Starting around 1980 I got into becoming a survivalist. I was still young and trying to support my wife and son and two step kids then. I was also building at that time a remote A-Frame that could shed the 7 feet of snow that feel in winter time at a time on the side of Mt. Shasta at that time. (Global Climate change is different now. (however, a neighbor of mine from then who still lives there got 12 feet of snow that lasted until April or May of 2023 that year so he couldn't even see out his windows of his house until June 2023 unless we climbed up to the 2nd story of his house. He had jacked up his original A-Frame built in the 1970s and put it on top of a normal looking house underneath. This way it still would shed the snow from the 2nd story A-Frame whether he was there or not. This is often what people do when the snows can be above 5 feet at a time any any location and you may or may not be there to protect your roof from collapsing.
However, I wasn't into the whole gun thing. Besides I had been trained to shoot by the time I was 8 to 10 years old and to hit anything within 100 yards with a rifle. So, I wasn't interested in guns at that time. I was interested in feeding my family when there was 10% unemployment or more nationwide in 1980 to 1982. So, I bought this property of remote land with a spring at 4000 feet on mt. Shasta and we home schooled our kids there for around 5 years until the oldest wanted to go back to public school in the SF Bay area. All three of the kids have college degrees and were financially successful in life and are married now and my son also has a wife a son who is 10 years old now in Oregon.
The bow drill is one of the things I learned to use then to start a fire. I found it more efficient than a hand rolled bow drill which is very intense to spin and you just wear yourself out doing that. Whereas a Bow Drill is very efficient by being based upon like a Bow from a bowstring that shoots arrows. You can start a fire much faster with a Bow Drill than a Hand drill. However, I find if you carry a flint and a sparker this works even when it's wet out and might be easier when it is wet and if your matches get wet.
Since I was interested in feeding my family through the difficult recession then I would put food in 50 Gallon Drums (non-perishable things) like Rice and spaghetti and other non-perishables and bury them in the ground (sort of like how some people bury money) for a rainy day if we needed more food. It was a way for no one to know where this food was but us then.
However, what I didn't understand then but do now is that I thought we were going bankrupt as a country because of the Viet Nam War being so amazingly expensive. Instead what happened is Japan and Europe who we had helped a lot after World War II loaned the U.S. Money so we didn't go bankrupt as a country like I was worried about then. When you are young you don't know anything really and "YOU DON"T KNOW WHAT YOU KNOW UNTIL YOU KNOW IT!"
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Bow drill
A bow drill is a simple hand-operated type of tool, consisting of a rod (the spindle or drill shaft) that is set in rapid rotary motion by means of a cord wrapped around it, kept taut by a bow which is pushed back and forth with one hand. This tool of prehistoric origin has been used both as a drill, to make holes on solid materials such as wood, stone, bone, or teeth, and as a fire drill to start a fire.[1][2][3]
The spindle can be held into a fixed frame, or by a hand-held block (the hand piece or thimble) with a hole into which the top of the shaft is inserted. Some lubricant should be used to reduce friction between these two parts, otherwise, it could lead to some trouble when doing it too fast. A popular campcraft book of 1920 attributed this invention to the Inuit.[4] In Mehrgarh (Pakistan) it has been dated between the 4th-5th millennium BCE.[5]
The string of the bow is wrapped once around the spindle, so that it is tight enough not to slip during operation. In a variation called the Egyptian bow drill, the cord is wound around the shaft multiple times, or is fixed to it by a knot or a hole.[citation needed]
The strap drill is a simpler version, where the bow is absent and the cord is kept taut by pulling the ends with both hands, while moving them left and right at the same time. In the absence of a frame, the thimble is shaped so that it can be held with the chin or the mouth.[citation needed]
The bow lathe used for traditional woodturning uses the same principle as the bow drill.
History
Bow drills with green jasper bits were used in Mehrgarh between the 4th and 5th millennium BC to drill holes into lapis lazuli and carnelian. Similar drills were found in other parts of the Indus Valley civilization and Iran one millennium later.[6]
Usage as a fire drill
For use as a fire drill, the shaft should have a blunt end, which is placed into a small cavity of a stationary piece of wood (the fireboard). Turning the shaft with high speed and downward pressure generates heat, which eventually creates powdered charcoal and ignites it forming a small ember.[4]
For drilling, the lower end of the spindle may be fitted with a hard drill bit that creates the hole by abrasion or cutting.[citation needed]
See also
References
- Kulke, Hermann & Rothermund, Dietmar (2004). A History of India. Routledge. 22. ISBN 0-415-32920-5.
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