only problem with that, its wrong, since you are losing tension at 2 points. you need to wrap the lose end around that loop to get a blackwall hitch. this way you can pull, build up tension and wont lose any of it.
@@benbb1000 bowline in the end of the line, run the line around the tree, pull a small pocket thru the bowline, stick a robust stick in that pocket, pull tight and adjust as needed, and you've created a quick release marlin spike hitch. Pull the stick out, and the marlin spike hitch comes undone easy peasy.
YA I'M 64 N I'M FROM PITTSBURGH PA I NOW LIVE IN ERIE PA I WOULD LOVE TO GO TO THIS SCHOOL THIS CAT HAS HE'S SMART,AND A GREAT ATTITUDE AND HE IS FUNNY AS HELL TKU DAN
I am dyslexic. Knot tying has always been a challenge, until now. Thanks to your clear and relatable instructions I have attained a lifetime goal of being able to easily create the truckers hitch. It’s taken 58 years but I have finally got it.
Sir. This is the best video on this topic. EVERY other one complicates it unnecessarily. I mean it's really great that these wise guy bushcrafters come up with novel ways of doing it and all, but I think I kind of need to learn the basic technique before getting into the variations.
The last two evenings I must have watched over 10 videos and spent 2 hours trying to learn to tie a Truckers Hitch to no avail. After watching Coalcracker I figured out that I was creating the slip knot from the wrong direction. Excellent instruction and tips. Bravo!
Just want to say many thanks for your video; it saved my bacon today, I urgently needed needed to secure a pair of tarps to protect my log cabin build; while I did watch others about tensioning knots, the way you explained is made it so easy to remember - Thank you!
I learned a lot camping with my family and was even a Girl Scout in Wisconsin where we did winter camping in the snow. I wish we'd had you as a "guest instructor" way back then. Very glad to be learning from you now though! I enjoy every episode I watch.
OK so I have to say this is, without a doubt, the most genius way to teach a truckers hitch. You deserve an award for creating a foolproof technique for teaching something that so many people have challenges with. Please consider teaching math or English. We need more teachers like you. Thank you. ~Lorne
I love teaching methods like this, i'm an electrical supervisor and i make little tricks like this to help new employees remember colors... like pink pop = pink orange purple to help remember the order. or i sing that rap song black and yellow while showing them that black and yellow together lol
i love your delivery. it may be funny, but it works. make yourself uncomfortable, thumbs up, etc... GREAT JOB. Thanks for sharing your knowledge with us, so that we can have better experiences.
This was like magic, i've been fumbling with a trucker's hitch for a while. I followed these steps and actually said "Wow" when it was over. Thank you so much
Best truckers hitch explanation I've seen! I have an OCD issue with bad truckers hitch videos. This is absolutely the best! No locking knots. Easy to remember and follow. Thank you Thank you.
I found your video and NOW I FINALLY UNDERSTAND how to tie this hitch for keeping my ridge line tight - but then easily undo it when it’s time to break camp. Thank you!
I'm terrible when it comes to knots. Always seems that no matter how many vids about knots I watch I can't seem to be able to follow them☹️ This one was great. Slow, clear, and close enough to see and follow. I'm sure i can do this🤗 Thanks
I learnt the knot years ago when helping set up a large marquee. Shown a couple of times and then told to do the remaining 30+ tie down points. It was ingrained in my head quite quickly. Repetition is the key. Although I use the more traditional method of tying it which is more handy when you have heaps of surplus line that you don't need to feed through, I do like this method for teaching. You can easily modify this method to have the line across before he pulls the loop through with the 3 finger grab.
I have been unable to grasp the trucker's hitch. I must have watched 30 different videos. Found yours 20 minutes ago and I have tied a trucker's hitch 15 times. THANK YOU.
Practically every day I use it. On my bike with trailer, the other day I picked up a big two piece sideboard. Tie up on the trailer with truckers knotch and go. Big fun. 90% of all automibiles passing by couldn't carry what I was but that's another story. 🔆
OMG! You just changed my entire Hammock world as I know it!!!! Ive tried this knot so many times and I could never figure out why it only worked half the time. I can probably guess that it was being performed backwards unknowingly, which proves that it does in fact matter which way you do it! Thank you so much for clearing this up!!!!! Now I know to do it correctly every time. Thank you!
This is how I'm gonna teach it from now on. We do these hitches/knots in the fire department and everyone grasps them differently. This is the best explanation I've ever seen. Thank you!
Excellent!! I’ve been tying trucker’s hitches on occasion for 40 years. Because I don’t have a need for the knot more than a few times a year, I always, always, always tie it backwards on the first try! Now I’ll always get it on the first go. Thank you!
OMG THANK YOU. I generally have no problem, but I've never been able to break it down properly and have at times had to start over-- not such a big deal when it doesn't count, huge deal when it does. My buddy was showing me his rapid ridgeline setup the other day and had himself tied in metaphorical knots trying to figure out why his tensioning knot wasn't working like he wanted it to. Sending him this now.
Rv fold out tent leaking this instant Ridgeline to tie off to my truck. Ridge line for extra netting over hammock this instant Ridgeline to tie off to my truck. Need to hang clothes up in the backyard this instant Ridgeline to tie off to my truck. You are the man I trusted you learned this and it’s automatic and I use it all the time
I just watched 4 other videos on the trucker hitch and I was about to give up. Your video was the clearest, easiest and just down right awesome! Thank you, now I have this knot down.
I wish I could afford to come to some of your survival classes, I am not knocking any one else's survival classes, but I feel that you would be a better teacher, you don't come across as a rough and tuff person, but a very patience person thank you for all your fantastic videos
Thank you for this! The way that the Navy taught me this hitch was to tie a butterfly knot, thread the bitter end throuh an eye or around an anchor point, thread through the loop, around the anchor poit again, and tie two 1/2 hitches ahead of the butterfly knot. Wow! 65 years of suffering through that! 😅
Is there any reason a heavier knot like that would be safer for tying down a big load? Idk much about knots. I'm sure this one is excellent for tying Ridge lines. Is it OK for strapping stuff down and driving down the highway too?
I saw an old guy I used to work for do this 30 years ago & did a horrible half assed version of it for years. I FINALLY know how it's SUPPOSED to be done. Great tut man! A little basics goes along way.
Even down to the instinct of putting your hand up behind the knot so it’s easy to see, rather than being camouflaged against the background! Such great videos.
Just to clarify, you use this specific version of a truckers hitch to tie down loads and drive with them? I just don't know that much about knots and wanna make sure that's safe before I go and do it. Other truckers hitches I've seen look a lot bulkier but I have no idea if that's relevant
I rewatched this like 20 times but eventually got it ! Can rebuild an engine but knots dont want to stay in my memory for some reason :D thanks for the content as always !
Before tying the quick release you can feed the tag end thru the mechanical (pulley) loop and it will also help lock the cinch without messing up the quick un-tangling. The quick release demonstration is great.
A year ago I had flu and spent one afternoon watching (and rising through) every truckers hitch video that came up in a search. There are many options, with various different knots involved, but absolutely none had such a good way of explaining how to tie it. I am again ill and am working my way through the tarp videos which are very enjoyable. Thank you.
Holy shit, Dan! That's a crochet knot! 😲 It's the starting knot. 💥Mind blown! I'll need to practice to do it just that way though. I don't usually crochet around trees.
Your demonstration is the best I've seen for slow learners like me. My father taught me that knot when I was young and now I'm helping my son on his land in Queensland Australia and I find I'm needing it again.
Omg! I just discovered your channel because of the Townsend video that you did on basic primitive fire starter and talk about the power of manifestation. I have been talking so much recently about wanting to learn every bushcraft knot there is to learn so that I can transition to the option of hammocks as well as naturally made structures in bushcraft camping, and bam... here you are. Thank you so much for this very simple to understand tutorial. I am looking forward to learning so much more from this channel 🙏
Thanks so much for this video. I am a medic in Ukraine, evacuating patients over horribly bumpy shelled-out roads. I used this knot to lash down an EKG monitor so that it wouldn’t fall on my patients. Watched your video repeatedly, practiced over and over and over and over, and when I needed this knot, it kept that monitor in place for a month! It actually became a good conversation starter. Sometimes you want to keep guys talking, and my assurances that the monitor would not come crashing down fed many a conversation with an injured soldier. Thanks so much!
Fantastic “how to…”! Camera angle, rope contrast with background, repetition of techniques in review, catchy phrases to remember techniques, and positive and patient instructions all combined to make this a great mini class. Wow! You are a superb instructor and I will gladly JOIN to see more. Thank you!
I come back to this video whenever I forget how to do this knot. One of the most useful things I've found on RUclips.
Best truckers hitch explanation I've seen!
Thanks! Nice demo!
only problem with that, its wrong, since you are losing tension at 2 points. you need to wrap the lose end around that loop to get a blackwall hitch. this way you can pull, build up tension and wont lose any of it.
Very good explanation.
Yea for sure I love you this guy.
This is a perfect “Explain like I’m 5” video on the truckers hitch. Great job again, as usual.
So what’s the best knot for the other side?
Benjamin Beebe typically a bowline knot is used on the other end.
Nope, needs to be about 6 less minutes of talking and him just showing how to do it over and over again for 2 minutes. What a rambling mess
3 minutes in and still no knot or hitch, good lord this is tiring
@@benbb1000 bowline in the end of the line, run the line around the tree, pull a small pocket thru the bowline, stick a robust stick in that pocket, pull tight and adjust as needed, and you've created a quick release marlin spike hitch. Pull the stick out, and the marlin spike hitch comes undone easy peasy.
2 old ladies here, who really want to go camping and practice our bushcrafting skills. You are such an awesome teacher.
YA I'M 64 N I'M FROM PITTSBURGH PA I NOW LIVE IN ERIE PA I WOULD LOVE TO GO TO THIS SCHOOL THIS CAT HAS HE'S SMART,AND A GREAT ATTITUDE AND HE IS FUNNY AS HELL TKU DAN
I am dyslexic. Knot tying has always been a challenge, until now. Thanks to your clear and relatable instructions I have attained a lifetime goal of being able to easily create the truckers hitch. It’s taken 58 years but I have finally got it.
Sir. This is the best video on this topic. EVERY other one complicates it unnecessarily. I mean it's really great that these wise guy bushcrafters come up with novel ways of doing it and all, but I think I kind of need to learn the basic technique before getting into the variations.
From a retired rigger, those are some magnificent callouses.
Finally! Away I can teach my grandkids that they’ll remember. We’ll all be “comfortable” now. THANK YOU!
Some of the best vids on the internet. He gets to the point without being boring. I bet his courses are really good.
The last two evenings I must have watched over 10 videos and spent 2 hours trying to learn to tie a Truckers Hitch to no avail. After watching Coalcracker I figured out that I was creating the slip knot from the wrong direction. Excellent instruction and tips. Bravo!
Just want to say many thanks for your video; it saved my bacon today, I urgently needed needed to secure a pair of tarps to protect my log cabin build; while I did watch others about tensioning knots, the way you explained is made it so easy to remember - Thank you!
That whole "uncomfortable" move was amazing! I always have to stop and think when I did that loop, the uncomfortable move is a no-brainer! Thank you!
I learned a lot camping with my family and was even a Girl Scout in Wisconsin where we did winter camping in the snow. I wish we'd had you as a "guest instructor" way back then.
Very glad to be learning from you now though! I enjoy every episode I watch.
OK so I have to say this is, without a doubt, the most genius way to teach a truckers hitch. You deserve an award for creating a foolproof technique for teaching something that so many people have challenges with.
Please consider teaching math or English.
We need more teachers like you.
Thank you.
~Lorne
Excellent tutorial. Other RUclipsrs ought to refer to this as a tutorial on how to make tutorials.
I love teaching methods like this, i'm an electrical supervisor and i make little tricks like this to help new employees remember colors... like pink pop = pink orange purple to help remember the order. or i sing that rap song black and yellow while showing them that black and yellow together lol
Again, simple, straight-forward explanation and useful info. No performance art. Thank you, sir.
lol I like the little story to help you remember. 👍
Fantastic way to teach, thank you. 💜
i love your delivery. it may be funny, but it works. make yourself uncomfortable, thumbs up, etc... GREAT JOB. Thanks for sharing your knowledge with us, so that we can have better experiences.
Holy cow! Of all the many videos I've watched about trucker's hitch, this is the best explanation/tutorial. I can explain it this way to my kids.
I went to Air Force survival school in 1974. The trucker's hitch was the most useful thing I learned.
Just saw this. Was able to practice in my bedroom. 1st tree was my headboard. Other tree was the shelving a few feet away. Easy! Thank you.
As a southpaw I didn’t realize the importance of the way you tie this. I’m knot even knew to tying... this was VERY helpful. Thank you.
Thats the best instruction on The Trukers Hitch Knot, Iv'e ever seen....Thanks Dan !
Damn! Best vid to walk through a Trucker's Hitch for a person with two left thumbs. Thanks.
This was like magic, i've been fumbling with a trucker's hitch for a while. I followed these steps and actually said "Wow" when it was over. Thank you so much
You are such a great teacher in how you explain things. Love your videos.
Best truckers hitch explanation I've seen! I have an OCD issue with bad truckers hitch videos. This is absolutely the best! No locking knots. Easy to remember and follow. Thank you Thank you.
This is the most comprehensive explanation for this hitch that I've ever seen or heard. I now know what I was doing wrong. Thank you.
I feel sorry for the people who pass by this video thinking " I already know this". This really helps me to explain this to someone else...great job
I found your video and NOW I FINALLY UNDERSTAND how to tie this hitch for keeping my ridge line tight - but then easily undo it when it’s time to break camp. Thank you!
best explanation of a trucker hitch I've ever seen
I'm terrible when it comes to knots.
Always seems that no matter how many vids about knots I watch I can't seem to be able to follow them☹️
This one was great.
Slow, clear, and close enough to see and follow.
I'm sure i can do this🤗
Thanks
That was the best explanation I've ever seen 👍
You should do this for a living 😅😅👊
Ya' THINK!
Children of all ages should experience this foundation.
I learnt the knot years ago when helping set up a large marquee. Shown a couple of times and then told to do the remaining 30+ tie down points. It was ingrained in my head quite quickly. Repetition is the key. Although I use the more traditional method of tying it which is more handy when you have heaps of surplus line that you don't need to feed through, I do like this method for teaching. You can easily modify this method to have the line across before he pulls the loop through with the 3 finger grab.
Cheers mate!!. Getting the hand in the right position was a game changer for me. Makes it so much easier. Thankyou so much. Greatly appreciated!!
Without a doubt the best way to explain this knot. Thank you very much.
First time i have ever been able to do something after only 1 watch. Crazy good explanation!!! Awesome!
I have been unable to grasp the trucker's hitch. I must have watched 30 different videos. Found yours 20 minutes ago and I have tied a trucker's hitch 15 times. THANK YOU.
Brilliant way to explain it. Right hand facing he original tree, uncomfortable to comfortable. Simply brilliant.
Best Explanation Ever. I've been in knots since I was a boy, Im 62 now. Love the video.
Looked this knot up every time I had to use it an it never came out right this is the best video 100%
I'm a SERE guy and this man has knowledge.
Best demo video of a trucker's hitch I've seen. Bravo Sir and greetings from across the Pond.
Practically every day I use it.
On my bike with trailer, the other day I picked up a big two piece sideboard. Tie up on the trailer with truckers knotch and go. Big fun.
90% of all automibiles passing by couldn't carry what I was but that's another story.
🔆
OMG! You just changed my entire Hammock world as I know it!!!! Ive tried this knot so many times and I could never figure out why it only worked half the time. I can probably guess that it was being performed backwards unknowingly, which proves that it does in fact matter which way you do it! Thank you so much for clearing this up!!!!! Now I know to do it correctly every time. Thank you!
Great way to make it easy to teach my grandchildren I really like the way you teach things easy peasee God bless
This is how I'm gonna teach it from now on. We do these hitches/knots in the fire department and everyone grasps them differently. This is the best explanation I've ever seen. Thank you!
Excellent!! I’ve been tying trucker’s hitches on occasion for 40 years. Because I don’t have a need for the knot more than a few times a year, I always, always, always tie it backwards on the first try! Now I’ll always get it on the first go. Thank you!
Right hand towards the first tie out...first I've ever heard of that...and instructions were perfect...I'm an idiot and this is idiot proof! Thanks!
OMG THANK YOU. I generally have no problem, but I've never been able to break it down properly and have at times had to start over-- not such a big deal when it doesn't count, huge deal when it does. My buddy was showing me his rapid ridgeline setup the other day and had himself tied in metaphorical knots trying to figure out why his tensioning knot wasn't working like he wanted it to. Sending him this now.
From one instructor to another your teaching skill is very good. Its easy to listen to and learn from.
Rv fold out tent leaking this instant Ridgeline to tie off to my truck.
Ridge line for extra netting over hammock this instant Ridgeline to tie off to my truck.
Need to hang clothes up in the backyard this instant Ridgeline to tie off to my truck. You are the man I trusted you learned this and it’s automatic and I use it all the time
I just watched 4 other videos on the trucker hitch and I was about to give up. Your video was the clearest, easiest and just down right awesome! Thank you, now I have this knot down.
The best trucker’s hitch instruction video on RUclips. Thanks Dan!
I did it! My husband will be so thrilled. He ties everything but my shoes! 😹🙏🏼❤️🇨🇦
I wish I could afford to come to some of your survival classes, I am not knocking any one else's survival classes, but I feel that you would be a better teacher, you don't come across as a rough and tuff person, but a very patience person thank you for all your fantastic videos
Dude, your instructions sounded silly. And then I thought about it, and you made clear sense. Again.
You're very good.
Dan ... That was EXCELLENT! You are a fantastic instructor ... Teaching is a talent and there are few with your kind of skill at it.
Thank you for this!
The way that the Navy taught me this hitch was to tie a butterfly knot, thread the bitter end throuh an eye or around an anchor point, thread through the loop, around the anchor poit again, and tie two 1/2 hitches ahead of the butterfly knot.
Wow! 65 years of suffering through that! 😅
Is there any reason a heavier knot like that would be safer for tying down a big load? Idk much about knots. I'm sure this one is excellent for tying Ridge lines. Is it OK for strapping stuff down and driving down the highway too?
I saw an old guy I used to work for do this 30 years ago & did a horrible half assed version of it for years. I FINALLY know how it's SUPPOSED to be done. Great tut man! A little basics goes along way.
Dude, your teaching style is perfect. Chill as hell and it makes sense.
Even down to the instinct of putting your hand up behind the knot so it’s easy to see, rather than being camouflaged against the background! Such great videos.
Teacher to teacher: You're excellent. Always something to learn (content aside) from watching other teachers do their thing really well.
Outstanding. As a kid, I used to see my grand dad, a truck driver, could go to any load on a truck and wham, bam, DO that thing you just did. Thanks!
I watched every video and couldnt do it right and fast until now. Thank you.
I'm a truck driver and I've been doing this for the last 35 years and it works. Great
Just to clarify, you use this specific version of a truckers hitch to tie down loads and drive with them? I just don't know that much about knots and wanna make sure that's safe before I go and do it. Other truckers hitches I've seen look a lot bulkier but I have no idea if that's relevant
I realize this is an old video but you sir are an excellent teacher! Thank you for the video
Learned this from my Dad when I was 7 years old...Have literally been using this for half a century, and never knew what it's called. Thank You...
Swear you have one of the best intros. Short, sweet, to the point
So simple a 2 yr old can do it. Awesome description.
You sir are such a gifted teacher that you make it look easy.
I rewatched this like 20 times but eventually got it !
Can rebuild an engine but knots dont want to stay in my memory for some reason :D
thanks for the content as always !
(runs outside with paracord) Wife: "What the hell are you doing now?"
I'M PRACTICING!
🤣🤣🤣🤣!!! That’s beautiful!!🤣🤣
My wife: don't you have enough paracord already?
@@JefCollier 🤣🤣
@@JefCollier define, ‘enough’!!😁🤣
LOLL
OMG! I LOVE how he breaks everything down into bite sized pieces!
Done this knot hundred times and thats some of the best advice on tying it. Wow! Love it
My dad used to do this, (to tie down minibikes), Never said much, but learned a trick, here and there.
Man this is a fantastic tutorial. The best one I've found! Thank you!
I have watched a lot of videos on how to tie a Truckers Hitch. Yours is the first video that finally helped me learn it. Thank You.
The Best tutorial I’ve ever watched!! Thank you
Before tying the quick release you can feed the tag end thru the mechanical (pulley) loop and it will also help lock the cinch without messing up the quick un-tangling. The quick release demonstration is great.
Yup, excellent. Verbally and physically this instruction hits the mark.
Best video on the trucker’s not I’ve seen! Really clear and easy to follow!
Excellent instruction!
Knots are one of my weakest links.
I'd always rather practice fire making than knot tying. 2021 goal.
I've seen everybody make this video. You Sir, have explained it the best.
A year ago I had flu and spent one afternoon watching (and rising through) every truckers hitch video that came up in a search. There are many options, with various different knots involved, but absolutely none had such a good way of explaining how to tie it. I am again ill and am working my way through the tarp videos which are very enjoyable. Thank you.
Holy shit, Dan! That's a crochet knot! 😲 It's the starting knot.
💥Mind blown!
I'll need to practice to do it just that way though. I don't usually crochet around trees.
@HH Yeah, they're so silly.😁🙃 I could see knitting needles but a crochet hook isn't even sharp.
@@trishthehomesteader9873 You did get the joke, right?
Your demonstration is the best I've seen for slow learners like me. My father taught me that knot when I was young and now I'm helping my son on his land in Queensland Australia and I find I'm needing it again.
It works great securing my bow/stern lines when rooftopping my kayak. Thanks for the great information
Glad I seen this. I still have trouble with this. This makes it’s easier to understand.
Slow and methodical. Excellent instructions!
Complety agree. The best explanation on RUclips!
Unbelievably talented instructor!!! My new fav!!!!! Thanks man.
Just watched the double truckers and as you said I realized I hadn’t seen your one-handed tie. Man it’s great!! Thanks Dan!!
Omg! I just discovered your channel because of the Townsend video that you did on basic primitive fire starter and talk about the power of manifestation. I have been talking so much recently about wanting to learn every bushcraft knot there is to learn so that I can transition to the option of hammocks as well as naturally made structures in bushcraft camping, and bam... here you are. Thank you so much for this very simple to understand tutorial. I am looking forward to learning so much more from this channel 🙏
Thanks so much for this video. I am a medic in Ukraine, evacuating patients over horribly bumpy shelled-out roads. I used this knot to lash down an EKG monitor so that it wouldn’t fall on my patients. Watched your video repeatedly, practiced over and over and over and over, and when I needed this knot, it kept that monitor in place for a month! It actually became a good conversation starter. Sometimes you want to keep guys talking, and my assurances that the monitor would not come crashing down fed many a conversation with an injured soldier. Thanks so much!
Went off and tied it straight away. Boom 💥 great video
I completely agree with most of the comments here. Excellent step by step presentation! THANK YOU!
That's above and beyond a detailed step-by -step explanation; really microscopic . Great tutorial. Thanks a lot.
Fantastic “how to…”! Camera angle, rope contrast with background, repetition of techniques in review, catchy phrases to remember techniques, and positive and patient instructions all combined to make this a great mini class. Wow! You are a superb instructor and I will gladly JOIN to see more. Thank you!