10+ Knots You Want To Know

How to tie and when to use more than ten of the most commonly used traditional and effective knots and several variations (including some left handed versions) shown to demonstrate how simple knots and hitches are the building blocks for more complex knots.

Knots in this video
Pull-Start Cord Knots - https://youtu.be/ZxYjqUm5G7I
Slippery Hitch - https://youtu.be/WnvbWlXv-oY
Painter Hitch - https://youtu.be/6LAxCyI8Eo0
Cleat Hitch - https://youtu.be/5XZXUwoyxHY
Carrick Bend - https://youtu.be/D5j1XGSrNGE
Alpine Butterfly - https://youtu.be/qa6npHh3K7o
The Truckers' Hitch - https://youtu.be/tvgFyqFZK54

Find the Backhand Hitch in these videos
Sound FX Generator - https://youtu.be/lIvNNndi03c
Diddley Bow - How to Build... https://youtu.be/l3aRbzZgKB8
Six Knots You Need To Know - https://youtu.be/ZZZPYPuonvQ

Transcript provided for the hearing impaired:
Alright so today on Repairs101 I’m going to kick off this first episode of our fifth year on YouTube with a top ten list of knots you want to know. Alright. Cue the fireworks guy.
So you know this knot wasn’t even supposed to be in the lesson But I thought I’d include it. It’s the square knot and it’s one of the knots that everybody needs to know. Make sure you’re subscribed to catch all my videos on these knots and many more to come. It’s just left over right, right over left and you’re done.
OK so while ostensibly this video is a top ten list of the knots that I consider to be the most essential ones to know, in reality it’s a lesson about how simple knots are really building blocks for more complex knots.
So the difference between an overhand knot and a half hitch is that the half hitch is belayed to something. Here it’s a ring but it can be a rail or a pole or a piece of rope or whatever. It’s pretty easy to tie and I just include it because it’s a building block for other knots.
Point in case is a knot called the round turn and two half hitches. And, you pretty much tie it just the same way you say it. Keep the tail passing around in the same direction when you make your half hitches so that together they form a clove hitch. Now if you’re worried about this knot slipping you can always lock it up with an overhand stopper knot.
Let me know in the comments section if you call any of these knots by different names – I’d be very interested. But keep in mind that words are just words and talk is cheap. It’s what you do in life that counts.
You could use it to secure your boat to a cleat if you hadn’t seen the rest of this video already and well.. uh... I don’t know. What is that? A chopstick?
OK so the next building block I want you to know is the clove hitch. It’s simple to tie. You belay it to something like a bar or a cleat or a ring and it’s a reasonablly secure knot – again, especially if you lock it down with an overhand stopper. You can also add a half hitch alongside to create this travelling hitch.
Another great variation of the clove hitch that’s good for if you need to tie up your horse or your dog is the slippery hitch –because it’s quick release.
But you know, honestly the best knot for leads and leashes is another quick release knot called the painter hitch otherwise known as the highwayman’s hitch. So have a look at my painter hitch video for a comprehensive lesson in how to tie it.
Come on buddy! (WHISTLES) C’mon get in the car, we’re going downtown.
You’ll notice that as long as you keep the tail passing around in the same direction when you’re making your half hitches, that the half hitches actually create a clove hitch,which because they’re on a piece of line that they can run on, becomes a buntline hitch.
Now no matter what size boat you’re talking about this is the preferred knot for tying down to a horn cleat and securing your vessel. Now what’s really interesting about the cleat hitch is that if you deconstruct the knot a little bit and you put it into a different context you can see that it’s clearly just a clove hitch.
A sheet bend can be used to join two pieces of unequal rope by making an eye in the larger rope and then passing the smaller one through the eye, around and then under itself. When both tails are on the same side of the knot it’s called a right handed sheet bend and it is the preferred version of this knot. Wrap the tail one more time and pass it under itself again and you’ve got a double sheet bend.
OK so you make a crossing turn to create a hole, and then the snake goes out of the hole, around the tree and then back bown the hole again. And that’s a standard bowline. Which will look like this and look fairly familiar to you. Tie your bowline the other way to get a left handed or classic / cowboy bowline. And so if we compare the bowline to the sheet bend we discover they’re pretty much the same knot....
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