5 Minutes to Better Bushcraft Double Prusik Tensioning System

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afternoon guys I'm Dave Canterbury with self-reliance Outfitters the Pathfinder school back with another in our series five minutes to better bushcraft we're going to talk about today is a tensioning system made with persik knots josh and your showed this to me or at least talked me through it a little bit and then I kind of winged it myself after that at the advanced class this weekend I thought it was a really good idea because it does come up in a situation it did this weekend where sometimes you have trees that are further apart then your paracord or your ridgeline that you've brought with you will actually stretch to get a good tight hold and you need something extra that you can use there without having a splice a bunch of pieces of rope together especially if you're only a couple feet short so I'm gonna show you that today stay with me okay so the first thing I want to talk about real quick is prusik loops you're gonna need two prusik loops to do this the way that I have figured out how to do it

and you're gonna make a loop to loop connection with those in a minute so you can adjust the length or the size of these prosecutes depending on the length you need to get more reach with your rope and I'm gonna show you real fast how to put these on the line it's pretty easy I just buy it my teeth like just take the loop put the knot in the middle like this feed it through three times one two and one more time through that bite gives me three times around and then all I have to do is dress things up to get a good clean person on the line and I've got two of those on here right now one here and one here a little further down that are probably eight inches long and I'm gonna use for this demonstration now I have a tree down here that my rope is connected to and again this is for demonstration I know there's tons of trees around here and I could pick any two I wanted in a situation where you have chosen the best location for you or you don't you're limited on the amount of trees you have and your rope is not quite long enough to go to the only other available three or the one you chose you can use these two prusik as a tensioning system to make a piece of rope that's too short actually work for you and that's we're going to talk about right now okay you can see on this tree if I bring my ridgeline around I virtually have nothing left over so there's nothing to wrap around there's nothing to tie off so what I'm gonna do is I'm going to slide one of these projects down toward the end of that give myself a little bit of a tail to pull on there I'm gonna slide the other prusik knot down and use those two prusik knot around the tree one on this side and one on this side by putting one inside the other for loop to loop type of connection and then I'm just going to take any stick and put it in there to create that toggled loop to loop connection then I'm going to pull on my cord to tighten it through these two pressing knots to tension it I'll show you that now okay so here again is our two prusik s-- we have one on this side of the tree one around the other side of the tree and we have our toggle creating our loop to loop connection there and then we can just slide this rope through until we get it fairly tight and then we can pull straight against this prusik here to tighten things up and if you have to you can go back this away with it and pull it this way and just keep tightening that back and forth until you get what you want you've got a project that's gonna lock on this side you got a process gonna lock on this side so once you get that pulled to its potential just like that you can't go anywhere and it's gonna be banjo string tight so now what are we doing we want to get that off well that's why I use a toggle connection over here so I've got this unorthodox connection here with this toggle and loop scenario I could just break the stick or I can come in here and loosen one side just enough to drop that toggle out and it will come undone easy enough and that gives me a simple system to tension a rope that may be slightly too short okay guys so that's just a quick down and dirty almost like a ratchet strap type system that you can use to tighten the rope that may be a little bit too short for something like a Ridgeline now if you're using a simple loop to loop and toggle connection obviously you're not going to use that for something like climbing necessarily because it's not going to bear a lot of weight but for nothing more than tensioning a Ridgeline and it works absolutely fine

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