Fire School Part 15 Pump Drill Fire,Learning the process

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Dave Canterbury, David Canterbury, The Pathfinder School,Bush Craft ,Survival skills, Historical Lore, Primitive Skills, Archery, Hunting, Trapping, Fishing, Navigation, Knives, Axes, Fire, Water, Shelter, Search and Rescue

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guys I've had a lot of requests on YouTube for a video on how to make a puncture and I've never had a lot of faith that pump drills but I've never played with one so I didn't know if you could get enough downward pressure on one or not to make an ember in Eastern woodlands so we're gonna give it a shot today see if we can put one together see if we can make a number if we're gonna make a pump girl the first thing we're gonna need is a counterweight and we are going to burn a hole through this and then bore through it with a tool if we're gonna do this primitively we're going to have to do it with fire up to burn a hole through this counterweight and it's just a piece of pine that's fairly dry and just have to burn this out very similar to the way you with a bowl except try to bore a hole straight through it for a shaft okay once we've got our hole in there now we're going to have to make a spindle that will actually hold a tulip poplar bit but will friction fit down inside this hole we're gonna make that okay we're going to try to make our spindle out of this it's a little bit whacked on this end down here and we're not gonna go straighten that out but we have something that's just long it's gonna be okay I think so we'll cut this off with our saw here strip the bark off of and get this ready to be our spindle holder it's gonna hold our bit this will be our spindle actually loose the string will move up and down and this will actually do the turning once we get the counterweight in place things like that but we also need something that will hold a bit because we want to be able to interchange bits on the end of this so we have to put a chuck tray to chuck on here that we can tie off with a piece of rope

little wobbly lost center but they still work okay now we got to have a t-bar basically that's gonna go here and has to ride up and down this with two strings attached here and here in a triangle we're going to use this piece of tulip poplar here try to shave it down just a little bit no need to get too excited with it then I'm gonna have to blow a hole in it the diameter of my spindle really this doesn't have to be anything perfect by any means yeah if I wanted to I could put a couple of spots on here that's I string two probably just notching the force over with but I'm just cleaning it up a little bit before I pour a hole in it the place I'm going to make my hole in it I want to be pretty well centered so I'll measure that with a piece of string then I kind of want that area pretty flat I've got a pretty good flat right there and I suspect that's pretty close to the center anyway

and what I did was I thinned this out pretty good on this side I kind of dished it out a little bit here the thin it before I started to bore in my hole in there from this side with my knife and then when my point came through I started boring from the other side clean that up a little bit here now we need to see what we're at on this because this has to travel pretty freely and I don't have quite a big enough hole in there yet so I'm going to cut that out some more of my knife because this has to travel freely very freely up and down this so I almost didn't pick a branch that was wide enough and I'm just gonna have to keep blowing it out a little bit my knife a little out of time until I get it right and then I'll try to polish it somehow to make it smooth getting close man for sure good okay so I've got this thing to the point now where it's not too bad I'm gonna rub some sticks and wax on this spindle portion I'm gonna rub that in real good with my hands kind of heat it up and rub it in and then I'm gonna slide this over the top and you can see now we've got a lot less friction that thing's gonna ride up and down pretty good on there that's what we're looking for about ready to test this thing as far as if it's even going to be workable or not see how well it's gonna actually spin and that's gonna be important because I don't have a lot of confidence in the fire making abilities of something like this in Eastern woodlands only because most of the material I find takes a pretty good amount of downward pressure and the downward pressure of a setup like this really is controlled by the counterweight the counterweight has to be pretty heavy you're pushing down on it when you're turning it and then riding it up and down but you don't really have a lot of downward pressure pushed into it like you would with an actual bow trip so I kind of questioned that a little bit but take a little bit of this fixing will actually kind of polish this hole a little bit with it alright I'm gonna cut some temporary string grooves in this thing and when I say temporary I mean I'm just gonna notch it out real fast on the ends and a couple spots just like this just a couple quick notches let's go straight in with these notches into a sheer cut just like that and just kind of pop those out just like that more each side that's we're gonna put our string and we'll just put loops on there just start off with so we can kind of trial this thing and see how it's gonna work okay so let's talk about real quick how this is supposed to work I have cut saw kerf at the top of this spindle portion and I just kind of round the dis off and bull-nosed it just so we could kind of see if it's gonna work there's a little spot in the table here where there's a hole I'm gonna leave it there now you've got it tied off to this team member and this tee has to ride up and down on the spindle so you pre wind it so that it wraps the string at the top just like this and then you would take it and you would push it down and let it rise up and if it's working properly English I'm probably not putting enough force into it I don't have that the trick of it yet there we go

you can't I gotta keep it even it's not gonna work for you but it's not actually it is drilling a hole that's a Boyar I think the spindle might need to be a little bit longer to be honest with you think you can definitely build up some heat like that huh that's actually pretty impressive that whole smokin okay I'm convinced let's try to make fire alright so now if I want to make this a Chuck I'm gonna have to kind of split this almost like a frog gig polish the end of it drilling into that table and I'm going to back up just a little bit and thin that down just a tad just taking the bark off of it basically more than anything else then I'm going to carefully split this like I would if I were making a gig so I'm going to split it and across for the most part

just trying to get it as around as I can first I'm actually going to drop it right here into the rocks to split it and I'm gonna try to get my blade as centered as I could get it see that thing out right there right there one that thinks splitting even I'm okay I definitely don't want the thing that run off it's running off a little bit to one side now we're gonna try to split the other side of it here just going slow be careful watch where everything splits now I've got four prongs in there basically just like if I were making this gear okay so I've got a small chunk of tulip poplar here and the beauty of something like this is going to be that I can change the bits in and out I don't have to have such a big piece of poplar to make my set so what I'm gonna do is I'm going to try to teardrop shape this thing up to kind of a point in the end shave these sides down just like this just sheer cuts up my knife I'm gonna keep this fairly straight so I'm gonna kind of flatten out two sides of this just like this you can see how I'm flattening that out on two sides and again I've got to keep it fairly straight as well now I'm flattening out four sides just like that I'm not making it round I'm making it square because that is what's going to sit down inside here add an opposite angle so this corner is actually gonna sit down inside here just like that and then I'm going to wrap this with cordage to be my Chuck for my drill bed so that it can't split out okay this part okay this parts important so we made this flat on four sides which gives us a corner here a corner here corner here a corner here those corners are going to fit into the opening of our Chuck so that these fingers that we created are on the flat and we're going to put it in there about 3/4 of the way as deep as we want it in the end and then we're gonna lash this thing and then we're gonna take it in there the rest of the way so what we'll do is we'll take and we'll just make a lashing on here just a normal lash give ourselves a little bit of room here and I think we're actually gonna wrap this from the bottom up it'll make a tiger lash that way and I'm gonna pull it down as tight as I can get it if I had a target I'd be using a toggle go happen have one on me but if I have one laying here close I'd be using that to make sure that I get this just as extremely tight as I possibly can while I'm wrapping it up and when they come around the last time and go through this loop you're going to draw it up inside that's the other one here just like this and then I'm gonna trim this off just like this okay now I would probably burn those ends to keep that from coming undone with a lighter okay folks well I hope you enjoyed this video today on how to make a puncture all set up like I said it was an experimentation process for me as well because I've never made one I've seen them before obviously seen lots of pictures at home and never tried to make one I think hindsight being 20/20 there's a couple things that I would do different the next time I make one of these number one I'd probably keep from hitting myself in the face with her twice when I'm pumping up and down it jumps out of the socket or the hole number two I would probably make this thing longer I think that longer this upper spindle is the better time you're going to have it get more rotations for every stroke just like a longer bow with a bow drill it's a rhythm thing and it takes a little bit of time to get used to it I made two embers now I've messed with it probably four or five times between burning it in the initial test and then making embers and there's definitely a rhythm to it that you have to get used to to let up just enough pressure to let it rewind but hold enough downward pressure on to keep from jumping out of your hole in your fire board so it takes a little getting used to but I think that you know this chuck system is going to work perfect for me I think that this interchangeable bit in and out is ideal and I think that this is plenty heavy I didn't was afraid just piece of pine wasn't going to be heavy enough for a counterweight but I think it's plenty heavy and I think you also have to make sure that you've got good free travel on this upper part and you also have to be sure that why you're doing it you're keeping this thing even because if this thing becomes uneven for some reason on you that's gonna cause you a problem when you're going up and down its gonna want to bind I'm Dave Canterbury with Pathfinder school I appreciate you joining me for this video today I appreciate you learning with me I appreciate you checking out my videos giving me comments you're supporting your views I thank you for anything you do for our school our family our business all of our instructors affiliate sponsors and friends and I'll be back into the video as I can thanks guys