12 minutes to blow for bowdrill in the snow!

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I have a bad habit of making long winded videos that show just how geeky I really am. Today was a fun little personal challenge of going out in the clumpy wet of falling but melting snow and attempting to do bowdrill using materials on site.

I ended up cheating a little bit and pulled out some jute to facilitate blowing coal to flame. A small tarp failure dumped wet snow over my carefully collected wood shavings. Wet, wet, wet. More wet.

Still, managed to get the twig fire going and made my starbucks/hot chocolate pack.

So if you have 12 minutes to blow, take a gander at my bowdrill in the snow!

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Next weekend I'm supposed to meet up and camp out with Rick, his cousin and Normark. Should be a blast, I'm just crossing the fingers that its still white by then.
 
Awesome. I really enjoyed that! :thumbup:

PS ... I do the hot chocolate/coffee also. Gives you your pseudo creamer and sugar in one package. :D
 
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Nice work and thanks for sharing. I've added some burlap a.k.a. jute "coffee" sacks to my pack as liners for my back up tinder for these very conditions. They weigh almost nothing and as liners the room they take up is negligible. Cut off a few inches square, pull a couple of threads to fluff and bingo a fast nest. Two or three bags thick can make a nice backup backpack as well so it has more than one use.
 
Great video Ken thanks for taking the time to put it together for us !:thumbup:
 
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