Bushcraft Loops, Rods, and Tensioners - Easy Camp Tricks to get you to an advanced level!
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Dan
I watch at least 20 bushcraft, survival and outdoors channels and this one is clearly the best. Informative, educational and never boring. When I want to remind myself about some technique, knot or skill (or learn a new one) this is always the first place to visit.
In my urban life ( in the UK) I will never have to do bushcraft stuff- but I still watch all Coalcracker posts JUST IN CASE! I feel my life is incomplete not having paracord and toggles. Keep up the great work ! Thank you.
My tool box is becoming a tool chest. Lol 😂 thanks for another great video 😊
Those first seconds were a good imitation of me untangling the Christmas lights.......
😂 it's not just you.
Same haha.
LOL 😂
😂😂😂
No one untangles Christmas lights that fast quit lying 😂
Great video 👍👍
Your introductions are so funny 😆
Thanks Dan!
I sincerely appreciate your ability to teach useful tips on loop / cordage / tensioners etc. without ever coming close to being the stereotypical “Knot Snob”. And you’re fun to watch. So there’s that. 🤣
Dan , Great Tip and Trick and How To. Thanks Again Sir for sharing.
Short, simple and useful. Why do I press like? You got the answer!
Another great video, I usally use a sheet bend to extend my lines
That might be your best. Opening. EVER!! 🤣🤣
Great tips! This will always be my favorite bushcraft channel!
Nice. Quick. Simple. I like it and thats why I use it. good info for people with a little less experience, great reminder for those that have it.
Thanks for sharing your, encyclopedic, outdoor expertise. Just when we think that we've figured it all out, you surprise us all with more very useful knowledge😄😄Stay well and safe. Cheers.❤
Thanks Dan! I love the toggle, and I don't know how many times I've struggled needlessly when a simple toggle would do.
Thanks, Dan!
I carry a 30ft ridgeline all prepped with loops and toggles, as well as multiple 6ft sections with bowlines at either end for misc. things like hanging or ridgeline extensions, tying out tarps, etc. All learned on channels like this one, Dave C, and more.
This kind of content is why I subscribed to your channel. Good stuff Dan!
Like most simple ideas - that’s a good one. Thanks, Dan.
You advise us to “stay in the woods”. That’s good too.
I advise to, “stay active - a moving target is hard to hit.”
Courtesy of Half Vast Flying
Thank you, thank you, thank you.!!!!❤
Your intro scene is exactly me with my lines.
Got to love simple, quick and practical hacks. Already subscribed. Thanks for the video!
Great video Dan. I love learning these tips from you. Thanks
Thank you for posting this video 🥰
The first 30 seconds earned you a Like just for effort. I knew it was going to be good anyway!
Hi Dan. Brilliance one again. Cheers. ATB and stay safe. Nigel.
I had an idea a few months ago to make several sections of 550 line about 36 inches in length with loops on each end. The idea being to wrap them around a tree bringing both loops together and hooking a carabiner through them. Then tie the ridge line to the carabiners thus not abrading the ridge line on the trees. Adjustments can be made for different diameter trees. If extension is needed, toggle one end on the trees with the carabiners through the other end and attach the ridge line to the carabiners.
Thank you for your videos, I am lerning so much from your tips and tricks :)
Of course, another great little video… but what I really wanted to mention is that I went to my first Hangcon this year. There were a ton of vendors there etc. I think you’d be a great fit there as well. Anyway, I hope you look into it and hope to see you there sometime.
The best set up for a ridgeline, that I have seen and personally use to this date is the following:
5lb Nite Ize Carabiner attached to the bowline (standing end) of the ridgeline used in conjunction with a Nite Ize Rope Tightener Carabiner (the small one) inserted at the running end.
This set up is EXTREMELY fast to set up and tear down, AND eliminates the need to source toggles (sticks) and also greatly reduces, virtually eliminates, wear and tear on your paracord ridgeline (the cord won't cut itself from friction over time).
That was very informative - thank you!
Food for thought. I've prepped a lot of 550 for deploying quickly to a sundry of tasks and I've come to despise the Boewline.
As the hank of cordage moves around in a bag, pouch, or pocket, the Bowline tends to shake apart, and when you need it, you have to tie it all over again. To overcome this, I tested the Figure 8, Dragon, Double Dragon and a host of others. Most would bind up under a load to where they were hard, if not impossible to untie without a tool, if at all.
I did find one exception. The Scott's Locking Bowline. As easy to break loose as a Bowline when you want to untie it but won't come untied when you are carrying the hank around.
Thanks for the vid!
Bowlines and Toggles are great for a ridgeline but the Siberian Hitch is better to secure to a tree!
Also, a truckers hitch is great as well but a modified sheep shank is better bc it is easier to tie and untie and and doesn’t put as much stress on your cordage. They all work but some just work better than others. Cheers!
this is a great one.
If you drill a hole thru the toggle, thread it thru the line, you have a permanent toggle for that first marlinspike hitch. Not usually hard to find a twig, but it can be
A sheet bend into the bowline is more efficient.
As always good stuff.
Great opener.
I have seen too many people cut their cordage when a toggle would work.
Great video
Another great video
Good video
This is useful information. 😎
Cool stuff
👍👍👍..
Confucius say, "Toggles good." 😁.
Perfect, thank you 🙏🔥
The toggle or marline spike are king, You can do almost anything with them .
I use small bowline knots but I have toggles and prusik knot loops built into my rapid Ridgeline
Dang, the toggle move!!!
I still use the big loop you can do everything with it and you decide if you want a toggle. Have fun stay safe.
Thanks for the hack👍🏻
I use that alot ace top tip
Great hack. It's sad how much time I have wasted trying to get two pieces of rope connected.
Is this vid shot in HD? It looks crisp!
I love me some Paracord!
Great tips. By the way, what brand is the shirt? Looks like a well made flannel.
I tie to first tree with a Siberian hitch.
Care must be taken (as with all knots and hitches) to properly dress and tighten Siberian hitch.
Also I always reinforce Siberian hitch with a chain sinnet-chain stitch-also known as monkey braid. At end of monkey braid, one or two loops are plenty, you can leave it unlocked or locked. Your choice. To lock just put end of cord through last loop and it’s locked.
This is a loop through the loop stitch that helps stabilize Siberian hitch.
It ties extremely fast, and can be tied anywhere along cord, either near the end, or anywhere in the middle of cord.
Another great benefit of Siberian hitch is when you are breaking camp-all you do is yank on the ripcord-and it is completely untied. But if locked, just unlock, then yank on ripcord (loose end) and you are done.
And to tie ridgeline to second tree.
I pull ridgeline tight along side second tree. I pull hard, once it’s tight, then and only then does cord touch the tree.
Tension-tightness of ridgeline is achieved before cord touches second tree. Cord is wrapped round tree (twice if possible) and secured first with a single half hitch. That is followed by a slipped half hitch.
The slipped half hitch has a stitch or two of monkey braid.
I usually choose to lock monkey braid on both ends of ridgeline.
Why do I completely tension ridgeline alongside of second tree, but before it touches second tree.
This is because with truckers hitch ridgeline setups, the cord is sawing against rough bark.
This puts unnecessary wear on ridgeline and tree. And many times it’s difficult to get a tight ridgeline because of friction of ridgeline against tree.
The monkey braid does not jam
The slipped half hitch does not jam
And the initial single half hitch does not jam.
Therefore this setup I’ve chosen is untied very quickly and without jamming.
No one is required to set up same as me.
That’s part of the fun. We are free to make our choices.
And if on morning breaking camp in the rain-and you have some cursed-knife knots. Feel free to cut the cord.
I don’t use para cord, or bank line.
I use 2.2 Lashit or 2.2 Zingit.
Does not stretch (much) or hold water like para cord.
It holds all the knots and hitches, that I use.
What material do you use for a ridge line?
550 paracord, bank line, whatever cord you want or have.
I have used micro cord from Atwood Rope, and did jungle knots the entire length, and guy lines. Barely adds any weight to your tarp/etc.
Just be careful when tying knots with that cord, because it is hard to get them out (if you need to) if you have placed too much stress on them, or if you are in a hurry and have not used a "quick release" or slippery half hitches.
Just make sure it can withstand the weight you will be putting on it.
Hope that helped.
That's a great tip but unless you really need it to come apart quickly I'd always recommend using a double sheet bend to connect two ropes instead.
I felt personally attacked during that intro.
Small little big loop!
I felt that intro....😪😪😪🤣🤣🤣
Thank you
Why not a sliding knot at the tree? I mostly use a sibirian hitch! Is there anything wrong with it? It worked very well for me all the time! But your way is absolutely ligit and quite fast and easy!
Just quicker..and more fun! 😅
Toggles are great and easily made when needed.
Great
That first 30 seconds was my girl lol *Sour Face*
HAHAHA! Best opening!
Toggles are your friends....lol
Temper...temper!
Fine business,, I still wonder why no one just goes a Siberian hitch or a Kalmyk. Or something.
So dumb it’s stupid er um oh er ahhhhh yea ! 😂.
Lol thank you good sir
Toggles.
I can tie the line onto a tree with 2-half hitches is about 4 seconds. What is wrong with that? Ridgeline is free from knots. It is just a length of rope.
That intro must have been painful for you Dan 😅
Good acting at the start. Like you can't handle a length of paracord.
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I don't know what the first 30 seconds was supposed to be, but it was not interesting enough for me to bother finding out what the rest of the video was about.
So dramatic.