How to Tie A Truckers Hitch [Knot Tutorial]

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Krik of Black Owl Outdoors shows you how to tie the Trucker's Hitch, a great hitch for tying down loads.

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hey what's up Turtles its Creek here with black outdoors today I'm going to be doing a video on how to tie the trucker's hitch I've also seen it called a truckie hitch there's a little bit of variability within this that I've seen on some videos but I'm going to be doing it the way that I like in the way that I prefer and I think the coolest and most effective and I'll talk about where that variability comes into play once I get this up and explained how to do it so to start need a piece of cordage long enough that's going to go it's going to work for this between your two fixed points and to start you got to establish an anchor and that's and the trucker's hitch is really good if you want to secure a load down on top of a car it's where it came from I believe from truckers doing this securing a load down on the trailer you can imagine if you're putting bags or anything on top of your car on the rails on the or you know a gear basket on top of the Jeep anything like that even use it for a taut line or a ridge line but there's other methods I like more than this for that but nonetheless basically it's given you a mechanical advantage to loud up to really torque and pull in your line to make it really tight and really secure your load without moving so to start out how to get an anchor which I've done on this tree take the rest of my cordage come over here to my second tie-down point

once I have that take my working in which is here my right hand throw it over the line the whole way completely so have something that looks like this this is my working and hanging down cradle a little bit in the middle of it remove towards the anchor because if your imagine the gear might be all right here this is your second tied on point where this is going to happen is going to be closer not to the middle it's going to end the other side of the gear but basically once you have it right here you want to take the hand that's whatever close that's on the side of the anchor here is my working end here is my left hand working here my anchors on this side of it so I'm taking in my right hand in this case I'm going to form a little loop in the line but basically it's taking the line and just twisting it over itself once and I've created this loop right here and once I've done that I'm going to take the other part of the line still leaving my working end hanging in the middle grab that line and once I have that here I'm going to pull the line through and at the same time grab my working end on this side and then pull tight and basically what it's done is give me this is a pulley right here if you will that's helping me increase my mechanical advantage by going around the tree and then having another point to talk back and because I'm using this paracord herself not a lot of friction on this line the pros of using like jute twine or something else a different type of rope recordings that it has friction this step might not be necessary but because I'm using paracord there's not a lot of friction and I know it doesn't one doesn't want to hold this as well I'm going to put a half hitch with this loop that I've created basically right now is just hanging out just sort of waist at this point I'm going to put a half hitch so I know this isn't going to come undone whenever I talk really hard on it and that offers a lot more security at this point I can just really torque down on the line and it's not coming apart and I'm really getting this tight really getting this tight there's a few ways then you can finish this off you can do a half hitch over here here's my working end I'm going to hold back this is under pressure I'm going to hold that here take my working end slide it under that's holding that really pulling that really well now to undo this just take it here releases that pull it through the loop and undo this half-inch I've done here which isn't necessary like I mentioned and the beauty about this is that it just comes apart this comes apart that's a bit the variability that I mentioned before is that people would tie an overhand knot in here or a slipknot in the line at where acting as the pulley but the reason I chose to show this method is because that's not necessary and it comes to because it comes undone if this is going to be exposed to the elements and water will get and maybe the lines going to swell can be really difficult to undo knots or hitches but this method you shouldn't have that problem I'm gonna do it one more time go around my second Anchor Point take my working end throw it over the line let it hang do its thing for now give myself a little bit a little bit of slack to work with and the hand that is on the side of the anchor point my first Anchor Point which is my right hand in this instance I'm going to take you the line form a little loop in here just by twisting at once on itself you got a little loop my left hand here is the other the other part of the ridge line if you will I'm going to hold my hands through here here's the other part I'm going to pull the line through pull through right here I'm doing this slow so you can see it and I'm going to grab the working end while holding that loop I pull through the loop I've made in the line you can see how that just really cinches down on itself and you can stop at this point depending on the piece of cordage you have like I said you can stop at this point and this will hold but if not for using paracord like I am and I know it doesn't like to hold all the time as I can still just do a little half hitch it sends that down that's going to give me a lot more protection it's going to stop this from one coming done and this point I can work down the line close as tight as I want without having to come off and I finished it with the half hitch but if you don't want to do that if you feel more secure about doing it some other way or securing this and excuse me you can go around your anchor point if you have some extra cord and finish it off just in sort of a normal fashion if you will and finish it off just by going here I'm just doing friction is going to hold that good hold that real well and to undo that again really nice and pulled it up I'm tired at once go around quick releases are really nice at this comment over on itself

take this out of my pulley undo my half hitch here

and that's a loop I created now just pulling off comes right apart really effective really cool pitch to do this the trucker's hitch this is critic signing out black outdoors later Turtles