Chapter Twenty-Four: Successful Fire
"In the absence of ignition tools in the wild, it is extremely difficult to make fire, in this case, in fact, there are many ways to make fire, such as the fire pear method, magnifying glass ignition method, hitting stones to make fire, etc."
"However, those methods are either too restrictive or still require special tools, so the anchor now wants to use one of the most common and easiest methods for outdoor enthusiasts to make fire, that is, the familiar method of drilling wood to make fire."
Jia Long placed a few items on the ground, which were a small pile of dried trees, plus a piece of hay and flocculents.
After placing them one by one, Jia Long attached his body.
The sunset on the horizon had already set under the high mountains, and the surrounding forest environment began to be dark, and the shadow of Jia Long's female figure was stretched slender.
Sweat trickled down her cheeks, and she had been moving non-stop since the continuous operation that began with the shelter.
Her body, which was already tired and hungry, felt even weaker now, but she couldn't stop.
Because it is getting darker and darker, if the fire is not raised, after a while there will be no operating lighting at all.
"Now the anchor has to make the final preparations for making a fire, but the anchor is not doing what everyone thinks is to manually drill wood to make a fire, which is too difficult for modern people."
"What we want to use is the bow method of fire, as the name suggests, is to use an object that looks like a short bow, guide the friction, and then make a fire. For specific operations, let's watch the anchor's next demonstration. ”
Jia Long fumbled with his leather boots, and quickly tore off a long rope.
"It's a shoelace, and it's going to be our best friend for drilling wood for fire."
"First of all, find a slightly elastic branch, about three centimeters in diameter and fifty or sixty centimeters in length. Of course, you can use the difference between elastic and thicker, which is a matter of saving effort and whether it is easy to handle. ”
Jia Long found a twig that was about the same size, and then quickly tied the shoelace to one end of the shoe.
"Our shoelaces are still useful, so we can't tie the knots, otherwise it will be difficult to untie them. Now we tie the laces to the other end of the branch, taking care not to tie them too tightly to leave some space for the drill shaft. ”
Jia Long tugged at the laces of his shoelaces with his fingers and tied the other end to the other side of the branch.
After a few quick laps, a slightly curved short bow appeared in front of the audience.
"Now that we have a bow for ignition, pay attention to the shoelaces should not be too tight or loose after being tied, and the specific tightness will be matched with the hinge to try your hand later, so that you can easily make the force and not loose."
"Then we need a hinge to match the flotting bow, which needs to be relatively straight and smooth, with a diameter of about 2.5 or 3 centimeters, and a length of 20 to 23 centimeters."
Jia Long chose among the woods he brought, and chose one that was almost suitable.
She began to work on the reel.
"We have to grind out or cut out a tip of about 2.5 centimeters on the top of it, and also treat the shaft body, remove excess bark, etc., to make it smoother."
After placing the shaft on a large stone to sharpen the round tip, and hastily polishing the shaft with a stone knife to make it smoother, the shaft is also operational.
"Now it's the turn of the drill plate to ignite, that is, to put it under the drill shaft, rub against the shaft to generate heat, and finally give birth to the Martian thing."
"Mind you, the best material for drill spindles is air-dried wood with grease, such as pine."
Jia Long placed a piece of wood on the ground, it should not be pine wood, but it had been dried thoroughly, with a faint smell of resin.
"This piece of wood is the drill plate I decided, it will be placed at the bottom of the hinge, it can be said that its material determines the speed and labor saving of our fire, so the drill plate must be dry and flammable wood."
"Now we're going to process it too."
"First of all, on the side of the edge of the edge, dig a small pit with a stone knife with the same diameter as the diameter of the shaft and about two centimeters deep."
"Then, depending on the thickness of the wood, if possible, drill directly through the small pit and create a small hole in the bottom, which allows more air to participate in heat generation."
"As for the top plate, there are not many requirements, of course, it is better to smooth and hard points, and carve out a small pit to fix the hinge."
After doing all this, Jia Long breathed a long sigh of relief and smiled bitterly at the audience in front of the live broadcast camera.
"Fifteen minutes have passed since these preparations, and it is almost completely dark, so it seems that the anchor has failed a bit. But that's okay, now while the sun is still shining, let's refuel and get the fire up before it gets completely dark. ”
Then she padded a pile of dry wool under the bottom plate.
Then place the hinge on the fusing bow, the method is very simple, first put the hinge in the center of the shoelaces, the hinge rotates, and the shoelaces wrap the hinge around, so that it is placed.
Then she pointed the tip of the hinge at the hole that the drill plate had drilled beforehand, but before that, she took a little hay floc from her side and put it in the hole.
"These flocculents are items that act as ignition agents, and they are easy to find in the wild, and the main point is that they are finely crushed and dry, and they are flammable."
Then put the top plate on the top of the hinge, so that the top plate is on the top of the hinge, and the bottom is inserted in the bottom plate pit, and the center is the flaming bow shoelace rolled.
Jia Long pulled the fuse bow left and right, and the hinge rotated rapidly under the drive of the shoelaces.
Crunch, squeak, squeak.
The tooth-sour sound sounded between the hinge and the bottom plate, and the hinge was pulled by the shoelaces, and the rapid circular movement worked, so that the small pit between the bottom plate and the hinge was heated by friction.
However, making a fire is far from so simple, Jia Long kept pulling the flaming bow, and after a few minutes, he didn't see any sparks appear.
"A giant in words, a dwarf in action, the anchor is here again."
"If you don't know how to roll, it's very difficult to drill wood to make a fire, and ordinary people can't afford to make a fire for a day."
"That's right, Master Long is still a girl, it's so distressing, look at her, her face is red because of her strength."
"It's too difficult, Master Long give up."
Jia Long glanced at the barrage and smiled again, but she didn't have time to deal with the audience, but continued her actions.
With the help of survival skills, twelve or thirteen minutes later, when her fingers began to soften, a faint spark and smoke appeared between the bottom plate and the hinge.
"It's coming!"
She was overjoyed, and violently made the reels spin a few more times, and then quickly moved the reels out of the way.
I saw that in the pit of the bottom plate, a small pile of charred black material turned into charred black due to high-speed friction and heat, and smoke and sparks came out.
Carefully pick up the bottom plate and pour the sparkling debris into the flocculent that had been prepared on one side.
Jia Long's dry and somewhat cracked red lips gently exhaled his breath, blowing up the black-red sparks placed in the flocculents.
"Come on!"
"Success is just around the corner, come on, Master Long!"
When a group of viewers in the live broadcast room were anxious but couldn't help, a firelight flashed from the flocculent.
The red firelight brightens the surroundings, and the darkening forest has a touch of beauty/brilliance.
"It's on!?"
"Haha, I'm so impressed. Appreciation. ”
"Woo woo, why do I feel like crying when I see this little flame."
"I want to cry +1, Master Long is so hard, it's more than six o'clock in the evening, she hasn't eaten all day today."
Put the ignited flocculent into more hay, and under the reflection of the increasingly strong fire, Jia Long's tired expression showed a sincere smile......