Tripwire and Breakaway Knot

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  • Опубликовано: 29 окт 2024
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  • @beansmalone1305
    @beansmalone1305 Год назад +1067

    As an electrician id caution against putting your light switch in a halfway state. Switches are designed to snap from on to off to minimize the chance of a spark when the connections are either made or broken. The odds of it leading to a fire are low but the risk still exists. Interesting idea and video though.

    • @stewiepid4385
      @stewiepid4385 Год назад +130

      As a former US Navy I.C.E. ( USS Kincaid DDG-965 ) I humbly disagree for the following reason:
      Technically you can’t leave a light switch in the middle.
      I’ll pause while you no doubt go and try - I’m sure you want to see for yourself.
      Suppose you come back thinking you’ve proved me wrong.
      In that case, I’ll bet that the switch had some resistance when you tried to leave it in the middle, and it was a fine balancing act to prevent it from snapping back to the state it was already in.
      That’s because the internal of a light switch works using a snap-action that’s called hysteresis.
      This is where the switch is designed to instantaneously switch at a specific position.
      As you start pressing a light switch, you’re moving the internal switch, but the contacts stay completely motionless.
      As soon as the switch reaches a certain point, the pressure causes the contact to snap into the second position, completing the circuit.
      So you might be able to position the external switch ‘in the middle.’ Still, the components inside won’t have moved until you pass that threshold.
      Nothing is happening inside the switch, and so like I said, technically, you can’t leave a light switch in the middle, despite how it might appear.
      Except, that’s only true with working light switches in good condition.

    • @beansmalone1305
      @beansmalone1305 Год назад +189

      @@stewiepid4385 The Navy must use higher grade switches (thank you for your service by the way) than what the typical box store has because i guarantee you that if you slowly switch every switch in your home one or two of them will make a crackling noise while doing so.

    • @solenoidnull9542
      @solenoidnull9542 Год назад +113

      @@beansmalone1305 Can confirm, mine sound like they are sparking inside at a couple points if I switch it slowly.

    • @CL-vz6ch
      @CL-vz6ch Год назад +17

      @beans malone yes. Often true in UK as well.

    • @PatrickKniesler
      @PatrickKniesler Год назад +60

      @@beansmalone1305 you have to believe 90% of switches in American walls are contractor specials costing less than $1

  • @insurancedice
    @insurancedice Год назад +284

    Do I have a clue what I'd actually use this for? No.
    Is this an excellent presentation? Yes!

  • @SuperPatleo
    @SuperPatleo Год назад +387

    I'm glad you like it!!!!!😂 Thanks so much!

    • @JoeWayne84
      @JoeWayne84 Год назад +9

      Very kind of you! God bless

    • @iDoPew
      @iDoPew Год назад +2

      Do you ship to switzerland? Where can I order? :}

    • @SuperPatleo
      @SuperPatleo Год назад +1

      @@iDoPew how can I contact you?! 🤔

    • @iDoPew
      @iDoPew Год назад +1

      @@SuperPatleo Do you have IG? :)

    • @SuperPatleo
      @SuperPatleo Год назад

      P a t r y. Alt without spaces

  • @RemingtinArms
    @RemingtinArms Год назад +3

    These types of videos manage to become super interesting late at night when you have work the next morning...

  • @KayakingVince
    @KayakingVince Год назад +86

    Genius design, as always. Please never stop making knot videos. You are great at explaining them and I like that you start with the practical uses where other youtubers might just show how to tie a knot, largely ignoring its practical value.

  • @b.aleman8401
    @b.aleman8401 Год назад +6

    This is one of the most in depth videos on tripwires I've ever seen. Awesome. Thank you.

  • @razordu30
    @razordu30 Год назад +15

    This is fantastic. I've used exploding knots for this type of application, but like you pointed out, there are varying degrees of resistance and it's finicky to get right.
    This solution is awesome and I plan to fold this into my assortment of go to knots.

    • @windowsxseven
      @windowsxseven Год назад

      not to mention it's also hard to piece the rope back together after it explodes with the knot

  • @bloodbond3
    @bloodbond3 Год назад +9

    I love that the tripwire in that *Two-Loop 4-Strand Knot* breaks the tension of the counterweight-not by releasing a knot but by acting as a simple lever to nudge the knot out of the way.

  • @antiquegeek
    @antiquegeek Год назад +29

    Finally an alternative to The Clapper. Excellent presentation and explanation of a very interesting knot. First time seeing your Channel but it's the content I never knew I needed so subscribed.

  • @SirchBehindTheBeat
    @SirchBehindTheBeat Год назад +3

    This the first time I ever watched a video about a knot. Now I'm heavily intrigued

  • @Little_Sams_Top_Guy
    @Little_Sams_Top_Guy Год назад +3

    Ive never had an easy time understanding knot tying until this video thank you

  • @aurelienyonrac
    @aurelienyonrac Год назад +3

    You guys are adorable

  • @jodicobb6382
    @jodicobb6382 Год назад +1

    FCA ,2 me. I Believe in learning!
    Interesting readymade; with thought?
    I believe wholehearted.

  • @gqkokidko
    @gqkokidko Год назад +5

    Another masterful demonstration. I can’t adequately express my level of appreciation for your content so I have to settle for this comment and a declaration of my commitment to buy some of your shirts I see linked below this video.

  • @springbloom5940
    @springbloom5940 Год назад +3

    This is really going to up my spiky log trap game, at my hobo camp.

    • @overclucker
      @overclucker Год назад

      I'd stick to toggles for your spike traps and ied's.

  • @tonyg.8688
    @tonyg.8688 Год назад +25

    Honestly you should make an app with all these knots. You could have a menu with “stopper knots, joining knots, end of the rope loops (bowline, figure 8, ect). Then link or have the videos built into the pages

    • @Edward.Hillier
      @Edward.Hillier Год назад +3

      I would pay good money for that app

    • @nos9784
      @nos9784 Год назад

      I have bought a similar app, it's called "useful knots" (or useful knots pro)
      Its really handy, if first class amateur doesn't want to make his own app they could just cooperate with them and save himself the work of making and entire new app...

    • @froyboy4life
      @froyboy4life Год назад +1

      Knots3D already exists. It's like $4, best app out there.

    • @WoodRabbitTaoist
      @WoodRabbitTaoist Год назад

      Apps like that already exist. Knots3d is a good one.

    • @inncubus666
      @inncubus666 Год назад +1

      There are a bunch of knot apps already; animated knots by grog has a website I've used regularly too (website's free, app is paid).

  • @Liberty4Ever
    @Liberty4Ever Год назад +3

    This looks like the (mostly) grown up version of Home Alone. If I ever used this information, the results would be significantly more kinetic. :-)

  • @marcwilliams9824
    @marcwilliams9824 Год назад +3

    So that double-coil knot is effectively a mechanical version of a semi-conductor being used to amplify a signal. Very cool.

    • @disqusmacabre6246
      @disqusmacabre6246 10 месяцев назад +1

      Yes. The analogies between a paracord tripwire and an electrical relay are interesting. One type of electrical relay uses a low voltage / low amperage circuit to control a high voltage / high amperage circuit. The equivalent paracord "circuit" uses a low tension knot to control (release) a higher tension knot.

  • @WingsOfADream1
    @WingsOfADream1 Год назад +4

    I feel like in the same way when you demonstrate the ability to others to tie a noose and they quickly come to a conclusion on your mental health...
    When you demonstrate the ability to make a tripwire you show that you are a methodical well read individual that should not be fucked with.
    I guess it's almost the preemptive nature of learning the knot and the knot itself shows a sort of readyness, just lying in wait... preparation of shit going bad...
    That being said it is a tool, nothing inherently bad about it but kind of funny the connotation things have in the mind... Rope knowledge is so neat.

  • @sailingcapedissappointment2012
    @sailingcapedissappointment2012 Год назад +2

    Bravo, I do something similar to this because I have a slip that's hard to get out of when the current is running .. so now that I think about it I'm going to rig all my fenders to drop simotaineously when I get back to the slip .. single handed sailing

  • @getinthespace7715
    @getinthespace7715 Год назад +3

    Now my daughter can take her pranks to the next level. 😉

  • @wpridgen4853
    @wpridgen4853 Год назад +2

    Nice!
    I used to use something similar to this knot to hold loose rope out of my face while in precarious positions during limb removals, only it wasn't as elegant because I was an autodidactic quasi-rope-wizard...
    Meaning I made sh-t up and prayed it worked... The autodidactic part came in when it didn't..💥💀

  • @protocol6
    @protocol6 Год назад +10

    I wonder if it would work with magician's thread. It's usually nylon monofilament so elasticity might be a problem but it might be something you can account for. You know, just to take your scalability to absurd levels.

  • @BadDadio
    @BadDadio Год назад +3

    Excellent video. First time I’ve seen this type of knot.

  • @empmachine
    @empmachine Год назад

    Is your kid saying "I did a work" ?? adorable !

  • @COMB0RICO
    @COMB0RICO Год назад +1

    Awesome knot, friend! God bless ya in Jesus name. Thanks from Texas.

  • @nicholassmith7359
    @nicholassmith7359 Год назад +1

    When we were kids my Brothers and I created a pulley to turn off the lights if the door knob turned. We drove our Aunt crazy one night, because she couldn't understand how we were turning the lights off and be quick enough to get into bed. LOL good times.

  • @jamesdevlin5000
    @jamesdevlin5000 Год назад

    As EOD, this is a wonderful presentation and certainly being used in my next practice op.

  • @brightbkh07
    @brightbkh07 Год назад

    Or you can get a German shepherd. They will alert you to an intruder by barking/growling first and then the screams of the intruder as they are being mauled and having their face ripped off! That’s my favorite security alarm. Haha but this is awesome and I love these ideas and videos!

  • @VegasPrintDaddy
    @VegasPrintDaddy Год назад

    cheers from Las Vegas my friend!

  • @Swimdeep
    @Swimdeep Год назад +3

    Great video. Your skills are extraordinary. Thank you for sharing them. 🪢

  • @ssnerd583
    @ssnerd583 Год назад +1

    How bloody marvelous!!! new ways to boobytrap my place when I leave for a month at a time!!! i can see this making some very interesting vids from my hidden SIM trailcams

    • @cyy3793
      @cyy3793 Год назад +1

      It can only be triggered once, like an airbag. Unless you plan to rig booby traps like Home Alone or Rambo, better use CCTV or sensors. You'll be in a lot of trouble if someone gets injured

    • @ssnerd583
      @ssnerd583 Год назад

      @@cyy3793 ......only if they find the body!!!!

    • @cyy3793
      @cyy3793 Год назад +1

      @@ssnerd583 omg.. may god bless the intruder..😂

  • @geoff4383
    @geoff4383 Год назад +2

    That's going to be useful the next time I'm in the jungle bringing hunted by an alien trophy hunter.

  • @-TheShaun-
    @-TheShaun- Год назад +1

    Shows us how to set up boobytraps and then makes a kid walk through it. This guy has all the best ideas.

  • @armwrestling_nerd
    @armwrestling_nerd Год назад +5

    I use a reverse Kalmyk as a tripwire, then the loop can bear as much load as possible but has very little resistance to trip it open

  • @vegasbluedevil7328
    @vegasbluedevil7328 Год назад +1

    Reminds me of my youth back in Ohio. Perhaps minus the knot skills. I was always rigging up stuff like this though. Now I work as a maintenence engineer at a Las Vegas casino. So those skills payed off. Haha

  • @slicksnewonenow
    @slicksnewonenow Год назад +4

    Speaking ONLY for myself, Rube Goldberg and Wyle E Coyote, the three of us are EXTREMELY PROUD of your work!!!!
    Gotta LOVE a good Boobie Trap😁

    • @juliogonzo2718
      @juliogonzo2718 Год назад

      That's hilarious I was thinking of Rube Goldberg and Wyle E Coyote watching this as well

  • @plumber1192
    @plumber1192 Год назад

    Thanks for this! I just dropped a huuuuge log on a hiker, LOL!

  • @davek89666
    @davek89666 Год назад +1

    Awesome channel

  • @phant0
    @phant0 Год назад +1

    This guy is one more COVID lockdown away from figuring out a cure for cancer that you can make with random household objects

  • @Jack_Woods
    @Jack_Woods Год назад +1

    This looks like it's a setup for some Home Alone style death trap but it just switches the light on lmao

  • @richarddiss1643
    @richarddiss1643 Год назад +2

    AWESOME, crazy, funny and cute! Thank You very much Sir for sharing Your genius ideas! Greetings from France ^_^

  • @brandonleesanders
    @brandonleesanders Год назад +2

    I’ll never need this but I watched the entire video at 3am just in case…

  • @michaelosmon
    @michaelosmon Год назад +1

    Beautiful home and family, this was a great video. Thanks so much for sharing

  • @elwayb.602
    @elwayb.602 Год назад +1

    Great video thanks these knots help a lot

  • @juliogonzo2718
    @juliogonzo2718 Год назад +1

    If I was a burglar, my first though would be "I'm glad that was not connected to something spicy that goes bang" and then I would run away

  • @walkingcontradiction223
    @walkingcontradiction223 Год назад +3

    As a professional amateur myself, I thoroughly approve of this message. Be careful about leaving switches in the middle like that, you can get arcing between the contacts. Unless of course you've just insured your home and.. Nevermind.

  • @pauljs75
    @pauljs75 Год назад +1

    The fun begins when you combine this kind of thing with a mousetrap and matches to launch a bunch of bottle-rockets at somebody poking around at a back entrance.

  • @leandrovm45
    @leandrovm45 Год назад +4

    Once when I was a kid, I tried to put he switch on the middle position, and I got a shock, I don't remember well how it felt, but I think it hurted a lot.

    • @CyberBeep_kenshi
      @CyberBeep_kenshi Год назад +1

      Ye, what he shows here can burn down your house

  • @davidroddini1512
    @davidroddini1512 Год назад +1

    I was watching this because I was bored and none of my channels I subscribe to had anything that I haven’t watched. I thought that it was going to be uninteresting. KNOT! 😉

  • @Emanemoston
    @Emanemoston Год назад +1

    Thanks for the video.

  • @Sincubi2
    @Sincubi2 Год назад

    This video makes the movie 'Home Alone' a bit more plausible.

  • @mr.mcpurrz3143
    @mr.mcpurrz3143 Год назад +1

    Kevin Mccallister would be proud.

  • @TrueHelpTV
    @TrueHelpTV Год назад +2

    Im building this at my tower company to surprise whoever is first into the office

  • @mandelaeffect1111
    @mandelaeffect1111 Год назад +1

    Thank you

  • @RussianCabachoc
    @RussianCabachoc Год назад

    Absolutly Usefull

  • @WaschyNumber1
    @WaschyNumber1 Год назад +1

    A wireless remote switch to a light(or socket plug Wher a siren or other thing could be plug in) under the carpet would probably work too. 🤔 😂

  • @quinnbrown6382
    @quinnbrown6382 Год назад +2

    This is cool af
    But a tripwire can be done so much easier with a close pin and 8th grade circuit knowledge

  • @plazmotech5969
    @plazmotech5969 Год назад +1

    Neat little knot!

  • @jodicobb6382
    @jodicobb6382 Год назад +1

    Teach a teacher a shortcut, without possible trouble.
    You became a teacher.

  • @lilyxenos2380
    @lilyxenos2380 Год назад +2

    Could you put a pen in the bite to act as a safety pin while you’re assembling the tripwire?

  • @EricBishard
    @EricBishard Год назад +1

    They'll never notice, they're all gonna notice. They'll never notice, they noticed.

  • @gigistrus490
    @gigistrus490 Год назад

    So thankful and grateful.

  • @SkyNet-ty1tm
    @SkyNet-ty1tm Год назад +1

    An occupancy sensor ?
    But I do like the knots that you are showing 👍 you've must have been in the Navy

  • @LightningCasino
    @LightningCasino Год назад +1

    Awesome

  • @mrdanger4851
    @mrdanger4851 Год назад +1

    In Vietnam it was called a trigger knot!

  • @daveb2384
    @daveb2384 Год назад +1

    A motion sensor LED light bulb works too.

  • @phillydterminaldisease6578
    @phillydterminaldisease6578 Год назад

    Idk what I'm gonna use this for but thanks 🤷🤣

  • @eritain
    @eritain Год назад +1

    Loved the knots themselves, and the exposition. Cringed so hard my face popped right off my skull at the un-blinded taste test. Expectations distort flavor perception like crazy.

  • @lepterfirefall
    @lepterfirefall Год назад +1

    So clever

  • @Eduardo_Espinoza
    @Eduardo_Espinoza Год назад +1

    Brought to you by Italian olive oil. :)

  • @xuantringuyen9010
    @xuantringuyen9010 Год назад +1

    I like to think he sets up this light switch tripwire every day before leaving for work.

  • @ronnieettienne6335
    @ronnieettienne6335 Год назад

    4:08," ima bird,ima plane ,ima choo cho train!.

  • @jesustyronechrist2330
    @jesustyronechrist2330 Год назад

    The burglars are going to be impressed at my lightswitch tripwire traps I've set up for them.

  • @PR0XYL1NK
    @PR0XYL1NK Год назад +3

    as a dirtbiker, i've been finding many dangerous traps like this being set in the trail to hurt us riders, there are really people out there just trying to clothsline people going 50 mph on dirtbikes and atv's, its so wild.

    • @Sophia.L64
      @Sophia.L64 Год назад

      Although I'd assume you don't need a tripwire knot to clothesline someone, just a couple square knots! Thats crazy though stay safe!

    • @PR0XYL1NK
      @PR0XYL1NK Год назад

      @@Sophia.L64 oh, yeah no i just meant the straight wire, yeah we have to avoid some trails now, because there are psychos setting traps.

    • @Teh_Random_Canadian
      @Teh_Random_Canadian Год назад

      Some kid was killed on a snowmobile by someone who did this. He wanted to pull the rider off their machine but a kid being much lower took it to the neck and killed him. Guy is doing time now rightfully so

    • @PR0XYL1NK
      @PR0XYL1NK Год назад

      @@Teh_Random_Canadian yep, sounds about right

  • @whybotherwithusernames4880
    @whybotherwithusernames4880 Год назад

    my claymores have never been more efficient

  • @brandonb9764
    @brandonb9764 Год назад +1

    This is a very neat video! Does this work with a shotgun?

  • @Lb.q2
    @Lb.q2 Год назад

    Be careful keeping the switch halfway, the spring was put in them to stop them arcing.

  • @CurmudgeonExtraordinaire
    @CurmudgeonExtraordinaire Год назад

    I prefer a "12-gauge alert"... Messy, but effective...

  • @youtube.commentator
    @youtube.commentator Год назад +1

    1:33 2 loops in 1 of the corners is some space/time stuff

  • @Asgard-1
    @Asgard-1 Год назад

    Omg I would love some of that olive oil how do you do a trade like that?

  • @SolathPrime
    @SolathPrime Год назад +1

    Good for a house trap

  • @ringolee543
    @ringolee543 Год назад +1

    You are MacGyver!

  • @ZOMBIEHEADSHOTKILLER
    @ZOMBIEHEADSHOTKILLER Год назад

    using the screws for the light switch cover to hold the string, is pretty damn clever................... but...... you cant tell some one which is which in a taste test untill after they taste it.

  • @cheeriosaltcream
    @cheeriosaltcream Год назад +2

    what kind of bread is that? the one they dipped in the olive oil

  • @corpserepairservice501
    @corpserepairservice501 Год назад

    From the thumbnail I can guarantee nobody is going to touch that light switch by accident.

  • @WaschyNumber1
    @WaschyNumber1 Год назад +1

    The olive oil test would be better without telling it before what oil is from where. 🖖

  • @Voshed518
    @Voshed518 Год назад +1

    Russian Wagner watching this to learn how to make doorway triggered explosives

  • @kingtriton7202
    @kingtriton7202 Год назад +1

    You can also tie the tripwire to a trigger on a shotgun and get rid of some low life home intruder. Happy tripwiring kids!

  • @AnthonyApilado
    @AnthonyApilado 4 месяца назад

    Hey wheres the video you made of lifting something onto the top of a truck. suspending it inside the garage, then driving under it?

  • @javierperea8954
    @javierperea8954 Год назад

    MacGyver! Lol. Fun

  • @fredgertie
    @fredgertie Год назад +1

    WERE do you use it fore?????

  • @azvka
    @azvka Год назад

    Top tier

  • @LoseTheFur
    @LoseTheFur Год назад

    Every ounce of me says never trust a guy who talks about tripwires in a happy voice.

  • @psycleen
    @psycleen Год назад +2

    trippy

  • @adamviktor87
    @adamviktor87 Год назад

    Nice analog Smart Device

  • @johndemeen5575
    @johndemeen5575 Год назад +1

    Why? St. Paul.

  • @SevenRavens007
    @SevenRavens007 Год назад

    Could be useful in urban conflict if the counterweight is a hand grenade.

  • @quack420
    @quack420 Год назад

    as a parent i always make sure my kids test things for poison too.