Bowline, the only knot you need | The Gist of 'er
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- The beauty of the bowline is you can mess it up and still get a strong knot. Hands on demo of overhand, overhand loop, bowline, cowboy bowline, Cossack knot, Dutch bowline, timber hitch and marline hitch. BUT YOU ONLY NEED THE BOWLINE.
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3:15 Pedantic boors indeed. Them, and classic car guys, small airplane owners and Ham radio operators. If nobody’s farted at the party yet you can always count on fucking Ron to stink it up with a string of “akshully”-s followed by verbal pillory of esoteric anecdotes and jokes.
That was a rant worthy of the foul-mouthed Canuck himself.
*Light airplane owners. Yeesh.
@@Cherokee140Driver We are a pragmatic bunch, I think it comes with the type of thinking that's required
Totally agree de callsign EI4HZB
As a ham and aero-nerd I can't deny this...
I’ve always got by on the philosophy of, if you can’t tie a knot, tie a lot. Lol
Rollin!
The ole "Alberta cluster knot"
Hey! That's what I was going to say..
Ok that’s funny
Outside of fishing it generally works
The bowline is also a great rescue knot in the water, because the loop doesn't cinch, so you can safely put it under your arms and around your chest and be pulled out. In sailing school we were taught to tie it with one hand, as we held on for dear life to the rope with the other. Great vid, uncle BF.
I'm trying to imagine tying a bowline one handed, while being dragged through the water.
Even with 40 years of practice tying a bowline on land, I am sure I would drown.
@@pkz420 We all would drown ;) but hope springs eternal... unlike finger strength in cold water. However, I did need to learn to do it to pass the sailing course. Cheers.
@@pkz420 There's a way to tie it around yourself one-handed without much trouble but it assumes you can get some slack in the line. I know because I learned it in the boy scouts and I can count on the fact that if I needed it in a life-saving situation I would definitely die.
I learned the one handed around the waist bowline in Scouts.
Put the rope round your waist, hold the short end of the rope in your hand and with the same hand twist the long part of the rope round your wrist (forming the loop), with your finger tips do the round the back of the tree bit with the end of the rope, then when you pull your wrist out of the loop bring the end of the rope with you. Done.
One day I'll get to use it while being helicopter rescued and the pilot won't think I'm a complete dick head.
@@misterbreakit2006 learned as a rock climber too. Once you got it... can be completed in 10sec or less.
I've been a rock-climber for decades, and we do know our knots. Most have abandoned the bowline in favor of a knot the correct tying of which can be instantly identified by sight: the figure-eight. Not as strong as the bowline and harder to untie once weighted, but when life and limb are in question (generally due to pea-brains rather than knot choice), seeing that it's right at a glance is premium currency. Of course, the most amazingly functional "knot" is the trucker's hitch, but it gets no love because almost nobody even knows that it exists, much less how to tie it. If you do learn it, though, you'll find much application for it.
My grandfather taught me the Baker bowline (trucker's hitch). If you ever wondered how they secured loads before ratchet straps, look this bad boy up.
I used a truckers hitch for my mother's washing line. Perfect to get tension on it 🤣
"Time in betwixt contemplating suckstarting a twelve gauge."
A modern Bukowski, this poet.
First!
oh no, AvE has caught the one disease worse than covid-19 - youtube commenter disease!
My favorite part of this is that you didn't just vandalize your own channel, you loved your own comment when you did it. Nothing like giving yourself a high five. Or in these desperate times, a low five. Someone's got to. For myself it isn't a problem, social distancing only requires 6 feet so I just lay it across the table and she can still get it done.
Like a great man once said as he clapped his hands together over his head, "High-five myself, no friends!" 😂🤣😅 Keep up the great content, it's keeping me sane.
I’m pretty sure that’s illegal 🤷♂️
The Underwritter's Laboratory knot is one every one should know because sooner or later in life you'll rewire a lamp. But honestly I wish you'd go back to breaking down products. I enjoy those videos a lot more.
The bowline's other strength is that the loop it makes doesn't cinch in on itself. I was always taught it as the rope to throw out to someone having trouble in water- they can put the loop around themselves and you can pull them to safety without squeezing them like a tube of toothpaste.
It's the favorite knot of sailors and bondage fans
...and, unless you don't like them, hang onto the non-working end. ;)
A weakness though is that when the bowline is not under load it can shake loose and then come undone. I think a zeppelin/rosendahl knot is preferable as it creates a fixed loop which will not tighten. Like the bowline, it also doesn't jam under load, but it will also never shake loose.
Which knot should you use for self-cinching.
You know, in case I need to rescue the in-laws
@@PowerScissor running bowline ought to work fine for this purpose
Dude, love your videos, your sensibility, and your sense of humor...
That said, you can’t tie a bowline for shit!
Sox. Its pronounced Bauw line. Like the bow of a boat, not a bowtie. Dipinshitsenhousen...
Philip Ennis many a dictionary disagree with you, as does every salt I’ve ever met. Lots of sailing terms have altered pronunciation depending on their use. Lee vs leeward, for example.
He didn’t tie a proper bowline the entire video!
@@philipennis5155 not by any sailor or merchant marine I've ever met but okay sure you big talker you.
@@AdventureOtaku Yeah he never managed to lol
AvE, your videos are priceless. Your genius is your directed, rather than general, cynicism. My good friend, Paige Harmon (R.I.P.) was an old tugboat captain and he taught me as much as I could absorb about knots. Quite intimidating having him watch me tie a truckers knot, to which he replied that it was a good knot, but what I did at the end was a 'hatchet knot'. "what's a hatchet knot", i said, and Paige replied, "you'll need a hatchet to free that knot". Thanks for making me remember him.
I am a tug captain and somewhat of a knot expert, having sailed the Pacific extensively since I was a wee lad (17or 18 times across the equator, something like that). First a technicality... the knot you showed, while effective, is not technically a bowline. A bowline has the tail end on the inside of the loop (not the outside an in your example). Whatever... you don't want to lose a bet at the bar.
I call the method you used to demonstrat the bowline "the Cub Scout method". It is fine for small line. Once you get into heavy line or hauser that method will be difficult. Instead, we use what my mom (she a captain, too) called "The Cigarette method"... you first tie a regular overhand knot, then you "roll" the knot to make the tail-end straight... and that makes your rabbit and hole. Finish regularly. It is particularly useful when tying the bowline around something rather than in midair.
There are a few more methods, and several clever variations, but none more utilitarian.
Don't tie your dick in a knot,
The Dude
PS: The real beauty of a bowline is that, even after a heavy strain, you can untie it by breaking its back (you don't need to break out the knife).
I didn't want to break his little heart, He taught me how to remove a bearing from a blind hole! Glad you told him.
I was told when I was fishing one way around is a rigger's bowline and the other way around is a sailor's , mind it was by someone calling at to tie a bowline after I tied it using the method you describe with the tail inside the loop, of course anyone never having seen it tied that way does not realise the speed with which it can be tied, i called back it was a bowline and he came to inspect it, calling it a riggers bowline , funny how many working on boats still tie one the boy scout way, and funny how people having learned something one way consider it the only right way
"particularly useful when tying the bowline around something rather than in midair" can't overstate that aspect.
Yup, he tied one of the three cousin knots.
My Dad taught me the cigarette method, and I think once you learn it, it's the clearly preferable method. It's also faster to tie.
So my friend was working for Study Safe Co. making gun safes and working for one of the meanest, salty dog type machinist on the west coast of the US. Anyway this boss of his wouldn't give you a dime you didn't earn. The old guy was out back try to pull about a 30-40 ft length of 2" pipe out of a retired railcar they used as a scrap bin, it was nearly full and this pipe twisted its way through it all. So my friend, Jay, watched him struggle with a good sized steel fab shop, articulating fork lift (retired, i believe. from the deck of an aircraft carrier) and a length of chain for an hour or so. This guy didn't like Jay, but he respected him (a little). Jay walked up to him and said "I bet you the rest of today off, paid, that I can pull it out in five minutes...". The boss accepted, Jay walked away and returned with 3/4" hemp rope. He tied a Monkey's Fist to. the pipe and a slipknot to the tractor, a couple of bumps on the throttle and out it came! Jay parked the forklift and said "See ya tomorrow...". The boss didn't realize, his last job was pulling communications cable, lol.
David Hench How do you tie a monkeys fist to a pipe? It’s a stopper knot used for heaving rope. Unless he pulled the rope through the pipe and used it as a stopper on the end, but that don’t seem like a good idea. Or he tied hitches to the pipe with a fist as the stopper knot, in that case a monkey fist is a bit elaborate in a time crunch.
Great story! I have a Sturdysafe, and will be ordering another eventually. They build good stuff.
I'm also curious about the monkey fist.
@@strykerjones8842 Possibly a Turk's Head, which is a Monkey's Fist but around a pole (pipe in this case).
@@strykerjones8842 Possibly a Turk's Head, which is a Monkey's Fist but around a pole (pipe in this case).
Maybe a Rolling hitch
"Suck starting a 12 gauge" 😂😂 this man's mind is just refreshing compared to some of those who's "knickers come factory tightened"
Really glad to hear your ER docs are bored, very good to hear. Hope you've got lots of cold ones to pass the time.
Anyone who wants to learn a knot... you don't know how to tie a knot until you can tie it 10x in a row without mistakes. Once you're over the learning curve, put the extra 5 minutes in so that you retain it for life. I for example, after 6 years in boy scouts know how to tie precisely zero knots... because I never actually ever needed to use them and dickin' around until you get it twice ain't good enough for retention.
Also practice with different thicknesses of line, and in different orientations. Having recently spent a couple of months sailing across the Atlantic, I was surprised when my bowline tying practice on my bit of string was almost useless on an actual bit of rigging. Double that uselessness when it's a "pressure bowline" (when the skipper and half the crew are watching), and double once more when you're tying the knot that is keeping your mate safe during man overboard when he's dangling over the edge of the boat trying to rescue the MoB. (The line was also clipped onto his harness, but that was the safety in case the bowline failed.)
@@merseyviking the bowline doesn't fail under tension, and that's what makes it so great.
I worked on a boat and my boss told me I better be able to tie a bowline underwater, upside-down, in the dark, with my eyes closed.
A week later our boat was drifting towards some rocks and saw a buoy coming up, so I cleated off the end of a rope, dove into the water and proceeded to tie that rope a few feet underwater to the buoy in the dark with my eyes closed.
@@spencerm5913 solid flex. I approve.
@@merseyviking Yes always practice different orientations, I can tie a bowline perfectly when blindfold as long as its in the same orientaion as on my climbing harness and take 5 minutes and 3 goes to do it any other way.
@@spencerm5913 And barefoot, uphill in the snow
“Suck starting a 12 gauge” priceless 🤣
😂 I put that one in the dark humor bank
Also known as "The Hemingway Solution"🤣
Crazy old marine who sat next to me used to say suck start your 9 mil. No tact, but perfect
Brutal. Today in 1994 was when Cobain was found missing most of his head.
Just in time for the 26th anniversary :)
This is one of my all time favorite TH-cam channels.
I watched the first tie six times before I was convinced I was right. Shoulda just kept watching LOL. Glad you caught it. Another reason why the family of Figure 8 knots are superior! Love your content!!
Close, but as an electrician that pulls a lot of cable, we start with a clove hitch and then follow on with a couple half hitches.
Telecom guy confirms!
Clove bitch is bae
I pull lots of steel cable for boat moorings. Clove and multiple half hitches with a rope clip on the tag.
Lineman side of things, confirm. Although we've also used mule tape to make a cable pulling sock by weaving it together. It wont pinch and damage the cable and doesnt add much thickness to the cable for pulling through pvc.
This is also what we do with rigging pipes and hoses etc for boilermaking. Don't need to wrap the tail in electrical tape, and because its all hitches and no knots you only lose 15-20% of your ropes strength vs 50% like in a knot. For pulling steel cables which are very slippery we do close to the same but we add another loop to the clove hitch, it has a specific name but I can't remember what its called.
It works 99% of the time, every time!
Dear sir,
Thank you for your grand sense of humor and urge to educate.
I tremendously appreciate your distinctive choice of vocabulary
Honorable mention - Alpine butterfly.
Use is for a truckers hitch for extra points
Try using a one-way figure-eight loop for the truckers hitch instead. Much easier to untie when you're done. 👍
The best part it's quick and simple to do, and you don't need the end of the rope to make the knot. You can do it anywhere in the length!
Alpine butterfly is the one 👌🏻
Easy to remember and not directional. I used it in film loading gear like a truck hitch, or in the fire service on the rare occasion we actually need a knot outside of tech rescue
The alpine butterfly is also amazing for isolating damage on a rope, toss the cut in the middle of the loop and keep on using it.
I'm really disappointed you didn't use the whole roll of tape on that one tag.
More than that, he used black tape. The right one is blue)
I thought he was going to use the whole roll!
This channel never fails to embiggen my vocabulary with perfectly cromulent words!
This guy cracks me up so much. Naturally hysterical, it just flows. Like "....a will-knot is a knot in your butt hair that will not come out." I'm dyin' over here
You know what they say in the rock climbing world... "If you can't tie knots, tie lots."
MattsAwesomeStuff I learn so many good sayings from this channel.
I learned that from the sailing world people.
That's not what they say in the rock climbing world. In climbing, rope safety is a matter of life and death and the "if you can't tie knots, tie lots" attitude is widely looked down on. Learning to tie and check knots correctly is taken very seriously. I think the phrase works well in the everyday world where an average guy uses knots in a more casual setting.
The people I climb with say "a not-neat knot need not be knotted" as a way to remind people to dress their knots and do everything properly.
Same for us cavers. The best cavers just rig the pit with a friction hitch around a tree and a back up knot like a bowline or a figure 8 on a bight. More time exploring and having fun. The younger guys love to show off their knots and take up to an hour arguing over what knots to rig the pit and there's always that one guy that has to demand we tie a "dodecahedral barrel knot," FOR NO REASON BUT TO JUST EAT UP VALUABLE TIME UNDERGROUND. It's like these guys use the excuse of showing off knots and their rigging are pussies and afraid of a deep, dark hole in the ground.
“Manitoba Marlinspike”, as he opens the razor blade. That is incredible!
I resemble that remark, but also own marlin spikes and splice lines.
Cheers from Manitoba
I like the “plumbers knurllers”, aka: adjustable jaw pliers.
Or the “Canadian Socket Set”, aka: Crescent Wrench. 😂
Used the bowline twice today. Thanks for the videos.
+∞ for the Bowline
At the other end of the scale. When you want a hitch that's NOT going to come undone and really doesn't want to Be undone either then enter
The Constrictor Knot !!
I'd been happily using Clove Hitches most of my life until a few years ago.
Every now and then I'd get some slippery or rotating pole that would frustrate the Clove Hitch into letting go.
NCIS of all things mentioned this Constrictor and Double Constrictor Knot on one of it's episodes.
I looked it up and Wow !!
It Will Not let go ! Even when rolled against the wrong way.
The more load you put on it, the more it binds.
Great for binding and whipping rope handles ... all sorts.
So, I looked it up. I can tell just by how the pictures on Wikipedia show the turns, that it's not a easy one to release. Gonna have to find some string and try it, because it looks super useful.
I love the Constrictor knot. So glad I learned it. When you really want to permanently fix some line to a post/stick/whatever.
@@markgoff3767 Hard to beat the name also ... 😎
The constrictor is badass. Many years an Alaskan commercial fisherman, so I know a few knots and hitches. I study them. The constrictor, after learning the bowline (which is the most awesome knot in the world), is the first one that blew me away.
Have you switched to the ground-line hitch yet?
Finally a video of yours where i dint learn anything new 😂
In the late 60's every time I learned to tie a new knot for Poncho he already knew how to untie it. After 6 years and 25 acres of Poncho chasing education the only thing certain in life was my donkey always stopped to pee.
That second knot was really good to learn .I'm sure I'll be using it .Cheers pal
I find myself clicking on your video and automatically saying to myself.. gentleman! everytime!
"Little brown eel comes out of the cave, swims into the hole, comes outta the hole, and goes back into the cave again" thanks jaws
That's where I've heard it! Was trying to place it lol
Ahh hot knives. Thanks, that brought me back to easier times.
Built towers for years and used bowline, clove hitch and pipe hitch over and over. Those 3 got me through many years of being an idiot and looking like I knew what I was doing. Lol. Thanks for the schooling/refresh. Kids these days can use those in many lines of work.
I think you're my spirit animal AvE. I'm with you all the way on the bowline... just has to be tied correctly!
I can never understand what you’re talking about. I love it.
The beauty of the bowline: tow one heavy as sin snowmobile eith another heavy as sin snowmobile for 35 miles of up and down, twisty turny, beaver dam crossing trails, and still untie it by hand at the end.
A GREAT knot, great demo. Love the BS and bad jokes all the while learning stuff, thanks
The bowline is so awesome, it’s my tie-in knot for rock climbing, well the double bowline with a single overhand as a stopper, to be more precise! 👍🏼. I’ve taken some big falls on that little knot and it’s always very nice to untie after such whippers.
I probably use the Clove hitch more than any, followed by the bowline.
I hate the clove hitch, too often misused. I usually prefer to use two half-hitches instead, or a constrictor if I want something that holds tight. Other than that I agree with AvE choice of the bowline and marline hitch.
We used to use a clove with with a couple of half hitches to pull cable up on bridge cranes plus the electrician tape tag, but half the guys couldn't tie a knot to save their lives. Make a couple of errors, and then you find you are motivated to learn a couple of dependable knots, and you never look back at that time. And thats a fact Jack!
We use the clove hitch in firefighting. It's a good quick release knot. Used mainly for lifting tools to the roofline.
How could you possibly expect to lash together that latrine seat without using a clove hitch?
Pipe hitch is better than clove. The pipe hitch will not roll.
"Every member of a ship’s company should be able to tie a bowline round his waist with his eyes closed."
Admiralty Manual Of Seamanship (1995).
That's how I learned in Boy Scouts. Took me until years later to properly and repeatedly tie it in my hands.
Eh that in the blue jacket too?
Whilst wearing a Pusser’s windy Burberry!
Adam Stanchfield we had to do it eyes closed behind the back holding our breath and hopping on one foot 3x before we could get it signed off lol
Figure 8 on a bite is stronger.
That hitch saved made a job way easier, thanks for the advice!
When I was a fireman, we used several knots very often. The bowline was a rescue knot and it can be made single handed. The clove hitch, the half hitch, the rolling hitch were the most common. All really useful to know.
First thing I learned when I started working on boats (I’m a tow boat pilot/captain) was a proper bowline. It is the go-to knot for so many instances, particularly when you break a line and need an eye in it quick, fast, and in a hurry👍 green deckhands learn this and how to do half hitches, first thing👍
I have been trying to convince my friends that the bowline is the only knot you need for years! This is hilarious to see someone affirming my position on it.
My uncle taught me boline as a boy for tying livestock. I never knew the name until college. For me, it is the rabbit knot. I use it all of the time for tying livestock or as an anchor when tying down a load of hay. Excellent video always such colorful language. Especially the "elechickens" tape. That's as good as "polloquerro" which I got from my favorite cowboy poet Baxter Black.
Cross hitches work a treat to anchor said dingle dangle on the end of a few other hitches. We use a variant of what you did to attach long sausage floats to the magnetic cable that we use to pulse for influence mines. In Naval mine warfare that is. It gets subjected to hours of being pulled through water and holds. That constantly fluctuating force as the cable jumps in the water and wave action pulses by decimates lesser knots.
That triple hitch, complete with electrical tape, was one we used frequently when pulling bundles of wire through conduit. Only fail I had was an overused rope that broke about 10 ft. away from the head of the bundle. The hitches held just fine. 👍
Agreed. Bowline is my favorite knot too.
In the army, we were taught a few. Bowline (anchoring knot as you mentioned). Prusik knot to climb out of a jam. Square knot. Double sheet bend for tying different diameter or wet rope. Butterfly to make loops along the length of the rope (help with climing). And clove hitch. But the other rule that you teach young soldiers. If you don't know how to tie knots, tie lots of'em. :)
3:15 I just watched this with a pedantic knot tier on my left and a gun-nerd on my right. 😂 Don't worry, they also love the channel.
A taught line is also a decent one to have in the arsenal. Comes in especially handy when camping.
Most useful, least known knot. More dependable than the 3 dollar rachet straps from Harbor Freight at keeping things where you want them.
You can teach a line, but you can't teach it much. 8-)
Presumably you meant "taut line [hitch]", also known as a tension knot or three half hitches. I absolutely agree that it's one of the most generally useful knots. (No offense intended by the leading joke.)
@@dougsundseth6904 that is correct.
Best knot. Use it almost daily working on live entertainment, always saves the day.
Given my former occupation and most of my hobbies the one that I’ve used the most in my life is the taught line hitch. A very underappreciated knot.
Although I'm not sure I learned much about tying knots, my Canadian vocabulary has sure improved. Keep the skookum vijaos coming!
In my life I've pulled a thousand or more kms of cable with a marline hitch. ❤👍😎
I learned it as a simple logger hitch using the over-hand loop as the very tail end 'tag-line' that AvE taped down. You pass the far tail through the loop, then give one flip in your line to set the first of the over-hand knots in the hitch. Never seen it done with the floating tail like this before.
I believe that also goes by "half hitch" that's what I've always heard anyways
Eagle scout here. You would not believe how few scouts can remember anything more than a square knot. Industrial experience has taught me a modern knot, a sheet metal screw through the rope and whatever you’re trying to pull.
I've lifted many masts with a bowline and half a dozen half hitches. Another useful knot is the trucker's hitch. Works great if you dont have a come along.
“Ain't no kill like overkill” 😂
The one knot that everyone should know, I always felt, was the Reef Knot.
The Bowline is useful, but much less often.
40 years on construction sites, and the only two knots that I used were the Reef, and the Bowline.
But I used the Reef probably a thousand times for each use of the bowline.
The reef knot is actually less useful because it is only used for one purpose: to join two lines of equal diameter to each other. With lines of unequal diameter you'd need a sheet bend, or more efficiently (in terms of knot learning), two bowlines.
@@awrmmmcc2885 You are mistaken. The reef knot is quite versatile. It can be used in variations to achieve almost any task.
I say this after 30 years of rigging.
It was by far my most used knot.
Agreed on the bowline. Additionally I have found half-hitches quite useful. I used to put up 20' to 40' long antennas on towers using nothing other than a couple of half hitches to haul them up. The only other one I use is the taut-line hitch which I learned way back in boy scouts for tightening the tent ropes. That's it. That's the only 3 I know and use. And I don't climb towers anymore. Climbing a set of stairs is all I do now.
Loving the shorter vids of problem solving and tricks, much appliged
I was surprised there was no "dragon bowline"
(that's where you tie a bowline and drag it on the floor, if ya didn't know)
Bowline on a byte is similar but different, good for load tensioning or tying back. Some additional rope advice from the nautical scene: sheet=rope, rope=line, line=want to see my dingy?
My wife calls me a boating snob when I correct someone that calls it a rope on a boat. She's also sick of seeing my dingy...
And don't get me started on the ways people cleat off. Makes me want to pull my hair out...
In Europe it's spelled bight, where a bight is a loop of rope/line that hasn't been knotted yet. Any knot on the bight is a knot tied in a rope that's been looped back on itself. For example the loop at 2:00 could be called an overhand knot on the bight. In emergencies, with thick rope a bowline on the bight can be used as a harness with one loop resting under the thighs and one at the lower back while lifting from the front. Definitely not recommended or comfort or safety if there's a better option though.
@@peglor It is spelled bight here too. A byte is 8 bits.
@@1pcfred Actually, a byte is "the smallest addressable unit of memory". It depends on the hardware. Though most commonly 8 bits today, I started out with 4-bit bytes on a 4004 processor. 6-bit and 9-bit bytes were common in the 60s.
It IS the only knot I ever need... so I watch this or many other videos every friggin time I need to use it!
Man! I use a variation of the bowline for climbing! That was a nice reminder to practice it(with a beer in one hand and a bottle of Whusny in the other)!
The DOT prefers my hitches to be the pintle variety
The ones I use most, maybe once or twice a month: Bowline, clove hitch, reef or square knot, cow hitch. Training to do them with closed eyes or behind your back is also a nice skill when you have to tie them somewhere where you can't see your hands.
Same, but for holding stuff down so it really will never move, I love the truckers hitch. Beats a ratchet strap any day imo
That’s nice, I hear the Jeff Dahmer was good at knots too.
Ya man, dude that's awesome, honestly one of the only knots you need to know
Uncle Bumblefaaaaack! Today was the first day that I was paid to weld. Just wanted to say thanks for all yer lessons shared. If the bars ever open again the next beer is on me.
lol's you do know that you didn't manage to tie a bowline correctly right? The one you almost got right was still wrong :-)
I was laughing at this too. Someone needs to teach him the bunny and tree story.
@RocketSurgeon LOL!
@@Clean97gti No, he never tied a bowline - but that's ameliorated to a worthy extent by the fact that almost the entire time he was futzing around with the rope AS IF to demonstrate "tying a bowline," he was touting the virtues of the REAL bowline precisely because even its red-headed cousins can almost work as well as the real McCoy - while demonstrating two or three imposters to prove his secondary point.
As always, entertaining as well as informative. In this case, though, rather inappropriately titled.
I had a job that required me to tie bowline and square knots every work day. A true bowline can be undone by pulling the tail in the opposite direction like undoing a square knot. I never seen a proper bowline in this video.
Glad I'm not the only one who noticed this. A lot of people don't tie a true bowline when they attempt it
+1 legend hp increase for working cromulent casually into a sentence.
I accidentally discovered the hitch knot when I first started running cables a decade ago. Still my favorite knot to use.
Thank you for the hours of info and entertainment ,watched most of these vejaos ( like the hutterites say ) 5 maybe 3 times ! I call my (empire of dirt) the PIGLOO. André
"just going to use some red pex" Que enraged pipe fitters everywhere
That timber hitch could have ended in a clove hitch, no need for tape. Also those half hitches on your timber hitch have an unnecessary extra twist or something. Its common to haul 1/4 inch air craft cable 80ft from the stage in theaters, with a line just slightly bigger than the diameter of the cable, and you do it with one clove hitch and two "timber hitches" or whatever they're called.
Yup. Clove then a couple half hitches.
Funniest genius ever ; ) love your channel my man.
I’ll Dumbonstrate For Ya! Definitely saved that in the new vocabulary.
Ashley's book of knots. Tie every included knot once and the pandemic will be over. Guaranteed.
No doubt about that!
Ha.. I was going to say, that’s not a bowline knot, after I watched 3 times.. then was like hell looks fine.
Yep.. bowline, half hitch, figure 8, square knot, (and the combo) peach truckers knot (or truckers knot) are really all the knots you need to know.
But hell, the granny knot works, you just hate yourself in the morning.
My grandpa survived Pearl Harbor and served through Korea. In the days I knew him he would spend summers teaching kids about nature and knots at different camps around the state. There has to be thousands of people out there who know the bowline because of him and that bunny story.
I love the bowline, that’s the only knot we ever used when I climbed towers 💪🏼
Cabin fever's starting to show..
Next week: How to tie shoes.
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This should be top comment. AVE seems to think we're all as bored as he is.
Now, if you want to tie a bowline, get an 8" mooring line and have fun.
Loved that hot knives reference!
If I might submit a third: the taut-line hitch for all your cinching needs! Hanging a hammock? Stringing up a tarp? Anchoring a tent? The taut-line makes it stupid easy. Bowline, Timberhitch, and Taut-line are my daily drivers. Thanks for the video!
Icicle Hitch and you wouldn't have to tape the tip. With this amazing knot you can literally suspend a load from an icicle.
Thanks for that, I have been looking for an alternative to the typical hitch and stitch methods. I don't trust cheap tape to hold those and it kind of sucks spending so much Scotch 33+ on something that's just going to wind up cut off. Going to have to play with the icicle hitch in the garage to see how it handles difficult paths.
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forget the knot... DID YOU SEE THE SIZE OF THAT BEARING @3:35 😂😂😂👍
That's his wedding ring!
I seen that I don’t want to be around when that thing starts to cook
Thats got to be his cock ring
You should do whole video on knots even though I admit there is a lot of videos out, you have a huge audience that might enjoy these style vlogs . As a movie and TV grip people would be amazed on how many knots there are and how useful they are in everyday use and survival. These basic ones for sure, clove, hitch, half hitch, truckers, square and bowline. :-)
Thanks for your videos !! Your so f@#$ing funny.. got me through tough times..keep chooching😊
I practice fishing knots all the time. Never learned any of them.
Thanks Bob. I needed that.
keeps the fish happy
The knot I use everyday is a square knot on my shoes, people dont realize they're not properly tying their shoes.
I've made it through my nearly 32 years of life thanks to double granny knots. But I'm always happy to learn more (I guess)
Bowline is one of my go-to in all forms of work and play, a hammock does not get hung without one.
"Kidnapping 101"
3:22 Holy bearing!
Seeing AvE's workbench surfaces makes me glad I can't see the rest of his shop.
As kids we had to learn to make on one handed and blind folded...you just never forget after a learning experience like that.