Pump-Drill Primitive Fire (best-design)
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- čas přidán 5. 07. 2024
- In this video I demonstrate a different and better design of the pump-drill for fire making or drilling. This makes primitive fire making easy! Of course this is not something you would make in the first few months of survival, but is great for a primitive living situation.
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After a few decades of being obsessed with collecting survival and primitive skills techniques, I am putting out these videos to demonstrate the skills and excursions found at my school, Wild Survival (wildsurvivalskills.com). Videos are focused on primitive skills, rewilding, nature awareness, living off the land, off grid living, indigenous skills, shelter building, primitive fire, water purification, trapping, hunting, bow making, flint knapping, primitive pottery, basketry, edible and medicinal plant preparation and numerous indigenous skills.
I began studying wilderness survival when I was 17 in order to have the ability to spend extensive periods of time in nature, seeking out empowerment and without the need for external sources. I began studying in 1993 under Tom Brown Jr eventually teaching for Tracker Inc. I sought-out every old Native American teacher I could and eventually traveled the world living in very remote indigenous villages in the Amazon, Papua New Guinea, Indonesia and Peru. My school teaches survival and primitive skills, nature awareness, how to live off the land, re-wilding, prepare for disasters. I strongly believe that experiencing survival living changes the way people approach their entire lives.
I ended up being an EMT for a survival school and after three days of watching students try to make fire from the fire bow. It was more powerful than me... I couldn't shut up any more. so I got my supplies and during lunch break I showed the class including the instructors . the counter weight pump drill. I told them different areas in the world might have dryer wood where a bow drill or even a friction fire might work. but in a wet area the pump drill will get so hot it will start a fire. you can scale it up or down and they still work. available materials will determine the size, and the pump drill is much easier on you're cordage/ laces/ rope/ roots . the bow drill causes a lot of heat and stress in the rope
This awnsers all my questions thank you
Thanks for the video. You could tell at the beginning that your design tweak was an improvement on the dynamics. I love how you made a replaceable plug to avoid having to rebuild the whole assembly. Nicely done!
Thank you very much brother for the video! I am from Colombia South America here for the indigenous communities it is very important to produce the sacred fire in this way in fact it is called "origin fire" or "original fire" and this is always used in this way for important rituals or ceremonies with power plants , word circles, etc... Fire is considered something sacred, it is also a grandfather, the oldest in the Universe! Thank you
Best I have seen so far!
This counterweight is a great nuance. It is extremely hard to primitively create a hole in a round rock and very time consuming to bake a clay counterweight. Thanks for the video.
With a flint tip I'd bet that drill could bore holes.
Excellent design.
Edward Sanford - I was thinking the same thing. With removable tips that thing could be used for all kinds of stuff.
Easiest friction fire method I have ever seen anyone use on CZcams. I gotta try this myself. Thanks for posting.
I love that plug idea at the tip of the spindle. Tom is a pretty clever survivalist
That's a great improvement over the "standard model" as it were. Thanks for the info.
A work of genius! A beautiful thing to see. Thanks for sharing this!
So much more practical than trying to find sandstone to use as the counterweight. Thanks for the valuable information.
You can remove the spindle's tapering requirement by providing a cross-pin (either below or through the "counterweight" assembly) and lashing the counterweight assembly to the spindle at that point. It is less robust if the assembly is struck while rotating, but it can make it easier/faster to construct when starting quickly the fire is important.
If you have an opportunity to update the video, you might also talk a little bit about methods to balance the "counterweight" (e.g. sliding rocks in/out along the assembly), or a method of determining the center-of-mass point in order to drill the hole in the right place for an arbitrary placement and varying size/mass of rocks.
(btw, thanks for proper centripetal v. centrifugal)
whomever discovered this he must be a genius
The people whom discovered this died thousands of years ago.
PS: It's good to know someone knows the difference between who and whom.
Its whoever in this case.
I could not agree more. whoever came up with this, thousands of years ago, was a genius. This person is not. He simply took an already existing idea and tweaked it a bit with a different counterweight arm design. In fact, his design is flawed with how much mass there is. It takes so much force to get into motion that it's not worth the trouble of adding stones. The wood arm itself would provide enough mass to keep it in motion.
-Neanderthal 1200 BC
much like the sword, the bow & arrow, spear, etc. this device was likely invented independently innumerable times.
Most EXCELLENT. Kudos for the apparatus as well as for the very practical demo. Many thanks.
This looks excellent, Tom. Very good modification, too! I learn a lot from your videos. Thanks!
much better and accessible in a raw situation, as you said, than the wheel design. Genius solution... Thank you.
so simple and so cool, love it, well done! Thank you!
I'm An old Native Canadian and was cool to see the addition to the pump drill ..Respect!
Excellent Tom. Thanks for sharing this great design.
Thanks for sharing your knowledge. Your Pump Drill design works faster and more smoothly than any other that I have seen, plus It looks like it could be made in a primitive situation with no more than a good solid Knife.
Nice Tom , simple and to the point .
The stones spinning at the speed of light next to his crown jewels...
That cord better be strong :D
But besides that, this id a GREAT video. Awesome video and audio qualit, clear voice and an overall positive attitude here.
The stones on the drill aren't worth the danger to the stones on his, well, yeah. The wood arm itself is heavy enough to keep the affair spinning as you pump it.
Im taking my hat off. Thanks for the inspiration! Long years to live
Tom, I don't know why this hasn't popped up before but you reinvented the wheel on this concept. My Scouts will love this! BTW, great idea with the detachable burner plug. Thanks
Truly ingenious! Thank you for sharing this design!
This is an excellent method. I made one similar to this one and had tremendous success. This type of weight is much more effective than the typical round flywheel and is much easier to make.
Clever, and absolutely spectacular!
Holy smoke! what a brilliant idea!
Well Done!!! I like the way you developed the rock counterweight.... Makes perfect sense!!!!
I am really impressed by your new design.
Great design! Thanks for the video!
you definitely solved my flywheel problem. thank you sir and good job.
That flywheel is great dude, I've never seen that before
Awesome video! Very informative and explanatory and the camera quality is 10/10. Best video out there!
that's seriously cool! thanks!
This is amazing.
Love the new design on the pump drill:-)🌴🌊🌴
Best stuff i've seen ever
Excellent video, Tom. Thanks for sharing man. Much appreciated. That softwood plug is seriously innovative. Gonna' attempt to make one of these next time I get out for a 2 or 3 day camp. All the best to ya'!!
awesome design for the pump drill, Thanks for sharing !
Absolutely brilliant.
This is wonderful. It's given me an idea! Subscribed!
Thanks Tom. This design was great n it sets me thinking. Very good work there n thanks again for sharing.
Totally enjoyed watching... interesting design!!!
Great design.
Hi Tom, a friend put me onto you. This is brilliant, mate, I like the counter idea, much simpler than trying to bore through a stone. Thanks for sharing, buddy, take care.
I love this. I love testing myself making fires in as many crazy ways as possible. If I ever get a chance, I'm so making one of these. Nothing better than carving your tools from the surrounding woods. Here's a fun one, just by the way, try finding some good string alternative, and then carving your own crochet needle. It's much easier than it sounds.
This is a really neat design, I will look at making one of these for my up coming courses this summer.
Cody Lundin patented the barefoot survival mode
Yip thats a keeper.
Thank you
really cool idea with the bottom piece of wood and the stones
Wwooww.. extremely impressive
I love it!
Good Job...Thanks
Great job!
I love the fact that you're just in jeans and a t-shirt. Quite different from other survival experts.
Great demonstration, awesome stuff!
Man that´s pretty awesome, i need to make a video about this.
But ... he already did ....
Why obviously you just learned this method. Maybe you should make videos on something you know how to do.
Maybe make a video how to make something like this in a survival situation where you have only a multi-tool knife. How to use the yucca plant to make the twine need to make this type of pump drill since he didn't describe how to make it. This type of pump drill has been made before anyway
i love it!! best yet!
Awesome! thanks man
Great innovation. Thor from B.C. would be impressed. Replaceable bit. Smart.
perfect design
Masterful!
None of will ever probably use our survival skills but it’s so good to have mostly for are mental health the feeling of doing something with nothing is indescribable great video really enjoyed it
best drill I have seen and very simple to make great job man
That is genius! Thanks Tom and a Happy New Year
Nice wicked design
Awesome man, I like the 2 rocks between wood idea, smart man!
That is awesome!
Really nice idea
Genius man. Keep the vids going bro, love them.
Amazing!
Love your videos
New to your channel, really great job on this tutorial, thought it looked great, and you presented it well. Nice work man
That is SO cool
Watched your vid a couple times, and finally got an ember and blew it into flame tonight. Yet to have the same success with bow drill, but pretty much prefer this. More work to set up, but more chance of success. Thanks for the vid!
Brilliant mate.
I love you your the best survivalest
Super cool
Very cool!
Great idea with the hollowing shaft to add and remove tips.
Brilliant!
Great video
thanks for share my friend, very very good hi from México.
That was an awesome video
Totaly best design
Brilliant.
You must have put a lot of thought in this. great idea!
Awesome video....those guys who participate of Discovery Channel Naked And Afraid should see this so their time in the jungle would not be that bad
It's already on there in a Mexico episode
+Michael DeMarois the cordage is availabal.....ive made it using vines
This dude Making the video was on that show but don't think he made the pump drill there.
very very well explained and constructed. thanks man for this video :-)
cool, we made these traditional drills on my island in the south pacific also
I would lose an eye with that! it works a treat though.
That was awesome
good concept.
very impressive
Great video, you are doing some great work. Keep it up.
Nice job...
very good video i will be makeing one
You are one COOL Dude! Wish I could remember half of what you are teaching!
aawesome mate, love it
that is a good idea !!!
I like seeing you use privative skills but adding sound thought out improvements. This is one I'll definitely be trying 👍✌🥃