I think this video and video 8 are probably the best videos on the bow drill I have ever seen. The way you break it down step by step in detail is phenomenal. Thank you very much.
@misterdeiviz
12 жыл бұрын
Dave, that is the first time i´ve seen a "proper" bow drill explanation...Thank you so much for making it so clear and for doing such a good job. We watch you from Spain and always enjoy your videos. Keep up the good work!!
@EVPpsycho
12 жыл бұрын
Dave, I've been watching you videos for a good while, you taught me how to make my first primitive fire, and I have learned very much from you. I think I've taken your videos for granted. It just hit me how.. vital these videos are. Its the information that god willing you should never have to use, but god forbid you don't know. Thank you man. If I have to protect my family one day, I won't forget who taught me how to.
@cojosooke1
12 жыл бұрын
Watched your video while cleaning my sons Trangia stove that he had been using with the scouts this weekend.Very informative,Good Job.
@marrkks
12 жыл бұрын
EXCELENTE HERMANO MIO GRACIAS POR TUS BUENOS CONSEJOS Y MUY BUENA CLASES ...
@marlinman00
12 жыл бұрын
Great video Dave. I like the follow up with the damp materials and the explanation as to the changes that need to be made from the way you did it when they were dry!
@grant4038
12 жыл бұрын
Another excellent video and lesson. Please keep up the great work.
@crwndone33
12 жыл бұрын
Dave, thank you so much for all your videos. I have always wondered how things like this work, and your videos are very well done. Please keep it up!
@ThePrepchef
12 жыл бұрын
Once again another great video thanks again my girls are looking forward to the lesson and have tried this on their own with little success they about took over the PC when they saw this video.
@ejs101968
12 жыл бұрын
Awesome stuff and thanks for being such a good teacher Dave. I sent this video and yesterdays to my Brother. Eric
@rjpier61
12 жыл бұрын
Nice job Dave. Just watching this now. I seen the 1st one a couple of weeks ago but somehow missed this one. You are right, form... Practice, practice, practice. Gotta love the outdoors, primitive skills living & spending time in the dirt brother. Again thanks.
@TheRobq7
12 жыл бұрын
Absolutely agree with the stopping to think, rest and calm down part. Thanks for all you do for us Brother, you've made life better and more enjoyable for me and my family. Hope you stay mativated to do this stuff for a long time to come
@Boxerpapa1
12 жыл бұрын
Another excellent learning session! Thanks Dave
@drackar
12 жыл бұрын
Your point at the end is very apt...patience, and a cool head, can really make the difference.
@homeagent
12 жыл бұрын
excellent teacher.
@mikeinajeep
12 жыл бұрын
Very helpful! It's always wet here, so this may work better than yesterday's video. Thanks
@Macovic
11 жыл бұрын
I really appreciate your way of making videos.
@KUPPSKAGNEY
12 жыл бұрын
Really great info. Thanks. Something we should all be learning, you never know whats around the corner.
@Ratchety
12 жыл бұрын
I appreciate the time that you take to share your knowledge with us strangers Dave. I will absolutley be purchasing some of your Pathfinder branded products as thanks. I pay a hundred bucks a month for satellite TV, which provides me nothing of interest, yet youtube channels like yours take up 75% of my after work lounge time, and I learn as well. It's only fair that I contribute back to you...Thanks.
@donnya1000
12 жыл бұрын
Another informative and clear vid. Just great! Thank You.
@ArcherADK
12 жыл бұрын
what's interesting to me is your patience. whenever i get an ember, i try to rush it into my bird's nest and try to immediately blow it into a flame. you really take your time and don't rush the process. great video, learned a lot.
@Buzzardbushcraft
12 жыл бұрын
It's good to see that people can teach you things and that you are still learning!
@GaryGrayPutTheLightIn
11 жыл бұрын
I have learned more from you in a few hours than I have in my 49 years concerning making fire. Thank you.
@Survived4Real
11 жыл бұрын
I responded to Part-1 but it doesn't show: So, Thank God & Kudos for doing the very best demo of a real world bow drill scenario. Knowledge, Skills & Attitude to show how its really done. Other people have their pre-made kits but are fooling themselves when they get caught in life & death situations. Many thanks Dave on the best fire making video on you tube.
@Waldhandwerk
12 жыл бұрын
Great job!
@Latenightcrewdave
12 жыл бұрын
Excellent demo, I can literary go through the mistakes that I have been making and say "ahh that's what I need to do differently" . Thank you for the step by step process
@outdoorclown
12 жыл бұрын
thanks dave and pathfinder school.
@Deriust
12 жыл бұрын
Some things you just can't teach, it comes from experience, like telling when the wood has gotten damp, ect. There is absolutely no substitute for experience. Get out in the woods, your yard, whatever, and practice, practice, practice those skills, then when you think you have it mastered, practice some more. You will not just remember what Dave and others taught in a video, but you will remember after you have done it 10,000 times. Thanks again Dave.
@TheWoodsmenJoe
12 жыл бұрын
great vid. Dave, I always make my notches small so as it will not eat my board up for 1 and 2 for the very reason you showed here that you can do it in damp conditions. But you hit the nail on the head when you said that proper form is 95% of getting a coal. Most peole rip into it hard an fast. Until the dust gets built up in the notch take your time.
@Jarlan23
12 жыл бұрын
I really agree with the advice near the end of this video. Thanks for the uploads!
@captainamer71
12 жыл бұрын
Awesome video dave!! Thanks so much...
@gw1404
12 жыл бұрын
Thanks Dave. Another great video.
@darfirst
12 жыл бұрын
I Love all your vid's Dave and think your the best. I find when I work with a harder wood that if I put just a few grains of sand in the socket on the fire board, it helps a ton getting more dust and increases the heat with less work on my end. Just something that works for me that you might want to play around with. Keep up the great work bro. Mark
@peypey_braun
12 жыл бұрын
Dave I love all your videos. You are just great!
@thearizonaprepper
11 жыл бұрын
thanks for these two videos on a bow drill. i learned a bunch brother.
@galenlynore
12 жыл бұрын
Thanks a lot again, Dave.
@seeker920
12 жыл бұрын
Dear Dave, I first "met" you on Netflix's Dual Survival with Cody. After now watching several youtube videos, I feel like I know you. Almost like we're good friends. It's due to your kindly, affable personality. Thanks for sharing your knowledge with us.
@silverfd
12 жыл бұрын
great video and info! probally the best on bow drills ive seen.
@kenr1067
2 жыл бұрын
Thanks for your patience and perseverance. That itself was as good lesson as well as the technique
@Zarthalad
12 жыл бұрын
Just want to say,you seem to be a very good and godly man,Dave! Thanks for sharing with us!
@TopwolfOutdoors
12 жыл бұрын
great video Sir and the info as well
@outsideal
12 жыл бұрын
excellent lessons!
@pathwinder14
12 жыл бұрын
Tulip poplar is also difficult here in Southern Il. Out of curiosity I set my spindle into my 24V drill and got nothing but dust and smoke at the highest torque setting. Murphy is indeed awesome. Anything that can go wrong....
@CarlosPortoPhotography
12 жыл бұрын
You are right. If we lose our temper on the first try we don't get it and we can't survive On real situation. Thanks for sharing it. You aways get it.
@venuslnd
12 жыл бұрын
"If it go out, we just gonna do it again," we can live a good productive life just by follow this one rule. Dave you are the Man.
@sticknstonesbrkbones
12 жыл бұрын
Well Dave, I think that confirmed my comment on the previous bow drill video about having the notch close to the center of the burn. It seemed to have worked the first and second time for you even with damp wood. Great video's
@hugobos1
12 жыл бұрын
thanks very much
@StephensonPrepper
11 жыл бұрын
Very nice videos i like the slower pace.
@michaelcarter8209
2 жыл бұрын
Outstanding
@skornita
12 жыл бұрын
very nice, thank you
@s1l3nze
12 жыл бұрын
Dave I have an idea for you after watching this. You were absolutely correct in sheathing your knife when using it as a spindle block, but one thing I noticed is that the divot in the G-10 is on the INSIDE of the knife when sheathed forcing you to bend the leather out of the way in order to use it properly. In future versions of this knife have the manufacturer place the divot on the outside. In this way you no longer fold the sheath, preserving the structural integrity for a longer life.
@TheDaywalkersDad
12 жыл бұрын
Very good video
@MrNwads
11 жыл бұрын
I really enjoy this part of youtube, no idiots and lots of good info
@CarlosPortoPhotography
12 жыл бұрын
You did a good job.
@TJackSurvival
11 жыл бұрын
I've found placing it on the tinder flattens and compresses the tinder when you need it airy in order to get O2 into the tinder so that is from what I have experienced a bad idea.
@soulful66
12 жыл бұрын
Dave, this is a great comparison to yesterday's video. The point of wetness, in the air/material, is really driven home. I still would like to see a review of the 2 headed hatchet & hawk. Thank for the training!
@MindoverMatrix2012
12 жыл бұрын
great video ! thanks man .. hey dave can ya show us where you set your arm on fire
@mach62468
12 жыл бұрын
Great video Dave! I can't believe how easy tulip poplar makes an ember.
@IHatchetJack
12 жыл бұрын
Tulip poplar is easily the hardest wood I've ever coaxed an ember out of. It's listed in all the books as being easy/medium but that's definitely not the case. Everything has to be cut just right and you really have to exert yourself to make this wood work. I've NEVER gotten it to work on the first go. The whisker punk produced is notorious for looking great then petering out. I don't like using it, but I love recommending it to people who are cocky with the bow drill...
@tomahawkpunk82
12 жыл бұрын
Great vid, Dave. Thinking like this is why my fire kit has multiple ways to construct fire; ferro rod, fire piston/char cloth, waterproof matches. All can fit in a pocket. The knowledge of the primitive friction fires is additional but not my primary means because of environmental conditions ie rain. Thanks for all the work ya do, bro. Can I use my GI bill for your school?
@fishnsport
11 жыл бұрын
WELL DONEand thanks!
@murphalot13
12 жыл бұрын
Joshua Hamlin is an incredible wilderness instructor - highly underappreciated guy
@venuslnd
12 жыл бұрын
Thanks dave.
@SmossyYT
12 жыл бұрын
Love the videos man, Bow drill fires always looked/seemed so difficult. Im not saying its not but atleast you explain it to the point to where its easily understandable. Thanks again.
@LoganRB01
12 жыл бұрын
Dave can you do a quick one showing how to correctly make the handle to those of us that don't have a socket in our knife?
@blindingillusion
12 жыл бұрын
I love the amount of videos you are putting out these days.
@beebob51
12 жыл бұрын
Thanks !
@nerblebun
12 жыл бұрын
Dave,I know your open to suggestions. What if you inserted a conical SS piece into the hole that's used to apply downward pressure on the spindle of a bow drill ? It would never wear out.
@Hutzjohn
12 жыл бұрын
Outstanding AGAIN! This reminds me of the episode where you and Cody went into the river, you had a ferro rod and Cody tried to make a primitive fire and had to spend a cold, dark night alone. I always wanted to ask you which episode of Dual Survival was the physically hardest? I know they were all hard though you always seemed to be in total control.
@trajtemberg
12 жыл бұрын
Damn you outdone your self again. Thanks a lot Dave.
@MsSloya
12 жыл бұрын
Dave, try a little sand in the hole for friction. I think the sound you were hearing was from slick or polished wood rubbing together.
@captain2231
11 жыл бұрын
once again a great video dave! im sure you saved a couple lives be demostrating this techinque
@hpd707
12 жыл бұрын
Hey, if anyone is watching this and you live in California, use standing dead California Buckeye. It's my favorite bow drill wood. It's non-resinous, medium density wood, which is what you're looking for. Also, I have better luck when the notch ends just shy of half the diameter of the fire board's spindle hole (i.e. almost to the middle of the hole).
@TribTrekker
12 жыл бұрын
Thanks! That's very helpful. If I may impose further, how would you apply the same advice with regard to the hand drill? Many claim mullein makes a great hand drill, but I keep crumbling them to bits without ever really getting dark dust.
@EatCarbs
12 жыл бұрын
Great video Dave... bow drill is something I need to get out and try. Thanks for all your hard work. =D
@saltymarine
12 жыл бұрын
That large flat rock acted as a heat sink when the first ember went out. Better if there was a bit of wood on the rock with the bow drill set upon the wood. Good patience with the second ember. Again, great camera positioning at 23:00 Good job.
@snaponjohn100
11 жыл бұрын
Great job, Dave!
@alzathoth
12 жыл бұрын
probably the best firebow videos that i have ever seen... :D thanks dave!
@gun1911
12 жыл бұрын
Thanks for being honest at your attempts Dave.
@thebrownsquad6778
12 жыл бұрын
i like the spindle on the outside better because when it is on the inside, the spindle hits the bow at the end of the strokes causing the spindle to "flip out"
@SHOGUNRISK
11 жыл бұрын
Thanks
@mogges1
12 жыл бұрын
I have a question. Why couldn't you place the fire board on top of the bird nest and as you are working the bow and drill. the embers are falling right on the bird nest.instead of picking up the ember.It would already be falling right on to the nest
@Oxygenfire111
12 жыл бұрын
AWESOME
@dap52521
12 жыл бұрын
Love my Knive, handle could be a thickerbut still good
@dexterlexter123
12 жыл бұрын
thanks dave
@lotzoso
12 жыл бұрын
@MyLineagell Dave uses a Bahco folding sawthat was used in the first video. I can't remember what type of multi tool he uses and used in this video but Gerber is a good brand.
@TomHamby1970
11 жыл бұрын
Same thing here. On the second attempt the dust was finer.
@davidvaldez6799
11 жыл бұрын
learned a lot of bow drills in wet weather, wish the camera angle's were better, good stuff
@rnnavy52
11 жыл бұрын
I may watch each of your videos a second time. Keep them coming. Would like you to mention how you may go about doing things in an area other then Ohio, Indiana. Florida is a bit different.
@lotzoso
12 жыл бұрын
Just a thought. Granted most people are right handed and would grab the knife handle with the hand socket away from their palm but wouldn't the hand socket be more user friendly on the right hand side or the outer side of the handle when the Pathfinder knife is in the sheath for safety sake? I noticed you had to fold the sheath over. Things to keep in mind if you create a Kydex sheath for the Pathfinder.
@LoganRB01
12 жыл бұрын
Would love to see a review on the wood beast on your site. I like the knife looks great but there's no pic of the sheath. Is it the same as the pathfinder knife ? It is described as leather and kydex mix like the pathfinder knife. I like the bushtool also continplating on which one I would like to get.
@MidwestWoodcraft
12 жыл бұрын
Hey Dave, This is interesting to me as i made 3 bow drill sets, willow,basswood, and silver maple. I got fire from all 3 sets in perfect conditions. I stored all 3 sets in an open debris shelter on a tarp. I dont believe any water actually touched any of the 3 sets but it rained that night. I thought Id try em when it was damp. The basswood and willow seemed to suck up the moisture, and the maple, while damp did create an ember. I guess its density made it resistant. Have u had this experience?
@TribTrekker
12 жыл бұрын
Would you say the amount of downward pressure is more than you would use to mash a softball size ball of clay flat? More than you would use to help yourself up from a kneeling position? Is there a good comparison you can describe for the amount of downward pressure to achieve a coal?
@PeteSeeker455
12 жыл бұрын
Nicely done Dave! Pete D.---
@Hutzjohn
12 жыл бұрын
IMO I think you are purposely failing on the first try like most of us would do just to show us how to fix it. After watching every episode of Dual Survival a few times, you are just too damn good and experienced to make our common man mistakes. And I do thank-you much.
@chunky141996
11 жыл бұрын
bear grill is full of it..... Dave take him on !!!
@beebob51
12 жыл бұрын
Great vid Dave. Would making a braid with your bankline (3 separate strands of bankline braided into 1) give you better bite and lessen your chance of snapping a single strand of bankline? Or would that cause your spindle to slip more?
@springfield03sniper
12 жыл бұрын
Enjoying the long vids.
@airman20012001
12 жыл бұрын
My summer to do list. Start a fire using a bow drill
@jacwoodhug
12 жыл бұрын
Have you ever tried to place the fire board on the tender bundle? I have always wondered which way works best works best.
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