My Four Most Commonly Used Knots for Camp

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Although there are lots of knots available to a person, there are always a handful that get used all the time, these knots combined with perhaps 6 to 12 additional can make up a suitable repertoire capable of performing most any task. Check out our cordage and gear at http://wildernessinnovation.com

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twice to the inside standing and or whatever is loose you need to have a little tension in your tight room so I've done two to the inside and I do another one to the outside and I can make it slippery just like I did right there so I can make it slippery but that knot will hold pretty snugly just by itself and since I made it slippery I just pull on that and then that undoes the outside and then just like that so that's the taut line twice to the inside and I'm just trying to just kind of hold this apart a little so you can see it better I don't normally put my fingers exactly like this but and when you're snugging it up you want to get all these little parts here kind of tightened you want to tighten this this piece here and you want that in there all these hitches you want those to be tight as well you don't do if you don't get all those tighten then it's not gonna work properly see I can tighten that down pretty snugly and that will hold very well the easiest way to undo it if you haven't made it slippery is to take this outside loop and just pull on that once you get it started to get loose easily come out and there you go so there's the taut line ta that's taut line tau T so now I take my other piece the other end get down here around my tent stake and then I go around twice to the inside and then I usually will pull that snug then I do one time to the outside and I want to snug that up it's hard to do that with this thing on my thumb then you want to snug those little loops tight right there now I can pull on this thing so you can see I can tension it up and it won't come undone unless I grab the nut and slide it back so now it's loose now it's tight the nice thing about this one I'm guylines it says conditions change or whatever and you need to tighten things up you don't have to undo you a nod and retie a knot you just grab it and tension a little more and you're done if you need to loosen it up a little for some reasons you slide it back and it's loose that's a very very handy knot

I know they make little gizmos out there that kind of do this for you that you thread your cord through but it's so easy to do this why not just do it now the next the next night I'm going to show you here is this is a Swedish hitch or a form of it I was showed than not I was shown a different way to tie it that I'm going to show you but I've adapted it for tying cords small cords such as parachute cord and I call it a two-finger sweetest hitch and that's the way I kind of started using the notch I use it all the time it's a very nice secure knot I use it around trees I use it and tie out tabs like this oftentimes and the nice thing about it you see this loop right here and I've got a tag end right here when I pull on that tag end it will release the nut and so it's called it's a slippery version of the nut now I never tie it for finger style because I found with parachute small eighth inch diameter ropes and such as that all you need is two fingers so I just put out two fingers do the same thing like that cinch it up and we're done so just like that pull her down tight tighten it up we're done so slowly I'm wrapping around two fingers and bringing that up around then I kind of spread with these two fingers spread that loop because what I want to do is hook that with my middle finger and then I pull on the whole thing here pulling it down and a lot of times I'll take my finger and push on that a little bit to Snug it okay so there we've got my loop I slide that up against the tree and now I'm secure so so anyway half hitches just you're just going around and through and then you're just repeating that another time and that's called two half hitches and they slide and they'll bind up and they do they do pretty good I don't often use them by their self like that if idea if I did that I don't know if I could get the nut undone in the morning after if I did that on the hammock just with just with two half hitches so anyway sure going through so just going through like this then you're going through again if I want to go through see just like that now I could go through slippery that second time if I want so I could just go through and just put a loop through like that and then tighten that up and then what I want to get it undone I just jerk that jerk that so so half hitches that's another one I use okay and in the next night I want to show you is the pulley style for the pulley style nuts it's kind of a adaptation of the trucker's not really there's quite a number of variations in that series one of the things you got to think of is how much distance do I need to be able to pull everything I need it's commonly start too close to the tree then you can't put any tension before you run out of room so you want to start back a little bit a little ways from it and what I do is I just take I'm just gonna hold that other up so I'm just grabbing a loop basically I'm just gonna twist it around one full time then I'm in a pinch with my fingers through that loop I'm going to pinch this other piece of rope pull on it and you see that makes kind of a figure eight style knot in the end of that loop and there's a lot of different ways to do it but this is one of them now you just take the end shove it through that loop and you just start pulling and you see because I've turned this loop right here into a pulley if I pull on here with with 20 pounds of force with my hand I'm essentially close to doubling that close to 40 pounds of force and pulling on so that enables me to pull much tighter than any other way I could do it okay let's just do this again a little closer so what I want to do is pull me a loop up of some kind and so I just pulled me a loop and this is the piece of line that goes between my other tree in this tree I just want to stick my finger in there half a turn one turn then I'll spread the loop reach through and grab that other piece pull it out tighten it down now I for myself a loop and any way you want to form a loop really is fine that's just one way to do it now I've got that loop now I want to put the free end of my rope here it's going to this other than my second tree and I want to pull tension so I'm doubling I'm doubling the force because I'm turning this loop here into a pulley I'm close to doubling the amount of force that I can apply on this cord to tighten in fact you can't tighten this enough you can put enough on there that you actually snap the parachute cord so now at this point what I want to do I'll loosen up so you can see a little better what I want to do is just to keep that from coming loose so all I've got to do is I just want to I just want to bind that loop down so I'm just going to turn I've got a loop I'm going to turn that thing counterclockwise I'm gonna pull a piece of cord up through here kind of make it a slippery night now pull that down snug so what I've done is I've bound this piece here tight right at this point normally that's all you need to do to keep this knot tight and the nice thing about it is if you need to retention you just jerk this end right here snug it down a little bit we tie that knot to hold it in place and you're good to go so that's kind of a knot I use for ridgelines mostly

sometimes I use it for guidelines where I have to really put a lot of tension on a guideline so that's kind of an adaptation of the trucker's hitch so anyway this perry peacock with wilderness innovation hope you enjoy this little video just a short little deal of for the four of the common nuts that I use virtual is probably not often that I go camping that I don't use all four of these nuts now I may use a whole bunch of other different ones at times but these are four that I pretty much always use all the time any time I go out so I hope this is helpful to you and you know use whatever nots work well for you these work well for me so take care have a great day appreciate you commenting sharing liking watching our videos and all that sort of thing check it out our website well wilderness innovation comm for all our gear and goodies on there