A NEW TOGGLE TRICK NOBODY KNOWS
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- เผยแพร่เมื่อ 26 ก.ย. 2024
- I WAS WATCHING A TH-cam CHANNEL AND SAW HOW THIS GENTLEMAN USED A SIMPLE TOGGLE TO FORM A LOCKING TOGGLE. FROM THAT I FELT I COULD ADD THE TOGGEL TO MY ADJUSTABLE GUY LINE AND FORM A LOCKING TOGGLE LOOP THAT WOULD WORK LIKE A CINCH STRAP FOR HOLDING LOADS.I USED MY WCKNIVES BLACKBIRD TO CUT A OAK BRANCH OF PROPER SIZE. THEN I REMOVED THE BARK AND LOCATED THE PLACE TO CUT THE SMALL HOLE FOR THE 550 PARACORD. TO BORE THE HOLE I USED MY VICTORNOX FIELDMASTER CUTTING AWL. THIS AWL ALLOWED THE HOLE TO BE CLEAN CUT WITH LESS CHANCE OF SPLINT THE OAK STICK. ONCE THE BASICK HOLE WAS BORED I SHIFTED THE THE SMALL BLADE OF THE FIELDMASTE TO DRESS THE EDGES AND PREVENT SPLITING. FINALLY I USED THE PHILIPS SCREWDRIVER TO FULLY OPEN AND ROUND OUT THE HOLE . I HAD ARLEADY CREATED A ADJUSTABLE GUY LINE FROM 550 PAPACORD.ITH THE END PASSED THRU THE TOGGLE I CREATED I WAS READY TO TEST MY IDEA. USING THE ADJUSTABLE GUY LINE I WAS ABLE TO MAKE THE CORD FIT THE LOAD BY SLIDING THE PRUSICK KNOT TO PROPER SIZE.THEN THE TOGGLE USED TO CINCH THE LOAD TIGHT THE TOGGLE PREVENTS THE PARACORD FROM SLIPPING AND SERVES THE PLACE OF A BUCKLE WITH OUT HAVING TO TIE KNOTS.
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hey guys i plan on adapting this idea to my quick deploy ridgeline i will post that soon thanks for watching !! safe journeys
Hi Blackie! Can u use it as a tourniquet?
@Leon Harder ⁴4b
Hey Blackie, Thanks for sharing your knowledge with us! I was thinking when you mentioned of shortening the toggle, would it maybe be better to leave it the length you originally have it 2"-3" so maybe it wouldn't undo as easily while walking through thicker brush from hitting on a limb/snag. Yes it might still twist from being longer but it will be less likely "longer length" of popping under the synch down line? Just a thought ;) Keep bringing the great video's 👍
Get that vid out there. Ive been using this method for my ridgeline. Essentially a truckers hitch with the toggle placed through the loop you make, then wrap around the toggle figure of eight or tie off. Got a permanently attached toggle at the other end for securing the loop around the other tree 👍 i hang things off my ridgeline so i like a lot of tension.
Just checked the date on the vid above. Also checked out the ridgeline vid. We came to exactly the same solution independently 👍
Hey Blacky! Thank you so much for this wonderful video!! I got a lot of new subcribers from USA and i didn't know why. Now i have a explanation.. haa ha haa 😂😂. Thank you so much!
Glad I could help! I hope to share more things with you in the future safe journeys to you
Mentioned you both in my latest video, hope you don’t mind.
Yep, I'm one of them. Greetings from California Felix.
Felix did give credit to someone else. Good to see the YT community giving credit where credit due. Thanks for sharing.
i agree give credit where you can..and share the knowledge
I was going to say the same thing.
@@BLACKIETHOMAS See channel „Bushcraft and Nature“ 19.12.2020 🤪
Felix Immler is an Bushcraft instructor for Swiss Army Knives and he is a wealth of knowledge about all things woodcraft. I have two of his SAK books and I refer to them all the time. His channel is focused around things he can do with a Swiss Army Knife and he can do a lot. Thanks for sharing this tip about a simple cinch buckle that seems to have a million applications.
I AGREE the more i think of this locking toggle /adjustable line i keep finding uses
I am 59 years old and that trick has been around since I was a kid. We always cut it shorter. but thanks, you are always showing cool stuff.
Are you sure they had toggles 50 some years ago? LOL
@@kenuber4766 Yeah, but we called them sticks.
@@gldsmith61 hahaha
Great video.
We used this in the army (1984) and it’s still working, great!
The best part of this video is the explanation about the learning and sharing part about knowledge.
Like a steak, well done!
Felix has some really great Victorinox Pocket Knife Utility demonstration videos. Glad that you mentioned his channel.
I saw Mr I'mmler use that as well,I wondered who else used that idea.this is the purpose of these videos learns new trick as often as possible! Thank Mr.. Thomas for another great video!
I watched Felix's video yesterday and made a few of theses. I tapered my toggle ends. That made the undoing easier. The toggle also works on tarp tie outs, so it could be an adjustable guildline. The toggle works on a trucker hitch too, so good for ridgelines.
Good old Felix has some very useful tricks. Like you I made a set of these toggles after seeing Felix’s video. In that video Felix gave credit to the guy who shared this idea with him. So, as you point this shared idea has traveled the world. 😀
I’m stealing that one “we are not here to learn how to pour coffee out a coffee cup”Thanks for the tips from Germany 👍🏻
Nice, I watched the video from Felix & wanted to give it a try, this Toggle thing just keeps getting better. So now with your cord setup you have the option to tie or toggle a tarp loop & tie everything up when carrying it. 👍👍👍
That was a great idea. Very handy. Suddenly a host of ideas come to mind. This deserves a test drive.
What a lovely philosophy of sharing knowledge. Very enjoyable to watch: calm relaxed expert presentation of interesting content. Saw Felix's take on it a few months ago and this has reignited my desire to make and play with toggles. Just when my family thought I'd gone off the boil on toggles...
I love Felix, his channel about SAK Wisdom is grade A.
Mr Blackie you're take on anything is much needed, thanks for what you do. I'm gonna try this with Bamboo.
that sounds cool
Humble notes Blackie. That makes you a better person and so intresting to learn from.
thank you
Felix Immler knows a few tricks and it was nice to meet him once, very funny guy.
he seems really nice..i found him due to swiss arm knife video
I love Blackie Thomas one of the best woodsman on the net!
thanks for your kind word
Great idea, I’m glad he shared and you did too. I’ve learned so much from you! You’re a great teacher! Thank you
You are so welcome!
That's a really great use of a toggle! I like it a lot! Felix has a really good channel as well!
It does!
I agree
Immler is a badass. I'm also tired of the "nobody knows" titles, maybe "worth knowing" perhaps. Especially when someone does know. LOL
yeah was gonna comment well obviously someone knows. I too am tired of the catchy titles of youtube. Usually I have seen it and know whatever it is that they say NO one knows LOL.
Sixty thousand people know it now!!!
See channel „Bushcraft and Nature“ 19.12.2020 🤪
I've got to agree with you, like all the videos titled 'The Secrets of ....'
Man, you are a joy to watch. Even these simple things, I found my eyes glued to the screen, watching you work and listening to you talk. I can't really explain it.
Cool, thanks!
Thanks for the video. As I told Felix on his link when you cinch down your pack it is very tight. but all you have to do is pull on the toggle and it comes loose. You people that say that you’ve successfully done this can I have you do it again. And then pull on the toggle (simulates hitting/bumping the toggle on rocks while hiking and climbing). it comes loose. At least it does for me with military-grade 550 and 275 paracords.
That looks very good Blackie. Nice tip. Felix does good stuff with his SAK. Thanks for showing us. Take care.
Blackie, Another Great Video and keep passing on more knowledge. Thanks Again Tim.
You bet
Sweet addition to your Built in Prussic Hank, and I will not have to look for a stick to connect it to a tarp also. Or even try a larks head to the tarp. Toggle Built in for tarps and Synching down things on my cycle. LOVE IT. A lot less work than the vid Felix posted today on a bushcraft forge. It was a Shawn Kelly type of work project. Thanks Blackie
Thanks 👍
Felix is the man and if he's new for you I'm very glad you found him and I hope you subscribed, 'cause he rocks. Combining your adjustable strap with his locking toggle is genius and I'm gonna make up a couple of them right away. Man, I love YT!!!!!
i did he has many good ideas
Outstanding Brother, Your exactly right, We all need to share and learn from one another, we are all of Gods Children, Are Country and World is gone off the Rail's, so thank you for Sharing, we all need to DIY with less, God Bless you and you're family and God Bless America and the Republic
I'm looking at thte start and thinking "oh, Blackie has his legs out" and then he says it "counts as a signalling device".
thank you for making me laugh Blackie
hey them legs can be seen miles away !! lol
@@BLACKIETHOMAS Legs?? I thought he was riding a chicken...hahaha
Watched Felix's Vid A Few Days Back I Like Your Take On This Gonna Make A Few Thanks Blackie. ATB T God Bless
Sharing ideas is so primitive just like bushcraft which makes it so great to do cheers mate
always pick up something useful from your efforts on youtube. I appreciate your teaching spirit.
Great trick. I missed Felix showing this. Thanks for catching me up.
Any time!
Blackie, I really enjoy your down home style of presentation. Also, your teaching is effect for learning the point of your talks. Thanks for what you do!
Wow, thank you!
My best strategy for pouring coffee out of a coffee cup is directly into my mouf with one hand, freeing my other hands up to skin an groundhog and tie a prussik knot.
On the other guy's channel he made several in his shop from a long dowel stick, then showed how he used them for a guy line, ridge line and to hold things on his pack.
I saw that. I'd buy a dowel rod and make a dozen which I can put in a pack rather then whittling one in the field. Then you know you'll have seasoned hardwood toggles.
Great tip. Thanks!
I actually remember this from my grandfather on my father's side. Had completely forgot about it til I saw it on first Felix Immler's channel and now yours. It is a good one indeed.
Agreed, Blackie. Let's not pretend that we invented anything. We are all building on the past and moving forward. Another great video. Thank you.
Well said!
“Standing on the shoulders of giants”
Very interesting, thanks for sharing!
My pleasure!
Thanks for sharing learnt alot from ur channell ,think ill use this for an improvised belt.
it should work well for that
Very neat trick!
TH-cam is the new “tribal knowledge”…. I’ve learned so much (now in my early 50s) from TH-cam that, in the past, would have had to be learned from elders (parents, grandparents, scoutmasters, etc…)
Wonderful idea Blackie. Just discovered your channel. Great tip. I will definitely be adding this to my repertoire of bushcraft skills.
Thank you for your awesome vids! And thank you for introducing Felix, he does have some really great, and ingenious stuff in his channel :)
My pleasure!
That is so darn funny brother, I just happened to see that same video last night. And yes I did try it today. Lmbo...... here is to great minds think alike. Have a great day and keep your tinder dry.
yep things do happen that way...safe journeys to you
Very cool my friend 🤠
It's funny to sit here and watch you do this I've done this five years ago and have been using this for five years
Great idea and video. Thank you!
Hey, Blackie. I subscribed because I really like your philosophy of guys like us sharing good information with each other! Thanks for giving Felix credit too. He's a great TH-camr and I've learned a lot from him. One of these days I'm going to post a review. I got a really cool knife, on the cheap, that guys should know about. Your knife is interesting. I'd watch a review on that too, for sure.
Hey from Canada, love your stuff and devious mind, what about a heavy rubber hose in the bowline so you can pull using the hose as a handle, even better leave a slot in the hose so the cordage can create a loop coming out of the slot to attach to the toggle to create a carry handle like you showed...
Yes, another way doing... Great ,always learning new .
Brilliant idea, I will be using this all summer.
I like your lower limb signaling device. It's funny, Felix Immler's toggle video came up in my feed yesterday (I had seen it before) and I was just thinking, I wonder how can I adapt that to Blackie's tensioner....and poof! Here was your video.
Now that is just plain cool. Felix has lots of good SAK tips videos.
Good stuff, thanks.
Glad you enjoyed it
Great little trick
Took a few extra steps to get there but you got there, kind of. Try a stop knot on one end after adding the toggle, bowline knot in the other end. Wrap around whatever you want to cinch up. hold bowline and pass just the toggle through the bowline loop. There should now be standing and working end coming out of the bowline loop with the toggle holding it in place. Pull on working end only to cinch down....no need for fancy single strand prussiks, handle loops (as this can easily be cinched to a pack to begin with before joining loop and toggle) and no hard failures so long as working end is on top of toggle and jammed (by toggle) against the bowline loop.
Felix has some very good tips on Swiss Army knives! This loop and toggle is a brilliant idea…whoever came up with it!!!
i just subbed he has a lot of good content
Great share Blackie!!!
Now that is slick!!!!
That's good to know blackie, thanks for the video.
Thanks Blackie! Great adaptation!
That's a nice addition to the ole tool box!
I imagine it would be easy to throw a half hitch or two to lock it in. (Still wouldn't interfere with the quick release)
exactly a half hitch to the toggle and it set but still easy to remove and reset
Yes, I watched his video last week and it's a great idea!
I just watched that video on the tensioning system by the person you named. I was intrigued too.
Learned from same source you did, but made mine from fatwood slabs (felix is awesome👍) can never have too much fatwood 😎❤️🙏
Great!!
Hahaha, first thought you had some surplus gaiters then realized they were your legs. 😳🤣🤣🤣
hey they double as a signal device lol
So cool!
I missed how to tie the prusik on a single line. I can do it normally with a loop, but......I can't seem to find the original video of you tying that line
It's a few videos back in the playlist.
nice! another way to do it without the stick is to make a loop on one end of the cordage, wrap it around whatever you want and then just put the other end of the line throught the loop TWO TIMES and then pull and sinch it, it will have enough friction to hold. you can tie the rest of the line just above it make sure it doesn't slip but it won't. to undo it you pull the line in the opposite direction and it will undo itself easily. very good for tree to tree lines for tarps as well: tie one end to a tree then go around the other tree, make a loop somewhere on the rope, free end goes two times throught just like before and pull towards the second tree. try it out it's worth it :) have a good day!
Man yes learned that back in late 70's
awesome
Saw Felix Immler do this about a year ago. Works great. I recommend replacing the bowline with a zeppelin loop always as there are situations where a bowline has failed and the zeppelin is one of the strongest knots you can use. Then use that for the toggle loop. Then for looks use a monkey fist on the other end.
If you had paid attention, Felix credited the source of where he saw it. Glad you did the same.
yep fleix follows me now he has comments on my videos he is a nice guy
Try a 3 wrap taught line hitch instead of your prussik. Much cleaner. Larger 6 foot toggle lines were used by the British commandos in WW2. The use by the common soldier of “small hemp cords, an arms breadth, with a toggle” are documented since the 18th century. Felix really rocks!
Thank's good job Be carefull with knive.friendly from France.
thank you safe journeys
Great video Blackie!
So I just saw Dave Canterbury's video on the Delrin toggles and referrenced Blackie who gave credit to Felix just as Dave mentioned him anyway this is a way cool and totally farout video . Totally cool and tomorrow is my day off so i got a new project . Blackie Thomas is one Groovey dude , Man .
I'm his subscriber also. He didn't come up with it, he also shouted out who he got from. Respect I made a few also.
Nice!!!!!! Thank you for sharing. Could also be used as a tourniquet in a pinch.
yes it sure could
great video.
Thanks!
I like the sliding Prussic loop idea to give an adjustable diameter (almost like a modified farramond hitch)… will have to play with it and try it!
Awesome ! Thanks. ...Alan 🇨🇱
Had to come back and look this video up lol been thinking about it's uses all week lol
really get ya to thinking dont it
That's great Blackie, thanks for the tip!👍
Any time!
That line you have there, can that be used as an adjustable ridgeline?
Like that knot that was on the adjustable side, it locks on the line and can be moved and tightened when adjustments are wanted?
I can and do . 'Course i'm "special". Many ask what they can do or say and even think. I just go ahead and live life. Works for me ...
yes i am sure it could be used for that..many uses come to mine its a simple matter of scale up or down to fit and what type of cord to use
Outstanding video. Just a thought about soft shackles you can use your pace beads as a soft shackles
yes that might be a good idea thanks
I was watching how you used 2 or 3 lines of para-cord around your rolled up tarp to tighten it up to carry on pack. ? wonder if this be good idea of creating a multi- bar of cinch cords. take a piece wood (stick) about 1/4" x 1" W x (10-12"L) drill 2 or 3 holes, run para-cord through each put end knot, then the toggles on each line, then place flat stick on rolled up tarp, wrap the lines around, and cinch them all down. guess I'm being lazy really, by trying to evenly balance out the cinching down process more evenly at once than struggling first with one line then a 2nd or 3rd line around big, bulky tarp, bed roll, etc.
You mentioned you adapted this from another utuber. Back in the '50s my Grandfather always had a 2-3 ft piece of cotton rope loop on 1 end, stop knot on other, and a toggle sliding between. Used it to hold all kinds of things until could get twine or wire.
Watched your quick ridgeline, using toggle in place of truckers hitch. Have you added a 2nd toggle next to bowline? Instead of passing whole line thru loop, just toggle. Then you could choke tight on tree, would not slide down before you get other end tight.
awesome it all go to prove there is nothing new just stuff we forget and then someone finds it again
Just discovered you !:) Felix is the man!! I guess that's why the algorithm suggested you. That adjustable guy line prusic is awsome gonna try that now thanks:)
Very old trick, many greetings from Germany
Hi Blackie
I made the same comment on Felix´s channel. If you double back the line you pull through, you do not risk damaging the cloth with the toggle. You would just pull the loose end to pull it loose. Like a thieves knot.
Kind regards
Alain
COOL IDEA
I’ll need one of those knives thanks!!!!
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Love Felix!
Hello Blackie, very good trick, I have a problem with it, when I pull hard on the rope to tighten, and I already have everything really tight, when I release it, the toggle returns 45 degrees and loosens slightly. I am using 550 paracord and a toggle identical to the one in your video
the 550 cord may be too slick some are more "toothy" than others that or your loop the toggle is in is too big
I looked on the Bushcraft & Nature youtube site Felix Immler's youtube site references and I couldn't find the original instruction however he references using it in a few of his videos... so thanx to all for sharing the innovation with something so easy to make and use
my pleasure
th-cam.com/video/UZY0ps8Stz0/w-d-xo.html is Felix’s video Blackie is referencing.
that's bad ass man,love it
I use it all the time hanging my work bag in my truck in the fashion of a truckers hitch.
It also means I can hang my 12 litre water filter system at the exact height for the outlet pipe to sit at the top of my bottle.
Right on