Quick Tie Bowline & Sheet Bend also Tarp Tie in

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As for knots we tend to use what is quick and easy, the bowline and sheet bends are great knots to know, tying them quickly makes them more likely to be used. The same method we show here for the bowline is shown for a tarp tie in as a sheet bend.

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Tags: Sheet Bend,Bowline,knots,tarp,survival skills,camping,outdoors

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close perry peacock with wilderness innovation up here with a little bit of a tip for you today a little bit on Hugh's use of nights camp set up or whatever just a little little quickie deal that I found helpful so let's take a look at it and see if this might be helpful to you where's the thing about knots is you get you're going to use whatever knots or handy whatever nuts you like to use whatever not seem to work best for you but there's just some stuff that I use some stuff I do and and so that's that's what this is all about here anyway one of the common nights they use in camp just for setting up or setting up just a line or something like that is I'll do this right here and that gives me a little bit of a it gives me a little bit of a loop here I can tighten that against the tree like that I can pull on it pretty strongly when I'm done I just pull the pull the knot out like that I think I've showed it to you before so that's a handy little nut but that's not what I'm going to show you today I'm going to show you something a little different so I'm going to show you today is a bowline the thing about the thing about this not here I just showed you is that once you tighten it down you can't move it up and down the tree and even so it's a it's not adjustable that sometimes and sometimes you want to be able to adjust the line once you've got it up and sometimes you want something very a very secure loop while watching a week or so ago somebody is showing a way to tie to the ball on the bow line bow line Bolin where's color Bolin where you it's caused a loop method where you're just tucking two loops basically so you twist a loop counter clockwise make another loop push it through that first loop then take your free end shove it through that loop and as you pull on it it makes a bowline so that's a slick little way to do it right there I got playing around if I thought well maybe it's be a little easier way to tie it so in the end I kind of came up with a way i do it like this so I hold the running in on the free end in my hand I stick the free end it's kind of like this and I just take two fingers and I flip it around like this grab my loop shove my into I've got it just like that so that's a little easier to me so I'll show you that slower so you want to keep just a little of this hanging out because that's going to shove to your final loop here so you just taken two fingers and you're just twisting around so you're going all the way around and you're grabbing the running end again with your index finger pull that loop through there then you then as you're dropping it down you're sticking the free end of the line T there and you're pulling and tightening and there we've just made a bowline right there now this guy can even even if I got a little bit of tension on I can still kind of maneuver an up and down the tree little if I need to adjust the height of something and that way I could do without having to undo things and stuff like that but you know I said interestingly there's a bunch of different ways you can tie a lot of nuts there you go so that's very simple very very quick to do you get all get-out jammed up here then it's not as good see there you go just like that right there very simple very simple and obviously if you practice that a bunch of times you can you could really fly on this baby right here you could really do it quickly and I'm an old fogey and it goes pretty quick for me now just a moment here i'm going to show you something else you can do with this nut that can be very handy alright so what I've got now is I've got my this is my black sill mile on Pancho PS SL and I can make I can use a poncho or hammock or a tarp or a chair or all kind of different things and and I can I can use the hood as a tie out point to hold the tart the center of a tarp up if I want to it's got a snap in the hood but I can snap down to the chest and it leaves a little bit of a loop here right there a lot of times I just do that I'm going to show you a different way like I could put a rock up in the rock up in the hood right here and tie a knot around that let me show you why that's even simpler than that and and this can work with a with the corner of a tart the middle of a tarp or anything and it works very nicely and it's very secure let me show you that one right now okay so what we're going to do now I've got the free end of my cord here just this just tied off to a little nub on the back here just to kind of that makes it easier just to hold it out of way for doing what I'm doing here because instead of using the free end of the cord I'm going to use the I'm going to use the corner of my the part of my hood here or the corner of my tarp whatever whatever you want to use I'm going to use that as the free end everything else in the knot is going to be the same that's a little it's a little more not awkward but it's a little different to tie it because you're not dealing with something that's all the same size but anyway so you just do the same thing you go ahead and you grab your loop through there now instead of putting the free end up through there we're going to put our the edge the corner of our tire for whatever now sometimes some of this you have to push a little bit with your finger to get it started because you want to make sure that this comes up through so basically see it comes up through that goes back out the other way and everything cinches back around it just like just like the bowline does on the free end when you tighten it up now that right there I would that's got enough strength I would destroy either the corridor my poncho before that thing would give up now not now not using any kind of a I'm not using a rock or a steak or anything like that in there so so here's another deal here's just a plastic sometimes the winner we use a painters plastic as a 2 as a moisture barrier or something like that if we're making a super shelter it could be the window of it so with that I do the same thing this is a lot smaller then it's a lot smaller more flexible to my poncho so it's a little easier to do it so I'm just grabbing up through there pull that thing down there we go so slick that is right there I think that's obviously much stronger than the plastic even is and now so that makes it a very simple way without fiddling around at all very simple way to tie even a even a plastic or something like that so anyway perry peacock here with wilderness innovation showing you a little bit of fun not tang there's this the bowling right there that quick quick and easy quick you're nice now obviously there's there's times when that's not going to be the ideal way to tie the nut because of you know some whatever reasons or whatever but hey a lot of times you're going to be just you're going to be tying it around a tree just like what I'm doing right here and this little method right here work just perfectly well for you so anyway so this perry peacock with wilderness innovation having fun in the outdoors hope you have some fun outdoors yourself you know and hope you find whatever kind of not you like to use use them occasionally and I try out some new kind of knot and see hey do I like that one better than something else you know that's good that's good to know a few of them in reality you don't need to know that many you just need to get rid of whatever it is you're doing now you practice something like this enough to know you can you can tie this thing in the dark privately got it down you

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