hey guys I’m Nate welcome back to the
studio today we’re going to be taking a
look at something that well fairly basic
is also extremely useful we’re going to
show you how to tie six of the most
useful knots that I know and what
they’re good for
for tying knots all you’re gonna need is
a piece or two of rope and we’ve got
that so let’s get started to make
handling a little bit easier let’s just
cut off a piece that’s you know eight
feet long now there are hundreds or
probably even thousands of types of knot
that have already been used and named
that all have their plates but these are
the six knots that I found to be most
useful in my life the first type of knot
we’re gonna learn to make is called the
bowline it’s a good knot for making a
strong stable loop at the end of a rope
to start with your bowline measure off
whatever size loop you want at the end
of your rope with one hand holding the
rope where you want your loop to start
twist a circle by grabbing one section
and lifting it up away from yourself
take the other end of the rope and
thread it through the back of the small
loop you just created wrap the short
piece of rope around the back of the
long piece of rope feed the short end of
the rope around the long end and then
back through the front of the smaller
loop at this point you should be able to
grab these three parts of the rope with
one hand and the long part of the rope
with the other and pull it tight if the
small loop running around the long end
of your rope hasn’t tightened all the
way just give it a tug on the big end of
the loop at this point unless you’re
using extremely slippery rope this will
hold pretty much indefinitely it’s a
very stable knot that will almost never
give out even if it gets wet or is in
bad conditions another advantage of the
bowline is even after it’s been tied for
a long time or put under a lot of stress
it can usually be undone fairly easily
when you want it to there’s another way
to tie the bowline that won’t come in
handy as often but someday you might
find it useful and it’s actually a way
to tie it one-handed to demonstrate
let’s clamp our rope into this vise
because I need something to hold on to
the other end
there we go
I remember how to do this right tada
it’s a tie the one-handed bowline I have
the long end coming all the way around
my waist I’m gonna hold the short end of
the rope with a little bit of extra play
at the top now I’ll drop my hand down on
top of the long end and twist it in a
circle this forms the loop that we made
when we were first tying or not we now
pass the short end of the rope behind
the long end grab it and pull our hand
down through the loop we’ve created then
with some tension added to the rope it
pulls itself tight
[Music]
next night we’re going to learn is
called the clove hitch and this is a
great knot for attaching a rope to a
tree or branch or any sort of pole we
have here a pole in a vise and this is
what we’re going to tie our rope on to
for the clove hitch once again we are
going to work with a long end and a
short end to make our clove hitch it’s
best to give yourself enough extra rope
that you can wrap around the pole once
or twice without any problem start by
wrapping the short end of your rope
around the pole once and having it go
underneath the long end of the rope if
you’ve got it on top of the long end of
the rope you’ve done it wrong continue
wrapping the short end of the rope
around the pole but don’t pull it
completely tight you want to leave some
slack
with the short end wrapped back around
you want to pass it over the long end of
the rope and then under the loop you’ve
just created around the pole this knot
will actually cinch itself a little bit
tighter as you pull on it which makes it
great for attaching it to round poles
like the bowline one of the nicest
things about this nock is that after
you’re finished putting it under tension
you can usually get it to slip open very
easily to retrieve your rope now it
turns out that the clove hitch like the
bowline also has a one-handed method of
tying it its usefulness is a little bit
different because you end up with the
entire knot which then has to be placed
over the posts that you’re trying to tie
it to so if you would just have access
to the middle of a branch or pole or
tree this way won’t help you out very
much
one advantage of it however is that you
don’t need to have access to the end of
your rope the whole thing can be tied
just in the middle to start have the
rope hanging off of your pinky and thumb
weighted passing in front of your other
three fingers twist your hand toward you
so the Rope overlaps itself you then
want to loop your hand down underneath
one side of the rope and grab the other
side at this point you need to slide
your hand out from the bundle of rope
wrapping around it these two loops that
I’m still holding on to
that’s the knot if I drop those two
loops over my post I can grab the ends
of the rope and pull it tight now the
next knot we’ll learn is called the taut
line and it’s also good for attaching a
rope to a branch or a pole but this one
is very adjustable and you can use it to
tighten your line after you’ve tied it
almost as though it had a ratcheting
system to start off let’s wrap our rope
around our pole and leave ourselves
about one foot of rope to work with at
the end to start off the short end of
the Rope passes over the long end of the
rope the short end of the rope then
comes up through the loop and then wraps
all the way around the rope a second
time you can see we have the two coils
going around the long end of the rope we
then want to wrap our rope over those
two coils and the long end of the rope
down underneath and then through the
loop we’ve just made when our knot is
tightened it will securely grip onto the
rope holding our rope attached to the
pole if we add a little bit of slack
though we have the ability to slide our
knot up and down the long end of the
rope where ever we want it this is a
great knot if you’re trying to hold a
tarp or a tent or something similar nice
and tight because you can tie the knot
pull to remove any slack and then adjust
the knot up the long end
which will shorten your rope holding it
pulled tight against your pole
our next knot is called the Sheep shank
and it’s used to shorten a piece of rope
when it’s too long but you don’t want to
cut it or when both ends are already
tied to other things to start we’ll make
three loops by grabbing our rope and
twisting it clockwise one two three you
can see we now have sort of a clover
shape going on we have our first loop
with the rope passing on top we have our
second loop with the rope passing on top
and we have our third loop with again
the rope passing on top so the reason we
twist it in the same direction every
time so we always have the end of our
loop passing on top we don’t want to
have one loop going the other direction
so it starts on top and ends on bottom
that’s incorrect now to tie our knot
we’ll take this loop twist it a little
bit more clockwise and grab the side of
our middle loop will then do the same
thing to the other side twist it a
little bit clockwise reach through and
grab the side of the middle loop now we
pull the middle loop through our side
loops and then as we tighten down on the
rope it will cinch up and hold itself
together we’ve now shortened our rope by
a considerable amount let’s see the
difference here our rope is about eight
inches long if we relax it pop these
middle loops out I just hold on to the
same spot without letting go we now have
at least two feet of rope and if you
just make your middle loop even larger
you take even more rope out of your
middle our next knot is one that’s used
for attaching the ends of two ropes
together sometimes the rope you have is
too long and you can use the Sheep shank
but sometimes your ropes aren’t long
enough and you need to attach two of
them together this next knot called the
sheet Bend is good for that I have here
the ends of two ropes you can see this
is its own separate rope you could
actually use this for attaching two ends
of the same rope together as well but
I’m attaching two different ropes to
each other
we fold the end of our first rope over
second rope gets passed up through the
bottom
goes all the way around both parts of
our first rope and then passes through
the loop in itself that it’s created it
shouldn’t pass back through the loop
from the first rope pull that tight and
we have a nice secure knot that will not
let go one thing to look out for is you
want to be sure that both of the short
ends are on the same side of the rope if
I hold the rope with the short end of
our first rope facing down and tie the
second part of the rope the same way you
can see that the short ends of the rope
are now on opposite sides from each
other this is not going to be quite as
strong you can see that the angle as we
pull begins to slide more one of the
advantages of the sheet Bend if not is
that it can be very good for tying
together two ropes of different
thicknesses here I’ve got our thicker
rope and here I have a piece of thinner
paracord and pull this tight and we have
a strong connection between the two the
last night we’re going to show you today
is possibly the simplest one but it’s
still very useful it’s called the figure
eight knot the figure eight knot is the
knot that you should be using most of
the time when you tie an overhand knot
for reference an overhand knot is the
most basic simple knot you can tie
everyone knows how to tie an overhand
knot they do it all the time pretzels
are overhand knots and while it’s not a
useless knot it’s really not good for
all that much most of the time an
overhand knot is used to either stop a
rope from fraying or to provide a
stopper so that the rope can’t slide
through a hole for both of those uses I
highly recommend using the figure eight
knot instead the figure eight knot is
almost as easy to tie as the overhand
knot and I think it works a lot better
to start simply pass the short end of
the rope behind the long end of the rope
and wrap it around wrap the short end of
the rope behind itself and through the
loop that you’ve just made as you pull
the rope tight your knot is already
finished
there you have it six of the most useful
knots I know if you’ve practiced these
then when it comes time to use them
you’ll be able to do it without even
thinking about it will be a great
time-saver obviously there are 100
of other knots that I haven’t shown here
and dozens of ways to maybe even tie
these same knots that I didn’t show this
is just supposed to be a basic guide for
knots that I actually use in everyday
life I know that this is a pretty simple
project but it is one of the most useful
things that you could learn in an
afternoon thanks for joining us for this
video and remember to come gear yourself
up with products and merch at the king
of random comm see you there
hey guys it’s grant here I’m not in a
position to be in these videos right now
but that’s exactly why Nate’s here nate
is the man he’s got some incredible
talent and I think he could pretty much
build anything so let him know in the
comments what you want to see and he can
probably make it happen
studio today we’re going to be taking a
look at something that well fairly basic
is also extremely useful we’re going to
show you how to tie six of the most
useful knots that I know and what
they’re good for
for tying knots all you’re gonna need is
a piece or two of rope and we’ve got
that so let’s get started to make
handling a little bit easier let’s just
cut off a piece that’s you know eight
feet long now there are hundreds or
probably even thousands of types of knot
that have already been used and named
that all have their plates but these are
the six knots that I found to be most
useful in my life the first type of knot
we’re gonna learn to make is called the
bowline it’s a good knot for making a
strong stable loop at the end of a rope
to start with your bowline measure off
whatever size loop you want at the end
of your rope with one hand holding the
rope where you want your loop to start
twist a circle by grabbing one section
and lifting it up away from yourself
take the other end of the rope and
thread it through the back of the small
loop you just created wrap the short
piece of rope around the back of the
long piece of rope feed the short end of
the rope around the long end and then
back through the front of the smaller
loop at this point you should be able to
grab these three parts of the rope with
one hand and the long part of the rope
with the other and pull it tight if the
small loop running around the long end
of your rope hasn’t tightened all the
way just give it a tug on the big end of
the loop at this point unless you’re
using extremely slippery rope this will
hold pretty much indefinitely it’s a
very stable knot that will almost never
give out even if it gets wet or is in
bad conditions another advantage of the
bowline is even after it’s been tied for
a long time or put under a lot of stress
it can usually be undone fairly easily
when you want it to there’s another way
to tie the bowline that won’t come in
handy as often but someday you might
find it useful and it’s actually a way
to tie it one-handed to demonstrate
let’s clamp our rope into this vise
because I need something to hold on to
the other end
there we go
I remember how to do this right tada
it’s a tie the one-handed bowline I have
the long end coming all the way around
my waist I’m gonna hold the short end of
the rope with a little bit of extra play
at the top now I’ll drop my hand down on
top of the long end and twist it in a
circle this forms the loop that we made
when we were first tying or not we now
pass the short end of the rope behind
the long end grab it and pull our hand
down through the loop we’ve created then
with some tension added to the rope it
pulls itself tight
[Music]
next night we’re going to learn is
called the clove hitch and this is a
great knot for attaching a rope to a
tree or branch or any sort of pole we
have here a pole in a vise and this is
what we’re going to tie our rope on to
for the clove hitch once again we are
going to work with a long end and a
short end to make our clove hitch it’s
best to give yourself enough extra rope
that you can wrap around the pole once
or twice without any problem start by
wrapping the short end of your rope
around the pole once and having it go
underneath the long end of the rope if
you’ve got it on top of the long end of
the rope you’ve done it wrong continue
wrapping the short end of the rope
around the pole but don’t pull it
completely tight you want to leave some
slack
with the short end wrapped back around
you want to pass it over the long end of
the rope and then under the loop you’ve
just created around the pole this knot
will actually cinch itself a little bit
tighter as you pull on it which makes it
great for attaching it to round poles
like the bowline one of the nicest
things about this nock is that after
you’re finished putting it under tension
you can usually get it to slip open very
easily to retrieve your rope now it
turns out that the clove hitch like the
bowline also has a one-handed method of
tying it its usefulness is a little bit
different because you end up with the
entire knot which then has to be placed
over the posts that you’re trying to tie
it to so if you would just have access
to the middle of a branch or pole or
tree this way won’t help you out very
much
one advantage of it however is that you
don’t need to have access to the end of
your rope the whole thing can be tied
just in the middle to start have the
rope hanging off of your pinky and thumb
weighted passing in front of your other
three fingers twist your hand toward you
so the Rope overlaps itself you then
want to loop your hand down underneath
one side of the rope and grab the other
side at this point you need to slide
your hand out from the bundle of rope
wrapping around it these two loops that
I’m still holding on to
that’s the knot if I drop those two
loops over my post I can grab the ends
of the rope and pull it tight now the
next knot we’ll learn is called the taut
line and it’s also good for attaching a
rope to a branch or a pole but this one
is very adjustable and you can use it to
tighten your line after you’ve tied it
almost as though it had a ratcheting
system to start off let’s wrap our rope
around our pole and leave ourselves
about one foot of rope to work with at
the end to start off the short end of
the Rope passes over the long end of the
rope the short end of the rope then
comes up through the loop and then wraps
all the way around the rope a second
time you can see we have the two coils
going around the long end of the rope we
then want to wrap our rope over those
two coils and the long end of the rope
down underneath and then through the
loop we’ve just made when our knot is
tightened it will securely grip onto the
rope holding our rope attached to the
pole if we add a little bit of slack
though we have the ability to slide our
knot up and down the long end of the
rope where ever we want it this is a
great knot if you’re trying to hold a
tarp or a tent or something similar nice
and tight because you can tie the knot
pull to remove any slack and then adjust
the knot up the long end
which will shorten your rope holding it
pulled tight against your pole
our next knot is called the Sheep shank
and it’s used to shorten a piece of rope
when it’s too long but you don’t want to
cut it or when both ends are already
tied to other things to start we’ll make
three loops by grabbing our rope and
twisting it clockwise one two three you
can see we now have sort of a clover
shape going on we have our first loop
with the rope passing on top we have our
second loop with the rope passing on top
and we have our third loop with again
the rope passing on top so the reason we
twist it in the same direction every
time so we always have the end of our
loop passing on top we don’t want to
have one loop going the other direction
so it starts on top and ends on bottom
that’s incorrect now to tie our knot
we’ll take this loop twist it a little
bit more clockwise and grab the side of
our middle loop will then do the same
thing to the other side twist it a
little bit clockwise reach through and
grab the side of the middle loop now we
pull the middle loop through our side
loops and then as we tighten down on the
rope it will cinch up and hold itself
together we’ve now shortened our rope by
a considerable amount let’s see the
difference here our rope is about eight
inches long if we relax it pop these
middle loops out I just hold on to the
same spot without letting go we now have
at least two feet of rope and if you
just make your middle loop even larger
you take even more rope out of your
middle our next knot is one that’s used
for attaching the ends of two ropes
together sometimes the rope you have is
too long and you can use the Sheep shank
but sometimes your ropes aren’t long
enough and you need to attach two of
them together this next knot called the
sheet Bend is good for that I have here
the ends of two ropes you can see this
is its own separate rope you could
actually use this for attaching two ends
of the same rope together as well but
I’m attaching two different ropes to
each other
we fold the end of our first rope over
second rope gets passed up through the
bottom
goes all the way around both parts of
our first rope and then passes through
the loop in itself that it’s created it
shouldn’t pass back through the loop
from the first rope pull that tight and
we have a nice secure knot that will not
let go one thing to look out for is you
want to be sure that both of the short
ends are on the same side of the rope if
I hold the rope with the short end of
our first rope facing down and tie the
second part of the rope the same way you
can see that the short ends of the rope
are now on opposite sides from each
other this is not going to be quite as
strong you can see that the angle as we
pull begins to slide more one of the
advantages of the sheet Bend if not is
that it can be very good for tying
together two ropes of different
thicknesses here I’ve got our thicker
rope and here I have a piece of thinner
paracord and pull this tight and we have
a strong connection between the two the
last night we’re going to show you today
is possibly the simplest one but it’s
still very useful it’s called the figure
eight knot the figure eight knot is the
knot that you should be using most of
the time when you tie an overhand knot
for reference an overhand knot is the
most basic simple knot you can tie
everyone knows how to tie an overhand
knot they do it all the time pretzels
are overhand knots and while it’s not a
useless knot it’s really not good for
all that much most of the time an
overhand knot is used to either stop a
rope from fraying or to provide a
stopper so that the rope can’t slide
through a hole for both of those uses I
highly recommend using the figure eight
knot instead the figure eight knot is
almost as easy to tie as the overhand
knot and I think it works a lot better
to start simply pass the short end of
the rope behind the long end of the rope
and wrap it around wrap the short end of
the rope behind itself and through the
loop that you’ve just made as you pull
the rope tight your knot is already
finished
there you have it six of the most useful
knots I know if you’ve practiced these
then when it comes time to use them
you’ll be able to do it without even
thinking about it will be a great
time-saver obviously there are 100
of other knots that I haven’t shown here
and dozens of ways to maybe even tie
these same knots that I didn’t show this
is just supposed to be a basic guide for
knots that I actually use in everyday
life I know that this is a pretty simple
project but it is one of the most useful
things that you could learn in an
afternoon thanks for joining us for this
video and remember to come gear yourself
up with products and merch at the king
of random comm see you there
hey guys it’s grant here I’m not in a
position to be in these videos right now
but that’s exactly why Nate’s here nate
is the man he’s got some incredible
talent and I think he could pretty much
build anything so let him know in the
comments what you want to see and he can
probably make it happen
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