hey what’s up guys I brought you back
out to the beach again today because I
discovered a cool little trick for
turning these fibers on a coconut husk
into a bundle of rope it’s not that
difficult to do and it’s a really cool
trick especially if you find yourself in
a survival situation now after you bust
your coconut open one of the first
things you’re going to notice is all
these hairy fibers in here and if it’s
the mature coconut like the brown ones
it’s going to be very dry now just go
ahead and use your fingertips and pull
off the bits of that fluff we want to
try and get the finest fiber as possible
now you can see when this first comes
out of the shell it’s kind of dirty
grungy there’s some hard pieces of
fibers in there get rid of any of the
fibers that are a little bit too hard we
just want to keep the fine fluffy stuff
as much as possible now this is where
things get really cool once you got your
little ball of coconut fuzz like this
just grab a few fibers at SAAP give it a
little pinch and start twisting it and
as you’re twisting give it a little tug
and you’ll find just like magic it
starts pulling a string right out of the
center of the fuzzy ball and as long as
you pull and twist it’ll keep that
string going until there’s nothing left
with the ball it’s entirely consumed how
cool is that so there you go just like
that we got a little piece of cordage
made out of our coconut husk the problem
is it’s not very strong so we’re going
to reinforce this thing using a reverse
twist which isn’t too difficult once you
see how it’s done twist the cord so you
put some tension on it the same
direction you’re twisting it before then
put it over pinch it with your thumb and
finger and grab the one from underneath
and do the same thing what we’re doing
is creating a reverse twist that
essentially locks these two quarks
together it binds them so they can’t
come undone so you can see we’ve got a
few inches of double-stranded coconut
husk rope which actually is impressively
strong it takes quite a bit to break
this now if you want to make your rope
longer all we have to do is take another
piece of cordage and graft it onto the
end here and you basically do that by
running the two fibers together
unraveling them a little bit and then
breaking the fibers together and giving
it a twist and what that essentially
does is it grabs it into one continuous
piece like we had before you can see
that when they grafted part to twist it
in the cord is virtually seamless so you
can really make your rope
as you want
[Music]
[Applause]
so check this out guys I just spent
about 45 minutes on the beach made
myself a little wristband here out of
some rope and I got about maybe four or
five feet of rope stranded out here use
it for a clothesline put it on your
wrist and use it for decorations maybe
you could use this for making torches
candle wicks you can double this up and
make it stronger we’re going to do that
same concept again but this time we’re
gonna do the opposite twist we did last
time before we were going clockwise but
this time we’re going to go
counterclockwise so that it makes a nice
twist and we’re going to go underneath
then we’re going to grab the one on top
we’re going to go counterclockwise and
go underneath we’re going to repeat that
process for the whole length of the rope
here
what’s cool about this is I’m weaving it
by hand but if you look closely here it
almost looks like a legitimate rope
doesn’t it with the double strands in
there there we go made it to the end now
we’re down to about two feet of cord but
that’s quite a bit stronger and we can
pull it to work out some of that tension
and then if we wanted to we could just
repeat that process all over again and
make it even stronger there we go so
we’ve gone from six feet of relatively
strong rope to about one maybe one and a
half feet of really strong rope and that
is holding it really good I’d be curious
to know how much weight that would
actually hold but I’d be willing to bet
it’ll hold at least 100 pounds
you
there you have it guys that’s how to
take a coconut husk and turn it into a
rope any length or any thickness you
want it to be thanks so much for joining
me for this experiment and I’ll be
looking for you in the next one talk to
you then oh all right well looks like we
got some firewood
[Music]
out to the beach again today because I
discovered a cool little trick for
turning these fibers on a coconut husk
into a bundle of rope it’s not that
difficult to do and it’s a really cool
trick especially if you find yourself in
a survival situation now after you bust
your coconut open one of the first
things you’re going to notice is all
these hairy fibers in here and if it’s
the mature coconut like the brown ones
it’s going to be very dry now just go
ahead and use your fingertips and pull
off the bits of that fluff we want to
try and get the finest fiber as possible
now you can see when this first comes
out of the shell it’s kind of dirty
grungy there’s some hard pieces of
fibers in there get rid of any of the
fibers that are a little bit too hard we
just want to keep the fine fluffy stuff
as much as possible now this is where
things get really cool once you got your
little ball of coconut fuzz like this
just grab a few fibers at SAAP give it a
little pinch and start twisting it and
as you’re twisting give it a little tug
and you’ll find just like magic it
starts pulling a string right out of the
center of the fuzzy ball and as long as
you pull and twist it’ll keep that
string going until there’s nothing left
with the ball it’s entirely consumed how
cool is that so there you go just like
that we got a little piece of cordage
made out of our coconut husk the problem
is it’s not very strong so we’re going
to reinforce this thing using a reverse
twist which isn’t too difficult once you
see how it’s done twist the cord so you
put some tension on it the same
direction you’re twisting it before then
put it over pinch it with your thumb and
finger and grab the one from underneath
and do the same thing what we’re doing
is creating a reverse twist that
essentially locks these two quarks
together it binds them so they can’t
come undone so you can see we’ve got a
few inches of double-stranded coconut
husk rope which actually is impressively
strong it takes quite a bit to break
this now if you want to make your rope
longer all we have to do is take another
piece of cordage and graft it onto the
end here and you basically do that by
running the two fibers together
unraveling them a little bit and then
breaking the fibers together and giving
it a twist and what that essentially
does is it grabs it into one continuous
piece like we had before you can see
that when they grafted part to twist it
in the cord is virtually seamless so you
can really make your rope
as you want
[Music]
[Applause]
so check this out guys I just spent
about 45 minutes on the beach made
myself a little wristband here out of
some rope and I got about maybe four or
five feet of rope stranded out here use
it for a clothesline put it on your
wrist and use it for decorations maybe
you could use this for making torches
candle wicks you can double this up and
make it stronger we’re going to do that
same concept again but this time we’re
gonna do the opposite twist we did last
time before we were going clockwise but
this time we’re going to go
counterclockwise so that it makes a nice
twist and we’re going to go underneath
then we’re going to grab the one on top
we’re going to go counterclockwise and
go underneath we’re going to repeat that
process for the whole length of the rope
here
what’s cool about this is I’m weaving it
by hand but if you look closely here it
almost looks like a legitimate rope
doesn’t it with the double strands in
there there we go made it to the end now
we’re down to about two feet of cord but
that’s quite a bit stronger and we can
pull it to work out some of that tension
and then if we wanted to we could just
repeat that process all over again and
make it even stronger there we go so
we’ve gone from six feet of relatively
strong rope to about one maybe one and a
half feet of really strong rope and that
is holding it really good I’d be curious
to know how much weight that would
actually hold but I’d be willing to bet
it’ll hold at least 100 pounds
you
there you have it guys that’s how to
take a coconut husk and turn it into a
rope any length or any thickness you
want it to be thanks so much for joining
me for this experiment and I’ll be
looking for you in the next one talk to
you then oh all right well looks like we
got some firewood
[Music]
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