Les,

Enjoyed the clips. I am from Utah and would love to help in any way I can. PM me and let me know if I can help. A few items I can think of that may help you and the readers of this forum with there skills are. If you use two different types of trees to make your bow and drill maybe you can improve on the 8 hours it took you to light a fire. I use juniper and pine. It usually only takes about two minutes. I have also had success with Burch and pine it took about 10 minutes. A good rule of thumb is a hard wood drill and a soft wood board. Also use a stone or metal for the press block it reduces the friction and speeds up the whole process.

Also to help you with your insect bite problem if you take fresh leaves from the yarrow plant and rub them on your skin it is a very effective insect repellent. Not as effective but still better then nothing are the flower of the Oxeye Daisy, and although toxic the leave of the tansy plant spread around camp may also help with the insect infestation

Your skill are more advanced than mine I just thougt I might help
Again thanks for the clips