How to Tie 3 Essential Knots for Bushcraft and Camping | Tying the Ray Mears Tarp Knots

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How to tie the Ray Mears Tarp Knots and Slip Knots

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Siberian Hitch - 0:39

Tension Tarp Knot - 3:00

Adjustable Tension Knot - 5:26

Tying these knots is incredibly useful whether you're backpacking, going off for a bushcraft outing, or even doing daily tasks at home.

With these knots, you can quickly put up and take down a shelter with ease.

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so on the episodes we've released so far a lot of times you see me use a tarp to sleep under and when I set this up I use these special knots where when you tie them they'll keep the tarp up but you can just pull on one string and the knot will instantly become undone and this of course makes taking down your camping extremely easy now a tarp is incredibly versatile and there's lots of different ways you can set it up to protect yourself from the elements but that's going to be for a different video what I'm going to show you today is how to specifically tie these knots and to demonstrate I'm going to use this light pool and this bit of cord that I've got on my belt the first step is to take the free end of this rope and wrap it around the pole so now you've got two ropes next you take the free end and wrap it around your fingers like this next you're going to take your palm face it down towards the ground again up once again you take the palm face it down towards the ground and bring your hand up around the outer edge of both ropes then you reach through the loop grabbing again the free end of the string and you're going to pull this through to create another loop you tighten this up and you can pull the knot taut up against the tree so in this way the rope has tension and you can pull on it as much as you want but when it's time to release it you just give this a ton so the Siberian hitch is pretty easy just pull it around wrap it go down go up pull the string through and tighten it it's actually useful for things other than camping I've used to tie the drawstring on my shorts and it's pretty easy because you can adjust it and of course when you're ready to take it down just one pole is good enough now the next night I'm going to show you is sort of a tension knot and you use this once you've tied one end of your tarp to a tree or a pole or something of that sort

so this knot you use the other end of the tarp you wrap it around a tree and the knot allows you to pull the tarp as taut as you can so let's do that one next the first step for this knot again is to pull the free end around the tree or pull now you take the free end and bring it over the top of the taut side of the room then you pull the free end under and wrap it around the tree one more time next you want to pinch it against the taut end of the rope now the free end should be underneath now you'll take the free end and pull it through this little hole you've created and pull that taut at this point you reach through the loop that you've created and pull through the free end and this will lock you're not to make your tarp secure and to take it apart you just undo the locking nut and pull the free end of the rope and it'll come on

so now that you got your Ridgeline set up using the Siberian hitch and the tension knot

regardless of what tarp setup you're using you're pretty much always going to need to use stakes so I'm going to carve this piece of ash out now the knot that used for the stake is adjustable which makes it very very convenient because so many times when you're setting a camp up there will be ground with lots of rocks or logs in there or or spots of it where it's really hard and you can't really put your stake in there so what this knot allows you to do is that you don't have to pull your string all the way out and stake it down you can have the stake a little bit closer to your tarp and then just how tight your tarp is using the knot itself so speaking of knots once I work my way through this little knot here we'll do that after driving your stake in pull the rope around it forming a large loop then take the loose end of a string and wrap it around the part of the rope that's attached to the tarp you're going to wrap it twice by feeding it through the large loop you've created then you'll wrap it a third time but this time you take the rope around both ropes in other words you take it around the entire loop then you reach through and pull the loose end and tighten the knot this creates another loop

so once you master these three simple knots you can pretty much set up a tarp in any configuration that you want and they're pretty useful and other sort of daily tasks as well so I hope this helps and next time you go camping you ought to try sleeping under a tarp because it's beautiful to be out in the open air see you later