Hello all, I really like to master the art of the bow-drill fire but i like to do it with materials i find at or near my camping spot.
My go to woods are very swampy and therefore very moist (most of the time), there is only a limited variety of trees that grow there and I am hoping you Bushcraft wizzards and Gurus could point me in the direction of the best wood to use to attempt a first timers bow-drill fire... Trees available in my neck of the woods: mostly pine (pitch pine, whitre pine) and oak(white, swamp white, chestnut, red, black and scarlet oak) some beach, maple (Mountain maple, sugar, white and red maple) and hickory (shagbark, mockernut and pignut) also some ash, chestnut, sassafras and 1 or 2 birches(black, yellow and river)...
Thank you much,
Jacob V.
My go to woods are very swampy and therefore very moist (most of the time), there is only a limited variety of trees that grow there and I am hoping you Bushcraft wizzards and Gurus could point me in the direction of the best wood to use to attempt a first timers bow-drill fire... Trees available in my neck of the woods: mostly pine (pitch pine, whitre pine) and oak(white, swamp white, chestnut, red, black and scarlet oak) some beach, maple (Mountain maple, sugar, white and red maple) and hickory (shagbark, mockernut and pignut) also some ash, chestnut, sassafras and 1 or 2 birches(black, yellow and river)...
Thank you much,
Jacob V.