11 Essential Knots for Survival and Bug Out

Hey everybody this is Josh here the Gray Bearded Green Beret want to talk to you real quickly about a handful of knots that you should know to make this system work well for you stay tuned okay so let's talk real quickly about some rope terminology we've got the shorter end of the rope we're gonna call the working end the longer end of the rope we're gonna call the standing end a bite is a doubled section of rope that doesn't cross over itself whereas a loop is if it crosses itself so the first knot we're going to concern ourselves with is the bowline and specifically it's an end of the line bowline so there are several different ways to tie it this is just the way I tie it if you know a different way and it's quicker for you go ahead and use that but for the sake of people that don't know how to tie this knot I'm going to show you my method so I pull up a section of rope a section of line section of cordage and establish myself a working end what I'm going to do is form a loop and that loop I want to have the section the working end on top of the standing end once I have that from the working end I'm going to take a bight and come up from bottom to top through that loop forming another bight now I think you see what I have here I've got let's call it a clean side where there's no knot and a dirty side where a knot is starting to form with a clean side to my right I'm gonna take the working end from my chest out and go through that bight pulling myself out enough of a tail to put a security knot in and then you're going to make a bitght with that and my bowline is all but complete except for a little bit of tightening and dressing but I've still got that loop here a bight here and a bight here once I pull on the working end all of that is going to slip over itself and create my bowline the way I know I have a bowline is I've got a fixed loop that has a teardrop shaped bight right here with the working end coming out on the center section center side of the loop I've got a teardrop shape with a Cross locking bar and I'm gonna use that working end to tie a security knot which is just a simple overhand take the rope go around form the loop and then tuck that working end inside that loop and dress it down now I've got my bowline with my security knot one more time pull up the length of cordage make a loop push a bight up through that loop clean side dirty side take the shorter working end go through form another bite leaving enough tail to tie your security not hold this pull this check you're knot fixed loop teardrop shape cross locking bar running end is in the center of the loop working in is coming through the center of that teardrop shape tie my security knot by going around one leg of that loop and then coming back through and tighten that down into the line bowline let's take a look at a trucker's hitch and what I've got is that end of the line is actually tied to another an anchor and I'm gonna anchor it to this side now so to establish the trucker's hitch the first thing I have to know how to tie is an overhand slip to tie the overhand slip I'm just going to make a loop then push a bite through that just like I was starting the bowline and it's very important on the trucker's hitch that my fixed side my dirty side that has the knot in it is going towards the already established anchor point and the slip side is going to be going towards the nearside anchor if not when I pull tension on this it's just going to slip and not tighten the actual line that I'm trying to tighten once I have that established I'm gonna come around the backside of the anchor then I'm coming back to that loop I'm gonna come through the loop that's formed by that overhand slip once then I'm going to come through a second time forming a round turn this is a round turn inside that loop and what I'm going to do here is establish what's called a rolling hitch so as I pull tension that hitch is going to tighten on itself and it's gonna hold with that rolling hitch capturing that tension I don't have to sit here and hold it so while this is holding tension I'm just going to secure it with a half hitch and you can do the half hitch over both lines where you can do it over one normally for a half hitch all I have to do is come over and then come back through and then pull that towards what I'm trying to secure with that half hitch normally if I do a round turn I'll do two half hitches which forms a clove hitch for this application instead of doing a simple half hitch where I just come over and come back through that loop that I created to form a half hitch I want something that's going to come out quickly so I'm going to do what's called a half hitch on a bike so I'm gonna come over and rather than pull the entire end through like that I'm just gonna pull a bite through like this I tighten that against the not that I'm trying to secure what that does is establish a quick release so that now I just have to pull on this that half hitch is out I'll show you that all again all right so cheating towards my original anchor point I'm going to establish an overhand slip all I have to do is form a loop and then push a bite through that loop much like the bowline I've got a clean side where my slip knot is and a dirty side where my over hunt overhand knot is again it's important that the knotted side the dirty side where the overhand is is going towards your original Anchor Point and the slip means to be going towards your new anchor point I'll come around the nearside anchor or the new anchor and then I'll bring the end of my line through that loop that I've created with the overhand slip then I'm going to come through a second time to form a round turn what we're doing here is establishing what's called a rolling hitch I'm going to pull tension on that and as I'm pulling tension that rolling hitch is going to roll over itself and it'll capture all of that tension so that I don't have to sit here and hold it now I'm going to secure that with a half hitch on a bite so to make the half hitch on the Bight simply throw it low over to create a loop and I'm going to pull my bite through that loop that I just created and then tighten that down now to take that out I've just got to pull on the end to pull that bite out pull towards the original Anchor Point which removes that rolling hitch and then pull this way to pop out the overhand slip the next night I want to show you it's going to be what's called a fisherman's knot and essentially it is two overhand knots that are opposing so what I've got to do is take my two ends and have them running in opposite directions one end is pointing towards the right one end is pointing towards the left I'm going to use one end and tie an overhand on the other leg of this loop that I'm creating so tie an overhand I'll come around just like we did in the bowline form a loop and then bring the tail of that running end back through I've created an overhand now I'm going to come to the opposite side or I can flip it over and tie an overhand around the other leg make a loop back through pull it tight now I've established two opposing over hands and you'll know that you have it right because the tails of the working ends are going to be facing in opposite directions and it will slide on itself this is also called a fisherman's knot or necklace knot and when you pull tight those two over hands hold tension against each other one more time my two ends are facing each other cross them so that they are pointing in opposite directions tie an overhand on one side just make a loop going around the other leg and then come back through that loop pull tight now we're going to tie the same thing where we're tying one end around the opposite leg I'll flip it in my hand come around form a loop come back through that loop and I've got my fisherman's knot which is to opposing over hands with that loop I'm going to bring the knotted end up through and that basically creates what's called a larks head or a girth hitch depending on how big what you're tying it on is but I've got a loop that's going around and then both of my tails of this loop are on the inside and this is a locking bar being created right here so if I tie that down now I've got two wraps with a Cross locking bar and that is a larks head in this case because it's a thin diameter if this was a larger diameter the same thing would be called a girth hitch same knot now in order to establish a prusik though instead of having one wrap or instead of having two wraps I need at least four wraps so all I have to do is come back around forming another loop well now I've got four wraps you'll notice that on these wraps they go from outside to in as we're coming down towards the portion the loop that's sticking down and that's important you don't let these crossing over each other and your locking bar has to capture all of those wraps so once it's there I can start twisting and dressing this down but now I've got a four wrap prussic and what this is designed to do is you take a line that is of a smaller diameter and tie it to a line that's of a larger diameter and whenever tension is pulled on that the prusik actually holds and keeps it from slipping if you want to move it you can simply unlock this locking bar to take some of that tension off you can slide this knot wherever you need it to go on the line and simply lock that locking bar again and it will hold wherever you put it now the cause I'm using paracord for both of these and they're the same diameter what I would do to make it more secure is instead of having four I would take it over again and create a six wrap prussic and again it's important that these wraps go from outside to inside so that the locking bar can capture every portion of it and there's no slippage in the knot then as I twist and lock I've now got even more hold on this line if I want to move it simply unlock the locking bar slide it wherever I want it to go and relock it so that is the prusik knot let's take a look at this one more time create a loop over whatever it is you're trying to tie the prusik on pull it through itself once and you have a larks head pull it through twice to create a 4r a prusik pull it through a third time to create a 6r a prusik make sure that your loops are coming from outside to in and that the two middle loops come down to the loop that you're creating tighten that up and sharing that your your locking bar is coming from the outside and capturing every one of those wraps and tighten it down once again those knots that you need to practice are the end the line bowline the trucker's hitch the rolling hitch the fisherman's knot and the prusik I'll see you next time

Channel: The Gray Bearded Green Beret

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Keywords: Survival, Bushcraft, Preparedness, Hunting, Camping, Fire, Shelter, Search and Rescue, Pathfinder, knots, ropes, ranger, green beret, mountaineering

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Length: 18min 20sec (1100 seconds)

Published: Fri Oct 12 2018