Basic Multi Use Knots

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morning guys Dave Canterbury the Pathfinder school what I thought I would do today is I've had a lot of requests to show the knots that we generally teach at the basic class here at the Pathfinder school that can be used for shelters but are also a multi-purpose for other things they're very easy to get in and out of your rope they don't ever call you'd have to cut your rope or work out a knot to get it out they're all very easy to put in and take out most of them are slip type knots that will come right out of your rope simply by pulling them and it will help you to set up a quick five-minute shelter as well as help you with crossing obstacles or ascending a rope if you need to as well stay with me guys I'm going to try to get this camera close up on something and then we're going to show you how to make each knot individually at least a couple of times and then we'll show you what it's like when we're done how those knots are incorporated into the five-minute shelter system okay guys so let's talk about four knots that we can use multi functionally from shelter set up to swift water rescue to climbing and things of that nature and they're all knots that we can get in and out of our rope fairly quickly that will allow us for quick up-and-downs of shelters and things like that but will not put knots on a rope that are very difficult to get out the first one that we teach is called the bowline knot and it's an end of the line knot that you can use as a loop like a tensioning type loop or you can pull it around a tree run the rope through the loop and then tighten it down and it tightens down itself like a noose basically to hold something secure to tie that knot we need to take our rope and we will turn a loop over in the rope just like this then we will come through the hole now we're creating a second loop which is right here and this is the loop we're going to pull on so let's pull that loop down just a little bit we're going to come around the backside of the rope and then back down through the hole like this and we pull this loop tight and what that gives us is a bowline knot and you'll know your bowline knot is right if the tag end of your rope is sticking up toward the loop then you know you've got that right and that is a bowline if you leave this tag long enough you can actually secure a half inch in front of that and we'll go through it again and we'll leave ourselves enough tag to do that to just give you some extra security but this is really good for wrapping around an object like a tree for your shelter where you can pull it down tight and it will automatically get tighter as you pull it so it's going to hold very secure to a tree but when you get that off of there that knot is very very easy to get out of your rope with very little effort and that's the great thing about that knot it's not going to cause you have to cut rope now let's walk through it again leave ourselves quite a bit of tag here I'll walk through a little faster this time I turn the loop over on the rope I come up through this is going to become our loop and this is going to become or not around the back side back down through here pulling that long tag through pulling on this I've got my bowline knot now just like this you can see that this is up toward this if I tie one half hitch in here that gives me extra security in that knot and I can just pull that straight down like this and that just gives me the extra security and again I can just wrap that around the tree or anything else to pull down on that and it's a tension self tightening type loop again to get that out very simple I just undo my half hitch real quick the rest of the stuff basically comes out really really simple just like this and that is the bowline knot and that's the knot that we're going to use on the end of the line for our shelter as far as our Ridge line goes okay the next night that we're going to use is called a fisherman's knot or a necklace knot it's basically a connecting not to connect two pieces of rope together or you can use it for one piece of rope to make a circle for use as a prusik loop and we'll talk about that in a minute and all you're going to do is you're going to take these two pieces of rope or this one piece of rope and you're going to take across the ends and you're going to tie this end to this side just with an overhand knot just like that and that creates a sliding knot that slides directly through and you're going to do the same thing on this side you're going to tie this rope to the other side with an overhand knot just like this and again you could secure those with extra half inches if you're going to have a big load on there and then when you pull that against itself those knots will bind on each other and they won't come undone and then you'll have what's called a prusik loop and we'll talk about the prusik knot in a moment to get it undone or to loosen the tension you just slide it to select out by pulling the tag ends and that will loosen up your knots and you can pull them out very easily so again one more time on that knot we've got one piece of cordage we're going to cross the cordage just like this and we're basically going to tie this end to here and this end to here using one overhand knot so we'll tie an overhand knot here like this we'll tie an overhand knot in the line here on this one just like this as long as both your tag ends are sticking out like this you're fine pull it together and that will tighten it up and that will give you your press occlude by using a fisherman or necklace knot

okay so this is our ridge line we'll talk about that more in a minute how to put this ridgeline up but while we're on this small diameter rope let's talk about our prosecute and what I've done is you can see that I have taken the knot and I put it on the bottom are connecting knot and now all I'm going to do is controlling my knot I'm going to put that knot through this loop I'm going to just come over the top just like this creating a loop and put it through one time two times three times then when I pull that tight and dress that knot up that will give me what's called a prusik knot 1 2 3 4 5 6 loops around the rope there's like a horseshoe at the bottom with the two ropes coming through and then knot at the bottom and that knot is used as a self tightening type knot that you can slide up and down a larger diameter rope if you're using a smaller diameter rope for your prusik but when you pull against it it binds on the rope either way that you pull it it's going to bind on the rope and not allow it to move so that can be used for ascending a rope as a climbing loop to slide it up the rope so that when you put your body weight against it it's not going to move and let you slide back down or if you are crossing a water obstacle of some kind you can put this on the rope put your hand in here and slide this up the rope as you go and it's not going to let you go unless you let go of the loop the loops not going to slip but it makes it very good tensioning knot for your tarp when you put this loop that's left over here through the corner of your tarp and just toggle it in with a peg like this when you push against this it will pull the corner of your tarp and it will not allow that tarp to move so it's a very good tightening knot and you can use one of those on your ridgeline and you could actually just leave it there because the other part of your the other corner of your tarp will be captured by the knot that we're going to talk about in a few minutes which is basically a trucker's hitch type knot so again taking this off we have our prusik loop that we've created with our necklace or connecting now here fisherman's type knot we put that knot at the bottom we always control the knot so we'll put the knot through the loop once through the loop twice and through the loop a third time and then we'll pull down on the knot as we're dressing it as we're straightening it out we'll pull down on that knot to keep it at the bottom and that gives us our prusik

nah or a prusik Luke as it's called all right so we've got that on the rope now okay so going back to our ridge line for a moment you can see that I've taken a larger diameter rope that we use the prusik knot on a minute ago it was prusik loop on and I've tied a bowline knot in the end of that wrapped it around the tree and ran the other end through it and that what that allows me to do now is pull against this and it creates a self tightening knot so that when I put tension against it it's going to self tighten against this tree that's going to be the beginning of our ridgeline

it's just that bowline knot and I can leave that bowline knot in my ridgeline all the time I don't have to take it out unless I want to and that gives me a self tightening knot when I run this through you can see I also left my prusik loop on the line and that's not going to hurt anything either to just leave it there okay I've brought that line over and wrapped it around a tree the distance that I need to be able to set my tarp up and as I pull against this it's going to self tighten on that bowline knot on the other end but I need security el you how to do that right now and that is another knot that we use a lot is a self tensioner on a line okay to make the self tensioning knot or the self tensioning loop I should say in this line I'm going to measure out from the tree that I'm wrapped around about an arm's length I'm going to come out here and I'm just going to turn this rope over on itself making a loop just like this and pull a loop of the rope through it and pull that down tight just like that and what that will do is it will slip right out when I pull on the rope so again I turn it over and pull a loop of rope up through that and tighten that down just like this very simple a looping the line and it loop through that loop and tighten it down and I'll show you how that works here in just a second when we tie our trucker's hitch okay so here's our tensioning loop that we put in our line and here is the tag end of our rope that's wrapped around the tree we're then going to put this rope through our tensioning loop just like this and that will allow us to pull tension against that rope just like this and allow it to be as tight as it can possibly be so we'll go ahead and yank down on that and get that as tight as we can get it that will give us a good tight ridgeline and now we're going to tie our trucker sense excuse me for moving this camera around I won't really wanna get you guys a good view of all of this now we're just going to pinch this together

just like this to hold it then we're going to come over the top of this and reach through and pull the rope back through it just like this okay so again we're going to put a loop over come over the top and reach through and pull that in and you can see how that's tightening down and we'll pull that against but not this way and that gives us a knot that's not going to come loose and now we have a nice tight ridgeline and this is a trucker's hitch so again I want to pull that out very easy to get out just pull down on it and it loosens up but I tighten that back up right here's our loop I'm putting my thumb right against the part of the Rope that's tensioning here and pinching it together just like this that will hold it then I'm coming over the top with a loop and then reaching in my fingers are grabbing the rope and pulling it back through and tightening it down just like that that gives us our trucker's hitch what that will allow me to do now is I can take this knot I can take the corner of my tarp and put this loop through the corner of my tarp and put a peg in there and then I can pull this in down and now that becomes one corner of my tarp that's taken care of and when I put the prusik loop to the other corner and pull it away from this knot because that is a self tightening knot my tarp will be taut and to get this out all I have to do is pull this stake out and I'm good to go

loosen up my prusik on the other end by pushing with my fingers very quick easy up and down so again I'm going to pull against this pinch it right at the loop come over the top with a loop reach through grab it pull it down tight at that point I can pull this up a little bit if I want to so I don't have so much sticking out here on the loop to mess with shove this through my tarp grommet put a peg in it and pull it down tight just like that pull my stakeout or my toggle out and all I have to do is yank down on this to get that down you ain't this out and this one will come out the whole rope will be down and all I have to do is pull it out from around that tree where my bowline knot is okay so what we have here is we have basically the 5-minute shelter all the knots incorporate exactly what we talked about right here is our Prosecco pond this side we can pull that now loosen the tarp up or we can pull it tight to tighten the tarp down all we've done is shoved a stake through the loop and over here the same thing we've just put our tensioning knot through a stake that we talked about over there where our trucker sensor is and pulled it down taut and then we have two more projects in the back loop through the eye grommets with our stake in them let's take it down again there's no need to take that project not off of this line if you don't want to if you're going to use this for your Ridge line all the time there's no need to take that bowling not out so if you leave those there the only not you really have to tie when the time comes

is this trucker's hitch down here in this tensioning loop you tie those two knots through your shelter up in just a matter of minutes we call this a 5-minute shelter because you have to finish this microclimate by putting something on the ground the battle conduction like a pad a ground pad of some kind of stuffed trash bag full of leaves

I won't blank it and then some type of emergency bivy or another wool blanket on top of that maybe even another space blanket folded in half in there that you can't roll up inside of to give you protection from conduction as well so we give them extra time during the basic in classes and things like that to get that done you can actually throw this portion of this up if you have everything prepped ahead of time and you have four steaks instead of having to cut and mess with toggles or break sticks you use two steaks here in your loops and two steaks in the back you can throw this up in less than two minutes okay guys well I'm Dave Canterbury pathfinder school i appreciate you joining me here for another video i thank you for everything you do for me for my school for my family for my business my affiliates and sponsors and all my friends and instructors and i'll be back to another video as soon as i can thanks a lot guys you