Lashing Made Easy: Every Survivalist Needs to Watch This!

three sticks a little bit of cordage and we are going to lash a tripod because we've had a lot of people ask about the traditional tripod lash with you know lashings and frappings and how that all plays together so today we're going to show you now listen i'm like hooked on the coal cracker quick lash for tripods the majority of the time everything that we do out here i'm going to say 90 91.7 percent i literally made that number up but the large majority of the time when we are lashing tripods and the tripods we're using out here it doesn't need to be a full-blown lash we just don't need anything that strong but there are going to be times in situations in which you do need to full lash and some examples of that is number one shelter building anytime you're building any type of shelter that's going to be taking a lot of weight from either snow heavy rain or debris you're going to want to pull the full lashing on there if you're setting something up like that hutchins roll that we did in the prior video something like that the outside tripods for that full lash for that also even if you were doing something that you were going to be dressing game or skinning out game like a big tripod with a gambril i would put a full lash on something like that because you're going to be applying a lot of force downward on that so it is important to know how to do this but understanding and i'm going to link below the quick lash for like campfire things and just small little cook systems that is just the way to go first thing we want to do is decide where we're going to actually lash our lashing onto the posts myself i don't like lashings up real tight to the top there's a chance it can pull out i always like to come down anywhere from 8 to 12 inches onto the poles and that seems like it's a good enough area that even if that slides a little bit we have some leeway there the next thing we want to look at is getting those poles really tight together now you see these little areas where the branches have been growing okay we can trim them off if we're going to be really particular about this we're building a shelter in this case though i'm not going to worry too much about it i can look in this area i can see my poles are quite tight together so i'm good with that how it is so i'm going to leave it just like that now you can see i'm working on a log here that's going to make life easier also for me now the first step is we're going to take our cordage and we're going to tie it off onto just one of these poles now there's a ton of different ways you can do this but i'm going to say there's honestly there's no rule i don't care how you put this on here i don't care if you use a clove hitch i don't care if you use a slip knot i don't care if you use an overhand knot okay whatever you want to do to put that on there is going to be absolutely fine with me and if anybody has a problem with the way you're doing it tell them that they can definitely shoot me an email we'll talk about it okay so now that we're tied off somewhere what we're going to do is we're going to begin with lashing so our lashings are going to go around all three poles just like this okay one two three four i'm gonna do four now again when it comes to rules there's no rule how many lashings we need on here all right but i would suggest highly recommend more than two and not as many as six okay so again we're getting that sweet spot three to four is going to be about best if these polls are a lot bigger maybe five but i wouldn't go much more than that if you get too many lashings on here what's going to happen is you're not going to open up your tripod itself it's going to bind it in place okay so we're going to do that now i just lightly wrap this what you want to do as you go along here i'm going to unwrap this okay is we're going to pull some tension on here but what we don't want to happen when i do this is we don't want these sticks to pop that they do that okay so we want to make sure we keep them in line so we're going to pull tension the best we can we can use a toggle if we would want to which is an additional stick that we can take just anything like that we can tie it on and pull it really really tight but i like overall just to be able to hand tighten this to start with okay you're going to see we're going to get into toggles in a little bit but hand tighten that and keep that tension on i'm going to work from the top downward during this so i'm going to put four lashings at this point now i'm going to come in and i'm going to pull with some tension and i'm going to put my fourth one in place just like that okay now that our lashings are in place what we're going to do is we're going to put frappings our frappings do a few different things number one they bind our front lashing and our backlashing together they squeeze them together which then causes pressure between these posts and it gives it more rigidity and less ability to allow these poles to slide so it's binding all this together now what's important and where people get very very confused with this is as this line comes across this this last line it's important that we don't cross the lines okay because that's going to create a weak area now not in a sense that the cordage becomes weak but an area in which we're not keeping as much tension as we can and then our pole may slide so in our case we come across here on our last one our line now needs to go down between these two posts okay we don't want to cross over this way it needs to go between these two so an easy way to do this is to keep your finger here keep your tension there however you need to do that take the end of your line and come further down and simply just work it through somewhere okay so i came down that way i worked it through now what you might be thinking at the moment is well it's way down there what's gonna happen okay so what's gonna happen here is i'm going to need to forcefully pull this and work that upward towards the rest of my lashings all right now that's starting to bind up on itself at this point but what i'm going to do is take just a stick and i'm going to make sure that's all dressed up properly and i'm going to pull this with a lot of tension now you can see that my sticks are starting to pop together i want to try to avoid that if at all possible and i can do that really easily by just stepping on this thing and just working that back open so now my sticks are lined up yet again three in a row so now my line came across here and it went in where it should have and it went around this way so now what's going to happen is i'm going to continue wrapping around my lashings and these are called frappings okay so i'm going to come across that and i'm going to complete the same loop pull some tension and you can see that thing is starting to pull tight now you can always put your foot up like this use a toggle so just a plain old stick wrapped around your line to get more tension and more leverage to pull that tight in there now what you're starting to see at this point is that my frappings are starting to bind up my lashings and that's what we're looking for so in my case i put four lashings we're gonna put two frappings again you can play around with these numbers four to two three to two about best in my book okay so now we're gonna do is we're gonna come through here one more time and you can see now the difference right here compared to right here how we're starting to pull all that line into the center now this is the point i'm going to flip my tripod over gently and i'm going to check out the back side okay so my line came through i don't want to cross over again what i want to do is i want to continue across here and i'm going to go down through here and then we're going to continue frapping around this okay so again i can put my foot on here if it makes life easier i can pull that up tight okay and now i'm gonna just continue frapping around so at this point you can see my lashings and my frappings all nice and tight they look very tight against the sticks that i had now to finish this off properly we should put a clove hitch in place although i said we can start this with whatever we really should finish this off with a clove hitch so for a clove hitch all that we're going to do and i'll try to link below on one of my older videos on a clove hitch all that we're going to do is we're going to make an x fair so i have my x right here okay i'm going to take the last wrap around and go through the bottom of the x in the top of the x i'm gonna dress that up really neatly meaning i'm gonna pull that against the rest of my lashes and fraps put some tension on that thing and then right now we're totally done and that my friends is the full-blown lash when it comes to a tripod so skinning game shelters hammock setups something that you're going to put a lot of force and a lot of load on here this is what you're gonna want so i hope you really enjoyed that video super important skill for the woodsman to understand and know and have in their toolbox so definitely if you haven't done this one in a while and you've been doing that quick lash give this one a shot just to knock the dust and dirt and rust off of your skills and keep it fresh in your mind because it is important so as always check us out at colecrackerbushcraft.com for all our classes and merchandise and all our cool stuff our blog and everything else and until next video stay in the woods

Channel: Coalcracker Bushcraft

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Rating: 4.9705601 out of 5

Keywords: Coalcracker Bushcraft, Dan Wowak, Appalachian Bushman School, Camping, Hiking, Survival, Bushcraft, Survival Skills, Bushcraft Skills, outdoorlifestyle, survivalinstructor

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Length: 10min 11sec (611 seconds)

Published: Mon Jul 20 2020