December 26, 2018February 9, 2019 by AkaPrepper

Rudiger Roll Fire Starting – cotton ball and wood ash.

Saturate an unrolled cotton ball with wood ash. Roll with fingers. Roll between two wood boards until tight. Roll with a heavy hand between boards until a coal is formed. About 10 or 20 passes. The rest is obvious.

A cotton ball and jar full of wood ash sitting on a wood board

Sprinkling wood ash on an unrolled cotton ball

A flat hand rolling a cotton ball covered with wood ash

A flat hand rolling a cotton ball covered with wood ash

A tightly rolled cotton ball with wood ash rolled between two flat boards

A tightly rolled cotton ball with wood ash rolled between two flat boards

A tightly rolled cotton ball with wood ash laying on a flat board

A tightly rolled cotton ball with wood ash rolled between two flat boards Being rolled fast between the boards

The rolled cotton and wood ash laying on the board after rolling showing signs of ignighted embers

The ignighted cotton and wood ash held in the firngers of a person

The bright orange embers of the ignighted cotton ball with in a nest of tinder

A fully ignighted nest of tinder held in a persons hand