Z Drag with wooden Pulleys

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morning folks I'm Dave Canterbury with self-reliance officers in the Pathfinder school when I thought I'd show you really quick is a pretty cool concept I was posting some things about these wooden pulleys that I had made last year year before on a page on Facebook called the bushcraft and survival tribe and I had used these pulleys in the video that I made to lift an anvil and stand off the ground in my overhang and Tyler white one of the admins I think the owner of the page actually had asked me said I wonder how that would work in his Zee drag scenario so I thought I would set that up today a pull my four-wheeler up a slight incline in the woods to show you that it does work so let's talk about how this is set up first and then I'll give you a demo of pulling this forward okay so the gunner wouldn't pull it here and the first thing we need to do is attach it to a solid object you can do that with anything you want I use paracord and I'll tell you why use paracord here in just a minute and you're basically going to create a cat's paw to hold that pulley in place so that it can spin freely within that cat's paw and it spins freely on this axle the axle doesn't have to turn on for the pulley a turn and you want to make sure that that is as even as you can get it and I talked about how to make this cat's paw in the original video the next thing you're going to do is you're going to take a piece of rope and tie it to the object that you wish to pull and then you're going to come in and tie a line another piece of paracord and again the reason I use paracord was because it's a different diameter and I'm using a prusik knot prusik knots work best on two different diameters of cord but it's easy enough to use paracord as a ridge line and use prusik knots and it stays pretty well but when you really want that thing to bite into the mantle of the rope it's better if the rope is a larger diameter and the quarters you're using for the prusik knot where the prusik loop is different because then you can slide it up and down the rope and when it pulls from the opposite direction you can see that loose tag doesn't even matter when it pulls from this direction it locks itself into the rope so that it can't slide up the rope that piece is then brought down and another cat's paw is put in that piece and the rope is put through that pulley so what happens is the rope comes from the object here up to the first pulley on the tree comes down and it's threaded through another pulley almost exactly like a block and tackle on the horizontal really and then you just pull on this direction which slides the two pulleys closer together and pulls the weight up and when you get the pulleys close together like they are now you would slide the prusik down the line now in this case this line at the prusik on is a little bit long but I pulled it from a long distance away probably 20 feet something like that maybe 15 20 feet and now you would have to either shorten that rope a little bit to get these things further apart or slide it down further toward the object but I'm almost out of room on the object down so I'm not going to do that if I wanted to continue to pull this I would have to sort in this up but generally speaking unless you're using this for rescue to pull someone from a rescue scenario like a swift water rescue or something like that

you're just pulling a vehicle out of a ditch or out of a hole you're not going to have to move it that far to get it freed up with a four-wheel drive will work anyway but I wanted to show you this video today and give Tyler white credit for the idea it's basically a block and tackle on the vertical and it's collar on the horizontal excuse me and it's called the Z drag