Making Primitive 4 Ply Cordage - Method 2

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hey it's mature native survival workout some cordage today now we're going to do a different variation on doing a floor ply cordage this is really fast and really easy stay tuned okay so let's have a yucca leaf I'm just going to split it down so I get two pieces that are roughly the same size

okay so I have two two strands of yuk yuk relief so I'm going to do is I have the base right here I was white and the tip smaller in green okay I'm gonna take this I'm going to flip them so I have one of each okay so the thin put the thick on the other side then with the thick okay so that way it's a balanced piece that I'm working with now for pi very easy stuff okay so I twist the cordage in opposite directions start

turning it from the flat cross-section to circle cross-section okay just can't earn it then creasing up my fingers see just like that and I take my fingers and run it over it and that holds that shape okay

just I'm just a quick prep of the cordage so it's a better shape than flat all right that's most of it okay so real simple stuff

I'm gonna go Sally outside twist it off the directions

until a kinks okay I'm basically making two-ply cordage I started with two pieces so now I have two on the side and two on this side well it's four ply portage and I continue my business as usual turn counterclockwise get two pieces on a clockwise make them switch it goes right over coming a clockwise goes over right and so on I'm going to do this for a moment I'll show where I'm at but you just keep the strands on their own side see - over here - over here that's all so instead of twisting one at a time I'm twisting two at a time the cool thing about this is that instead of starting with two pieces which gives me four when I split it in half like that when I make the kink you can start with any number I mean I could literally have you know eight pieces and make a sixteen sixteen ply cordage you know if I want something real beefy I wanted to make like a bull string or something

okay so I just been doing this for I don't know a minute or so whatever and I have a couple inches maybe three inches and you can see the stuff is just bomb I mean real thick real strong looking stuff real strong looking stuff I'll show you a two-ply and what that looks like well looks like at the knock one up so I'll be right back alright so here's a quick two-ply let's go pay that to the four ply I just made a moment ago yeah big difference you know like I was saying you know you can make this monstrous you know it's it's just you know it's just a really quick way to make really strong cordage you know and it really doesn't take any more time than making two pi because you're just applying it once we set more threads so if you have more threads to begin with when you start applying it then you don't to keep lying it okay like the other way to do four ply is to take a two ply make a kink in it like I did in last video and then you have to keep making two ply to splice into it it's really time consuming you have to make a whole bunch of to apply to make up that four ply where this is four ply but it doesn't take any extra time it's really making a two ply a single two ply okay so here we have maybe five six inches worth something like that real quick and easy to make [Applause]

this is the best way to make strong cordage you just bang out a ton of it really fast okay so when you get to a spot to splice you just had in you just add in about how many pieces you're working with see I have two on each side that's how many you added so I'm going to take two pieces see you have them down here okay so there's two pieces so I'm working two pieces so I'm going to put two pieces in pinch him in same as before wrap it around the ones that I'm working wrap around a few times okay go about my business so doing a splice is really just about matching about how many threads you're using how many pieces of fiber using no matter what ply it is you just match that amount of ply inside the cordage for your thread you know because you obviously just want to match what's already in the quarters to begin with so you know if I'm doing a for pliers to each side well I'm working too so I have to add more I add two could be five could be ten could be nine could be whatever you want so it's real simple whatever your cord is made of how many pieces you're working that's how many pieces you add in so here's the end of the cordage right here and you can see that the splice is back here okay so you can see I added about another inch past the splice so there's the cordage there's a splice as I'm working right here so there's the newest part of the cordage right there alright so now I realize that I still have all this left you know I mean I still have probably over a solid leaf left out of the two that I started with I made all that cordage all those two plies these four pies all that from those two Leafs that I originally grabbed and I still have all this leftover I mean there's just a ton of the stuff left and you know look behind me you know hundreds of feet of cordage just from a couple plants all right well thanks for joining me today for this quick and easy bull fly cordage and appreciate your views come see you sport see the next one take care

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