5 Minutes to Better Bushcraft Quickly Deployable Ridgeline

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morning guys I'm Dave Canterbury with self-reliance Outfitters in the Pathfinder school back in another segment of our five minutes to better bushcraft we're gonna talk about today is a quickly deployable Ridgeline I know my buddy at corpus Corner Sean Kelly did a pretty good video and it's not very long ago and it's a system that we teach here at the Pathfinder School in our basic class it's a way to set up a Ridgeline that's quickly deployable that's got everything you need on it to hang your tarp so that you can set up what we call a 5-minute shelter and with this you'll be able to do that very easily but this will be able to be done in less than a minute but we're gonna take five minutes to explain it so we've got just a 25 or 30 foot Ridgeline with paracord we have a bowline knot in one end and we have three prusik loops two of which have T toggles on them one of which is just for hanging utility lantern or something like that and this is going to go across the tree we just have a stop knot in this end so we're going to use this as a loop with a friction marlinespike and then we're going to go around the other side of the tree use a trucker's hitch or a rope tackle with what's called a rolling hitch and the rope tackle that I learned from Josh and iord to tighten the line down and hold it in place while you tie off that safety half-inch so I'm gonna just display this I'm going to deploy this first at normal speed and then we'll kind of talk through it a little bit slower if we've got time left in our five-minute segment stay with me and go done

okay let's reverse engineer this thing for a minute we have a security half-inch here and a rolling hitch here basically with a sliding knot which really is the same thing as a marlinespike hitch if you tighten it down on an object we're going to use that same marlinespike over here on the tree we came around here well stepped off we've turned that marlinespike toward the tree just like this I've pulled it tight that marlinespike hitch which then created a slipknot we came through that slipknot one time and then a second time underneath to create a rolling hitch and when you pull that tight it'll hold friction on itself and you can tie a security half-inch of slippery half-inch right there that's the end of it the beginning of it is very very simple we'll talk about that we'll go down to that end now now what we're doing on this side of the tree is start off with is we're just using a simple stick and we're taking that bowline knot around the tree pulling a bite through that bowline now which creates basically a marlinespike hitch and then we just push it against there and it's held by friction and as long as we've got tension on the line it's gonna hold just fine it's not going to loosen up and we can use that exact same type system in a different way we can use a utility cord that's six feet long with a bowline in it drop a line through that bowline just like this and then we can turn a marlinespike in the line and hang our gear off of that to keep our gear up off the ground and at the level we can work on without having to bend over to get into our pack so that same knot can be used for a lot of things you can see if I pull that out and then pull this tight it's that same slipping sliding knot that we're using on the other end for our trucker's heads and rope tackle now once once we've finished with this we're going to slide our prusik loops up to the end where our bowline is and then we're going to Hank our cordage by just wrapping figure eights around our hand until we have Oh about a foot and a half of cordage left hanging down and then we're going to take that and we're going to wrap it from this working end where a bowline knot is and wrap it down toward the bottom and we don't want to wrap it too tight the tighter you wrap it the harder it is to deploy the looser you wrap it the easier it is to deploy and when you get down to the end of this thing to the end of your line you can just take that last one and put a half-inch in there just like that and cinch it down and then just put that whole package into your backpack very simply alright guys well I appreciate you joining me for another segment in our five minutes to better bushcraft a quickly deployable Ridgeline I appreciate your views I appreciate your support I thank you for everything you do for school for family or for business call our sponsor instructors affiliates and friends and I don't get that right every time the first time by the way I'll be back with another video as soon as I can thanks guys