I just finished watching it. My hats of to you! Great job. Nice touch with speeding the footage up too, so you can still see the whole process. If I might make a suggestion, maybe you could do more of a close-up on the actual carving and forming of an ember? But that's just my opinion. Thanks for the effort of making such a useful video. Your dogs are cute btw
Excellent vid - nice to see someone starting from scratch, rather than bringing the kit with them (which seems to defeat the object - might as well pack a Bic!)
Excellent vid - nice to see someone starting from scratch, rather than bringing the kit with them (which seems to defeat the object - might as well pack a Bic!)
Morning Andy, I wonder why sales of ferro rods and fire pistons are so high? Always pays to have a back up as you know. And a red hot coal is better than sparks. I'm only chippin in as I know a couple of folk with pocket sized bow drills that are very efficient
I understand your point Chiseller but I really share Andy point. The reason why we buy Magnesium bar or ferro rod is because it is fun ... Problem with BIC is they can stop working because of water ... which is not a problem in 2 freezing ziploc bag, and 10 backup BIC for the price of a ferro rod ... The fun of of friction fire as said by Andy is to work with material found in the forest ... It make me feel like im living WITH the forest, not against it ... Even after thousand and Thousand of friction I still get these butterfly, which is not the case with BIC, Ferro rod or even a bow drill/ hand drill set bring from home.
Hey Niels I was thinking about it ... if you have the chance to have a HDMI cable, plug your computer to your TV screen, my video are in super high definition and you will have the same quality on a 60 inch screen than on the 15 inch computer screen. That way you might see more the detail. Just an option I wanted to give you if you have the time and material to do it.
No I will get of my backside and do it for real and it will be the best definition possible!
Excellent vid - nice to see someone starting from scratch, rather than bringing the kit with them (which seems to defeat the object - might as well pack a Bic!)