How to quickly tie Bowlines with long tails

The Snap Bowline is your friend when dealing with excess rope. Here we will explore several ways to create long-tail bowlines quickly and efficiently for rescue litter work.

[@69adrummer]

Excellent video man!!
> well lit/good lighting
> good contrast (color) between lines i.e one orange and one green
> well spoken with *proper* rope terminology -- bight, standing part, working end ...not like some where they say "take this part" or "put this piece through this hole" lol

[@perryfire3006]

Thanks. I wish all of my videos had these qualities, haha. Glad you enjoyed it.

[@ryanhobbs3362]

That 3rd option with the bowline both at once looks to be a great time saver and would result in less fussing about getting the loops close with the interlocking bowlines.

[@perryfire3006]

A lot of teams opt for that for that reason. Personally, I like the look of the interlocking bowlines more than the doubled up version but both are plenty strong enough. Thanks for watching.

[@Trevor-ps2oe]

Great method. I noticed the snapping-over action of the knot when dressed could be reversed when untying the knot; i.e. flipping the loop back up over itself. This allows for the necessity of passing the end through a loop only once to untie the knot, just like when it was tied. I've never seen interlocking bowlines before. Thanks.

[@perryfire3006]

Good point on the untying. I should probably have shown that for sure. And thanks for watching and commenting.

[@kristopherwolf3811]

Nicely done

[@perryfire3006]

Thanks, glad you enjoyed the video.

[@grignaak9292]

Is the interlocking method required for a carabiner to ensure both ropes stay along the carabiner's spine? (That is so the ropes don't spread apart, and perhaps crossload the carabiner?)

[@perryfire3006]

The interlocking aspect is primarily for redundancy. Meaning that if one rope fails, the other will absorb the load. The interlocking probably does help in orienting the carabiner somewhat but the proximity of each rope and anchor at the top to each other will have a much greater influence. Interesting question, thanks for asking.

[@staho9796]

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[@perryfire3006]

Thanks for watching.

[@mattslater4605]

Could you use Alpine Butterfly knots to do the same job?

[@perryfire3006]

Not ideally. The direction of pull on the loops would deform the knot. Another option though if you didn't want to fool with the extra rope when tying the knot would be directional figure eights, but for some reason most people do much better with the long-tail bowlines than the eights. I know our dept. tried the directionals for a while but it just didn't take, but yeah, I would use those over the alpine if you didn't want to mess with extra rope. Cheers

[@brianwarshow129]

@@perryfire3006 Tandem inline 8 BFK's for the win. Cheers

[@staho9796]

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[@raymondsanchez808]

Is there an application to tying two bowlines together?

[@perryfire3006]

Do you mean what it is used for? Check out this video: ruclips.net/video/2BfaukkDnNI/видео.html
It is also used for low angle operations too.

[@raymondsanchez808]

@@perryfire3006 yes 😊

[@lawrencemiano5418]

What is the bowline knot rated at?

[@perryfire3006]

A good rule of thumb is that you should derate the strength of your rope by 50% any time you tie a knot in it. Now some knots are more "efficient" than others but all knots weaken a rope.
Check out this wonderful channel to see how rope breaks in every configuration possible: www.youtube.com/@HowNOT2

[@Peter_Riis_DK]

Damn. Get to it already!

[@perryfire3006]

I do try to get to the point quickly, but sometimes you have to preface these techniques with proper explanations. My goal is to have people retain the information and that requires more than a 30 second RUclips Short. Thanks for watching.

[@Peter_Riis_DK]

@@perryfire3006
Well, it 'quickly' took you three minutes to get started... 😉
Try the Top-Down method. _Show_ us what it is you'll tell us about and why, and then tell and show us how to do it.
And thanks for answering. 🙂

[@perryfire3006]

@@Peter_Riis_DK
I'm still learning. You may have noticed that I'm new to this, haha, especially that video. Good advice though. Thanks for the feedback.

[@Peter_Riis_DK]

@@perryfire3006
No, didn't give that some thought in any way - perhaps because the video is nine months old and you say "Welcome back". AND you have almost 2k subscribers. 😉
And by the way, I've noticed that some of the YT-creators (as they are so very aptly called) that make informative videos - such as yourself - work with a scripts and retakes of scenes they are not entirely satisfied with. Perhaps also something to consider.
Anyway: Good luck to you, mate. 👍

[@apolyedapolyed7524]

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