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Western Red Cedar Fire Plow

Sotol fire plow is getting trivially easy. Even got a one handed fire plow to work. So, I decided to try the technique with a Home Depot WRC fence slat. The plow is made from a piece of the fence slat. The key to the technique is controlling the angle of the plow, to get proper texture of char. If the angle is too high, the char gets too "chunky." If the angle is too low, it is difficult to apply enough downward pressure. And, oh yeah, it takes a while to get in "fire plow shape." The tinder was poor, so the fire took much longer than it should have, but usually that is the easy part, once you have the coal. I just grabbed some pine needles that fell on the ground...probably a bit moist from being on the ground overnight. After a while I got frustrated with the blowing, and just swung it around, like I've seen in demos done at the Polynesian Cultural Center. That did the trick. Sorry I got out of camera view a few times. I'm good for two WRC coals a day. After that, I'm too pooped to do a third. Not the easiest material for this method. No success yet with cottonwood yet, which Bart Blankenship (author of "Earth Knack, Stone Age Skill for the 21st Century") is successful with.