How to; Store cordage
Description
In this video I demonstrate one method for storing your cordage (other wise known as hanking a cord)
Tags: paracord,survival,bushcraft,ray mears,Survival Skills (TV Genre),Rope (Sports Equipment),Climbing (Sport),camping
Video Transcription
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hi guys thanks for coming back and watching some more videos today what I'm gonna be showing you is how to correctly store your paracord there's a few different methods for doing this it works with any cordage not just power cord well this is my preferred method and it's really simple to do takes a little bit of time but it saves you a lot of hassle untangling things when you're ready to set up camp again so first of all what I'll do is I'll show you the benefits of storing your product is firstly packs away really nicely you can hook all these loops onto a carabiner and keep it on your path or whatever you can store quite a lot of cordage like this it's nice and narrow sticks in the pin your pack really easily and it also makes accessing this whole length pretty easy so a great thing about this method of storing your power cord is that it makes it really easy for a Ridgeline so what I'm going to very quickly do is just Chuck the Siberian huebsch in here if you don't know how the finest not after all a link to the video in so that's tight on my so securely there so now is that's attached to the tree what I can now do using this bundle I can hold it like a grip that's nice and tightly secured I don't have to mess around and tying all this and what i can do is just pull that cord out nice and easily right so this makes it really easy to set up a guyline so what I'll do now is I'll just pretty quickly show you how to tie so the way we start to do this this is otherwise called hanging the rope I believe when you're up tall untangle all the vort ready to go away if you're using quite a long went to call you can actually put two sticks in the ground use the same method weaving backwards and forwards but for this I've got about 20 foot college here and what I like to do is actually wrap it around my hand so I'm going to grab this pull a loose end through you'll see what that's for shortly and then with the rest of it I just start to look back wrap that around my elbow around my thumb until I've got most of the cause just keeping that free end that's dangling nice and eating out of the way it's a bit tricky when one of your learning this but once you've got the hang of it it's actually quite easy so what I need to do is I coil up too much I need to leave quite a long length at the end of this it's quite hard to George it time specially with a very long piece of cord but using that long length that I've left I need to start coiling this or back around itself now so the first few coils need to be really tight and sort of the subsequent ones after that keep peace out the road make sure that these coils go around short loose piece we left at the beginning coil it around I'm doing the slope of the video you're the way you can do this is to start turning you on itself this is a nice way of doing it always keeping the tension on that because that actually helps to hold all the portage in place particularly with this quite slippery power cord that is really important keep those coils nice and tight as you're going along and you eventually start to get this kind of handle fixed
what can happen sometimes are you using this this bit that I'm calling around now you can accidentally leave it a little bit short so you just have to learn how to judge in I think this one's going to be a fraction too short where doesn't matter for the purpose of the videos you can see what I'm doing around the go round around so when we start getting towards the end you want to leave the last two coils that you are using more in there actually so the last couple of coils you put in you want to leave those loose and the reason for that just taking longer than I predicted it's a big piece of cord so leave the last couple loose and then what you need to do with those loose pieces is then talk your loose end back through itself and then pull those tight okay I've left that piece a little bit long just to illustrate well that's four so the piece that I tied to the tree at the beginning of the video was this one and that pulls out really nicely and if you're concerned about that piece coming free while it's packed what you can do wear it where it comes into the rest of the cottage here you can just put a little stopper in there and that can't come out this way so if you've got your not here and you want to attach this to something attached it through these loops and that cannot pull itself through easily at all there but then it's still quick release at this side so I saw your release for this again I've actually tie the knot in the wrong piece there I saw you the release for this again and how easily it all comes out there's a couple of things that can go a little bit wrong with this type of coil so I've got that there I've accidentally untied the wrong piece that's alright guys so we pull this out comes out really easily really tight but as you get towards the end when that outer coil starts to unravel this does have a tendency to just curl back on itself it's not a huge problem it just kind of kinked up a little bit like this all you need to do is very carefully just unravel all of that and to itself and just pull that piece of things and don't you get this kind of that beehive and that's that's a result of the way that the cord is actually made that caused this because it is a woven called it twists on itself so we just unravel that absolutely easy when it's attached to a guyline
comes out real it's not actually not that it's just as you can see here it's kind of pigtailed a little bit where it's twisted you can see that and torn do that just when your finger along it and it wanders all those coils it's just like the old style phone cables which used to do that so there you go so using this you don't have to be doing with massive piece of cord and you can also do it with quite short pieces so i've got about or sell out five and a half foot cord here and the way we do with the smaller pieces is wrap it around our index finger and our little finger but crisscross that as we go along so you end up with this just makes a little tardy go along making sure that we've left enough to the coil take off pinch through that loop there and then again it's the same process but bring in that coil around and this keeps all those little bits of coins that we all seem to kind of have lying around everywhere nice and tidy an hour back again pull up and through the last loop keeps nice and tidy there's that end ready to go again we can just pull that out if we want to really really useful way Karen r+ got again so I'm putting can be done oops all your call Hank your cord so remember keep that cord nice and tidy makes your camp a lot easier to spend ages mess around detangling things as always thank you guys for watching thank you for support thank you for the put those people have been sharing my videos commenting keep the comments coming in it's really useful to me thank you
About the Author
Forrester Bushcraft
Welcome to the Forrester Bushcraft youtube page. This channel is dedicated to teaching all manner of wilderness lore, whether it be primitive skills, traditional methods or modern adaptations. Here you will find all manner of information pertaining to the great outdoors. Based in the United Kingdom I explore all of the terrains and landscapes available to me. Here you will find full HD videos filmed and edited by my self showing bushcraft skills, plant ID wildlife experiences Journeys & adventures, and last but not least the odd bit of philosophy.
My aim with this channel is to help people get outdoors and experience the great wild world that we live in showing mutual understanding and respect for all of nature.
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