How To Hank Cordage For Bushcraft, Survival & Outdoor Life

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Here's a really great way to hank cordage such as paracord. It's easy to release when you need to use the cord and will not tangle or create knots in the line.

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hi there Paul Kelly here author of Paul Kelly's blog the leading source of wilderness bushcraft advice and information on the net and founder of frontier bushcraft the award-winning bushcraft school now when I'm out with people on courses and on expeditions I find that people get their cord and their rope and their string in all sorts of mess and in this video I'm going to share with you a really simple way of hanging up your cord so that it stays nice and tidy but you've got it they're ready to hand ready to deploy when you need it this is a really simple way of hanging up your paracord or other string in an easily containable easily packable and easily deployable way so you've got it nice and tidy for when you need it - hank up our cord then what we do is we take the take the end and we lay it on a hand like so and then we're going to go in a figure of eight that's important figure of eight keeping a hand wide open don't let it slip in as you go keep it wide open hanging like this and then we get to about here we've left probably about the width of my hand spare and then I grasp that and take it off my little finger take it off my thumb keep it all together and then this free end I'm going to start winding around and winding back over itself like so nice and tight nice and neat like so and then here and rather than feeding the end through where I'm effectively just tying an overhand knot over the whole thing I'm going to feed a bite through like so that's then quick release from there but also when I pull it that way it all just falls out and there's no knots and no tangles so I'll show you again so we start pop it in your thumb like so like that and we can go quite fast like so there leave about hands breath a little bit more to is fine in fact take it off your thumb and you your little finger hold it in the middle take that free end there that was the live end and start wrapping it around and wrap it back over itself just there you can see and around and around and around working back towards that end and then that last turn that you did put a bite through under there and then pull it all down tight on itself that stays nice and neat it can go in your pocket for when you need it that's quick release there if you need it and also you can pull that through there and it will unravel all very very nicely so the simple and effective way of hanging your cord with no tangles brilliant I hope you find that useful I hope it serves you well I certainly find it very useful in terms of keeping all my cordage tidy and to hand I can keep a bit in my pocket a piece in my rucksack and I've always got a bit of string when I need it and if you like this video please go over to Paul curtly Cote UK where you'll find many other useful videos articles blogs about all manner of things to do with outdoor life bushcraft of wilderness skills and if you sign up for my newsletter you'll get 23 videos I'll send you them straightaway as well as regular tips and tricks that's over at Paul curtly Cote UK thanks for watching the video and I'll see you on the next one