good concept.

Who else thought is hair was going to catch on fire?

Love it

Very nice 👌

It's fun to tweak designs, but that just looks like a nut buster 5000

A basket is NOT essential. LOL Its just fun to know.

incredible

3:37 Wow, never seen this method before of making fire. Well done 👍🏻

Who taught you this skill? Amazing.

It's been 3 years! Is he still in the cave?😂

If you use a granite drill bit at the end, do you think it can cut through granite stone? If so do you think that’s what the Egyptians used to build the pyramids?

Tom, could you make something to save people from mosquitoes?

Can you show us how to make a toilet?

I'm learning a ton.

Pro tip, you can put some thick mud between the sticks so there’s less room for cold air to get through

2374 humanity lost people learned to make fire from this video, trough history many many shin broke from the device their ancients left behind to them

Hey, I used to love watching your videos and thought about you today. Hope you are doing good😊

This thing is a bit unruly. Nearly wrapped up and took you shirt off at the end. Effective, but with a spindle that long, use with care.

Hey, I'm from Indonesia, I don't understand English, I hope you make Indonesian subtitles 😅

That was quite slick, and seems fairly easy to do for a good solid basket/container.

What if there's a lot of wind?

Truly ingenious! Thank you for sharing this design!

The follow comments are for folks refining their hand drill technique (like myself). I come to this video because it's the best on KZbin (so far). 1- There is no edit on the process. Most videos on KZbin will have edits during the process. A few are cheating and are not really getting a coal. Tom gets a goal in 56 sec's with 8 passes. He floats for 6 secs with an avg of 6 secs a pass. 2- Full Range of Motion- Note the full range of motion (fingertip to fingertip) of each pass. 3- Pressure: Each pass starts slower and lighter and ends each faster and harder. 4- Posture -- he's using the sitting position. I know someone is worth studying if they can do this method while sitting. The problem with sitting is getting enough pressure on the spindle. It requires a lot of strength and endurance (I still have to use the kneeling posture to get enough pressure). 5- Attitude. Note how relaxed he is from start to finish. Attitude is essential to fire making -- humble, patient and confident as opposed to rushed, nervous and arrogant. Tom is a master teacher of the hand drill. Watch him often and closely.

This guy is hardcore!

One thing I would have brought is a flashlight for back up… just in case. Cool vid you are definitely brave. Just don’t risk your safety for views. Glad everything worked out for you.

This is how Neanderthals created Fire 🔥

sick!!!

You still around? Haven't seen any vids in years

Anyone know the status of Tom? I've checked in on his channel randomly over the years and I've always wondered why he didnt produce more content. Tom was by far the OG, and one of, if not the best in his craft. COME BACK TOM!

Thanks!

you say in the beginning that you are going to teach people how to make a hand drill fire. But then literally tell us nothing about how to build out the drill, the board, the types of wood, the component set up, etc. It is clear in the video that your base board has a hole in it that is blackened. And the base of your drill is also blackened. But you say nothing about how long it actually takes and make it seem to be a 3 minute procedure start to finish. Sorry, i know your other videos carry good content, but this one was horrible and actually taught nothing at all

Wish you had more videos

The bark bowl/basket was rockin. More creative builds please? Pine needle, birch bark etc.?

this might be a dumb Q but, would you not sufficate or something?

Did it once and slept overnight once. Thank you Troop 55. Will never forget, but thanks for the video. Confirmed I haven't forgotten. You are spot on that this is a skill everyone should be taught.

Can you tell me the dimensions of all the parts to your pump drill.

😊 I never understood why nobody has ever used the pump drill on naked and afraid they always try to use bow drills and are rarely successful.

As a Eagle..1973..and as a two-time AT trekker, I commend your site..CONTINUE this education..it is needed..

Hope you make videos again. 👍

o-bor = ja-mung = torch

Where can I watch part 2? Great video!

😶‍🌫️👍🏻

Here this amazing guy is making torches and my biggest worry about survival is how to keep from being head to toe in mosquito bites.

How to get ticks, method #1. Next episode, we skin a bear in the summertime.

Can you go back to doing primitive survivald like your desert ones, those are really cool to warch

Awesome 😊

Awesome! thanks man

This is faster und better.

That's a great addition and great design. Props to you. What about the air tho? Don't those rocks create some air current that might affect the spark?

I was close. I predicted 2 hrs. 10 min. Great build !