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Your style of the truckers hitch is the one I’ve used for years (as in decades). The one difference is I generally tie a bowline around the tree-it’s fast enough to untie for my purposes. I also found that each point you had against the other guys style was the same disagreements I had while watching your demonstration. The fact that you brought both to our attention to let us choose our favorite, shines.
If only everyone could discuss differences in opinion/approach like you, the world would be a lot better place. Thanks as always for breaking down the important details and being a good role model. Cheers!
As the Good Corporal told us: One is awesome for securing a load. The other is quick and simple for a tarp shelter. A pick-up is great for some things. A limo... great for others.
Great video! Whoever said Tim’s version was better for ridge lines clearly misunderstood the applications. Thank you for clearing this up and showing us the best way to tie a truckers hitch for ridge lines
At 74 I'm always up for learning something new. Been camping for over 60 years and have spent a lot of time untying granny knots or just cutting them off. Since watching your videos and practicing what you preach I have mastered most of the knots related to camping. Keep up the good work educating the masses.
Hello from Oklahoma! Good video on knots. But, it Looks like a bunch of b.s. over nothing. Remember people will complain about anything. They will have you running circles over nothing. I say use what works for you. If its pouring down rain, or a blizzards moving in, you are gonna do the easiest thing to get out of the weather. To hell with the proper B.S. Haters will hate. They are sad. You sir are outstanding! God Bless!
I use your method and have been using it and teaching it for a couple years now. Super simple and easy for Scouts to understand. Easy peezy lemon greasy
Securing a load vs securing a tarp, excellent way to point out the difference, once I learned how to do it your way I can't imagine using anything else for a ridgeline.
3 rules of Survival Knots 1. Conservation of cordage 2. Ease of tying and untying 3. Maintaining strength of cordage The red line goes against 2/3 of the principles. Keep up the great videos Brother! And looking forward to seeing you again
The level of respect admiration and gratitude you have for viewers and other posts and opinion is outstanding very positive attitude but serious I think I'm going to download knot vids for spring and keep em coming sir🇺🇸
Corporal I have been using the improvised truckers hitch for the last 30 years to secure my canoes and kayaks to the roof racks has not failed me yet. It is my go to knot to secure anything around camp.
Shawn, I think everyone should realize that you almost always refer to your version as an "impovised" trucker's hitch. The really amazing thing about knots is that almost all knots, lashings, and hitches is that many of them are "improvised" versions of others. They were made to adapt them to an individuals needs in a given situation.
..... Besides we all know that people that critics become critics because they aren't as good as they think they are so they try and find faults in everyone else to make them feel important. Thanks for doing what you do brother. Some of us actually use what you are teaching to be better woodsmen and bushcrafters! Keep'em coming!
Thanks for the video Cpl. Kelly, I like the way you do it and that’s the way I do it . I want to get things done simple so I got more time in the wood to enjoy the out doors . Have a good day.
For a tarp your method is a lot faster both setting up and taking down. And as you stated for securing a load , The truckers hitch.Thanks for the side by side comparison.
Just the other week, I've tried your set up on a ridge line and I have to say, I'm impressed with it. I've made it my new go to. As for the others out there that say "that's not right" or " that's wrong".... they to to learn that there is more then one way to do something and that not every way works for everyone. But also, they need to learn to stop being so critical. Keep up the good work mate
One problem with either hitch is that you have to pass the free end of the rope through the loop to cinch it down, which is tedious if you have a lot of extra line. You can get around this problem by using another toggle. You form the slip knot to make a loop, and then rather than passing all the free end of the rope through the loop, just pass a bight through and insert another toggle into the bight. Then when you cinch down the main line the toggle will roll against the loop. You have to watch it a bit to make sure it doesn't roll out, but it works. And then you can lock it down or tie it off however you like.
Corp, I am a trucker and use many hitches however for my ridgeline I use yours. It’s quick to set up and even quicker to pack up. Yours is the best that I have ever seen.
From an observation point of view, your beginning is simplistic and effective, and your ending is likewise. Minimalistic, effective, practical, logical, less cordage for the same result and very much repeatable without the headache of recalling how it goes. Outstanding.
Been using your improvised trucker's hitch and the rest is history. Also your quick deploy ridge line it really save me a lot of time setting up camp. Thank you!
That’s awesome! I’m a lineman in Ohio and I’ve been using your improvised hitch for years when pulling tension on cable to hold it up the pole while installing pole shielding. Good man!
Your method is what I've been using for over 50 years. I do toss a half-hitch around the locking loop in the final tension knot. Easy peasy. Outstanding, as always.
Pops became an Eagle Scout back in 59. I distinctly remember being knee high and witnessing him tie a truckers hitch and thinking that he was some kind of a magician. The method that he taught me was the same as yours. Glad to learn a stronger alternative, and will implement it if the situation dictates, but Dad’s hitch has never failed me yet. /Jase
Very reasonable and respectful approach to a minor difference. You have an excellent knot and a very good reason for using it. Thank you for your video.
Hi new subject for me. Never been able to get my dyslexic brains around the complications of knot tying. However, your version was easy for me to grasp, and now I feel confident to try tarp camping, at the age of 64. Something I have wanted to try for a long time. Thanks corp. I will call this knot the corporals hitch. Then no confusion for me😋 Thanks we’re trying a tarp night with my granddaughter as soon as it arrives 🔥
Excellent video (I'm beginning to sound like a broken record) You clearly and methodically demonstrate the techniques, and with an unbiased eye, present them for us to decide which we prefer. It's clear why your technique is better for the Ridgeline and you are a true gentleman and diplomat in explaining when you would use the other. Thanks as always, and God bless you and your family. -Dave
As an old sailing salt (25+yrs) I've used your version of the truckers hitch thousands of times... I've always known it to be a "slippery trucker" because of the slip knot used on the midline (bight) loop for a quick release. Nice comparison and well taught.
I have secured loads for 30 years just as you do yours. I was taught by my Dad who learned it as a kid. I think history says my and your way has worked for a hell of a long time!!
I've only just started using this after watching your recent quick setup ... and I've only used it in practice .. but I love it .. super simple and like you said ... fast and easy up and down ... Thanx corp !
I don't know if I have commented on this one or not and if I am repeating myself here, please feel free to delete either or both as you will. No offense will be taken. So here goes, first thank you, for doing these videos and especially this one. I have a unique set of skills AND an unusual set of handicaps. I am colorblind, can't see in 3D and my depth perception is really really REALLY weak. That being said, and I don't mention them for sympathy, I do so only to illustrate my appreciation for the way you not only teach these basic skills but, you have simplified a super important and ultra useful knot. You see, in spite of most "teachers" efforts, they almost always get caught up in their own perfections and all too often demonstrate various skills, techniques and the like so fast and herky jerky that I can't follow them. Shawn, you have taken that learning curve without even knowing it and have created how to videos that I NEVER fail to learn from. Almost always, I recognize what you are planning or doing ahead of time as I have done very similar throughout my life. As an example, in my youth, friends and I were always building "forts", and beds and camping areas where we just didn't camp, but we lived and thrived for those days we were there. As an example of what I am talking about, while in school way back in the days of corporal (no pun here) punishment and stone tablets, instead of getting out for the week of spring break, we stayed in school but had "free time" which unless the weather was just drag nasty, we were outside all day every day except for lunchtime while the teachers did their preps and things. During those weeks, we would often build those forts and other "hangouts." One such was, since we lived in the South, we had mountains of pine trees and pine straw. The ground was strewn with downed limbs so, we would take those limbs and lash them together using Kudzu vines and then would utilize the pine straw to form a crude hut. We would create wall voids wherein we would pack the pine straw as tightly as we could which formed a very comfortable and water tight dwelling. Back then we could build small fires and would have us a marshmallow roast and IF we could somehow er um procure some weenies from the kitchen coolers, we would have those roasted as well. So thank you again for all these how to vids and for some seriously good meals.
Corporal. As shown on this and some of your previous videos, your methods of tying a trucker's Hitch tend to be a lot simpler and easy enough that I can even do it. simplicity is very important when in the field during night and/or bad weather conditions.
I want to thank you for your videos, being new to bushcrafting and preparedness, I find them very informative and educational, so thank you sir for what you do both at pathfinders school and your page.
I have always struggled to get my tarp ridgeline tight enough. And when I do finally get it too tight after 5 or 6th attempt, then it's too tight and I can't release it. Not anymore. Thank you for showing me this. I am going to use your method from now on! Thank you so much for all of your videos. Keep them coming!!!!!!!!!!
I've been using the "Trucker's Hitch since the early 70's, taught to me from an Italian prisoner from the North African Second World War at Tobruk. Yours is the Original. May be there are multiple updates, but YOUR'S is the ORIGINAL TRUCKER's HITCH. I can stand aside it. I've been always with you, since Cuba and Philipines, SEMPER FIDELIS!
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That was my thought too - the red cord version is more suitable for securing load on a vehicle. As you say, best is what works for you.
I have used your version of this to make my ridge line all summer. Probably 4 or 5 camps. Stays taught all night & comes down quickly in the morning. I will stick with it
Love your version. Sometimes it’s not so much how quick you can make shelter, but how fast you can be gone. It might not be much cordage to leave behind, but if it’s all you have, then it’s gold.
Corporal I like your way of tying truckers hitch. I don't like using a clove hitch and the half hitch, no way. Your truckers hitch is so easy to put tension on the line, definitely works for me. Good video.
Your videos are always super clear and you make learning the skill easy! One cool trick I learned from Mike at Bushcraft Northwest, was to go through the loop on the truckers hitch two times. That second pass through really helps take the "pull back" away when you tension it then try to tie it off.
In a survival setup less waste the better. Sometimes 50ft of cord is all you have. And if my life was I the hands of a tie off I don’t want short cuts now with my tent set with rain I would like it to go up by a snap of my fingers but now that won’t work I guess I would use fastest tie downs I know. And this video he gave respect and expanded his own skills and why. I think most fast knots I tied as a child was taken out with a knife I wish I started scouts a 6 not 14.
Great video on the Trucker's Hitch! Both methods are important to learn. As you said later in your video, it comes down to your application (how you intend to use it), quickness to set up/take down, whether it is intended to be permanent or not, and the amount of cordage you want to use.
I prefer yours. Alot less faffing around. His clove hitch/half hitch method is just adding complications, and it's more likely the extra wraps around the tree that give it most of its strength. Also, I don't think the locked off loop is any better than the slip loop - it's more faffing around (again) and doesn't give you any benefit. Your method also means you can quickly retighten the ridge line if required, whereas with Tim's (all due respect Tim), you have to unwrap the whole thing. The only thing I would add to yours Corporal (with respect), is for extra security, pop a toggle into your locked off loop. And hey, "ghetto" overhand loop? I'm offended ha ha 🤣 Loving your videos Corporal - keep them coming!! 👍
Another great video... I still don't understand why people have to question everything, it's a preference thing. Use what works for you... Your reasoning made sense so I am sure someone will argue the point you were making just because. As always thx for sharing.
Excellent analysis and demonstration, at the end of the video it was quite clear, as you explained, that one was better for tying off a load on a truck and the other was better for running a ridgeline. Thank you.
I personally find that your version of the truckers hitch works just as good to secure loads down. Specially when you use your version with the double wrap to keep the line tight while you tie it off..
When securing load, the quick release are a risk. If something trigger them, you may drop the cargo during travel. So I think the advice to use the other for loads are correct.
Just wanted to drop a quick note to tell ya and all who might see this that, I just popped over to watch TT's method of tying the "Truckies" hitch and then I tied your "improvised" method and I am not saying this just because I am typing this to you but, HANDS DOWN, yours if faster, just as strong and blazing fast to release. SO, that being said, THANK YOU for making this hitch simple AF.....
Great explanation! I’ll be trying these out here soon. It’ll be the first time I’ve been out camping in years. Love the content and thank you for making everything look attainable.
“ Ghetto with an overhand loop “ allows you to show some love to the pliers in your pocket tool when needing to remove the loop. The “ truckers hitch knot “ search on TH-cam is how I came to the CC channel last year.
I agree with your method except I use a Sybirian hitch at the first end. There are so many versions of a truckies hitch no one can say one is correct and the others are not. I believe the best truckies hitch or for that matter best knot is the one you can remember and will do the job, who care if it is text book or not, function over perfection. Teaching scouts I have found there are knots that some people just cant get and others that maybe harder they just smash out of the park, and the next person will be complete opposite. Love your channel keep up the awesome work.
Your method is preferred when setting a tarp line, maybe a hammock too, because of the diameter of the trees. The difference in cordage saved becomes nil if used on a truck like that one in the mentioned video. Youre right, his is best for securing a moving load, and yours for he'll and hammock. Well done video!
Great video. I always use your improvised version for a tarp ridge line and Tim’s double shank for securing a load. Thank you for comparing the two as one is better for certain applications
I was taught by my grandad how to tie knot 45 years ago. If you don't know how to tie a knot tie a lot. The knot you tie only have to be as strong as the cordage you are using, as yours are. The only weak spot in your line is the piece of wood you use with the Bolin knot other than that it is the strength of your cordage. I would want to use a stick in the loop of your truckers hitch, just so it doesn't come loose when some joker pulls the string. you do a great job teaching.
I need all the help I can get tying knots. I'm have knot dyslexia. I'm going to grab some rope and use this video to walk me through this later! Great video, thanks!
The upgrade I might add to your version is to skip the toggle altogether and use a Siberian hitch on the standing end. It's still quick release and you don't have to dig around for a solid stick.
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Your closing statement on one versus the other is right on point. Well said and well done and I couldn't agree with you more!!!
Your style of the truckers hitch is the one I’ve used for years (as in decades). The one difference is I generally tie a bowline around the tree-it’s fast enough to untie for my purposes. I also found that each point you had against the other guys style was the same disagreements I had while watching your demonstration. The fact that you brought both to our attention to let us choose our favorite, shines.
If only everyone could discuss differences in opinion/approach like you, the world would be a lot better place. Thanks as always for breaking down the important details and being a good role model. Cheers!
As the Good Corporal told us: One is awesome for securing a load. The other is quick and simple for a tarp shelter. A pick-up is great for some things. A limo... great for others.
Your technique... easy, elegant, efficient and quick. I’m 82 and still love learning new skills.
Great video! Whoever said Tim’s version was better for ridge lines clearly misunderstood the applications. Thank you for clearing this up and showing us the best way to tie a truckers hitch for ridge lines
At 74 I'm always up for learning something new. Been camping for over 60 years and have spent a lot of time untying granny knots or just cutting them off. Since watching your videos and practicing what you preach I have mastered most of the knots related to camping. Keep up the good work educating the masses.
In the pouring rain, I’m going with the CC method - every time. 👊
Hello from Oklahoma! Good video on knots. But, it Looks like a bunch of b.s. over nothing. Remember people will complain about anything. They will have you running circles over nothing. I say use what works for you. If its pouring down rain, or a blizzards moving in, you are gonna do the easiest thing to get out of the weather. To hell with the proper B.S. Haters will hate. They are sad. You sir are outstanding! God Bless!
Have used your Ridgeline method countless times over this summer.
Thank you Sir.
Corporal make some bushcraft cooking videos
Awesome content btw 👍
Greetings from Serbia 🇷🇸
Dude, your way is the best, no question!
Demonstrated with respect and integrity, well done Corporal 💕
I like your method. Seems faster with alot less extra bs. Thanks corporal
I use your method and have been using it and teaching it for a couple years now. Super simple and easy for Scouts to understand. Easy peezy lemon greasy
"And if you really want to be ghetto you can tie an overhand loop" 😂👍
Sometimes being a little grtto can be fun!🤪🥴
Yo, ghetto sounds like an abbreviated version of good to go.
Love the comparison. Really shows you how practical one knot can be over the other given your situation.
Securing a load vs securing a tarp, excellent way to point out the difference, once I learned how to do it your way I can't imagine using anything else for a ridgeline.
3 rules of Survival Knots
1. Conservation of cordage
2. Ease of tying and untying
3. Maintaining strength of cordage
The red line goes against 2/3 of the principles. Keep up the great videos Brother! And looking forward to seeing you again
hi,which 2/3 of the red line goese against?
The level of respect admiration and gratitude you have for viewers and other posts and opinion is outstanding very positive attitude but serious I think I'm going to download knot vids for spring and keep em coming sir🇺🇸
Corporal I have been using the improvised truckers hitch for the last 30 years to secure my canoes and kayaks to the roof racks has not failed me yet. It is my go to knot to secure anything around camp.
One is its GOTTA stay and the other is I GOTTA MOVE. Both of which are vital per circumstances. Great stuff!
Shawn, I think everyone should realize that you almost always refer to your version as an "impovised" trucker's hitch. The really amazing thing about knots is that almost all knots, lashings, and hitches is that many of them are "improvised" versions of others. They were made to adapt them to an individuals needs in a given situation.
..... Besides we all know that people that critics become critics because they aren't as good as they think they are so they try and find faults in everyone else to make them feel important. Thanks for doing what you do brother. Some of us actually use what you are teaching to be better woodsmen and bushcrafters! Keep'em coming!
Great video. I like your method better. Like you said less cordage. And easy disconnect on both ends.
Thanks for the video Cpl. Kelly, I like the way you do it and that’s the way I do it .
I want to get things done simple so I got more time in the wood to enjoy the out doors . Have a good day.
For a tarp your method is a lot faster both setting up and taking down. And as you stated for securing a load , The truckers hitch.Thanks for the side by side comparison.
Just the other week, I've tried your set up on a ridge line and I have to say, I'm impressed with it. I've made it my new go to. As for the others out there that say "that's not right" or " that's wrong".... they to to learn that there is more then one way to do something and that not every way works for everyone. But also, they need to learn to stop being so critical. Keep up the good work mate
Since learning your method, I've begun using the truckers hitch so much more. Thank you so much for sharing.
One problem with either hitch is that you have to pass the free end of the rope through the loop to cinch it down, which is tedious if you have a lot of extra line. You can get around this problem by using another toggle. You form the slip knot to make a loop, and then rather than passing all the free end of the rope through the loop, just pass a bight through and insert another toggle into the bight. Then when you cinch down the main line the toggle will roll against the loop. You have to watch it a bit to make sure it doesn't roll out, but it works. And then you can lock it down or tie it off however you like.
Great and fair comparison on techniques. Agree that the difference is the "application". Thanks for taking the time to clarify.
Excellent!
I had to laugh at "If you really want to be Getto"
As always excellent execution and delivery Corporal.
Corp, I am a trucker and use many hitches however for my ridgeline I use yours. It’s quick to set up and even quicker to pack up. Yours is the best that I have ever seen.
Yep. Less cordage, simpler connections, and quick release. Nothing wrong with his, but yours appeals more to me. Good work.
From an observation point of view, your beginning is simplistic and effective, and your ending is likewise. Minimalistic, effective, practical, logical, less cordage for the same result and very much repeatable without the headache of recalling how it goes. Outstanding.
I'll take your way every day. It's much faster. Keep up the good work. It's outstanding!
Been using your improvised trucker's hitch and the rest is history. Also your quick deploy ridge line it really save me a lot of time setting up camp. Thank you!
That’s awesome! I’m a lineman in Ohio and I’ve been using your improvised hitch for years when pulling tension on cable to hold it up the pole while installing pole shielding. Good man!
Your method is what I've been using for over 50 years. I do toss a half-hitch around the locking loop in the final tension knot. Easy peasy. Outstanding, as always.
I want to second the half hitch. It keeps the locking/quick-release loop from pulling through on accident without making it difficult to untie.
Pops became an Eagle Scout back in 59. I distinctly remember being knee high and witnessing him tie a truckers hitch and thinking that he was some kind of a magician. The method that he taught me was the same as yours. Glad to learn a stronger alternative, and will implement it if the situation dictates, but Dad’s hitch has never failed me yet. /Jase
You're still the best at teaching.
Great! Quickly added to my favorites. Excellent side by side comparison. Thanks sir.
Outstanding video, really well explained. It's good when someone explain things instead of saying "my way to do this is better and that's it". Thanks!
Great video. Explained the differences in a clear and respectful manner.
I use your method and am very pleased with it! Thank you for your instructional videos! 👍🏻😊
Very reasonable and respectful approach to a minor difference. You have an excellent knot and a very good reason for using it. Thank you for your video.
Hi new subject for me. Never been able to get my dyslexic brains around the complications of knot tying.
However, your version was easy for me to grasp, and now I feel confident to try tarp camping, at the age of 64. Something I have wanted to try for a long time.
Thanks corp.
I will call this knot the corporals hitch. Then no confusion for me😋
Thanks we’re trying a tarp night with my granddaughter as soon as it arrives 🔥
I really like the trucker's hitch where you pass the cordage through the loop twice so it locks down before you tie it.
Shown in your other videos.
The first knot I learned to tie when I started driving trucks, truckers hitch. Invaluable! Almost 53 years ago.
Excellent video (I'm beginning to sound like a broken record)
You clearly and methodically demonstrate the techniques, and with an unbiased eye, present them for us to decide which we prefer. It's clear why your technique is better for the Ridgeline and you are a true gentleman and diplomat in explaining when you would use the other.
Thanks as always, and God bless you and your family.
-Dave
As an old sailing salt (25+yrs) I've used your version of the truckers hitch thousands of times... I've always known it to be a "slippery trucker" because of the slip knot used on the midline (bight) loop for a quick release. Nice comparison and well taught.
The difference is application. The know it alls that caused him to make this video were too ignorant to understand. Now they look silly!
I have secured loads for 30 years just as you do yours. I was taught by my Dad who learned it as a kid. I think history says my and your way has worked for a hell of a long time!!
I use your method, all the time, every time.
I've only just started using this after watching your recent quick setup ... and I've only used it in practice .. but I love it .. super simple and like you said ... fast and easy up and down ... Thanx corp !
I don't know if I have commented on this one or not and if I am repeating myself here, please feel free to delete either or both as you will. No offense will be taken. So here goes, first thank you, for doing these videos and especially this one. I have a unique set of skills AND an unusual set of handicaps. I am colorblind, can't see in 3D and my depth perception is really really REALLY weak.
That being said, and I don't mention them for sympathy, I do so only to illustrate my appreciation for the way you not only teach these basic skills but, you have simplified a super important and ultra useful knot.
You see, in spite of most "teachers" efforts, they almost always get caught up in their own perfections and all too often demonstrate various skills, techniques and the like so fast and herky jerky that I can't follow them. Shawn, you have taken that learning curve without even knowing it and have created how to videos that I NEVER fail to learn from. Almost always, I recognize what you are planning or doing ahead of time as I have done very similar throughout my life. As an example, in my youth, friends and I were always building "forts", and beds and camping areas where we just didn't camp, but we lived and thrived for those days we were there.
As an example of what I am talking about, while in school way back in the days of corporal (no pun here) punishment and stone tablets, instead of getting out for the week of spring break, we stayed in school but had "free time" which unless the weather was just drag nasty, we were outside all day every day except for lunchtime while the teachers did their preps and things. During those weeks, we would often build those forts and other "hangouts." One such was, since we lived in the South, we had mountains of pine trees and pine straw. The ground was strewn with downed limbs so, we would take those limbs and lash them together using Kudzu vines and then would utilize the pine straw to form a crude hut. We would create wall voids wherein we would pack the pine straw as tightly as we could which formed a very comfortable and water tight dwelling. Back then we could build small fires and would have us a marshmallow roast and IF we could somehow er um procure some weenies from the kitchen coolers, we would have those roasted as well. So thank you again for all these how to vids and for some seriously good meals.
your not alone..
I love your knot-tying videos! So informative, and everything is dressed up and presented clearly.
Corporal. As shown on this and some of your previous videos, your methods of tying a trucker's Hitch tend to be a lot simpler and easy enough that I can even do it. simplicity is very important when in the field during night and/or bad weather conditions.
Completely different applications. Tims is for securing loads. Yours is for tarps. Thank you!
Well made and well explained thanks corp
I want to thank you for your videos, being new to bushcrafting and preparedness, I find them very informative and educational, so thank you sir for what you do both at pathfinders school and your page.
Yours. And I spike both ends because kids like to pull things. Keep em comin. Oohra!
Good video, simple, effective, fast to put up and take down. Thanks
I have always struggled to get my tarp ridgeline tight enough. And when I do finally get it too tight after 5 or 6th attempt, then it's too tight and I can't release it. Not anymore. Thank you for showing me this. I am going to use your method from now on! Thank you so much for all of your videos. Keep them coming!!!!!!!!!!
The best way to tie a knot is the way that works for the mission at hand. Great demo.
Loved the close up video shots...thanks
I've been using the "Trucker's Hitch since the early 70's, taught to me from an Italian prisoner from the North African Second World War at Tobruk. Yours is the Original. May be there are multiple updates, but YOUR'S is the ORIGINAL TRUCKER's HITCH. I can stand aside it. I've been always with you, since Cuba and Philipines, SEMPER FIDELIS!
That was my thought too - the red cord version is more suitable for securing load on a vehicle. As you say, best is what works for you.
I have used your version of this to make my ridge line all summer. Probably 4 or 5 camps. Stays taught all night & comes down quickly in the morning. I will stick with it
your summery was excellent on the two radically different usages
Love your version. Sometimes it’s not so much how quick you can make shelter, but how fast you can be gone. It might not be much cordage to leave behind, but if it’s all you have, then it’s gold.
Corporal I like your way of tying truckers hitch. I don't like using a clove hitch and the half hitch, no way. Your truckers hitch is so easy to put tension on the line, definitely works for me. Good video.
Your videos are always super clear and you make learning the skill easy! One cool trick I learned from Mike at Bushcraft Northwest, was to go through the loop on the truckers hitch two times. That second pass through really helps take the "pull back" away when you tension it then try to tie it off.
Thank you. This was just what I needed. You are easy to follow and understand.
I will pass these skills on to my daughter as well. 👍🏻
Great explanation of the two variants. Each is great for its purpose. I like your method for ridge lines.
In a survival setup less waste the better. Sometimes 50ft of cord is all you have. And if my life was I the hands of a tie off I don’t want short cuts now with my tent set with rain I would like it to go up by a snap of my fingers but now that won’t work I guess I would use fastest tie downs I know. And this video he gave respect and expanded his own skills and why. I think most fast knots I tied as a child was taken out with a knife I wish I started scouts a 6 not 14.
Great video on the Trucker's Hitch! Both methods are important to learn. As you said later in your video, it comes down to your application (how you intend to use it), quickness to set up/take down, whether it is intended to be permanent or not, and the amount of cordage you want to use.
I learned allot from you and your knot's keep it up.
I prefer yours. Alot less faffing around. His clove hitch/half hitch method is just adding complications, and it's more likely the extra wraps around the tree that give it most of its strength. Also, I don't think the locked off loop is any better than the slip loop - it's more faffing around (again) and doesn't give you any benefit. Your method also means you can quickly retighten the ridge line if required, whereas with Tim's (all due respect Tim), you have to unwrap the whole thing. The only thing I would add to yours Corporal (with respect), is for extra security, pop a toggle into your locked off loop. And hey, "ghetto" overhand loop? I'm offended ha ha 🤣
Loving your videos Corporal - keep them coming!! 👍
Both are good, but as you said, for a shelter set up I also prefer your way. Have a nice one sir!
I like your version of the trucker's hitch much better. Very clean and simple.
Another great video... I still don't understand why people have to question everything, it's a preference thing. Use what works for you... Your reasoning made sense so I am sure someone will argue the point you were making just because. As always thx for sharing.
thanks for this! crazy how sensitive some people are... for this application it's great!
Considering speed, strength, and simplicity, your setup works great CC. Keep up the good work.
Excellent analysis and demonstration, at the end of the video it was quite clear, as you explained, that one was better for tying off a load on a truck and the other was better for running a ridgeline. Thank you.
I personally find that your version of the truckers hitch works just as good to secure loads down. Specially when you use your version with the double wrap to keep the line tight while you tie it off..
Brent Johnson I too use a double wrap in the slip loop.
When securing load, the quick release are a risk. If something trigger them, you may drop the cargo during travel. So I think the advice to use the other for loads are correct.
Johan Simonsson Agreed, but the clove hitch with the final half hitch is key to me.
Just wanted to drop a quick note to tell ya and all who might see this that, I just popped over to watch TT's method of tying the "Truckies" hitch and then I tied your "improvised" method and I am not saying this just because I am typing this to you but, HANDS DOWN, yours if faster, just as strong and blazing fast to release. SO, that being said, THANK YOU for making this hitch simple AF.....
Great explanation! I’ll be trying these out here soon. It’ll be the first time I’ve been out camping in years. Love the content and thank you for making everything look attainable.
“ Ghetto with an overhand loop “ allows you to show some love to the pliers in your pocket tool when needing to remove the loop. The “ truckers hitch knot “ search on TH-cam is how I came to the CC channel last year.
Texas Pine Top - i admit it. I’m totally getting when I do the loop.
Nice and easy and more efficient gotta love that!!! Thanks for sharing gonna try it the next time I hang a ridge line 👍🏾
I agree with your method except I use a Sybirian hitch at the first end.
There are so many versions of a truckies hitch no one can say one is correct and the others are not. I believe the best truckies hitch or for that matter best knot is the one you can remember and will do the job, who care if it is text book or not, function over perfection. Teaching scouts I have found there are knots that some people just cant get and others that maybe harder they just smash out of the park, and the next person will be complete opposite.
Love your channel keep up the awesome work.
Nothing against the other guy but your version is more simple and uses less cordage. Another great video.
Great. I am glad to see the many complimentary comments. I will go see his video out of curiosity. Thank you.
Your method is preferred when setting a tarp line, maybe a hammock too, because of the diameter of the trees. The difference in cordage saved becomes nil if used on a truck like that one in the mentioned video.
Youre right, his is best for securing a moving load, and yours for he'll and hammock. Well done video!
I learned your style of knot as a "hay hauler's" knot. Perfect for cinching down uneven loads and also works great for securing tarps and boat covers.
Great video. I always use your improvised version for a tarp ridge line and Tim’s double shank for securing a load. Thank you for comparing the two as one is better for certain applications
Been a fan of your setup since the beginning Cpl.
I use your knots every time I go backpacking. My tarp setup is within 2 minutes thanks to you. Much appreciated!
I was taught by my grandad how to tie knot 45 years ago. If you don't know how to tie a knot tie a lot. The knot you tie only have to be as strong as the cordage you are using, as yours are. The only weak spot in your line is the piece of wood you use with the Bolin knot other than that it is the strength of your cordage. I would want to use a stick in the loop of your truckers hitch, just so it doesn't come loose when some joker pulls the string. you do a great job teaching.
Very good. I like the way you explain it.Very simplistic.
I need all the help I can get tying knots. I'm have knot dyslexia. I'm going to grab some rope and use this video to walk me through this later! Great video, thanks!
Such a great tutorial and comparison!
Your modified bowline (shortcut version) is the best knot I know! Thank you!
The upgrade I might add to your version is to skip the toggle altogether and use a Siberian hitch on the standing end. It's still quick release and you don't have to dig around for a solid stick.