Simple Camping Connection Knots 3

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morning folks I'm Dave Canterbury with self-reliance out there in the Pathfinder school back with our series on simple camping and part three we're going to talk about connecting lines together or connecting knots we're gonna talk about three fairly simple knots that are easy to remember and easy to tie that will label us to connect shorter pieces of line together to make a longer piece of line I think all of these simple knots are important as we move into our simple camping series so that we can better utilize the cordage we have for setting out different types of shelters and building camp implements to make things more comfortable around our camp stay with me all right I've got three pieces of paracord here two of them are green one of them is brown hopefully you'll be able to see it a little bit better because their contrasting colors now if I want to connect two pieces of line the most simplistic way to do that is with the fisherman's knot and that is just to tie an overhand knot on one line turn it around and take that other line and tie an overhand knot on that one just like this so I have one overhand knot tied to each line and when I pull it together it's a self tightening knot that's a very simple way to put a connection between two lines to make a longer piece of rope now I wouldn't want to put a ton of pressure on something like this but again we're not talking about climbing we're talking about simple things around camp tarp lines adjustment lines things like that maybe a line for a laundry line anything that you might need to use cordage for around your camp you're not going to put a lot of stress on necessarily the good thing about it not like this is it comes undone very easily because all you have to do is pull these two tails to pull it apart and because they're half hitches they break open fairly easily okay so we could also use that same connection knot to make a loop of wine if we need to make a Prosecco pour something like that and the easy way to do that is just to take a turn in your line because you have a tail going in opposite directions and take one tail and tie an overhand knot to the line just like this pull it through here and put another overhand knot on the other side just like this and the long as your tails or ears are sticking out in opposite directions here here you've tied that knot correctly and that makes a real simple process look if you need a Prosecco pour something that you can hang a backpack off of it you just want to put a simple larks head in something like that and you want to loop there to use that makes an easy way to do that and again it's very simple to get that hand done you just pull the ears and pull it apart okay the next line to line connection we're going to talk about is the Zeppelin Bend I had a guy ask me about this knot not very long ago in another video so the way we're going to tie this knot is we're gonna take our first piece of cordage and we're just gonna take a bite in it so that our tail is coming from the it's coming down and out the bottom just like this so we've got a simple bite in the line just like that we're gonna take our second line we're gonna put a bite in that line but we want to make sure that it is on the top so the bite we just turn the bite over basically we just took a bite in the line just like that and we flipped it over like this we put those opposite each other so we have a tail down and tail up then we just take this tail and put it through this side we take this tail and come up through the bottom side so we have it going through an opposite directions on the two loops and then we just dress the knot down and put pressure on it just like that now the difference with this one is it's a little bit more difficult to get it undone when it's been under load but you can break it over and that's what I like about it it's got that simple break over very much like you have with a bowline knot to get it undone but again once you put it under stress that's a little bit more difficult so again you're gonna take one bite in the line and your tail is down and away from you you're gonna take another bite in the line exactly the same way and you're gonna flip it over so both of your tails are on the outside one up one down one goes through this side one comes around the bottom and goes through the other side just like that and then all you have to do is dress things up a little bit to tighten them down I'm tying this in paracord so it's a little bit more difficult to see but as you tighten and dress that knot it'll come together for you and when you put it under strain you'll dress right up again that's called the Zeppelin Bend now a third way we can connect two lines together there's a simple loop to loop connection and we can take our line and tie a loop in it we can do that with an overhand knot if we want to that's gonna be the simplest down and dirty way to put a loop in the line as was just an overhand knot we could also use a bowline knot which is gonna be much easier to get undone in the end and I've covered this knot in other videos but you're going to want to loop on both ends of your line so we've got a loop on this line and then if we're going to use two bowline knots okay so once you have your two loops you're going to put one loop through the other one just like this and basically pull all the line on one side through to join the loops and what you're gonna have when you're done like this is you're gonna have a reef knot or square knot in the center right here and you'll have a loop to loop connection that forms that reef knot or that square knot it's not too difficult to get this one undone which is another good reason for using this knot if you don't want to cut your cordage it's a good way to do that so again once we've tied two loops in our line and it doesn't matter what our loops made out of necessarily we're not talking about putting under a lot of strain but if we want to get the loops undone easily we can use a knot like these bowline knots and we're going to put them through just like this and we would just pull the entire thing through that loop to create that reef knot or square knot connection and give us a loop to loop connection of our two lines very very simple now I'm going to show you one trick with this loop to loop connection that I think makes it very good for using a round camp let's say I've got this line and I want to put some kind of a loop in this line

because I'm going to wrap it around something hang something off of it I want to use it for cleaning game or anything like that what I can do is I can just loosen this reef knot take the other end of my line let's say this is tied to a tree that's hanging out of a tree and this is my loop to loop connection now I can come up with this and I can shove this up through that reef knot just like this to get whatever size loop I want here tie a very simple stop not if I want to do that with a quick-release I can just put a quick-release in it or I can tie it over here but either way once I pull this reef knot back down that stop knot is going to keep it from slipping and I'm gonna have a loop of any diameter I want right here to use as well and when I want to get that undone if I've got that slippery hitch in there I can just pop it out pull that straight out of my connection the connection comes apart very easily and I'm back to having two pieces of cordage again so that's a really good modification that you can use and another reason I like that loop to loop connection that creates that reef knot or square knot because you can utilize them to make loops of any size you want

for utilizing around camp for different things and I like that you could also use a toggle up in there at the same time for that exactly the same way you can take this loop the loop connection and just fold it over into a large said take it toggle and shove it through there just like this and on this loop just drop a toggle through there a loop like this and you have a loop to loop connection with the toggle again very very simple okay guys well that's just three simple knots that you can use to connect two pieces of line together again there's lots of advantages and disadvantages to each one of those knots they all have different types of versatility I hope I showed you a little bit of that today and they have different applications within your camp but they're all simple to tie and good knots to understand appreciate your views I appreciate your support I thank you for anything you do for school for business for family all of our sponsors instructors affiliates and Friends and I'll be back with another video okay thanks guys