Friction Fire Plow (In Greece)

[AlexKara]

Hi,

I am from greece,

In my area the most common wood is beech and pinetree ( and ofc in greece olivetrees).

Is it possible that with the correct technic and skill that you can make it work?

I have done it but only with electric drill instead of the bow in the bow drill method.

But when i try it with the plow method, it only smokes even when done in alot of speed and with alot of pressure.

Any thoughts?

[crashdive123]

From what you have described I cannot tell what you are doing wrong. By chucking up the spindle in the drill you have shown that the wood type works, so I would guess your technique is incorrect.

[AlexKara]

The base is a log of beech cut in half.

The wood I use to "plow" is beech and around 40cm long, 5cm high and 2cm thick.

With a 45angle cut in the end and sharped like a knife.

I start going back and forth for about 20 sec in a slow pace.
Then another 20 sec of mid-high(smoke starts coming).
Then another 5-10 sec of everything I have(alot of smoke).
And then when i stop cause im tired the smoke clears and there is no coal.
(I try to stop at the same position when the stroke goes up + my strokes get smaller as the speeds gets up)
My pressure is getting higher as the speed gets higher.

The way I hold the wood etc are as shown in every tutorial video out there.

Am i missing something ?
Or am i just 2 weak to do it?