How To Whip A Rope End | Bushcraft Knots

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Krik of Black Owl Outdoors shows you how to quickly secure the fraying ends of natural rope with a quick whip. Easy to accomplish and essential for anyone in the outdoors to know.

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Video Transcription

hey wassup turtles creek here with blackout outdoors in the past we've done a decent amount of videos on how to tie certain types of knots and in those videos we've pretty much exclusively used synthetic ropes or cord and i want to get away from that because i want to start using natural material for a few different reasons but there are a few things to consider when you're using a natural type of rope in the forest like i said for using a natural rope you have to do a couple sort of maintenance things that you don't or you have to do differently if using synthetic and that basically means taking care of the end of the rope we're whipping the rope and we'll cut off that for now and i'll show you exactly what i'm talking about this is some manila rope which is a natural material and it's related to the edible bananas that we all know and probably eat and I believe the genius is Musa you can see this is a twisted type of three strands right here and while you can use this without addressing the end of this eventually this is just going to completely come and frayed and you're going to lose length of your rope or cord so what you do is you whip the end of this and I can't take a lighter and sort of sin just like you would with paracord because it's a natural material so we need a second piece of string or rope to address this here's this um waxed synthetic thread that I use for my leather which i'm going to use today to think it offer a little bit better contrast when the rope itself and this is some jute twine you could use this as well today we're going to use the wax synthetic thread to get started we're going to take our piece of string right here and we're going to take one end a double let's double it on itself till you get something like this right i'm gonna make it smaller pinch it on itself pinch a little bit tighter if something looks like that put this then on top of the end of the rope while maintaining that loop

and it's really not super imperative for this application or what I'm going to be using this for but you might want to keep in mind of the direction the Rope is being twisted and sort of wrap or whip in the opposite direction which should and will just help it keep a little bit tighter so here we go we got our loop right there on the end I'm going to turn it around so I'm going to wrap the opposite direction which it's set take my long line my long and right here and this is going to be our working end I'm going to take that go over this go over this and right here at stationary go around it once took that go around it once sort of pinch that in place and then just continue to wrap now in this direction down and a general rule of thumb is whatever the diameter of the Rope you're whipping you want to make sure your whip or what you're wrapping is at least the same diameter and I always like to go a little bit more than one to one you'd like to go one and a half and we'll do that and that'll be my last last wrap so what we're left with is this loop right here that we create in the beginning and our working end I'm going to take my working and put it through the loop pull it the whole way through okay and then I'm going to take the end that we left on this side of the rope to begin with as well i'm gonna start pulling that underneath and what that did kind of happened quick but basically this end is pulling that loop small and right there you can sort of see it right there are working on got pinched pull this end and basically what I'm doing now is I'm pulling that loop underneath our wraps and I'm going to try to stop it right when it's store in the center you know pay attention to here you'll see that loop disappear see I'm trying to go slow and keep it in frame keep pulling that pulling that and tie it's about good essentially where I've done now is just create this wrap that's nice and tight neat on itself I'm going to do that one more time and what I can do is just pull this out now from this way this wax thread really really is nice and it works well but it's also makes a little bit more difficult to do which is great and I'm basically just I'm doing what I did cuz i want to take this apart and show you one more time there we go pull that through and now just unwrap that and show you one more time all rights to this one more time take our string rope whatever you're going to use to be whipping what the end of this rope make a loop lay this now on the end of our rope it says really easy in principle to understand once you understand like the basic so there are multiple ways to do this but this is just the easiest way I found that I like to do and it's more than effective once we have our loop on there we're going to take our working and then start wrapping around pinch that sort of wrap on itself again so sort of secure that first rap and you want to make sure this is nice and tight and you can sort of dress it up at the end before you pull the loop through or you can just do it all while your or your wrapping it keep it nice and tight and sorry even keeping the reps tighten themselves not a lot of gaps between them and like I said before just keep going till you're about one or one and a half the diameter of the rope that you're doing this for two and that's about good right there I'm happy with the amount of wraps now I want to take my working end put that through the loop pull that tight for now and go slow at first I'll try to go slow and you'll see that loop sort to get loop start to get smaller there you go and pull the working a little bit tighter pull that loop to it gets tight right there make sure that's tight again and now at this point I'm pulling the loop underneath our wraps to about right in the middle don't try to do the slow and consistent so you can see it disappear I call that good there we go now we can just trim this up and you can trim the rope as well that's not too bad there's really not that much hanging off but we'll do it anyways trim it down a little bit neater we go nice and clean and eat so that's really all there is to it's really simple and it's nothing new but I really like this method I showed you because it's little bit easier than the other ones I've tried in the past and like I said in beginning the video i want to start using more natural materials for my rope in my cord and string so that's why i want to do this video first I sort of give the introduction that you're probably going to see more not videos using a natural material because they just hold that much better than a synthetic or at least paracord because power cords the outer outer tube is so tightly woven that there's really no friction when you're doing knots and hitches so you get a lot of friction with the natural material if there's anything any other techniques that you yet you like for whipping the end of a rope let me know leave a comment anything I didn't go over that wasn't super obvious let me know again I leave a comment if you liked the video thumbs up because it lets my brother and I know that you like the content and appreciate what we're doing this is critics ining out with black outdoors later turtles