ALSO, if you tie a "square knot", it's 'fairly' easy to untie! Pull one of the short ends (hard) and the knot tumbles into 2 half hitches/clove knot. Easily slid off the other line. 'Sometimes', the "sheet bend" can be tumbled the same way.
Rainy and cold?!? Wimp! 😂 Yeah, rub it in getting the pack 😢 Here I thought I was the only one that saved my old shoe laces. I never thought about using it for cordage 🤦♂️. Excellent idea!
I've been saving old laces for evwr since I can remember. I have a whole boot box full of them. They come in handy for all sorts of things and I don't have to waste my expensive cordage on a one time deal, bundling up trash or whatever. I also use them to keep up with my knot tying skills. When I need to make them longer I tie together however many I need with double fisherman's or scaffold knots. I keep strings from all sorts of things. They come handy for making tool lanyards and handle wraps among other things.
I keep my original laces also, as I replace them with paracord. Has too many times the original laces end up breaking over time. Great score on the bag. Cheers and have a great weekend.
Actually a really good idea especially when you see all the folks that replace brand new shoes shoelaces with something else. Heck, you can treat these shoe laces as just disposable use, if you forget them when you finish your camping or hiking and leave them, well, no great loss but a lot more easier to swallow than forget and leaving much better more expensive, useful line like para, or bank, or some more expensive breads of line. It doesn't take long to store up a bunch of shoelaces.
I've always saved any shoe laces I can as well as any other scrap cordage or wire. Unfortunately my laces normally wear out on my shoes and I end up replacing them with any laces I've previously saved.
@@FloridaBoyBushcraftSurvival I think it depends a lot on the shoe and how the eye loops are as well as how much you have to sinch them down depending on how the shoe fits
I always keep them. At the very least you have a spare set. But 101 uses and the aglets on the end make threading them onto those spring loaded sliders even easier. I always tie a double fusherman. I just like the way it looks.
Ok, enough people popped you for the granny knot, so that's that, "but..." Here's a useful for you if not known: I'll have to say, "usually," aglet can slide right through a pony bead with another shoe string in there (doubled-up) allowing you to make tracker beads for pace setting and counting cords. Paracord required the inner strands to be removed, but the inner poly-fill of a shoestring has more give to thread through, but have a snug fit to hold the beads in place. Shade and water to ya.
Also, that's a granny knot, not a square knot and the "fisherman's" knots are two slip knots, not fisherman's knots. I think you need to bone up on your knots and their correct names.
@@FloridaBoyBushcraftSurvival a simple way to remember how to tie a square knot is to remember the saying, "Left over right" then tie a half hitch. And then "Right over left" as you tie the another half hitch over that. Hope that helps.
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Great idea, Brother !!!
Keep up the great work !!!
However, your "square knot" was actually a "granny knot".
Thanks! I know I tied it wrong lol
@@FloridaBoyBushcraftSurvival , lol !!!
ALSO, if you tie a "square knot", it's 'fairly' easy to untie! Pull one of the short ends (hard) and the knot tumbles into 2 half hitches/clove knot. Easily slid off the other line. 'Sometimes', the "sheet bend" can be tumbled the same way.
@@rev-mikemckay9750 Yeah I tied the wrong knot lol
Funny. First thing I do with shoelaces is replace them with bank line. Thank you for showing this to us, Matt. Stay safe and stay warm and dry
Bank line works well also brother!
Rainy and cold?!? Wimp! 😂
Yeah, rub it in getting the pack 😢
Here I thought I was the only one that saved my old shoe laces. I never thought about using it for cordage 🤦♂️. Excellent idea!
Thanks! I am a pack rat and save everything lol
I've been saving old laces for evwr since I can remember. I have a whole boot box full of them. They come in handy for all sorts of things and I don't have to waste my expensive cordage on a one time deal, bundling up trash or whatever. I also use them to keep up with my knot tying skills. When I need to make them longer I tie together however many I need with double fisherman's or scaffold knots. I keep strings from all sorts of things. They come handy for making tool lanyards and handle wraps among other things.
They do come in handy
I keep my original laces also, as I replace them with paracord. Has too many times the original laces end up breaking over time. Great score on the bag. Cheers and have a great weekend.
Thanks! They are very handy...
Actually a really good idea especially when you see all the folks that replace brand new shoes shoelaces with something else. Heck, you can treat these shoe laces as just disposable use, if you forget them when you finish your camping or hiking and leave them, well, no great loss but a lot more easier to swallow than forget and leaving much better more expensive, useful line like para, or bank, or some more expensive breads of line. It doesn't take long to store up a bunch of shoelaces.
Exactly. They are pretty strong and work well
I've always saved any shoe laces I can as well as any other scrap cordage or wire. Unfortunately my laces normally wear out on my shoes and I end up replacing them with any laces I've previously saved.
I usually wear out the shoes before the laces lol
@@FloridaBoyBushcraftSurvival I think it depends a lot on the shoe and how the eye loops are as well as how much you have to sinch them down depending on how the shoe fits
@@MkGreene True...
I always keep them. At the very least you have a spare set.
But 101 uses and the aglets on the end make threading them onto those spring loaded sliders even easier.
I always tie a double fusherman. I just like the way it looks.
Cool. They really are pretty handy
Happy Birthday Matt! Cheers - Luther
Thanks!
So the smell might not be an old tarp but the tie outs???
Lol maybe...
Ok, enough people popped you for the granny knot, so that's that, "but..."
Here's a useful for you if not known: I'll have to say, "usually," aglet can slide right through a pony bead with another shoe string in there (doubled-up) allowing you to make tracker beads for pace setting and counting cords. Paracord required the inner strands to be removed, but the inner poly-fill of a shoestring has more give to thread through, but have a snug fit to hold the beads in place.
Shade and water to ya.
Thanks!
Great information, stay safe
Thanks!
They hang on my day pack
Mine too lol
on 5:40 this is NOT a square knot! it is grandma knot!
Yes it is lol
I do this wife says I am crazy for doing this lol
Mine too lol
Also, that's a granny knot, not a square knot and the "fisherman's" knots are two slip knots, not fisherman's knots. I think you need to bone up on your knots and their correct names.
Thanks for watching
Hi Matt
Hey Steve!
Your square knot is a granny!!! Not a square knot!! Thats a knotty knot😃
I know, I tied it wrong lol. And thanks for pointing that out BTW...
@@FloridaBoyBushcraftSurvival a simple way to remember how to tie a square knot is to remember the saying, "Left over right" then tie a half hitch. And then "Right over left" as you tie the another half hitch over that. Hope that helps.
Your basically lying lots of my family have been doing this for years now
I am not lying, just saying that most people overlook these