Urban Materials Cordage Making

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It's great practice in making cordage or rope plus you can find many useful things to make rope from in your everyday environment. See what you can come up with and do a video response, best one wins a fire starter kit. You can even do this while you watch TV. For products, info and blogs see our website. http://wildernessinnovation.com

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wilderness innovation real survival kits survival shelter simplifying survival at wilderness innovation calm now what I want to talk to you today is a urban survival and particular and particularly want to talk about cord for making rope making using things that you would find in an urban environment so let's get started let's see we can come up with all right all right so you ever seen one of these before well you probably can't tell what it is right off because it doesn't have the hanger and this is a dry cleaning bag and we can make some good stuff out of dry cleaning bags let me show you what we can do here right here what we have this was made from a dry cleaning bag about five eighths of an inch diameter so so it's pretty sturdy it can hold me so that's not too bad and so let me show you how we do this thing this is a good way to practice making cordage you can practice at home are watching TV or whatever and like I've always said practice practice practice that's what it's all about to get good at things in survival so here's a way you can do urban survival skills and you can practice your court making your rope making the in the comfort of your living room if you'd like to so let's get started on this little deal and let's show you what we do okay alright so I'm going to start with this dry-cleaning bag there it is laid out so all we really want to do is we're just going to kind of hold on to just kind of work it like this you just fold it in half roughly it offset it a little bit like that so I can taper in another my next piece right here and keep this thing going

now what we're going to do is you take like this and just twist clockwise just twist up a little bit of it to kind of get you started and then just put that in your other and your finger there just kind of hold it we just want a little section like that now we're going to fold it just like this okay now so we twist twist it pretty snug and then what we do is we're just twisting the whole thing counterclockwise like this towards you so what we're doing is they were twisting clockwise and then we're taking the whole thing and going counterclockwise and then twisting clockwise take the whole thing counterclockwise and by doing that what we're actually doing is we're creating a we're creating a friction in here because all this stuff here is going clockwise and our twist is counterclockwise and it creates a friction between the two strands and that's what kind of holds everything together so that's all we do right here and as you get going along way you know you can see it doesn't take and take very long to i'll make up some rope so if you're just sitting around the couch or if you're up in the mountains of camp or whatever see there there we go right there we've got the good start on some all right i want to show you something a little more close up here and i don't know if you can catch this on the camera but if you see there's kind of a brain to the twist here that kind of runs runs this parallel with the length of the rope that means you've twisted it up right if you look a rope at a rope you've got from the store or whatever a commercial made rope when you look at the the touts twisted up you'll see that the fibers or actually look like they're lined up so they go with the same direction as the length of the rope so that's one leading kind of check and make sure you're doing everything right okay now remember everything we do here plays in exactly the same way if you're using natural fibers up in the mountains okay you're out in the woods so what we've got to this point we're going to run out here so we need to be able to splice some other material in so i can take i could take this other piece here and just start going the problem is I've got this thickness i'm going to double it over i'll be twice as thick on my material here so you really don't want to do that and you can just you could take the scissors and just kind of snip a little diagonal out of here so it's kind of thin and works up thick or you can be you can just kind of play like I do I just grab some diagonal corners here that makes it take it and it goes it goes thinner out here so I'm going to do here I'm just going to stick this up here with the rest of it and I'm going to let this hang out a little bit and I will I will trim that off later so I'm going to do is get a good twist on that and bring that up and then get my other piece okay make sure i'm still in the camera here all right now just keep working on that then you ideally you want to try to keep everything just as at the same thickness and all that sort of thing and you know if you really got particular about it you can do that pretty well I don't know how close we're going to be here but you'll try it and see

okay so there we are we started here we've what we've spliced in another piece so now we can keep on going I can come back and just trim that up and then since this is synthetic and just take a mitral light or just sins that back right there all right now you see we've worked this in from up here on back and I'm going to get ready to splice in another piece for this other side here shortly okay

alright so here's our ropes done right there are urban rope from a dry cleaner bag now if you stop and think about it there's some other things you can use as well a grocery clot plastic grocery bags work great I used I've made some decent Road before out of strips of the old paper the brown paper grocery bags I used to do them out of that cut those in strips and then twist them up so you can do that you can also use fabric and use strips of fabric all kinds of materials and stuff like that that you can use in a urban environment to get yourself some rope now let me tell you one time when i lived in canada quite a few years ago we made I made a rope out of dry cleaner bags it took me a while to do it but it was about an inch thick and we actually pulled a car with it so you know you can do all kind of stuff with with just stuff it's laying around in your community in an urban environment and the same techniques that we use here for a twisting rope together making up some cordage you do the same thing with natural materials you just lay them up and twist them the same way you're just using in a natural environment your typical II isn't a bundle of fibers instead of a instead of a bag you just twist a month the same kind of way so you have a great day man see you later