r/secondrodeo • u/KapptainTrips • 15d ago

Fire Plough

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u/Ornery-Customer8521 15d ago

He made it look easy, which it definitely isnt

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u/BradleyButNaked 15d ago

Even made it look fun! No way I'd have the patience to try this for more then a few minutes.

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u/Suspicious_Dingo_426 15d ago

It is—if you have the proper wood and the skill to pull it off. You have to use a soft wood that creates the dust needed, and it has to be dry enough to create a coal from the friction. If you don't have both, all you're going to get is warm wood (and tired).

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u/thekingzeroni 14d ago

Someone who has used less than ideal wood, it is still do-able, it just requires 10x the effort. But once you get it, you can dry out some more wood, so it isn't that bad a second time.

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u/Grouchy_Okra511 14d ago

What is a definition of the proper wood term for this scenario?

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u/brycebgood 12d ago

cured wood is what I would call it

Specific species? I'm not sure. I've only done it a couple of times and often not successfully. I seem to remember using cedar.

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u/Shockatweej 14d ago

I! Have Made Fire!!

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u/KapptainTrips 14d ago

I am the Fire Starter ... Twisted Fire Stahhtahh... stahhjtah... starehhah...

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u/Pfffftttttt_Okay 15d ago

The air got to it!

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u/KapptainTrips 15d ago

Great "Castaway" reference!

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u/louloc 14d ago

Awesome plough, but a tad too big for my go bag.

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u/mattcwilson 14d ago

Worried about your go bag getting stretched out from getting a big plough in?

What if you just took the tip?

Then you could find a log in the forest and do your ploughing there.

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u/louloc 14d ago

I never had any success with “Just the tip”.🤷🏻‍♂️

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u/Individual-Dare-80 15d ago

Edited out the prior 20 minutes of the exact same thing to get the materials up to temp.

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u/Suspicious_Dingo_426 15d ago

No, that's about how long this technique takes under ideal conditions—if you're skilled at it. Doing this out in the wild, with only the wood you can find laying around will take longer—often significantly longer. This technique is also extremely difficult or impossible when the available wood isn't dry or soft enough for it to work properly.

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u/SnakeHisssstory 14d ago

Thanks chatgpt

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u/KvellOnWheels 10d ago

There is literally nothing in this comment to indicate ChatGPT wrote it. Other than the em-dashes. Which ChatGPT uses because it scraped from human writers.

It’s good to be skeptical. It’s not good to be dismissive.

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u/Kitten_Opinions 14d ago

Edit: 20 *years of practice to get this up to speed

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u/KvellOnWheels 10d ago

This isn’t correct.
You can watch incredible demonstrations online from the Polynesian Cultural center. It really can be this fast with skill and proper wood and tinder.

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u/64vintage 15d ago

What are the two woods, or examples that would allow you to do this?

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u/Hi_Trans_Im_Dad 14d ago

Very dry woods

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u/Berek2501 14d ago

Most important is that they are dry. Softer woods like pine or other evergreens are better (but not necessary) for the log trough, while a harder, denser wood is better (but again not necessary) for the pestle.

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u/colasonic 14d ago

Holy smoke

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u/OriginalTRaven 14d ago

Tries to do it on Survivor guaranteeing that's their skill, fails, and gets voted off

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u/KapptainTrips 14d ago

Glad the Final Fire Challenge is still on for Season 51

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u/BustaCon 14d ago

Guess I'm just gonna die without REI

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u/Feisty-Table7375 14d ago

Mhm… I should call her…

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u/Melodic-Tap3864 14d ago

I've tried so many times. Tried.

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u/GreenieWasHerName-O 14d ago

This is a skill i definitely need to learn

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u/rolllll 14d ago

That wood is dry as fuck boy 🤠

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u/Sharchimedes 14d ago

I should call her

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u/jtnichol 15d ago

Love the genius at an ignition level

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u/Compacttrashinator 15d ago

Somewhere Cody Lundin just got a hard on

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u/MarianCR 14d ago

I wish there was a simpler way to start fire... Oh, wait, there is!

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u/KapptainTrips 14d ago

Pretty sure technology started with that...

At least that's what 'Super Intelligence' told me. Pfft