Pump Drill and Bear comes clean

[C_Claycomb]

yeah, I too thought he might mean that, but there was less fun to be had joking about those. I reckon they would just be too slow to work.

 

[Toddy]

It's just swapping one kind of effort for another, and one that's not so good, to be honest. I know it seems a good idea, but it's hard to find a drill that will hold a spindle thick enough to burr off enough hot fibres to make a 'coal'.

Honestly ? the bow drill's easiest, the pump drill is brilliant at boring holes through stone but it's really hard to get it going fast enough to beat a bow drill for the job.