Bowdrill in a Blizzard?

Hey folks, it's Joe. Today I'm going to do a bow drill in a blizzard. Stay tuned. Alright, so here's the scoop. It rained all day yesterday. It started snowing last night. It snowed all night. I've got a good few inches on the ground. It's cold, it's windy, and it's snowing right now. I watched a couple videos by Survival Lily lately about the bow drill and anybody who knows me and has been following me for a while knows that I used to do the bow drill all the time. It was one of my favorite things to do and I really enjoy it. And much like anything else you kind of get bored of stuff which is the case with the bow drill and myself. But just like when I was younger and used to watch skateboarding videos to get amped up to go out and go skateboarding, watching those two videos by Survival Lily got me amped up to do the bow drill. And when I woke up this morning to this blizzard thought hell yeah i'll take you through the process of making an all-natural bow drill fire knife my saw and a piece of paracord uh it is soupy out here man this is going to be a challenge just to give you a perspective of how wet it is this is the same patch of woods that i did that solo overnight natural shelter video about a month ago uh same place and now it's completely under slush like water but not a lot worse so there's a there's a layer of ice underneath no it's no good it's no good scout back back back let's go come this way good boy so we'll have to try to find another way around because we gotta head that way it's wet oh this is not normal i've got i can't find scout i've called him for a couple minutes now and he's nowhere to be found. Let's go, come! That's not normal, normally he's here already. I can't even hear him. There he is, where'd you go bud? Where'd you go, eh? Give me a little scur, a little startle. Okay, that'll be my bow. GoPro is officially dead, I'm not sure if I got that last shot of me sawing this piece of cottonwood down. So it's soaking wet and frozen on the outside, dry on the inside. I'm probably not gonna turn on the camera again until I get to a camp, so my camera doesn't get too wet with the snow. little potato bug out in the snow. Not a good life for you bud. I was able to find a nice spot, clear away some snow, set up my poncho. Now all I have to do is make up my bow drill kit. I've got this poncho, although the wind keeps shifting on me. It just burned in. I didn't show you guys. I'm sure you've seen that enough. I'll show it when I get mine. That's my base, my hole off the ground. Fixed my spindle up. I've made a new hole in my bearing block, which is, I think I'll get it this time. I got my cotton or my tinder bundle ready my firewood ready everything ready to go in case I get the ember this time It's good. It's good to me. She went out. She went out on me. That was a good one I'll get it might take a couple times. I find that it's almost necessary to make a new hole every time in your bearing block It definitely helps with the friction less With the less friction on the top if this one if this time doesn't work I'm gonna switch out and not put my knife underneath and put a piece of wood It might be the cold steel from the knife not not keeping the ember going who knows. It's pretty strong. There we go That's going, that's what I get for messing around. It's done. It's gone I switched out my piece of wood or sorry I switched out my knife on the ground for a piece of wood I got it last time and I tried to show the camera and the wind blew it off So I'm sure I'll get it again. Not really concerned about not getting it I just I'm not gonna mess around this time I'm just gonna blow it try to blow it into flames. My tinder bundle is marginal no messing around Let me show you what's going on. This tinder bundle is marginal at best. I got this grass earlier today It was soaking wet I put some dry thin thin shavings on the inside to try and create a buffer and for that to go That's not gonna work. I'm gonna have to go search for something else Honestly, that's just the reality of doing bow drill outside in any condition, not but let alone today Any condition just the right materials available are super hard to find So I have to go try to find something that will accept on this bow drill. That was a haul I just walked for about a half an hour 15 minutes one way and back to get this cedar bark and I will put it in with my tinder bundle and Hopefully the coal the ember will attach to this and then the other tinder bundle will go up because of it All right, folks, we're gonna try and do it with the same hole again Sometimes it's required. It's necessary to switch holes. I don't want to do that. We'll see how it goes So after I'm not going to and shot I can tell okay. I got a good coal knock it off See how difficult this is I can do this. I've done this. I've done this a million times This is ridiculously hard today man squeak one more coal out of this same hole Probably won't work, but it's worth a shot again good coal getting coal is not the problem today Just blowing it into flames usually that's not the hard part for me. Okay, so as a last resort. I am fluffing up my my cottonwood bark, the inner bark I'm using for my handhold. I'm getting a lot of shaving bits from it and I'm putting my, you see this? Yeah, I'm putting it inside my tender bundle right where my coal is gonna go, hoping that these fine scrapings or whatever you wanna call it, dust, of the cottonwood bark will aid in starting the fire. Okay, so all I've done now other than that is cut off the end of my spindle so that it's not, because I had bottomed out on here, So now it's not bottoming out, it's gonna beat up the sides. So we'll see if that works. I hope so. I don't wanna give up. I keep getting a cold. It's definitely possible. It's a good proven set. Just my tinder bundle is not working at all. That's what happens when you keep using the same hole. It breaks out on you. New hole, new hole. Okay, well it was necessary to make a whole new kit. New spindle, new fireboard, and another hole in the bearing block. and I tightened up my bow. Here we go again. To be done, I could barely even bow that time. Hundred percent, if I don't get a coal this time, I am done. I'm done, I gotta go home and stuff, so. Switched back to my old spindle to fit it in the notch better, and I made a new hole in my bearing block once again. But my arm is done, I don't have high hopes, but I have to try, not at least, just one more. For maybe an hour beforehand, as long as it took me to walk around and collect all that stuff, maybe even two hours, I'm not really sure. Any other time, this is a good tinder bundle. garbage right now yeah a little bummed out to be honest uh i really wanted to do that i got the wood stove coal a bunch of times which is great it's fantastic but if you need it that doesn't help a little ember it's not going to warm you up i'm going to cook your food or boil your water so lessons to be learned humility um better tinder bundles i think i could do it with that cedar i think i'm done i think i'm done for the day um thanks for watching sorry i couldn't get flames