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Handdrill: Making Fire With Friction

March 12, 2022March 12, 2022Filip Tkaczyk Comment

The handdrill friction fire method is very old, and was used by many different cultures for millennia. It is a deceptively simple method [...]

Forward This article will look at a range of modern tools for creating fire, also known as fire craft, as well as a [...]

December 4, 2017tpd Comment

Starting a fire with water may seem counterintuitive, but water is actually a very useful tool for starting fires in emergency situations if [...]

February 5, 2016February 6, 2016Creek Stewart Comment

Using the sun to start a fire is probably my favorite method of fire starting. It amazes me every time. The sun is [...]

November 24, 2015November 25, 2015Todd Walker Comment

In Surviving Large on Small Stuff, I was asked how I made the gig used to harvest the water moccasin in that post. Two months [...]

August 7, 2015August 7, 2015Creek Stewart 1

The Pine Tree is an amazingly useful tree to any bushcrafter or survivalist. First of all, the entire tree is edible…the bark, the [...]

July 14, 2015June 29, 2016tpd Comment

In the first episode of Fat Guys in the Woods, we made an improvised Bow Saw using a bent sapling. We then used [...]