first handrill fire

[ricktrojanowski]

Thanks for your help guys.  Here's some pics of my first fire.  I thought I'd share them with you since everyone else just thinks I'm the neighborhood wierdo!!

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[Justin Snyder]

Great job.  I am the neighborhood weirdo.  Justin

[jamie]

rick, welcome to the neighborhood wierdo club. peace now that ive seen your face it all clicks. hows the wife and kid.

[cowboy]

Impressive !! Weirdo?? I've been getting funny looks and chit chat behind my back for coupla years. Modern day folk just don't seem to view the past as it was actually reality. It's like the fact that somebody invented the light bulb - oh, OK - hey lets rent a movie and how bout some KFC for supper. Today's conveinences are the only real reality to most. After picking up a stone point, I've sat and thought about who built it, and what it must have been like back then - you can build that vision in your mind of a place with no roads, buildings, planes, etc. It happened and I love the fact .

[Dane]

Hey, yet another wierdo! Nice job on the fire. I made my first bow fire a few months back, at Jamie's primitive meet, and it was an amazing feeling. I'm with Cowboy, love to channel the past through some object or artifact, I do the same with old buildings and stone walls, wondering who was here, how they lived, why they are gone.

Even my wife thinks I am a bit of a weirdo, in a nice way. She tells her friends I am always walking through the house with horn, stone, wood, etc, nothing normal at all. If real life is sitting in front of the TV for five hours each night and then going to bed, forget it, I'll remain abnormal.

[DanaM]

Nice fire and congrats but I prefer eccentric over weirdo

[RidgeRunner]

When I lit my first primitive fire (with a bow drill) my wife told me that I was eccentric.
I said" Honey you know I dont have enough money to be eccentric."
She said "OK then you are just plain-o-weird."
I have been just plain-o-weird ever since.

Sure is fun.  Being weird and all..

David
 

[Hillbilly]

Congratulations, it's an amazing feeling getting fire from a couple sticks, ain't it? I don't trust anybody who isn't wierd.

[DanaM]

Ok all ready so I am weird also, hope yer satisfied

[Otoe Bow]

Rick:  Can you tell us about type wood you used, tender, etc, etc.  I'd like to give it a try.

Otoe

[Kegan]

You know, if you think about it, "weird" usually just means you have more skills than someone else, and "normal" means you're a slug . Now if you'll excuse me, I'm gonna go play with sticks .

[ricktrojanowski]

As much as I hate technology, At least it gives us wierdo's a place to chat.  I think it is some sort of grand plan that we are dispersed among "normal" society.    Jamie the wife and kid are doing great.  The boy is much bigger than when you last saw him. We are off to Montana for a bit, and I have a feeling it's going to be a little harder with him on my back than it was in CT.  As far as materials, I used a piece of horseweed about 30" long about 3/8" at tip.  A red cedar fire board and the tinder bundle was a mix of dry grass, pine needles, really fine shavings of locust bark and a little bit of tinder fungus.  It is amazing how much fun it is making things from free materials you find in the woods especially fire.

[Kegan]

People always look at you funny when you're doing something right . Einstien was a weirdo wa'n't he?

[Dane]

Ok all ready so I am weird also, hope yer satisfied

Dana, I am glad you finally admitted it. "Hello, group. My name is Dana, and I'm a wierdo."

[1/2primitive]

Is this also the weirdo support group?  'cause if it is, I think I'm in the right place....
     Sean