Survival Fire Making - Friction Fire with Fire Saw

[@Naesch]

Thanks for instructing and teaching this fire starting technique in your video. I tried it today by myself and it worked first try! It was my first successful friction fire i've ever started in my life! I've tried the hand and bowdrill method several times before and i never got an ember using one of this both techniques. Great video so far! Keep it up! You're really good!

[@Naesch]

Because i was so fascinated about this fire making method yesterday and my quick success using this method i really needed to try it once again today and it also worked the first try as well! In my opinion this is definetly the best and most promising friction fire method available if you use bamboo as your rubbing sticks as you also describe in your video! I think it's much easier than the bow or handdrill method to start with if you've never made a friction fire before! Once again thank you.

[@primitiveskills]

Great points Casey. At the time the vid was made we had to keep it to a certain length. Exploring native skill sets around the world from a home base of Maine does limit our options on how we acquire materials, esp. non-native species. Our weather prevents the availability of bamboo species large enough. Our abraiding rocks are outstanding, but rocks that break w/ a concoidial fracture are extremely rare. We're working on a series of seasonal Earth Living vids that incorporates stone tools

[@primitiveskills]

@landroamer1000 The knofe in the videos is one we designed about four years ago. It was a full tang drop point with a saw modeled after the chain saw dimensions found on a husquervana or jonesered. Nothing against sthil, I run both, but the interchangeability of the jonsered/husky means there are more chances of finding a file to sharpen the saw with.

[@gerardcabunoc5156]

great video! I remember our boy scout days and jamborees where we would compete to create fire by friction using bamboo. we all would be able to do it under 1 minute... whole bamboo, uncut. yes, this originated in asia. this has become a part of a boy scout contest in all camporees and jamborees in the philippines.

[@primitiveskills]

Bamboo is the original materials used for this technique due to it's concave shape and resilience. If you can get a piece to split out with that curve along it's growth rings it may work. Here in Maine, basswood is one of the better materials for fire plow, and would be my first wood to try with this technique.

[@CherokeeTwilight]

thanks for posting this, great info

[@BushmanSurvival]

can you use any type of dry wood???

[@terrelldcarter]

yeah hear in kentucky we got a bamboo called river cane it is native and another type that has a golden color that is invasive

[@landroamer1000]

what kind of knife do you use

[@kingtut1964]

what type of knife was that you were using?

[@MentorOfMinos]

I think the idea is to preserve the skill itself, not to suggest that it has a practical application in Maine itself. I had the same initial reaction as you did, but to the "fire plow" method. If I have to use a desert plant, what good is it to me in Wisconsin? But you figure this is a PRIMITIVE SKILLS class, not a MAINE SURVIVAL class, and then it make more sense.

[@primitiveskills]

Japanese Knotweed is too herbaceous. It does not convert it's sugars in to the thick woodlike carbon rings that true bamboo does. Any attempt to use it in fire making with friction causes it to shatter.

[@icychap]

What kind of knife are you using? If you like knives, you may enjoy my channel.

[@Naesch]

I'm from Germany. I bought it in local hardware store around here called "Obi".

[@hobbexp]

good job,, my wife make fire that way when she live in the mountain jungle in philipines before ,, hope you like my channel,, respect!! 5 stars!!

[@TreeOfRebirth]

check out stephen harrod buhner's book: healing lyme. it's a wealth of information about lyme's disease and includes notes on knotweed. plus, he's a fascinating guy and a great writer!

[@WRT_Media]

Nice video, but it just feels weird watching a "primitive" fire starting video that used store/online bought wood & a table saw, both of which aren't exactly feasible options if you're lost in the woods. You also used a regular saw at one point, which unless you have a large knife with a saw in it or a multi-tool, that's not really going to be an option either. I would have liked to seen the video be nothing but the sticks & rocks found in the woods behind you in the video. Just my opinion :)

[@TreeOfRebirth]

but the roots are potently anti-lyme disease, and would like you to dig them up and use them to treat/prevent lyme while simultaneously preventing knotweed from choking out all of our native vegetation. go forth, and tincture!

[@gokucrazy22]

try using yucca (dead obviously)

[@TedOfNod]

...bamboo, like this here. . .which i PURCHASED ON EBAY. XD

[@montyrackley612]

You make it look easy, it’s not

[@primitiveskills]

Have faith, it will get easier the more you work it. As one of our seventy year old practitioners say, "you have to sneak up on it, not force it". Hope this helps.