#hand-drill

[edpizani]

Hand drill in 3D

Power Drill by edpizani on Sketchfab

[canuckinthewild-blog]

Hand drill afternoon

Spent 4 hours out today enjoying the warm November weather practicing the hand drill. Tried making sure the hole was deep enough in the center so the pith in the center of the spindle bottom would not start to concave. This did help, allowing me to get smoke easier with as much force. I used a damp burdock and surprisingly got good smoke but no ember after about 3 attempts. Tried a small mullein and got smoke easily as well but still no ember. Used 2 different poplar hearths that were somewhat damp but no worse than the burdock. Just too much humidity here it seems. Even in the middle of summer on a sunny day I cannot get the hand drill to work. I couldn’t even get birch bark scrapping to light off my ferro Rod. The lighter did it though. Maybe I should try mullein on a burdock hearth again since both smoked so nicely.

Weather: rained off and on all week. 10C , cloudy.

[canuckinthewild-blog]

Got spooked by some wild critter in the woods tonight while practicing the hand drill. I never saw it but it did not move away quickly, rather, choosing to screech at me and slowly move around me a bit. I picked up my sticks and decided it was getting late enough to leave anyways. Turns out it was probably a skunk after looking up that strange screech sound it made. Glad I didn't stick around to say hi.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RHqGiXvDtvU

[katiemc8103-blog]

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