{"id":74,"date":"2007-03-04T09:02:09","date_gmt":"2007-03-04T09:02:09","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mayfly.net\/?p=74"},"modified":"2008-02-28T18:30:09","modified_gmt":"2008-02-28T18:30:09","slug":"i-made-fire-by-friction-yay","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mayfly.net\/?p=74","title":{"rendered":"I made fire by friction &#8211; yay!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a title=\"photo sharing\" href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/mayfly\/394267949\/\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/farm1.static.flickr.com\/171\/394267949_f14b5f3a7f_m.jpg\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>I recently made fire by friction using a bow drill. You can see what I mean by reading <a href=\"http:\/\/www.bbc.co.uk\/dna\/h2g2\/A784091\">this explanation<\/a> or consider the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.prm.ox.ac.uk\/fire.html\">history of the technique<\/a> on the excellent Pitt Rivers Museum <a href=\"http:\/\/www.prm.ox.ac.uk\/index.html\">web site<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Anyway, the 4 stages in the picture are, from the left:<\/p>\n<ol>\n<li>First attempt. Lots of stop and start drilling. I got a very small ember but couldn&#8217;t keep it alight \ud83d\ude41<\/li>\n<li>I didn&#8217;t bed in the drill enough and it kept jumping out, so abandoned \ud83d\ude41<\/li>\n<li>I got a nice ember, but my tinder wouldn&#8217;t take, I think it was too damp \ud83d\ude41<\/li>\n<li>I took a break, dried the tinder thoroughly, got a nice ember and this time the tinder took fine &#8211; success!! :))<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n<p>I was using a bought drill set from <a href=\"http:\/\/www.woodlandsurvivalcrafts.com\/about\/dave-watson.php\">Dave Watson<\/a> and got help from the excellent folks on the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.bushcraftuk.com\/\">BCUK<\/a> forum. Having figured out all the different wood I was using, and seen how the various pieces fit together, I should be able to move on from here to making my own set from what I can find, which is the real trick.<\/p>\n<p>This was immensely satisfying!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I recently made fire by friction using a bow drill. You can see what I mean by reading this explanation or consider the history of the technique on the excellent Pitt Rivers Museum web site. Anyway, the 4 stages in the picture are, from the left: First attempt. Lots of stop and start drilling. I [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":16,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-74","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-sport-not-games"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mayfly.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/74","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mayfly.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mayfly.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mayfly.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/16"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mayfly.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=74"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mayfly.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/74\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mayfly.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=74"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mayfly.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=74"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mayfly.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=74"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}