I'm currently practicing these knots and the ridgeline part of the shelter system in my hotel room while completing quarantine. Can always bring cordage to practice stuff.
Still not clear why I ("want"/"need") a ridgeline in a hammock. If it's made of a single strand of cord - and tied to the tree - isn't that defying the whole "happy tree" *(don't cord tree bark) mentality?
Been tying a truckers hitch for years and never knew/thought about the rolling hitch so I don't have to pinch! There's always something to learn. Thanks.
A rolling hitch is actually a misnomer in this case. Looping it twice actually functions as a blackwall hitch, a rolling hitch would involve a tuck akin to a clove hitch. Edit: akin to a clove hitch, or probably more closely, a miller’s knot.
This is pure gold! It is the most informative, pedagogical and easily digestive way I’ve ever had these hitches explained to me. All your content is next to none, so please keep it coming. The calm way you explain and back up by examples makes this knowledge transfer top tier.
Mr. ADHD, you are gifted with more intelligence and sensory equipment than other humans. You go to sleep when you get back to the cave with your kills. You NEED stimulus to keep your brain awake, thus the ritalin/caffeine. We don't do well in quiet boring spaces, and that is a fact. We are wired to go to sleep. You need to learn to cope in a 'farmer's' world. Most stuff is designed for farmers not HUNTERS. Like libraries, classrooms, theaters...you have to find a way to cope in the farmer's world so you don't fall asleep! The bestus way is exercise. Cardiovascular exercise. 'Recess' for kids...each recess or physical outlet is followed by 3 or 4 hours of brilliant focus. Otherwise, one needs to take caffeine or ritalin. I am serious. And they took recess OUT of our school's curriculum s!! ?? Poor hunter kids are being majorly tested having to learn coping methods to be able to learn and use the school systems! Or simply fail because they have this 'deficit'?? ADD is NOT A DEFICIT. PERIOD. Different wiring is all and ADD people are much more intelligent than Farmer people. It is a factoid. If their environment is not stimulating enough a hunter is designed to go to sleep. Pure and simple. I had a miraculous 4th grade teacher who somehow knew what to do with high energy brilliant kids! She sent us out on the playground at least 3 X a day. Of course after we got our work done, homework included, went around and tutored the other kids and complete paper mache projects of our solar system...then she TOLD us to get out of doors and 'run it off'...there were 3 of us. What that teacher did for the 3 of us was priceless. Quit thinking you have a deficit. You have a gift.
These videos are excellent. You really take your time, going slow for the viewer to follow. I can't tell you how many videos I've gone over these last days trying to get my knot-knowledge up to speed where the creators are just racing through so you have to pause-play every second to follow. Thanks for all your great effort videos!
I've been struggling with knots for whatever reason... Your video definitely cleared things up for me. You are a fantastic instructor and thank you for sharing your skills.
Just one way I learned to tie a bowline; make a small loop, with the working end over the standing end. Have a little more than twice the length of the loop you want as the working end. Take the working end and make believe it's a rabbit. The rabbit comes up, out of his hole (the small loop), runs around the tree (the standing end), and dives back into his hole, (the small loop). Leave a large loop & pull tight. You just tied a bowline.
Hey man, I just wanted to say thanks for making these videos. I've been into the outdoors my whole life and already knew these knots but always like to see how everyone else does it. I was surprised to learn about the rolling hitch, it really does hold a lot of tension and makes finishing the truckers hitch much easier.
I thought I knew how to tie a good truckers hitch. Knot! Sitting on the couch now practicing my new knot knowledge. Thank you for sharing your knowledge :-)
Thanks. I like the addition of the rolling hitch. Everyone does things a little different. It's interesting to see how several people accomplish a task.
Wow this is a shining example of learning useful ways to expand on useful knots. These methods I have never see and the terminology is so much easier to follow. Cheers graybeard
Used a lot of prusiks for both rock climbing and swiftwater rescue. Very useful for setting up makeshift anchor points or z-drags for adding mechanical advantage to pull objects and/or people pinned by rushing water.
The modified truckers knot is awesome! This has replaced the tautline hitch when I make tarp shelters. One question: why not teach students to make the initial loop with a figure-8 rather than just an overhand slip? You don't have to worry about orienting the dirty end towards the anchor and its super quick to (un)tie. Anyway, love the channel. De oppresso liber
I used to use the Figure-8 and its variants for everything. I have a ton of older videos using them. Really, it came down to the bowline being the knot that was chosen to be taught at the physical classes we teach so that we could narrow down the list of knots a student needed to know that could apply to several applications. The same could be said for the Figure 8, it will apply to several other applications just the same. We just had to choose one and the bowline ended up being the one. DOL
I'm confused by your bowline description you seem to be swapping the terms "working" and "standing" as you work thru the knot. Other than that I found it very informative. Thank you for posting it.
Just in case no one else has stated this, 4 wraps is a prussik and 6 wraps is considered a line-brake. I think it's easier to just call them all a prussik like in this video. It's also good to learn how to build these knots from scratch and not just from a loop of rope, if that makes sense. It takes a little longer to build the knot but it allows you to tie around objects that would otherwise be impossible to do with a single piece of rope. Being able to tie a figure 8 on a prussik around any object can give you a solid anchor point on just about anything.
The prusik knot was the golden knot I was most interested in. The Bowline is one of my Scout’s basic knots and we use an easy Mnemonic to remember it. Where the Standing end is the “Tree”, the Loop is the “Hole”, and the Working End is the “Rabbit”. “The Rabbit comes up the hole, runs around the tree, and goes back down the hole.”
I knew I'd find this in your library of vids. Thanks for providing this as well. It'd been way too many years since Boy Scouts and I'd forgotten pretty much all except square knot, taught-line hitch, and clove hitch. This video, along with your 3 Quick Poncho Shelters, and Rapid Ridgeline, have given me exactly what I needed to know for quick, reliable emergency or bug-out shelter. Thank you!!
Thanks so much. Just like anything ...practice makes perfect. With knots that's were I fall short. Never practice so I'm "relearning" the same freakin' knots over and over!
Awesome video and instructionsTY.My own bit of useless info:The 1st time I ever saw the Prusik was in a Bond Movie when Roger Moore used his shoe laces to make 2 Prusiks to ascend a rope.That scene got me into knots and eventually climbing.Weird how things get ppl interested in stuff.
Thank you so much for taking the time to teach those like myself. I especially appreciate the casual pace of your instruction method so I could practice as you taught. You’re an exceptional instructor.
I enjoyed that demonstration and learned a new way to tie the Bowline without my Rabbit coming out of the hole going around the tree and back down the hole. Shall practise your method as soon as it get light in an hour or so. One downside to the video was that during the first demonstration of your Truckers Hitch, I couldn't see what you were doing as your hands blocked my view, but you recovered that part on the repeat. I do find knots so much easier to follow when filmed like you did from behind the camera and not opposite the camera as some demonstrations are done - for me, the latter way is like some dyslexia. Well done.
I saw that block during the edit, thanks for noticing! Kidding, I was okay with it since it was going to be shown again but lesson learned. I have done plenty with the opposing view and agree, I think the point-of-view is better. If you could see in your minds eye behind the scenes how ridiculous I look with my arms around a tripod and camera looking at the viewfinder to make sure its getting captured you would laugh.
Have you thought about using Canadian jam knots to tie your shoes. It leaves a long tail that you tuck in the side of your shoe. I also marked it with the outside casing a para cord so you know which one the pull. Works pretty well I don’t think it’ll work with boots with clip /hooks In place of holes.
Thankyou, we are just starting to do some over night adventures and I will practice these in our great outdoors in Australia! I film my travels, so hopefully I can show you where I am using them ( now I am nervous!). Your video was really clear and easy to follow :)
One stop knot shop 👍🏻 awesome and very well explained way of doing it on camera I’ve seen the bowline tied for the rapid ridgeline without the security knot added, can a bowline come undone when under tension? 🤔
@@GrayBeardedGreenBeret I’ll practice it with all bowlines then so if I need to tie a bowline for higher risk uses like climbing (under stress or in a hurry) I’ll automatically remember to use it 👍🏻 thanks again
A halter hitch would be better to secure the truckers hitch. At least in my opinion. Knots are about 50 percent of my job as a rescue tech. Not saying the rolling hitch is wrong. Just harder to untie after you load the line and the hitch tightens up.
I've never seen someone tie a bowline knot like that. I will never forget how to tie that just by the way you showed that. It was like magic. Great video.
First off love the Videos. I think you are right to call that “Fishermans knot” a necklace knot. If y’all are Gunna make a Prussic that you intend to hang yourselves on than you want a double fishermans or Barrel knot. Same thing.
I'm often missing the relation between the Marlin spike hitch and the Bowline. If you put a branch inside the pocket instead of the working an end - you have a Marlin spike hitch. Also, do you have any clever way of remembering from which side you're supposed to insert your working in in the last step? I'm struggling to remember which part goes on top, and left or right gets troublesome when you have to stand on a certain side of a rope..
OK so I was confused with your Bowline and eventually I found out that at the end you said you pull your working and in reality you have to call your standing end
17:03 .....and you even pronounce it correctly! "proosik" not "prussik" ^_^ Thanks for the vid! Learned nothing, but loved watching :D Very well presented and not all tacticool like some other gentlemen.....subbed! :)
I haven't. There are hundreds of knots that fit the bill for many purposes. I teach a full system of survival, bushcraft, and preparedness where knots are very important, but dozens of choices are not. The knots shown in this video, along with a few additional lashings, cover the entire spectrum of what I teach and were chosen to simplify that part of the instruction. The bowline is extremely versatile and used for several different skills within the larger system.
What's your thoughts on jungle knots for ridgelines and tie downs? I use that system and although uses more Paracord it's very fast and I don't have to tie any knots in the field
An easy 11 in my opinion, many of them are combined into a larger knot. I mainly put the names of each part of the know in because I have found it is not common knowledge what individual knots make up the truckers hitch, for example
shoot...I've gone back to the beginning to follow and repeat...ugh! GBGB I don't know if you know this or not but you've switched 'working end' with ' standing end' a few times for the bowline. I checked...?
Haha yeah, I get that enough that I make sure to say in the videos as I am teaching it that if you already know an easier way to tie it, go for it. That is the way it is taught in the Ranger Community and nobody has issues with it. I come out on the civilian side and everyone wants rabbits to come out of holes and around trees and such.
The Gray Bearded Green Beret using the slip knot into a bowline has been the easiest way to teach novices that I've found. First time I've seen it anywhere else..
Thank you. That rolling hitch is a huge tip. I usually just pinch to maintain the tension while I lock it off with a half hitch on a bight. But that rolling hitch is genius. Your bowline tying method is weird though. I really like the sailors method where you never let go of the working end. It's super fast and slick. ruclips.net/video/ozskWrDM-F4/видео.html
I can take no credit for that rolling hitch. That was how I was taught the truckers hitch in SF training, and I didn't realize it wasn't common until I got out and started teaching survival. We have since integrated that at the Pathfinder School and Flint & Steel Critical Skills Group. I am glad it is helpful and it is making its rounds across the globe now, I recently saw a video of it being done in Ireland by Living To Learn. You are not the first to mention my bowline technique being weird. There are defiantly other ways to tie it and teach it. It goes back to the first way you learn it often being the way you do it and teach it. The sailors method you mention is actually what I use when I am tying a bowline-around-the-waist with a larger rope. Anyway, the method I use to teach it on the smaller cordage version is just the way it was taught to me in the Rangers, I then taught that to thousands of Rangers and Ranger students, and still teach it that way to Survival students (with the preface that if you already know an easier way to tie it, go ahead and use it, nothing has to be my way).
These same knots can be applied to too many applications to list. These 11 plus three lashings and a couple specialty knots cover our entire system of teaching and training. There are hundreds that do the same things, but we narrowed it down to the ones that we choose to use for all things that we teach from Basic all the way to Advanced courses
GBGB am I the only one to notice you interchanging 'standing end' with 'working end'? Arghhhhh! The working end is the shorter end, right? You called the standing end the working end 3 times at the beginning and if I am wrong, I gotta know this! I am going by visual cues. I think I've done these on my horses forever. They don't slip, right? Maybe it is different. But you've got a bit of dyslexia, yeah? Grins!! If I am wrong, I just gotta know GBGB!!
I think someone else had said I switched them a time or two and didn’t catch it during edit. It’s not dyslexia, it’s a lifetime of learning knots from different military instructors. Some would call the short end the running end and some would call it the working end, yet all of them I believe called the long end the standing end. So working from memory it’s hard to say which will come out
I definitely wasn't serious about dyslexia! I heard all the different names you've known...The running line, the short line, standing line, the working line....I am proud to announce I've got that dang Bowline down along with the trucker's hitch. I think. Grins. I fish! Knots have been a big part of fishing, I carry a book on knots in my fishing kit! I am weak on knots! So I am following very closely! You are a super teacher, great voice, great visuals! I am a hard and fast and convinced follower! I just ask lots of questions and chatter too much!
There’s a method to the madness. Check out my “5 knots from one” and you’ll see that I teach it that way because as an instructor I can easily teach a student 5 knots from the same baseline, bowline included.
Working and running end is the same thing, it’s the short end you are working with. The other end is the standing end. Are you actually trying to tie these right now?
0:40 - End of Line Bowline
3:02 - Overhand Security Knot
4:49 - Trucker's Hitch (modified)
10:55 - Fisherman's Knot (Prusik Loop)
14:30 - Prusik Knot
Dude thank you so much for the stamps. You're a legend.
I'm currently practicing these knots and the ridgeline part of the shelter system in my hotel room while completing quarantine. Can always bring cordage to practice stuff.
Still not clear why I ("want"/"need") a ridgeline in a hammock. If it's made of a single strand of cord - and tied to the tree - isn't that defying the whole "happy tree" *(don't cord tree bark) mentality?
Been tying a truckers hitch for years and never knew/thought about the rolling hitch so I don't have to pinch! There's always something to learn. Thanks.
A rolling hitch is actually a misnomer in this case. Looping it twice actually functions as a blackwall hitch, a rolling hitch would involve a tuck akin to a clove hitch.
Edit: akin to a clove hitch, or probably more closely, a miller’s knot.
This is pure gold! It is the most informative, pedagogical and easily digestive way I’ve ever had these hitches explained to me. All your content is next to none, so please keep it coming. The calm way you explain and back up by examples makes this knowledge transfer top tier.
I have ADHD and I was was sure nobody could teach me knots, but the way you speak is so concise it really helped SOOOO MUCH! THANK YOU!!!
Mr. ADHD, you are gifted with more intelligence and sensory equipment than other humans. You go to sleep when you get back to the cave with your kills. You NEED stimulus to keep your brain awake, thus the ritalin/caffeine. We don't do well in quiet boring spaces, and that is a fact. We are wired to go to sleep. You need to learn to cope in a 'farmer's' world. Most stuff is designed for farmers not HUNTERS. Like libraries, classrooms, theaters...you have to find a way to cope in the farmer's world so you don't fall asleep!
The bestus way is exercise. Cardiovascular exercise. 'Recess' for kids...each recess or physical outlet is followed by 3 or 4 hours of brilliant focus. Otherwise, one needs to take caffeine or ritalin. I am serious. And they took recess OUT of our school's curriculum s!! ?? Poor hunter kids are being majorly tested having to learn coping methods to be able to learn and use the school systems! Or simply fail because they have this 'deficit'?? ADD is NOT A DEFICIT. PERIOD. Different wiring is all and ADD people are much more intelligent than Farmer people. It is a factoid. If their environment is not stimulating enough a hunter is designed to go to sleep. Pure and simple. I had a miraculous 4th grade teacher who somehow knew what to do with high energy brilliant kids! She sent us out on the playground at least 3 X a day. Of course after we got our work done, homework included, went around and tutored the other kids and complete paper mache projects of our solar system...then she TOLD us to get out of doors and 'run it off'...there were 3 of us. What that teacher did for the 3 of us was priceless.
Quit thinking you have a deficit. You have a gift.
btw, Mr. Josh is ADD whether he knows this or not! Truly!
@@stormytrails so brilliantly put ! Thank you Stormy ,I have a granddaughter named Stormy !
The most precise easily understood demos bar none - superb
These videos are excellent. You really take your time, going slow for the viewer to follow. I can't tell you how many videos I've gone over these last days trying to get my knot-knowledge up to speed where the creators are just racing through so you have to pause-play every second to follow. Thanks for all your great effort videos!
I've been struggling with knots for whatever reason... Your video definitely cleared things up for me. You are a fantastic instructor and thank you for sharing your skills.
Great explanation of what's going on with each part of the knots!
Just one way I learned to tie a bowline; make a small loop, with the working end over the standing end. Have a little more than twice the length of the loop you want as the working end. Take the working end and make believe it's a rabbit. The rabbit comes up, out of his hole (the small loop), runs around the tree (the standing end), and dives back into his hole, (the small loop). Leave a large loop & pull tight. You just tied a bowline.
I know this video is older but, great job! I finally found a video that makes these knots very easy to understand.
Hey man, I just wanted to say thanks for making these videos. I've been into the outdoors my whole life and already knew these knots but always like to see how everyone else does it. I was surprised to learn about the rolling hitch, it really does hold a lot of tension and makes finishing the truckers hitch much easier.
I thought I knew how to tie a good truckers hitch. Knot! Sitting on the couch now practicing my new knot knowledge. Thank you for sharing your knowledge :-)
Thanks. I like the addition of the rolling hitch. Everyone does things a little different. It's interesting to see how several people accomplish a task.
You have a knack of presentation and instruction, you are a good teacher
Wow this is a shining example of learning useful ways to expand on useful knots. These methods I have never see and the terminology is so much easier to follow. Cheers graybeard
Used a lot of prusiks for both rock climbing and swiftwater rescue. Very useful for setting up makeshift anchor points or z-drags for adding mechanical advantage to pull objects and/or people pinned by rushing water.
I LOVE this vid! Thank you!!! Excellent, clear, concise expalnation.
You're vids are seriously the most practical and the most helpful vids on RUclips
The modified truckers knot is awesome! This has replaced the tautline hitch when I make tarp shelters. One question: why not teach students to make the initial loop with a figure-8 rather than just an overhand slip? You don't have to worry about orienting the dirty end towards the anchor and its super quick to (un)tie. Anyway, love the channel. De oppresso liber
I used to use the Figure-8 and its variants for everything. I have a ton of older videos using them. Really, it came down to the bowline being the knot that was chosen to be taught at the physical classes we teach so that we could narrow down the list of knots a student needed to know that could apply to several applications. The same could be said for the Figure 8, it will apply to several other applications just the same. We just had to choose one and the bowline ended up being the one. DOL
Thanks Josh, I've never seen at bowline with a security loop and in my entire life I've never used a rolling hitch and now will. Excellent video, man
You are an excellent teacher, you could be teaching all this stuff as a college course! One of the best knot videos I've ever watched. Thanks!
Great images, verbal descriptions, and patience on the demonstrations! It doesn't get any better than that.
This video was knot what I was expecting. Very good demonstration.
Pure gold. You just helped me with some details that I could not get clearly the first time I was taught these knots. Thanks for the amazing work!
For someone who learns well visually, I love these videos! Great job this is a big help.
Thank you so much! I’m always looking for knots, but never saw some of these!!! Awesome!
I'm confused by your bowline description you seem to be swapping the terms "working" and "standing" as you work thru the knot. Other than that I found it very informative. Thank you for posting it.
Just in case no one else has stated this, 4 wraps is a prussik and 6 wraps is considered a line-brake. I think it's easier to just call them all a prussik like in this video. It's also good to learn how to build these knots from scratch and not just from a loop of rope, if that makes sense. It takes a little longer to build the knot but it allows you to tie around objects that would otherwise be impossible to do with a single piece of rope. Being able to tie a figure 8 on a prussik around any object can give you a solid anchor point on just about anything.
Thank you for your excellent videos you are a natural teacher, thank you again.
The prusik knot was the golden knot I was most interested in. The Bowline is one of my Scout’s basic knots and we use an easy Mnemonic to remember it. Where the Standing end is the “Tree”, the Loop is the “Hole”, and the Working End is the “Rabbit”.
“The Rabbit comes up the hole, runs around the tree, and goes back down the hole.”
Excellent selection of useful knots. I did not know about the double-wrap on the Trucker's Hitch, so I learned something new!
You are a fantastic teacher. Thank you so much.
I knew I'd find this in your library of vids. Thanks for providing this as well. It'd been way too many years since Boy Scouts and I'd forgotten pretty much all except square knot, taught-line hitch, and clove hitch. This video, along with your 3 Quick Poncho Shelters, and Rapid Ridgeline, have given me exactly what I needed to know for quick, reliable emergency or bug-out shelter. Thank you!!
You and corporals corner have very cool knot tying instruction. Ill keep practicing your suggestions
Thanks! I appreciate that! The Corporal is one of my favorite people.
I’ll second that.
Simple valuable overlooked knowledge that requires practice to perfect. Thanks Joshua
Thanks for stopping in, David! Good to see you
Always enjoy your instruction, bud! Learned a new way to tie the bowline. Thanks!
Thanks for stopping in, brother!
Thanks so much. Just like anything ...practice makes perfect. With knots that's were I fall short. Never practice so I'm "relearning" the same freakin' knots over and over!
Awesome video and instructionsTY.My own bit of useless info:The 1st time I ever saw the Prusik was in a Bond Movie when Roger Moore used his shoe laces to make 2 Prusiks to ascend a rope.That scene got me into knots and eventually climbing.Weird how things get ppl interested in stuff.
Thank you so much for taking the time to teach those like myself. I especially appreciate the casual pace of your instruction method so I could practice as you taught. You’re an exceptional instructor.
Thank you! Learned a lot. Stay safe. 🥰🙏
I enjoyed that demonstration and learned a new way to tie the Bowline without my Rabbit coming out of the hole going around the tree and back down the hole. Shall practise your method as soon as it get light in an hour or so. One downside to the video was that during the first demonstration of your Truckers Hitch, I couldn't see what you were doing as your hands blocked my view, but you recovered that part on the repeat. I do find knots so much easier to follow when filmed like you did from behind the camera and not opposite the camera as some demonstrations are done - for me, the latter way is like some dyslexia. Well done.
I saw that block during the edit, thanks for noticing! Kidding, I was okay with it since it was going to be shown again but lesson learned. I have done plenty with the opposing view and agree, I think the point-of-view is better. If you could see in your minds eye behind the scenes how ridiculous I look with my arms around a tripod and camera looking at the viewfinder to make sure its getting captured you would laugh.
Good stuff.
Clear concise instruction.
Very well done. Easy to follow and understand!
Joshua, I'm always ready to learn something useful , thanks for sharing your knowledge and skills !
Awesome, thanks Michael! Glad you are getting something out of them
Great. Simply put
Also an open-ended 3-wrap prussik is actually a taught hitch :)
thank you. these are excellent knots
I have trouble remembering all these knots. I may have Knot Dyslexia. Maybe knot.
Why knot buy a book? Maybe your woman is knotty?
@@benveach9689 I have a few books on nots, but knot all of them.
What a useful video! You take the time to go through the steps and are a great teacher! I feel like you're talking TO me and not AT me lol
Thank. You.
I did it! These videos are so informative. Thank you! 🤗
Very good
Have you thought about using Canadian jam knots to tie your shoes. It leaves a long tail that you tuck in the side of your shoe. I also marked it with the outside casing a para cord so you know which one the pull. Works pretty well I don’t think it’ll work with boots with clip /hooks In place of holes.
I just tie them regular. The only thing I typically use an arbor knot (jam knot) for is making Roycraft Emergency Snow Shoes.
Too interesting to fall asleep to. I guess I'll have to watch while at work. 'preciatcha from NOLA.
This video is going in my favorites! Very functional! Thank you!
Thankyou, we are just starting to do some over night adventures and I will practice these in our great outdoors in Australia! I film my travels, so hopefully I can show you where I am using them ( now I am nervous!). Your video was really clear and easy to follow :)
Thank you
Dude, your channel rocks!
Thanks, Perry! Glad to have you here
Love the content and presentation!!! Right to the point and super informative.
Yes thank you soo much for helping me! Very educational video you da man
Learning. Can’t wait to use it.
One stop knot shop 👍🏻 awesome and very well explained way of doing it on camera
I’ve seen the bowline tied for the rapid ridgeline without the security knot added, can a bowline come undone when under tension? 🤔
Not the tension you could put on it for a shelter. I only bother with the security knot for climbing and rappelling when body weight is on it
@@GrayBeardedGreenBeret I’ll practice it with all bowlines then so if I need to tie a bowline for higher risk uses like climbing (under stress or in a hurry) I’ll automatically remember to use it 👍🏻 thanks again
Works like a charm, your a legend mate :)
Josh hve you ever encountered needing more than a 6 wrap prusik whn using lines of same diameter?
Excellent instructions
👍🏻👍🏻👍🏻🇺🇸🇺🇸🇺🇸
I have, sometimes need 8-10 wraps depending on the angle of the rope (vertical vs. horizontal-ish) and how much weight/tension I need to put on it
@@GrayBeardedGreenBeret do you ever recommend ‘klemheist’ knot instead of ‘prusik’?
A halter hitch would be better to secure the truckers hitch. At least in my opinion. Knots are about 50 percent of my job as a rescue tech. Not saying the rolling hitch is wrong. Just harder to untie after you load the line and the hitch tightens up.
Great video, well explained .
I've never seen someone tie a bowline knot like that. I will never forget how to tie that just by the way you showed that. It was like magic. Great video.
Just learnt all of these, great video thank you Joshua. Much appreciated.
First off love the Videos. I think you are right to call that “Fishermans knot” a necklace knot. If y’all are Gunna make a Prussic that you intend to hang yourselves on than you want a double fishermans or Barrel knot. Same thing.
excellent
Is it called the "dirty side" because it's knotty.....har har har
You are the only one who has ever caught that!
Not only hilarious, but a great mnemonic!
I use Fishermans knot nearly every week, and until now never wrapped around again for a rolling knot... THANKS
Great content
Nice detailed instructions ,keep up the great informative videos!
Great videos , thanks for doing this .
Great video 👍
good show....
Thanks, Todd!
I'm often missing the relation between the Marlin spike hitch and the Bowline. If you put a branch inside the pocket instead of the working an end - you have a Marlin spike hitch.
Also, do you have any clever way of remembering from which side you're supposed to insert your working in in the last step? I'm struggling to remember which part goes on top, and left or right gets troublesome when you have to stand on a certain side of a rope..
OK so I was confused with your Bowline and eventually I found out that at the end you said you pull your working and in reality you have to call your standing end
This was great and I will definitely be working on these knots. What is the prusik used for in a practical stuation?
Tightening a tarp along a ridgeline is what I use it for mostly. I also use it on a Z-drag and rappel Safety
17:03 .....and you even pronounce it correctly! "proosik" not "prussik" ^_^ Thanks for the vid! Learned nothing, but loved watching :D Very well presented and not all tacticool like some other gentlemen.....subbed! :)
Thanks for the sub! Yes, "prussic" is another name for hydrocyanic acid. This is knots, not chemistry!
.....and the guy was austrian ;) Good stuff, Sir :) P.S. ....DID learn about "prussic" now, news to me! Thank you for teaching....
You said you didn't learn anything, had to step up my game a bit haha
3:28 and that is how you keep your ACOG on your rifle ^_^
Haha yes it is, and many other items "dummy corded" to you so you don't lose them.
@@GrayBeardedGreenBeret I was that guy ... I had so many dummy cords they got tangled ^_^
We were all that guy at least once.
Got a bit of the shakes
Have you tried the angler's loop? I prefer the angler's loop over the bowline
I haven't. There are hundreds of knots that fit the bill for many purposes. I teach a full system of survival, bushcraft, and preparedness where knots are very important, but dozens of choices are not. The knots shown in this video, along with a few additional lashings, cover the entire spectrum of what I teach and were chosen to simplify that part of the instruction. The bowline is extremely versatile and used for several different skills within the larger system.
What's your thoughts on jungle knots for ridgelines and tie downs? I use that system and although uses more Paracord it's very fast and I don't have to tie any knots in the field
Why do you put a prusik knot on the Ridgeline? Great video and content!
These are the shelters this ridgeline is designed for and shows what the loops are for: ruclips.net/video/AQw7WJBL29k/видео.html
@@GrayBeardedGreenBeret Thank you! Going to go watch now... Hope you had a very Happy Thanksgiving!
What does your diet consist of daily sir thank you
Oh NOOOOOOOOOOO!!! 11 more knots? Curses. Foiled again. I don't know why but, everytime you teach, I always think you're gonna say, "for instructional purposes only" lol. Thanks for sharing.
Tasks, conditions, and standards......followed by a risk assessment & safety brief.....
An easy 11 in my opinion, many of them are combined into a larger knot. I mainly put the names of each part of the know in because I have found it is not common knowledge what individual knots make up the truckers hitch, for example
Part of the knot*
shoot...I've gone back to the beginning to follow and repeat...ugh! GBGB I don't know if you know this or not but you've switched 'working end' with ' standing end' a few times for the bowline. I checked...?
so for the truckers hitch could you do just a figure 8 knot for your loop in the line?
Yes you could
@@GrayBeardedGreenBeret awesome I appreciate all your videos super educational!
Sorry man but that was THE most difficult explination of a bowline iv'e ever seen!!
Haha yeah, I get that enough that I make sure to say in the videos as I am teaching it that if you already know an easier way to tie it, go for it. That is the way it is taught in the Ranger Community and nobody has issues with it. I come out on the civilian side and everyone wants rabbits to come out of holes and around trees and such.
Corey Gage: Try it. Once you get used to it, you can tie a bowline really quick.
The Gray Bearded Green Beret using the slip knot into a bowline has been the easiest way to teach novices that I've found. First time I've seen it anywhere else..
gotta disagree, this is the best explanation i've seen. it's almost like people learn different ways, haha.
@@DeanLangley I don't understand your description. Maybe you could post a video.
Thank you. That rolling hitch is a huge tip. I usually just pinch to maintain the tension while I lock it off with a half hitch on a bight. But that rolling hitch is genius.
Your bowline tying method is weird though. I really like the sailors method where you never let go of the working end. It's super fast and slick. ruclips.net/video/ozskWrDM-F4/видео.html
I can take no credit for that rolling hitch. That was how I was taught the truckers hitch in SF training, and I didn't realize it wasn't common until I got out and started teaching survival. We have since integrated that at the Pathfinder School and Flint & Steel Critical Skills Group. I am glad it is helpful and it is making its rounds across the globe now, I recently saw a video of it being done in Ireland by Living To Learn.
You are not the first to mention my bowline technique being weird. There are defiantly other ways to tie it and teach it. It goes back to the first way you learn it often being the way you do it and teach it. The sailors method you mention is actually what I use when I am tying a bowline-around-the-waist with a larger rope. Anyway, the method I use to teach it on the smaller cordage version is just the way it was taught to me in the Rangers, I then taught that to thousands of Rangers and Ranger students, and still teach it that way to Survival students (with the preface that if you already know an easier way to tie it, go ahead and use it, nothing has to be my way).
Working end and standing end seemed to have flip flopped at the beginning of the video.
What is each knot ideal for?each situation?
These same knots can be applied to too many applications to list. These 11 plus three lashings and a couple specialty knots cover our entire system of teaching and training. There are hundreds that do the same things, but we narrowed it down to the ones that we choose to use for all things that we teach from Basic all the way to Advanced courses
Why not provide a list with the knot names together with the video?
If a person is too lazy to write them down they are probably too lazy to learn them
GBGB am I the only one to notice you interchanging 'standing end' with 'working end'? Arghhhhh!
The working end is the shorter end, right? You called the standing end the working end 3 times at the beginning and if I am wrong, I gotta know this! I am going by visual cues. I think I've done these on my horses forever. They don't slip, right? Maybe it is different. But you've got a bit of dyslexia, yeah? Grins!! If I am wrong, I just gotta know GBGB!!
I think someone else had said I switched them a time or two and didn’t catch it during edit. It’s not dyslexia, it’s a lifetime of learning knots from different military instructors. Some would call the short end the running end and some would call it the working end, yet all of them I believe called the long end the standing end. So working from memory it’s hard to say which will come out
I definitely wasn't serious about dyslexia! I heard all the different names you've known...The running line, the short line, standing line, the working line....I am proud to announce I've got that dang Bowline down along with the trucker's hitch. I think. Grins. I fish! Knots have been a big part of fishing, I carry a book on knots in my fishing kit! I am weak on knots! So I am following very closely! You are a super teacher, great voice, great visuals! I am a hard and fast and convinced follower! I just ask lots of questions and chatter too much!
That is the most contorted way to tie a Bowline I've ever seen!
There’s a method to the madness. Check out my “5 knots from one” and you’ll see that I teach it that way because as an instructor I can easily teach a student 5 knots from the same baseline, bowline included.
when both of your hands are right in the front of the knot your making, kinda hard to see how you're doing it
I'm confused u keep saying working end for both ends
Working and running end is the same thing, it’s the short end you are working with. The other end is the standing end. Are you actually trying to tie these right now?