Wilderness Survival- Hand Drill Tips - Less Effort, More Coals (3 Simple Ways to Improve)

[@nwprimate6416]

Excellent tips and demonstration!

[@ROOTSSchoolVT]

Glad you enjoyed it!

[@daphneraven6745]

Hi Sarah! Great video! This is really innovative, and about time somebody thought about doing one that takes into account the desire of a person to use a hand drill while living with postural constraints. Thank you very much for this! I’ve never been a person to use a hand drill. Never. But my mind is opening up a bit. Every technique I can learn increases my confidence, so I just came across this video. In some videos, the bush crafter or survivalist produces the ember quickly with a drill, but more times they sweat away at it and are pretty much spent themselves at the end of half an hour, drenched in sweat and at risk of hypothermia, with blistered or bleeding hands. And that kind of performance is the reason for which I never bothered to learn. The fact that you’re using goldenrod is an eye-opener to me. I mean, in my area, goldenrod is a fairly gracile plant. It almost makes me think that perhaps there’s not as much force being exerted down on that spindle as I had been imagining. You don’t even look like you’re breaking a sweat when you do it. But you got your ember all the same. Your time investment seems to have been gradually overtime so that it only takes you a minute or so to produce. Have I Correctly understood, please?

[@agnosjr]

Nicely done, thanks for sharing your knowledge with us. Cheers!

[@ROOTSSchoolVT]

Absolutely! Glad it was helpful.

[@waltergigandet6715]

Nice, only add I do is my head is along side the spindle, so I have my body weight pushing down, all I have to do is press inwards on the spindle, and move the hands. You go girl!!!😁

[@ROOTSSchoolVT]

Great tip!

[@811stever]

Wow... great instruction. Thx!

[@ROOTSSchoolVT]

Glad it was helpful!

[@TyShep06]

Nice!

[@juicebox86]

Great info. Curious if the projectile points in the display were found by you guys. REcently started looking for them here in Maryland.

[@ROOTSSchoolVT]

Hey, thanks for watching. The points are made by me except for one that a teacher of mine made.

[@stonermagicinc.6343]

Explains it better than most men.. not saying women are less intellectual but us guys like to dragout a video with senseless chat to fill the void. Every word she uses is helpful

[@DiogenesVonSinopeX]

How long let you dry the goldenrod spindle?

[@ROOTSSchoolVT]

Till completely dry, or harvest them on dry day when they are already fully dry.

[@friluftsliv4572]

Thank you very much. Very informative video. What type of wood do you use for the board? greeting from France (sorry for my english;-))

[@ROOTSSchoolVT]

Thank you for watching! Your English is great! We use atlantic white cedar, but any low density wood works well.

[@friluftsliv4572]

@@ROOTSSchoolVT thank you very much!

[@iridios6127]

+@@friluftsliv4572 Also: birch, poplar, willow, horseweed, dogfennel, elm, non-resin pine. Also: for test any wood take electric drill. If it work --- train your skill by hand.

[@MrRugercat45]

What do you think about Yucca (or maybe mullein-both are easily available here) as a hand/bow drill. (I’ve barely made smoke at this point with a bow drill so I’m a beginner in the friction fire department)

[@Ghost_Os]

I know you were asking Sarah, but I can tell you from experience that a mullein spindle works very well (though you will find people who have a different experience). Yucca doesn't grow near me, but I've been told it's a good one as well.

[@ROOTSSchoolVT]

As ghost said both work, yucca is much softer so a little more speed and less pressure than mullein.

[@RobCardIV]

i sure wish i could go back in time and see the first person who stumbled upon this tech.

[@johnmurphy5528]

I just started doing the hand drill yesterday, and already have successfully done the bow drill, but after about 30 minutes of practice yesterday and about 40 minutes today, my hands are so bloody and I have huge blisters all over them, I am in so much pain and I just want to keep practicing but it is too painful.

[@ROOTSSchoolVT]

Our professional recommendation would be to stop and wait until your hand heal. Then only practice everyday until you get hot spots. If you are raising blisters and bleeding you are most likely applying more force in than you need to, try relaxing your hands and making them grippy, not tight. Hand drill is a finesse game, you cant just grunt it out with poor form and lots of power. In a real survival situation covering your hands with blisters and open wounds would be a huge mistake. Good healing and good practice!

[@albertobolillo4167]

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[@okaminess]

I’m here because I’m a woman and I like being taught by other women. ❤

[@Mohamed-vu2kw]

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