Minimum age for friction fire???

j williams

j williams

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In my house its 6. :D

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Seriously, he wanted to do it barefoot like he saw Les Stroud do on tv.

He didnt get a coal of course, but hes got the posture down, and can move the spindle once or twice. Its a start......hahaha

My wife would kill us both if she saw us do that in the house......:D
 
You better hope he doesn't get a coal, cause Tina's going to have your ass if he burns the carpet!
 
Yeah, hes got a ways before then. She would seriously hit me in the head with a large blunt object if I did it in the house though! :eek:
 
First thing I thought when I saw the pic, Mom's gonna beat some wholesale ass when she gets wind of this on her carpet. :D

I started with ferro for my girls. Friction will come later, when they can muster the umph to do it. Friction is going well, they can collect what they need (my oldest gets an Izula for Christmas), and build everything from scratch. The little one still uses CBs, but the big has moved into natural tinder. When we go out side, I can see her mind surveying, looking for that dry grass, or cedar bark that she's trying to find. We even done a, If you had to, using the frayed edges of her blue jeans. I finally found a use for these kids wearing pants way too long.

Most folks don't agree with children playing with fire, and thats just what it is to them. But honestly, after the unsactioned blaze they raised up on our last outing, making fire is pretty common now, and there is no curiosity anymore in burning things. They've done it, been taught how to do it, and they have been given free reign when we camp to start and tend their own fires.

Now that they have been exposed to it, the only desire they have to make a fire is to roast marshmellows. Teach'em, train'em, love'em, and let'em experience life. My wife and I swore that we would protect our girls from the world, but we wouldn't hide it from them.

Moose
 
moosez45 said:
Teach'em, train'em, love'em, and let'em experience life. My wife and I swore that we would protect our girls from the world, but we wouldn't hide it from them.

Moose
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Couldn't have said it better! :thumbup:
 
That's great! My 9y.o. uses his ferro a couple of times a week, in the charcoal grill. It took my wife a while to get comfortable with it. Gave him an Izula for his birthday, best thing I could have done. I guess I'll need more practice with a bow drill so he can try that!
 
ha.. great stuff Jake... :D his hair is getting long.. love the barefoot action too...:thumbup:
 
Totally cool, he looks like a little abo-dude :thumbup: I wish I had started learning it that young!
 
That's awesome. I started with a lighter though. Slowly worked my way to the more complicated stuff. I would have liked harder first.
 
Kinda cool to see some guys that are teachin this to their youngsters. Mine have pretty well grown up in it. They know fire isnt a toy, and they know how to handle a blade too. The older 2 are pretty good with firearms too. My oldest (almost 13) was shooting a glock at 10.

To them this stuff we study is everyday life. Not as extreme as the people who used these skills to live, but enough to where they seem norm.

Life with children is incredably fufilling, and Im lucky to have such good ones. Too bad it seems to go by so quick.
 
I remember doing it at an event of some kind when I was about 7-8. It was a pump drill someone had made. I think we made it smoke a lot, but never really nursed it into fire.
 
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