Uploaded May 2010 | Updated September 2026, 2 hours ago
Hand drill fire by friction method. I used store-bought Cedar as the fireboard with a Horseweed spindle.
CORRECTION: I misidentified it as Horseweed when it's really Dog Fennel.
I've had several successes using a Palm Tree branch as the fireboard so this is a first for me successfully using Cedar. For some reason, I've been having trouble using Palm lately. Three failures then I switched to Cedar on my 4th attempt and was successful. Weird! I'm still learnin'.
I purposely left the video unedited as this is intended to show those who are interested in learning the hand drill another take on how it's done.
Hand drill fire by friction method. I used store-bought Cedar as the fireboard with a Horseweed spindle.
CORRECTION: I misidentified it as Horseweed when it's really Dog Fennel.
I've had several successes using a Palm Tree branch as the fireboard so this is a first for me successfully using Cedar. For some reason, I've been having trouble using Palm lately. Three failures then I switched to Cedar on my 4th attempt and was successful. Weird! I'm still learnin'.
I purposely left the video unedited as this is intended to show those who are interested in learning the hand drill another take on how it's done.
