Bushcraft: How To Tie An Adjustable Guyline Hitch

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The adjustable guy-line hitch is one of the most useful knots you can learn for setting up your camp - whether you are using a tarp or a tent. Any shelter which requires a guyline to be attached to a fixed point can benefit from an adjustible guyline hitch.

This knot is clearly useful for fastening tarps, bashas and hootchies to pegs and other fixtures.

Also, tents typically have adjusible sliders and clips to adjust the tension in guylines. These can be lost or broken. So the adjustable guy line hitch is a useful back up to know.

For the ultra-light hikers or event competitors out there, applyin this guy line hitch will allow you to remove all of those adjusters and clips, thus removing a few more grams from your lightweight kit.

The adjustible guyline hitch is a knot that should be in every outdoorsperson's repertoire...

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hi there Paul curtly here founder of the award-winning frontier bushcraft and author of Paul Kurt Lee's blog the leading source of wilderness bushcraft advice and information on the net in this video I'm going to share with you how to tie an adjustable guideline hitch now this is a really useful knot for you to know how to tie when you're setting at the top but it's also very useful for adding to your tent guidelines and you could have lost parts of your guylines set up off your tent one of the adjusters or they could have broken or you might simply just want to lose a little bit of weight off your tent you can remove all those bits of plastic and adjusters off your tent and just use the adjustable guide line hitch if you want to so it's useful for all of these things and this is how we do it so the purpose of the adjustable guideline knot is to to grip the guideline but also for a spill to move it and for it to stay where we want want to leave it and also for that to be quick release to tie the adjustable guideline not we work back up towards the top we take the live end back up towards the top and then with enough tail left we take it over the top of the standing part and work back down towards the peg wrapping it around once like so and twice like so that will grip the cord but it will still slip when stay where we want it to so we need to cinch these two together to do that and the way we do that is take a wrap around both and then we can make the whole thing quick release rather than passing the end through we pass the bite through here and we leave a tail on to the quick release that then stays where we want it to it slides and stays where we wanted to it's also quick release like so so there you have it how to tie the adjustable guide line hitch and once you practice that a few times you should be able to remember how to do it quite well and it is one of the ones you get more practice at say you're setting up your tarp you only do the ones at each end once every set up you're going to be doing your adjustable guide line hitch for or maybe even six times every time you set up your top so you get pretty good at this one pretty quickly anyway I hope that was helpful for you hope you found it useful and I hope it serves you well in the future thanks for watching the video and I'll see you in the next one