How to Tie the Butterfly Loop

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Krik of Black Owl Outdoors shows you how to the tie the Butterfly Loop. A handy knot to know when you need to repair your cordage without loosing much length.

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hey wassup Turtles it's creek here of a blackout outdoors and today I'm going to do a video showing how to tie the butterfly loop this is a really simple loop to put in a line and a bite the reason why I like this is because it's kind of easy to tie and it's not super difficult to untie once it's been under load it holds actually load pretty well and can take load from different directions as it's tied in the bite and it can also be used loops in general the butterfly loop can also be used to actually sort of eliminate a weak spot or a braided spot in a rope to actually give the Rope at its its strength back and not potentially have a jeopardized piece of section in the Rope wallace under load to end that will make it safer so i'm going to do it down here on this on the stump in front of me alright loops are really really useful to put in a bite in a rope and basically a bite is just doing it when you don't have either end usable so you're just putting it in a section in the middle of a rope let's say I wanted to use this rope and I wanted to you know you put it under load tie somethin up with it blah blah blah Ridgeline and we'll stay right here is a section that's really torn apart if you will it's really a braided it's not but for demonstrative purposes to put a loop and aligns 11 way to use a loop and a line now obviously if i'm going to do it in this application i don't want to cut it this is really like fraid brush still don't want to cut this down potentially i can still use it as a longer lashing so i don't want to cut this because even at a lashing purpose even if it's a little bit worn in one area it or still be used because that um you know the tension spread over the length of it but nonetheless we're so everyone this is you know freed really bad but i don't want to cut the rope and I still want to be strong so to start this loop this butterfly loop I'm going to give myself some work some loop are some rope to work with excuse me I'm going to take it and fold it over itself once sort of overhand

now I'm going to do that again up here the same direction that I folded the first time I'm going to repeat that the same exact way and what I have now is this now maintaining that I'm going to actually take this and go under behind itself and under here try to do it without blocking everything I'm going to take that so don't need to hold this loop go under the whole thing my still maintaining everything in this hole right here that I'm pointing through take the top of my loop of that past n which is the last step and then once i do that pull that through you can see it's sort of tightening on itself that's all there is to it it's a butterfly loop now I need two hands to actually tie this butterfly loop but the few reasons i like it like I said it's really not that difficult compared to other ones other bites loops in lines thanh thai once it's been under load because i got two points right here that give me a place the taxi grab onto and sort of open this up and this wasn't under load so it came out really easy I will do it again and I'll try to get a lot of pressure on it to show you start off again give myself some slack to work with take it over go over once i have that go over again so now i have sort of this eighth let me make this a little bit prettier

so we have this eight design and see that now I'm going to take the top of here and go behind everything I've done and come down beneath sort of the running ends of the rope while still maintaining this eight fold that under once and then this hole right here I'm going to pass the top of that through and then start the port site and the tight-knit I need to pull on the runnings ends and the actual loop itself that up

I'm going to stand up with this under my foot pulling this really really tight as hard as I can for now without actually putting weight on it and we'll see how how difficult and or manageable it will be to kind of do it got that secure see the loops in the line this is the bite put this under as much pressure as I can muster that's probably about 8,000 pounds of force per square inch just kidding like I said why I like this because it is under load you kind of get these two points right here to be able to help you get it out excuse me out and see as I do that just opens right up on itself and really easy to leave untie as an overhand knot goes really difficult to untie sometimes when it's under pressure so this is another option just another knot in the arsenal it's really easy to know just understand the principles physics of how loops knots hitches all that work all that work you know maybe I won't use this that much but just in general the more knowledge in my head just the better off we'll be in general hope this was helpful if you use this before let me know if there's any other loops you like to put in a bite on a rope that may be really easy to do one-handed really easy to untie once they've been under load let me know please leave a comment remember to check out black outdoors comm check us out on facebook check out black out on Instagram this is correct signing out with black outdoors later turtles