Can't believe I found your channel back around 2012 as a dumb 15 year old with no idea about bushcraft. Kept watching over a decade now. I really like the way you've changed over the years, I think your own mentality has improved, and I like to think seeing that has helped me to improve myself.
Rock climbers also taught me to always ALWAYS KEEP YOUR ROPE CLEAN. Never put your rope or cordage on the ground. It makes your rope degrade much faster, as dust is an abrasive. Many dont think about this, but dust has microscopic edges that cut your cordage. Look it up! Hope this helps someone :) Love and peace :)
Mr Canterbury, your collection of videos over the years is amazing! I've seen most! Revisiting the older stuff definitely has its advantages! Ridgeline for example. I've also watched decades of You, Blackie, etc. Great to see you Revisiting some older stuff not done in a while!
Thank you so much. I'm keeping this one for a while to practice. I hope your family knows just how blessed they are to have someone like you around. Stay safe and best wishes.
I appreciate you doing these type of videos! I work and do not have time to take a class And no one and my friends groups know this information either. Your videos are the only way I have of learning. So I support you the only way I can I buy your products I love my bush pots and French press.. I hope you keep these types of series of videos going.
Great overview. I used the windlass (first one you showed) once to bring together members in a timber frame. Worked about as well as a ratchet strap. I used a retired static climbing rope and went a couple times around the timbers first to minimize stretch.
Just found your channel. I grew up with Lincoln logs , the old style erector sets and toys like that. I think having toys like these help me learn skills that most younger people can’t comprehend. These skills are not appreciated as much as they should be. Good luck to all of them if anything happens to the grid. Oh yeah we would pull a motor out of one truck and put it in another on a weekend back in the day. With a tree limb and homemade pulley system. Good skill to have. Really like your channel.
Love it. The second windlasses are a good way to have easily adjustable heavy water pot situations on a tripod over a campfire if you were needing a big ol cast iron cook pot for stewing or for bush laundry, cause swamp ass is not bueno in the woods. Nice part about that pulley system is that it scales with the number of pulleys. If you want a mechanical advantage of two (half the weight) you need one travel pulley and one anchor pulley, if you want a mechanical advantage of three (a third the weight) just put another travel pulley on it, just like the big block and tackle rigs. Be warned though, every time you add a pulley you multiply the amount of cordage you need to run through it and you better be certain about the structure you're anchoring onto.
Picked up your 4 volume box set of Bushcraft books, and really love them, even the material they're printed on seems water repellent, like you knew we'd be throwing them in our kits and taking them into the bush for reference material (especially the first aide one, which I keep in my car trunk along with the Boy Scout first aide handbook). It's super easy to forget something if you're not doing it all the time, so always good to have reference material that doesn't require a battery to read. I may be moving to Tennessee next year, which is a lot closer to the Pathfinder school than out here in Southeastern WA where i am now. Maybe one of these days I'll finally get to take one of your classes in person. 🦅
In depth practical advice for actual proper application and use and consideration for the preservation of the cord tool. Very powerful. I know all too well how powerful marlinespike mastery can be. Like a super power. Just a 2 meter hank of 3/16" twisted nylon, or the big #96 tarred twisted nylon in my left pocket, has gained me half a day out sailing with a full days pay for half a days hours worked, and it did the same for my three nearly useless co workers. I Always got my hank and several knifes and lately I EDC my Ned Foss multifunctional Camp Hatchet, which I like to throw and carve with. I got two of Dave's books on Bushcraft. Rarely miss a day in forest with my dog for two to five hours. Forage, stick fight practice, cane fight practice, practice multi wielding all, including knifes and tomahawks. Play my harmonicas, carve, and whistle my dog to come howl along. I used to survive or die insane shit by my skills with rope and cord. I still use cord everyday. Used to sleep on a thousand feet of ropes. Used to stand on a footrope below a yardarm to furl unfurl square sails aloft. I do most things solo though, including sailing the ocean 12 days alone through remote wilderness by canoe and such. Now Im getting evicted for some reason got nothing to do with me, but accusations being made. Im sad to lose this forest use for my dog and I. Probably got enough time to finish getting my 31 year old Dodge Maxi Wagon Van ready to live in. Real excited about it, so I can escape the crap, dump the VA and HUD along with the evil landlord company right outta my life. Fuckers probably go unemployed, now Im escaping. 😂 Doggie and I gonna have central diesel heatung and on demand propane hot water and got a new bed and mattress and fans and 55L 12V fridge dual zone and or freezer. Gonna have a hot tub and woodstove I can pullout besides the mountain creeks and rivers Ill be squatting on. Got a composting piss diverting toilet made from 7 gallon bucket and a Lovable Loo lid. I divert my piss under the vehicle to behind the left rear wheel area. I got bucket modded for pissing in diverter either sitting while shitting, or sitting on edge of bed from out side the bucket. No piss jars for me ever. Gonna have at least 400 watts solar on top providing shade along with my canoes. Gonna run gravity water filters in parallel to just take water from creeks or rivers or rain, using my pull out tub and a tarp. This building isn't safe to live in anymore anyway. I always knew someday we'd lose use of this forest. Wish Id done more to learn more. Glad I did what I did though, and thankful for it, just like Im thankful for my doggie I saved off a busy avenue as a puppy before dawn six years ago. She's going to be very sad about leaving the forest. There's plants I been documenting for years. I promised her we'd get our own forest and homestead and we wont be renting again this side of hell.
I’m 68, and in 6 th grade discovered, ramps, levers, and wheels, which I thought my family was trying to hide from me. I now work for the film industry, the prof. stagehand industry, log, trees, grow the herb, and am completely independent.💥
Hi Dave! This is next level stuff! I'm a big fan of your books and videos and wanted to say THANKS for all the knowledge. I'll be backtracking to the rope clinic vids. Would love to vacation to the pathfinder school in the near future. God bless!
Just remember, as I am sure you know, that when using any sort of "winch" where you are lifting 50 lbs. and pulling 50 lbs. that you are putting 100 lbs force on your suspension point! If that is the main beam of your porch it could be critical. Also, pulleys especially bushcrafted ones, add a considerable amount of friction. I am not saying that they don't help, just don't rely on the 2:1 ratio. Yes the "self winding" ones are just lifting the weight, but I can imagine others using a remote anchor or force especially with a pulley system. Just saying. Regards, Chas. (Crane operator).
Well prepared presentation on simple machines. Your insight, based on knowledge and experience, I value as the most important part of what you shared. Thanks.
Thanks Dave. I highly recommend shrinking your Paracord. Drop a roll into boiling water for about 30 seconds and let it dry completely. It’ll shrink about 10%. But it also helps lessening the stretch.
well , a ton of essential know!edge poured out fast. Had to watch twice. Never thought of soft shackle used on limb slice with groove to be homme made pulley . thank you for your work and lesson
Dave. This vid was great. I needed a refresher on this subject and you delivered. I’d like to see you do something similar with levers. I’m of the less is best school. Thanks
Great ideas that I never thought of. As for the pullies, I would suggest buying a couple small ones at a hardware store to keep in your pack. They would take up less room than the ones you make.
Well I've use the first system and I've used the third system but I hadn't heard of the second one in that is my favorite I absolutely love that way to raise weight and I will absolutely use it. Thanks Dave
Simple machines are awesome in the extreme. Archimedes was supposed to have said "give me a lever and a place to stand, and I will move the world" (or was it a fulcrum?) either way he was right. Great video.
Great video Dave! The last time I seen these techniques taught was back in the late 60's by my stepfather. Thanks for the video and for sharing your thoughts, ideas and experience with us. As always.....looking forward to the next great video.
My obsession with this topic was timed to my back not helping with anything requiring lifting, pulling, pushing, ect. 😂🥲 Work smarter but I miss just using my body vs brain. Love these videos! Thanks Dave. ❤
Safety first. Be cognizant of pinch points, crush zones (beware of your toes), and of course the strength of your load beam vs the load you are putting it under. Inspect your cordage before using it for lifts.
Dave that is so cool! You have basically taken a flip flop wench and put it in the air instead of on the ground. Very handy. Attaching a pulley to a rope with a prussic loop is also something that hadn't occurred to me. As for your pulley system, it looks like a prepared outdoorsman could substitute the carved pulleys with a caribiner or "S" hook. If you used either of those, made from say 3/8" bar stock, do you think that it would add any additional friction to the system over the pulleys? I'd welcome an answer from anyone with experience.
Combine this video from Dave with his "Block and Tackle with Progress Capture" video for an amazing combination th-cam.com/video/Ydiax37nO8Y/w-d-xo.html. The ability to use Prusik to capture and hold progress really ties in well with this video. Thanks for all the great instruction, Dave!
I know just how Knots mean everything and I have to ask? I can do almost anything... one of those jack of all trades master of none deals.... but I just get so confused and frustrated trying, tying any knot..... I hope I'm not the only one... any suggestion on getting my head around this ???
Can't believe I found your channel back around 2012 as a dumb 15 year old with no idea about bushcraft. Kept watching over a decade now. I really like the way you've changed over the years, I think your own mentality has improved, and I like to think seeing that has helped me to improve myself.
Rock climbers also taught me to always ALWAYS KEEP YOUR ROPE CLEAN. Never put your rope or cordage on the ground. It makes your rope degrade much faster, as dust is an abrasive. Many dont think about this, but dust has microscopic edges that cut your cordage. Look it up!
Hope this helps someone :)
Love and peace :)
Dave, you are definitely an engineer at heart! Thank God, you engineer Bushcraft!
He is methodical, practices it frequently, and I suspect he keeps what works and tosses out what doesn't. The essence of the practical engineer.
Mr Canterbury, your collection of videos over the years is amazing! I've seen most! Revisiting the older stuff definitely has its advantages! Ridgeline for example. I've also watched decades of You, Blackie, etc. Great to see you Revisiting some older stuff not done in a while!
Thank you so much. I'm keeping this one for a while to practice. I hope your family knows just how blessed they are to have someone like you around. Stay safe and best wishes.
I appreciate you doing these type of videos! I work and do not have time to take a class
And no one and my friends groups know this information either. Your videos are the only way I have of learning.
So I support you the only way I can I buy your products I love my bush pots and French press..
I hope you keep these types of series of videos going.
Absolutely brilliant! Love that two stick lifting method.
Great overview. I used the windlass (first one you showed) once to bring together members in a timber frame. Worked about as well as a ratchet strap. I used a retired static climbing rope and went a couple times around the timbers first to minimize stretch.
You’re a very talented teacher, naturally gifted. Thanks for the amazing information. I’m subscribing.
Just found your channel. I grew up with Lincoln logs , the old style erector sets and toys like that. I think having toys like these help me learn skills that most younger people can’t comprehend. These skills are not appreciated as much as they should be. Good luck to all of them if anything happens to the grid. Oh yeah we would pull a motor out of one truck and put it in another on a weekend back in the day. With a tree limb and homemade pulley system. Good skill to have. Really like your channel.
Love it. The second windlasses are a good way to have easily adjustable heavy water pot situations on a tripod over a campfire if you were needing a big ol cast iron cook pot for stewing or for bush laundry, cause swamp ass is not bueno in the woods. Nice part about that pulley system is that it scales with the number of pulleys. If you want a mechanical advantage of two (half the weight) you need one travel pulley and one anchor pulley, if you want a mechanical advantage of three (a third the weight) just put another travel pulley on it, just like the big block and tackle rigs. Be warned though, every time you add a pulley you multiply the amount of cordage you need to run through it and you better be certain about the structure you're anchoring onto.
I love the practical technic. This is a old method but never gets old.
Picked up your 4 volume box set of Bushcraft books, and really love them, even the material they're printed on seems water repellent, like you knew we'd be throwing them in our kits and taking them into the bush for reference material (especially the first aide one, which I keep in my car trunk along with the Boy Scout first aide handbook). It's super easy to forget something if you're not doing it all the time, so always good to have reference material that doesn't require a battery to read.
I may be moving to Tennessee next year, which is a lot closer to the Pathfinder school than out here in Southeastern WA where i am now. Maybe one of these days I'll finally get to take one of your classes in person.
🦅
In depth practical advice for actual proper application and use and consideration for the preservation of the cord tool. Very powerful. I know all too well how powerful marlinespike mastery can be. Like a super power. Just a 2 meter hank of 3/16" twisted nylon, or the big #96 tarred twisted nylon in my left pocket, has gained me half a day out sailing with a full days pay for half a days hours worked, and it did the same for my three nearly useless co workers. I Always got my hank and several knifes and lately I EDC my Ned Foss multifunctional Camp Hatchet, which I like to throw and carve with. I got two of Dave's books on Bushcraft. Rarely miss a day in forest with my dog for two to five hours. Forage, stick fight practice, cane fight practice, practice multi wielding all, including knifes and tomahawks. Play my harmonicas, carve, and whistle my dog to come howl along. I used to survive or die insane shit by my skills with rope and cord. I still use cord everyday. Used to sleep on a thousand feet of ropes. Used to stand on a footrope below a yardarm to furl unfurl square sails aloft. I do most things solo though, including sailing the ocean 12 days alone through remote wilderness by canoe and such. Now Im getting evicted for some reason got nothing to do with me, but accusations being made. Im sad to lose this forest use for my dog and I. Probably got enough time to finish getting my 31 year old Dodge Maxi Wagon Van ready to live in. Real excited about it, so I can escape the crap, dump the VA and HUD along with the evil landlord company right outta my life. Fuckers probably go unemployed, now Im escaping. 😂 Doggie and I gonna have central diesel heatung and on demand propane hot water and got a new bed and mattress and fans and 55L 12V fridge dual zone and or freezer. Gonna have a hot tub and woodstove I can pullout besides the mountain creeks and rivers Ill be squatting on. Got a composting piss diverting toilet made from 7 gallon bucket and a Lovable Loo lid. I divert my piss under the vehicle to behind the left rear wheel area. I got bucket modded for pissing in diverter either sitting while shitting, or sitting on edge of bed from out side the bucket. No piss jars for me ever. Gonna have at least 400 watts solar on top providing shade along with my canoes. Gonna run gravity water filters in parallel to just take water from creeks or rivers or rain, using my pull out tub and a tarp. This building isn't safe to live in anymore anyway. I always knew someday we'd lose use of this forest. Wish Id done more to learn more. Glad I did what I did though, and thankful for it, just like Im thankful for my doggie I saved off a busy avenue as a puppy before dawn six years ago. She's going to be very sad about leaving the forest. There's plants I been documenting for years.
I promised her we'd get our own forest and homestead and we wont be renting again this side of hell.
I’m 68, and in 6 th grade discovered, ramps, levers, and wheels, which I thought my family was trying to hide from me. I now work for the film industry, the prof. stagehand industry, log, trees, grow the herb, and am completely independent.💥
I'm OLD!
So this is a good refresher!
Hi Dave! This is next level stuff! I'm a big fan of your books and videos and wanted to say THANKS for all the knowledge. I'll be backtracking to the rope clinic vids. Would love to vacation to the pathfinder school in the near future. God bless!
Your video content provides valuable information for actual real world applications from your useful instruction and thank you for this service.
I love it.Old timers knew best.Thank you can be used to demonstrate principals of physics....home school
and also in camp
Just remember, as I am sure you know, that when using any sort of "winch" where you are lifting 50 lbs. and pulling 50 lbs. that you are putting 100 lbs force on your suspension point! If that is the main beam of your porch it could be critical. Also, pulleys especially bushcrafted ones, add a considerable amount of friction. I am not saying that they don't help, just don't rely on the 2:1 ratio. Yes the "self winding" ones are just lifting the weight, but I can imagine others using a remote anchor or force especially with a pulley system. Just saying. Regards, Chas. (Crane operator).
Well prepared presentation on simple machines. Your insight, based on knowledge and experience, I value as the most important part of what you shared. Thanks.
Thanks Dave. I highly recommend shrinking your Paracord. Drop a roll into boiling water for about 30 seconds and let it dry completely. It’ll shrink about 10%. But it also helps lessening the stretch.
Simple machines are so fun. Yet another video to put in the save file. Thanks for the lesson.
well , a ton of essential know!edge poured out fast. Had to watch twice.
Never thought of soft shackle used on limb slice with groove to be homme made pulley . thank you for your work and lesson
Dave. This vid was great. I needed a refresher on this subject and you delivered. I’d like to see you do something similar with levers. I’m of the less is best school. Thanks
Man Dave, been following you since year One, you are a plethora of bushcrafting knowledge sir. 🫡💯
Great ideas that I never thought of. As for the pullies, I would suggest buying a couple small ones at a hardware store to keep in your pack. They would take up less room than the ones you make.
nice! this gives me ideas on improving my flip-flop winch.
Nice practical examples. Thanks for sharing your knowledge!
first comment!
have loved your content for years now Dave!
Thank you. I have learnt a lot from your videos about use of cordage.
Well I've use the first system and I've used the third system but I hadn't heard of the second one in that is my favorite I absolutely love that way to raise weight and I will absolutely use it. Thanks Dave
Great video, Dave!
This was a great demonstration of mechanical advantage, thank you sir!
Simple machines are awesome in the extreme. Archimedes was supposed to have said "give me a lever and a place to stand, and I will move the world" (or was it a fulcrum?) either way he was right. Great video.
Great job on the video David 👍
Great information. Thank you and . Blessings
K.I.S.S. keep it super simple.. awesome video, as always, I love your videos
Great video Dave! The last time I seen these techniques taught was back in the late 60's by my stepfather. Thanks for the video and for sharing your thoughts, ideas and experience with us. As always.....looking forward to the next great video.
Dave is a bushcraft magician
As always sir, such a great lesson! Thanks a mil!
My obsession with this topic was timed to my back not helping with anything requiring lifting, pulling, pushing, ect. 😂🥲 Work smarter but I miss just using my body vs brain. Love these videos! Thanks Dave. ❤
Awesome! Thanks, Dave!
I want to see you make wood pulleys and thank you for your great movies iam learning a lot from you I will keep watching
Already have a video making them at least twice on my channel
6:35 Why didn't you take the slack out of the line?
Excellent! Thank you!
Safety first. Be cognizant of pinch points, crush zones (beware of your toes), and of course the strength of your load beam vs the load you are putting it under. Inspect your cordage before using it for lifts.
Keep it going
Cool I never thought of that and I make bow strings a little longer in 2 colors to get that candy stripe
Great tips Dave 👍🏻
I wish I had been taught stuff like this in school, instead of algebra.
Great video.
Very informative video. Thank you for your time on that.
Nice work
Dave that is so cool! You have basically taken a flip flop wench and put it in the air instead of on the ground. Very handy. Attaching a pulley to a rope with a prussic loop is also something that hadn't occurred to me. As for your pulley system, it looks like a prepared outdoorsman could substitute the carved pulleys with a caribiner or "S" hook. If you used either of those, made from say 3/8" bar stock, do you think that it would add any additional friction to the system over the pulleys? I'd welcome an answer from anyone with experience.
Lol jumping static line for the first time and looking up and seeing your life literally hanging on by 550 cord made me a believer in it
Very good stuff. Thank you!!
Thank you!! That was a very informative video. thank you very much.
Excellent as always. Thx
You is The best! Thank you a lot.
I love this video, Thank you.
Excellent brother
Thanks great tips!!!!
Excellent
Good instructive video.
Very helpful. Thank you.
Great video 👍
This needs to be part of HS physics classes.
Cheers DC.!
These techniques are great, but you must use very high quality cordage. Low quality cord will fail quickly.
Cool video.
can not wait to try this on my dad so I can lift him up.
Amazing
Hey Dave, how would you manipulate that pulley system for deer?
i want to lift my new heater into the attic ..i think the rope and stick trick looks promising ..should i do this or buy some pulleys ??
Great tutorial .
Awesome
Did I miss something? Is there a link where you make the accrual pullies? As they seem to be the 'linch pin' of the whole operation?
Battlecord is phenomenal imho, just bulkier than 550, but takes much more weight to break.
Thanks Dave
What woods will not crack when fashioned into a pulley like this?
Levers ,Springs and Pulleys....
All mechanical advantage is one or more of those 3 things .
Be Well
You can do a lot with rop and polles.
Combine this video from Dave with his "Block and Tackle with Progress Capture" video for an amazing combination th-cam.com/video/Ydiax37nO8Y/w-d-xo.html. The ability to use Prusik to capture and hold progress really ties in well with this video. Thanks for all the great instruction, Dave!
Thank you for this
I know just how Knots mean everything and I have to ask?
I can do almost anything... one of those jack of all trades
master of none deals.... but I just get so confused and frustrated
trying, tying any knot..... I hope I'm not the only one... any suggestion
on getting my head around this ???
Very cool
Hi Dave I was wondering if you have any video of how to tie all the knots with only one arm? Thanks
Nice video, well done. Best way to hoist a deer?
To me that's a new one. Good to know.
Its how they moved Stonehenge, nothing but levers and fulcrums.
Awesome!
I wonder if this is what the aliens used to build the pyramids.
Could you do a vid on the flip-flop winch?
nice
👊😎🤙🍻
Makes me wonder if dave helped build the pyramids.
👍☘️😎
Mr. Canterbury can u please show us a close up on the 🐑 bend knot I blieve u called it
As I mention there is a POV in my Rope Clinic Series
What you loose in effort you gain in travel....
The calories expended are the same. 😊
Great vid.👍
😊