Why Figure 8 Cord Wrap - How To Make a Jig at Home - In Field

Description

* Why use a Figure 8 Cord Wrap

* How to make a Jig to wind it at home

* How to wind a Figure 8 in the field

* Clips from my "One Handed Shelter Set Up" video to demo

* All our cord is wrapped in a Figure 8 style

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Video Transcription

well Perry peacock here with wilderness innovation I've got myself a new challenge today

yeah I'm gonna set up a shelter and I don't I'm gonna try I'm gonna still try to do this in like 15 minutes but I'm going to give myself a handicap look a little bit of this shrink-wrap here so I have hope I'm not reppin it too tight

there's my handicap they got one hand to work with something that we do at wilderness innovation to try to make your situation out there safer and easier to deal with all the parachute cordage that we send out with our products well all of our cordage is wounded a figure eight and I saw though you just you just pull on the tag in and just pull it out dispense it as needed and very seldom you ever get a tangle here's a piece of cord this is going to be fun and we've done it we've done it for I don't know eight years or so now I guess and on everything we send out so you can depend on what we've got kind of guide the stakeholder what are the forces is the ground is pretty frozen so now a little awkward okay so you gotta go through once through twice oh my god get down there there we go alright there we are hand through one more time I'm gonna make it slippery just because a rest set on my arm pull it through I know you're not gonna be able to see this way we're gonna go 3-1 come on the end of the rope got cut in there okay another one do you have it [Music]

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all right good no get some tension so Olivar cord comes to you wanting a figure eight just like this even if you order a hundred foot Hank from us we do the hundred footers wound and in a figure eight as well okay so here's our cord just wound around my hand here's my end to pull out of here so I just start pulling that out of there and look look what's already happening as it pulls out of there it's starting to try to there we go so it's starting to try to tangle already as I try to pull this thing out of there I can just undo this and pull it out of there and if I'm not careful I'm not careful how I pull that out of there because of all the twisting and tension that's in it I have now created a little monster here I can pull it out to deploy it and it just pulls right out of here and notice how nicely it lays over here on the table alright so now let me show you a little setup here you can make it at home in your garage or whatever a little simple way to whine figure eight and you can win dolly like say let's say you need to wind a thousand feet of it or something in 20-foot Hanks or even if you want to do bigger ones I'll show you that to a couple couple dowels couple pieces of copper tubing like this a couple pieces amt conduit or whatever drill a hole in a two before about hand span apart that's about right what we found and I've just got a little paper clip a little spring clip right here and so all I do is put the end of the court in that clip just to hold it momentarily and then I come around the the post here and I come opposite sight on this one so you can see every time I go around I'm making a figure eight so it just goes like this making figure eights so I can just keep going and once you once you get good at it while you can whip right through it you no time at all now you notice this groove right here this groove is cut in here to allow you to put your finger under there to pull this up off these posts right here so you just pull it straight up off of there and then I just take it like this and you leave oh you know about a foot or so and you start wrapping it so I go around one time and I want to cross right there so see I'm going around I want to cross once I cross I pull hard on it that locks it in place that prevents it from unwinding then when I get almost to the end I stick my thumb in there I go around tuck my end under that little loop from my thumb and I pull on that little tag and snug it up that way like that this thing won't come undone you can throw it in your backpack or whatever can bounce around in there and it won't come down on you and so now we're in a figure eight so it's easy to pull this thing out and unwind it I set up a lot of camps in the dark and it's really nice to now you will have an overhand knot right at the end that's because of that last little thing where you stuck it under your thumb comes out as overhand knot but anyway so there it all is so I can do that by taking this same little jig I have you make another hole knot at the other end that's maybe about a foot that's about a foot apart so I can make the another hole down there and I can pull this out of here and hopefully usually it's got to come kind of out of the middle to keep from tangling so I just lock that in there just like before I go around and diagonal back around so that you see I'm making a figure eight that's what I do every so often I push down we finish it off just a little wine you want to leave some slack here to wind around here to hold it in place so now you see how orderly it organized that is in the way that that's wound now what I like to do is I take and form a loop with my finger take the free end around here and I take it like this and I snug it down and we reverse back and then I go ahead and wrap it a few times right there we'll hold this nice and securely and I'm going to worry about getting all untangled and then you just take this thing here and you just lift it up off of here and this little end right here is the one you pull on you can pull that right out of there without any tangles here's a field Wynd with your figures put about four or five six inches through your middle finger and first finger then go around your little finger and thumb and make your figure eight just like that right there and what you've done what you've done a bunch of my you know you can go fairly quickly with it and we just take him wrap it around here however many times get to the end put my thumb in there shove the end through that loop snug it up right there there's my figure eight twenty foot Hank ready deploy without tangle the middle of the night the cold the rain the freezing the snow whatever so there's how you can do it yourself at home or if you need to rewind core do you buy from us now doing this little Court example here might seem like a dumb little thing to you and but the more time you've spent outside and the outdoors the more you realize the value of little simple things like that to make your life easier I'm reminded of the story of John Wooden the famous basketball coach and how he'd take these players bring him into camp and he'd have and he'd show them how to put on their socks he'd show them how to put on their shoes and how to tie the laces these guys all knew how to do this already but he's emphasizing tiny small little details that in the course of a game

would make a difference this kind of stuff here might seem small and trivial but in the course of a game and the course of in the course of your life your camping experience or you know god forbid some kind of a tragedy or disaster something you get wound up in having your cordage already ready to go without tangling can make a difference it can make you get it can help you get your shelter put up quicker it can help you to be able to help somebody else nothing like when your fingers are cold and frozen and you're trying to untangle a bunch of cordage so you can set up a shelter or something that's just one of the benefits that we hardly even talk about but you get it with all of it with all of our gear that you buy that has cordage you get that advantage and we just want to let you know that that is a plus it's worth something and now you know how to do it yourself you can make sure your gear works flawlessly for you time after time regardless of the situation why and your cartage in a figure eight like we do when we send it to you and enjoy your time outdoors even more be safer be quicker with you with your shelter setups you