Quick and Easy Tensioner Knot for your Tarp Lines.wmv

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afternoon guys Dave camera at the Pathfinder school this out here you know at the station camp area I hurt the Pathfinder school doing some improvements and every once in a while it's like to shoot a quick tip or trick video for you guys I want to show you guys a really quick tip on the way I use tensioner lines on tarps and things like that might give you some ideas now I use Bank line for most of my lines I don't use paracord Derek Faria did a very good video on my channel a while back on you know the difference between paracord and bank line and I prefer Bank line always have I teach all of my students to use Bank line instead of paracord but I want to show you what this Bank line the way I do my tension are not from my tarp and the way i stow my cord it makes it real easy to up and down the thing and I just want to kind of go over that with you real fast as a quick tip or trick so stay with me okay so I've got a piece of Bank line here and the first thing I'm going to do with this Bank line and I'm just going to go through how it settle line up on a tarp and that'll kind of show you the whole thing first thing I'm going to do is I'm going to tie what's called a figure eight and a bite and that basically just means I'm going to take a bite in the rope I'm going to fold it under behind the rope just like this okay you can see that then I'm going to come back and around and loop it over and come back up through just like this and what that gives you is it gives you that appearance we tighten this down just a little bit so you can see a little better gives you that appearance of a figure eight okay

and that's what I'm looking for to begin with then I'm going to take that figure eight and the reason I use that figure eight like that is because pretty easy to get undone then I'm going to take the corner of my tarp and I'm just going to put that loop up through the corner of my tarp and pull the rest of the line through that loop creating like a hitch in there and I usually use 25-foot lines for most everything that way I got plenty of extra and I'll show you what to do with that extra here in just a few minutes and then I'll just pull that through the loop just like that and it cinches down tight on the grommet alright okay so now that I got my line tied to my tarp I'm going to come around the tree that I'm going to use to wrap my line around pull my slack around I'm going to figure out the best spot that's about in the center of this line okay then I'm going to let it go go slack now what I'm going to do is I'm going to tie another one of those figure eights and a bite right there right in the middle of my line

just like this okay it doesn't have to be perfectly neat the good thing about these figure eight knots is they're pretty easy to get undone in the end okay so we've got our figure eight right there and now we've got a loop we're going to use that for attention or loop so what we're going to is we're going to pick up the slack end of our line we're going to pull against that line to tension this tarp to get it tight where we want all right once we get that done once we've got that pulled where we want it what we're going to do is I want to zoom in a little bit on this for you what we're going to do is we're just going to pull we're going to grab a loop up with our finger just like this we're going to push across both lines come back around I just like to do this and trap it with my two fingers so what I'll do is I'll put a finger here okay I'll put my thumb there I'll come over both lines and trap it and then I'll pull it down and sense it now that lines tight it's not going anywhere but it will come out just by pulling this it goes loose again so I'm going to pull it tight trap with my finger trapping with my thumb come over the top of both lines come through and tighten it down okay now I've got this loop right here now what I'm going to do with the rest of my line is I've got quite a bit of line left here because I'm using 25-foot lines so what I'm going to do is I'm just going to roll that around my hand a few times till I get it close to where it needs to be then I'm going to just stick it right between this fork right here okay and I'm going to roll it up on itself just like this string up the middle of the fork until it gets up to the knot just like that okay now nothing's hanging out for me to get lost there's no problem it's not messy it's not nasty I'm going to trip over in the middle of the night nothing like that okay so when I'm ready to take this out all I have to do is pull this out and let it dangle it's going to stick together a little bit because it's tarred bank line make sure that my knot side is freed out like it is all I have to do is pull that and it comes loose I'm done don't you just pull my line off I can adjust it up and down if I want to depending on the weather I want to drop my pitch a little bit because of an incoming storm or something like that I can get it right back around the tree again and get it tight just like I had it in just a matter of seconds there's nothing to it then all I have to do is go back again roll my line up put it in between these two lines like I did before and just roll it up on itself how I roll it up to where the knot cinch down at and it's done simple as that nice neat tidy no fuss no muss I just wanted to show you guys that today is a little tip or trick on how to use tensioner lines with your tarps you