How to Tie the Timber Hitch

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Krik of Black Owl Outdoors shows you how to tie the simple and ever-useful Timber Hitch.

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Video Transcription

hey what's up Turtles its Creek here with blackout outdoors and today I want to do a video demonstrating and showing how to use the timber hitch and basically what a timber hitch is it creates the loop something to go around a fixed object or a mobile object just using friction to be able to go around and secure an object and or like I said a mobile object so I'm going to show you how to do it once in my hand show it in a practical application do it a few times explain it and right now I'm just going to get into it and show you how to do it so to start I have a piece of cord this is a paracord I'm choosing to use as high vid's high visibility color just because it translates really well to video but potentially in the application when it uses four four actually you know dragging logs and or anything else you know the cord can change and appropriate but I'm using this just to make it really easy to show so to start by doing this there's a few ways to do it but a really easy way is to take one end of the cord sort of make a loop right here pinch it let me put my finger in and basically just twist it like as if I was actually making rope to a degree and keep twisting it I'm pinching the ends in my left hand here create this loop I'm gonna hold this and maintain this it's okay if it's gonna roll up on itself right now I'm not worried about that take this other part of the cord pass it through and once I have that you can see maintained that I have this twist maintained I'm holding it right now once I get it around an object it's really not important I'm sort of doing this in my hand so it's making a little bit more tricky but basically after that once I get that and what I've done basically is just created almost a restricting self tightening loop around my fingers right now just through friction alone no tying at all just through friction using the principles of physics all that or what I've done now is just create this loop now you can use this to actually start a lashing as potentially you'd use a jam knob for that you can use the timber hitch like that as well it's really quick like a sets really doesn't require any tying you can do in cold weather when dexterity your fingers really don't feel like messing around too much it's really quick and easy really easy to untie because it's not even tied it's just held by friction so when pressures release it just basically comes apart now I'm going to actually show it to you on the ground in a practical application to have some logs down here or some some staffs if you will and say whatever I'm collecting firewood or I want to move something out of the way bla bla bla I don't want to carry this this is great for doing something like this if I wanted to drag this the camp aside picking off the ground you know making it you know potentially if it's really heavy

this isn't but this is just a show demonstrative purposes so I'm gonna lay this down move it over it there's a few ways you can do this you can go around right here and then twist twist it around multiple times because it is friction base so you want to make sure you got enough wraps attached to the increase or not increase but to secure and make sure there's enough friction that's gonna hold that was probably four one two three probably four wraps around it and once I have that and I'll just pull it tight let it set itself and that's all there is to it now at this point I could just use this and I could just drag this and that's all there is to it and to undo it take off the tension unwrap simple simple one of the easiest easiest sort of hitches if you will really practical application really easy to do I'll do it one more time down here put this over it here like I said how I showed in my hands I can wrapped I can do the loop first if I wanted to and pass this through or can actually put it around it and then just wrap as you see here's the loop let me slow it down creating the loop with my right hand going around this once I'm gonna hold that and then just wrap one so you can see wrap the ones to continue that hold that let it bite on itself nope that's the paracord for you because it is friction based like I said like I mentioned earlier I'm using paracord so it translates it's easy to see what it is friction based so potentially you know I'd want to use something that has more friction in it a different piece of rope cord if you will you can see as I apply pressure here this all bites on itself fights on itself and this is the most important part to keep this in place down here as I move this tag gets pinched between the objects and that's what holds it all in place along with these wraps once I have that that's basically all there is to the timber hitch so if you have experienced using this or different applications besides what I've shown dragging some logs multiple logs and or using it as sort like a jam not to start a lashing a quick lashing let me know please share with me remember to check out blackout doors comm check us out on Facebook check out black guy on Instagram this is correct signing out with black outdoors later Turtles