How Do You Start A Fire With Sticks?
Let’s say you’re camping or hiking and you’re sure you have everything you need. Unfortunately, you’ve managed to forget the matches! Knowing how to start a fire with sticks using “the bow-drill method” described below can be slow and frustrating, but in an emergency just might save your life. • Find tinder. Basically, anything that is dry, fibrous, and will take a spark, or “catch” and ignite should do (pocket lint, feather down, dried mosses, and shredded plant fibers such as cedar bark, are examples). • Gather firewood. • Gather several handfuls of kindling, typically tiny pieces of wood in various sizes: some that are as thin or thinner than a toothpick, but longer; several handfuls of wood about the thickness and length of a pencil; and lots and lots of wood bigger than this, up to about the thickness of your arm. • Avoid wood laying on the ground (it may be damp); instead look for snags (dead branches that have fallen off trees but get caught in lower branches or on bushes, so th
Even though it looks easy in the movies, you need both knowledge and skill to start a fire with sticks. It’s a skill that’s sure to impress all of your friends. However, in a survival situation, your new skill will be even more rewarding. Choose a thin stick. These sticks spin faster and make it easier to create the friction necessary to light a flame. Prepare your fire pit. You should have sticks and kindling in the area where you plan to start the fire. Small pieces of bark and dried grass make good kindling as well as wood powder that has fallen off the stick because of the friction applied. Good kindling equals a good fire. Place your friction stick in the fire pit. Your stick should sit on top of a piece of wood, and it should be surrounding by kindling. For best results, choose a local wood that is easy to burn. Your wood and kindling should also be completely dry to allow your flame to grow. Roll the friction stick between the palms of your hands. This allows the stick to spin o
