How To Wear A Bushcraft Knife When Carrying A Rucksack

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If you normally wear your knife on your belt, putting on a rucksack for hiking is likely going to be problematic. To carry a load efficiently, it needs to be on your hips via the backpacks hip-belt, not through your shoulders via the straps. This is because on your hips, the weight is loaded onto your skeleton, while on your shoulders it is loaded onto your musculature and much of that weight also puts pressure down your spinal column.

Much better to load the weight lower down via your hips. This will need the hip-belt fastened up tightly, which means if you have a knife on your hip it going to be a) uncomfortable and b) inaccessible.

So, here is a way of carrying your belt knife when you are carrying a loaded rucksack for hiking, etc.

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hi there poor Kelly here author of poker at least blogged the leading source of willness bushcraft advice and information on the net and founder of frontier bushcraft the award-winning bushcraft school one of the things that people often ask me is I want to go hiking I want to take a rucksack and I want to take a rucksack that has a hip belt but I also want to keep my sheath knife on my person I want to keep my bushcraft knife on my person I'm not happy with it in my pack what happens if I'm separated from my pack if I'm doing a river crossing or a stream crossing and I lose my pack or various other scenarios I want to have my knife on my person how do I carry my knife on my person while um I've got a hip belt on because most of us carry our knives on our hips most of the time on that hip belt is going to be uncomfortable or at least the knife is going to be uncomfortable with the hip belt and the weight of the pack on top of it so how do we carry our knife while we're while we're hiking and in this video I'm going to show you a really simple way how to do that the solution is to take our knife and hang it around our neck so that it's not going to be encumbered both in terms of our using it by our rucksack nor is it going to be uncomfortable on our belt with our rucksack waist belt over the top and we simply just need to take a piece of cord of the right length so that we can hang our knife there now a couple of points about that and it's all common sense but it's worth mentioning first off you don't want it too high so you don't want to be drawing your knife up here some very important blood vessels up there so you certainly don't want to be drawing your knife up there and equally you don't want to be too low because then it's dangling down where the rucksack hip belts going to be and that's going to be in the way a little bit when you're putting your rucksack on but also then it's going to be in a longline yarder it's going to be dangling around a bit and maybe clunking around so in there in the middle is a good middle ground also if you're putting a jacket on or an extra shirt over the top you can tuck that inside and it's quite discreet so we just need to choose a piece of cord here I've got a hank of cord and we can just hang that around our neck bring it round we need a little bit of overlap but something like that we can measure it hang the cord there and then we can just choose that bit there and then we can cut the cord and that's the right length and to create our neck loop after we've measured the length of cord that we need so we've got a nice length of cord we need to tie good strong secure knot in it and I think you've got two choices here one is a single fisherman's knot which basically requires two overhand knots you bring the cord together like so around itself and back through like so and same on the other side around and back through so it's symmetrical short tail so it's nice and neat bring those together and butt them up together like so apologies for the light the sudden kicks coming and going the other way of doing it is just a variation on that theme it's a double fisherman's you need slightly longer tail to start off with you go around again once as before but keep on going go around twice feed that through trying to keep the tails really nice and short so it's tidy there that's nice and tidy that's one side give yourself a bit of room there come around and around again twice as before on the other side pop that through kick the tail nice and short that's why it's a little bit fiddly bring that up nice short tail and see there and then we're going to bring those together like so very very neat are the sun's coming up there very nice very very neat double fisherman's knot great way of creating your loop so there we have our loop we have our knife pop the two together and that should be perfect for wearing around my neck and so that I have access to it and not in the way for when I wear my rucksack so get a rucksack on and we can do the hip belt up and get most of the weight of the pack as it should be onto our hips not through our shoulders so onto the onto the skeletal system rather the muscular system I've not got much weight on my on my shoulders there that allows that all to be comfortable and for me to still have my knife on my person so I hope that serves you well I certainly find it useful if I want to hike with a pack on with a hip belt and have my knife on my person and when you're wearing a jacket it's even more convenient it just tucks inside there it doesn't knock around but you can even so you can use the the chest strap here just to help contain it a little bit as well keeps it there and you've got your knife to hand if you lose your pack you've still got your knife on your person if you liked this video please go over to my blog poor curly coat UK where you'll find many more articles and videos lots of useful advice lots of useful information also if you sign up for my newsletter updates you'll also get 20 free videos just like this one straight away I'll send them to you as soon as you sign up that's over at Paul curtly Co UK thanks for watching the video and I see you on the next one you