomanjim I know the feeling of having to many hobbies . Trying to find time for them all is the problem . I try to rotate them around so I can spend time on each one . Good to hear from you my friend .
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Great instructional video.
I saw a documentary on a man in China making dominoes, and he used this for making the engravings, and I thought to myself that this would be awesome for making fire. And yes, it turns out that it is awesome for it.
Scrap5000 Yes, the pump drill is still used in many places of the world where electricity is not available. Very handy machine. Who knows, someday in the future it may be needed again!
Great video! Helped me a lot.
Quick question, this video had 2858 views on May 11 in Poland! What is going on in Poland to explain this? Just curious and appreciate any reply....thanks
paleomanjim they have just discovered fire.
+paleomanjim quick answer. We've forgotten this method so it's interesting. 2858 views it's 1.3% of views, where is the rest?
+fr 66r Yeah, just seems strange. This video usually averages 400 views or so a day, but 2 days ago it suddenly had 8000 views in one day! Curious how that can be. This time the views were spread over the world, must be social media or something.....
+paleomanjim I will explain you the why! A youtuber named Primitive Technology made a video about this method. He has a lot of viewers/subs and make useful and fun Primitive videos. Like making a house from wood/stone/clay and stuff. So people, like me, try to find more info about the method and watching more videos on in. I am really interesting at the old ways.
This method is an ancient one dude... we all copied it from those ancient times or w/e
Great video !
Excellent tutorial!!!
Your mind is always working. Love it. Great videos! Can you make a Hardin video? I wanna know how to get the square chipping that goes along with that archaic time period
I've never seen this type of tool.Freakin' awesome!
Bowtie41 I like it too, it shows how clever our ancestors were! I often wonder how it was invented, by thoughtful insight or accident?
paleomanjim Bowtie41 For sure, great idea passed on to today.
Great video man.
Very Cool! I got to try this one.
very instructive.thanks. and people everywhere may find themselves using this at some point not just Poland. why all the nm comments.???I also love some of the old school techniques they were and are the best.
Very cool. Thanks for the video.
that is awesome. I wonder why they never show this technique in survival shows
It has been shown on Dual Survival.
Primitive Technology channel demonstrated how to make one using Stone Age tools.
@A Google User It's sandstone...very easy to make hole in it. You can almost cut a hole with a hard piece of oak stick. Bamboo is also very thin and easy to make a hole with a knife...idiot. ;)
im going to try this i have never had a good xp starting fiers like this but with this nice idea im going to give it a go
Thanks. Very good and well explained vid.
Glad it was helpful!
Very nice work. If you was lost how would someone drill a hole on a rock out in the woods?
Could you please give the dimensions and the type of woods for the parts,thank you.
Where did you find the flat sandstone? What other types of stone would work? Awesome demonstration. Would like to build one of these.
thank you very very much, for share.god bless you hi from México.
That is bad ass im gonna try and make one super cool
Parabéns pelo vídeo, mestre!
Perfectly clear !
Thanks a lot. How would you drill the hole in the stone in a primitive situation. I will start watching your videos, this is my first.
+Basic Poke Good question. Flint drills did not work for me, way too slow and required frequent re-sharpeneing of the bit. I've been told the cane can be used for a bit on the end of a wood spindle and spun by hand or bow drill. The cane is filled with sand or flint chips such that as the cane wears down the sand or flint chips actually drill through the stone. I briefly tried this method but had a lot of trouble with the sand slipping out the bottom portion of the cane. It deserves another try. I too would like to see how to drill through stone efficiently with any primitive method....
Great show! Thank you!
Sean Anderson Glad you enjoyed it....
What type of wood do you drill into to create the ember, seasoned or green wood? Thanx,
i can't wait until i'm 60 and my wife watches me rub sticks together in the backyard for the 1000th time over the last 40 years
I have some crazy hobbies but my wife is very understanding about all of it. I like to tell her there are far worse things i could be doing!
Can you send me measurements on all the materials please. I enjoyed your demonstration very much. Cheers
Sorry, I dont have it anymore
Muy bonito pero hay que buscar los palos la cuerda y la piedra ¿NO ES MEJOR HECHARTE UNA CAJA DE FOSFORO O UN ENCENDEDOR ? QUE ESTAMOS EN 2016
Thanks for making and sharing this video.
What wood is your spindle ?
maybe i missed it.
really cool Jim. thanks.
+Lisa Parker -- Legacy You are welcome
anthropology was my favorite subject in college and here you are bringing it to life. I wanted to focus on making fire pots from gathering the clay through firing. art was also one of my favorite subjects. I want to make some of these fore starters esp the one in this video. do I have to find a round stone? cut it? obviously I'll need to drill out the hole. but what are the other steps? can I buy them?
+Lisa Parker -- Legacy
Since you were talking about clay, just use the clay, Lisa.
Shape it like flatbread ler it dry and then burn it.
If you want to be more authentic, let it dry first, make your fire and then burn that clay flatbread.
:D
+Ibnu Hamdan Z. thank you!
I haven't tried any kind of way to make fire but I figure a hand drill would make blisters in 2 minutes, got a bad shoulder so a bow drill wouldn't be good, a rutiger roll might be worth a try, , a pump drill might be more complicated but I think this would be the way to go , thanks !
With hand drill you have to start slow or you will get blisters. After a couple weeks you should have some decent calluses and be able to drill a lot longer before your hands hurt. Ive been drilling for over a year now and I can make about 6 embers before my hands start to hurt
Like 👍 good Work. Good survival metod of fire 🔥 🔥
Thank you, this is excellent.
linuxgirl You are welcome
In a survival situation how would you drill through the rock or would you just use wood for the counter weight?
Andrew Waraksa In a survival situation I would choose a hand drill or fire plow to start a fire. The ability to find the materials quickly and keeping it simple are key survival skills. The pump drill was probably more of a camp tool used by people who were settled and could have been used for multiple purposes.....
Thanks, great video. Can we assume that the same guy / girl who invented this, is also the person who made the first yoyo? : -) Quite the similarity I think.
Your use of a bamboo stick sparked the idea that a home-made walking stick (not all people use trekking poles), especially one of bamboo, would serve similarly by having a hole near its middle. This would also allow for one's hands to be used on the outside of the string. If that would be an advantage remains to be seen.
As to a flywheel, I bet you'd be just the guy to come up with an idea that is lighter weight - those work-out lifting weights, made of plastic, filled with concrete (?) come to mind - a shell-like disk could easily be filled with wet sand etc.
The stimulation your video provided is much appreciated.
+SubtleKnowledge I like your ideas! Thanks
+SubtleKnowledge I think the whole point of this is that it can be build with materials you find ready in nature. If you're gonna carry a hollow plastic disk to make fire, you might as well take it the extra step and carry a lighter.
+mrkiky Unless, of course, you didn't have a lighter to begin with. Many believe that time is coming, and are prepping for it by studying the old ways. We didn't have matches through much of history, but need to revitalize this knowledge for possible future survival.
+mrkiky You have a great sense of humor and observation ; - ) Now explain how YOU would drill a hole into the horizontal rod (through which the spindle fits) and how you drill a hole into the sandstone you 'ready found in Nature'! With your Swiss Army Knife, or with a little electric drill you carry with you "just in case"? And how do you get the sandstone nice and flat and round, so it spins without excessive wobble, by (flint) napping? Let us hear when you're ready to post your video about those details, I'm sure you'll find an immensely interested audience who would like to learn.
SubtleKnowledge I don't need to make a video, it's already been done. Search "Primitive Technology" channel to see how to make a hole in a circular rock just using material from nature, in order to make a pump drill, and other alternatives. As well as how to drill a horizontal hole in the pump handle.
You can use that to drill hole as well.
My grandpa used to drill turquoise with one.. It was much smaller. Very cool.
Thanks
Great Video! You make it look easy! I've tried, it's not....Thanks!
thats awesome im going to build one great video thanx
No way!!! That is damn sweet paleomanjim!! :)
I did one using doweles from the wood store and use different kind of wood for the base, but i can not even get a litlle smoke , the vertical spindle is a 5/8" walnut and the base I try with douglas fir, bass wood, pine and no luck in getting any smoke, the tool spin very fast and the get a little hot but no smoke waht can I be doing wrong. please some sugestion.
+SpiritBear12 Yes, only soft woods should be used for friction fire making. Hard woods will polish on the ends like a steel ball bearing and will not generate heat. I prefer native planet growing near stream beds as most of them are fast growing soft woods. Cutting a small straight thin branch and removing the bark and hand straightening it daily will provide a nice spindle or drill in as little as a week or so (dry it out indoors).
Wow, awesome sir!
I've never seen before.
#creative
nice video
What type of wood is best
Very clever indeeedd!
amazing! thanks
Great idea gotta have one
Great experience and lots of fun to make and use. If kids are around get them involved, they love this stuff!
like to make one of these.
Merci pour la vidéo !
one of the best drill woods is the yucca stalk.
how did you drill the hole in the sand stone? Thank you.
I used a cheap masonry drill bit and it drilled through in about 3 minutes or so.....