The knot is quick but uses so much space to get the knot to set you use up the width of truck bed. I was taught the truckers knot by a wonderful elderly in Duluth MN Blacky Ventura. The way he showed me was to take your finger and twist the load end of the rope forming a figure 8 then pull a small bite through the hole where your figure was. There is your loop to get your advantage. Now put the working end coming from your second anchor point through the loop. You can pull till you are brown in the shorts and it won't slip. To tie it off simply pinch the bite where it crosses the loop. You can hold a tremendous amount tension with just two fingers. Take the working end and go around the the two ropes pinched between your fingers and come back through and form a slippery half-hitch around them. While still pinching the ropes pull the half-hitch tight. To untie it pull the standing end. Give it a good jerk and the figure 8 comes out too.
@bradenjames670
4 жыл бұрын
Hey Marvin! Is there any way You could make a video explaining this method? I'm having a hard time picturing it without visuals.
@kevinwiens4804
2 жыл бұрын
I'll use your Figure eight with a BIGHT!
@danieljackson2928
Жыл бұрын
I've been binging your videos for the past two months. My wife thinks I'm crazy. literally! We live in an apartment so I could see why she might think it's a bit random 😂
@jpjfire
4 жыл бұрын
Nice! This one was much easier to follow. Thanks for the clarification.
@johnsmitty6314
4 жыл бұрын
Clear, concise, easy to follow. Good job. Thanks
@roamerreed
2 жыл бұрын
I finally understand what's going on with the larks foot now, thanks.
@elemko5
4 жыл бұрын
Seriously! You are a creative genius! How do U see things the way you do?!?!
@legionarius872
4 жыл бұрын
bro, knotty goodness. im slow clapping so hard right now. some versions are more stable, some are more of a pain in the ass to untie after they have been under load. any way you tie it, the truckers hitch is such a useful knot. awesome video. keep up the great content. well done, cheers.
@ciarangale4738
2 жыл бұрын
thats what i love about the truckers hitch. its so simple, and yet theres so much you can do to customise it and make it fit your use case. at its core, its a loop on the standing end that you feed the leading end through. however, you can adjust how you do pretty much every step to make it fit what you need to do
@zchuss1
Жыл бұрын
If you cross your hands you will form a clove hitch, do everything else the same... Used to be called the lazy truckers hitch when I was a kid.
@alltogetherplaytubefingerf6045
2 жыл бұрын
It is still the same knot but thanks for the tips their good.
@Daniel08353
2 жыл бұрын
...how secure is this? Could this safely secure something with the tailgate down, like a 7’ 500lb log? Perhaps at least run something through the little loop sticking out with a carabiner or stick? I’ve used trucker hitch but with a butterfly midline loop; secured by ending with half hitches.
@jeffchapman8992
4 жыл бұрын
wow ... impressive. Got to practice that one. Thanks!
@signptr
3 жыл бұрын
Thank you for sharing your way of the down
@tomkenney5365
4 жыл бұрын
Nice, quick, way of tying this, but, the sheepshank knot (the "window" thing) is not stable under too high or too low of a load. I will ALWAYS tie something down in a truck (this is a trucker's hitch, after all) using a bowline (sometimes bowline on a bight) to create a loop and then trucker's hitch through that. Lives are at stake rolling down the road, and while Ashley says the bowline is internally unstable, I've never seen one fail, and I've been using them since Cub Scouts (50-ish years). Bottom line: I wouldn't trust this knot on the road. YMMV.
@samuelwaller4924
2 жыл бұрын
A sheepshank is unstable, but this is a cow hitch not a sheepshank. The cow Hitch is not a super strong hitch, but it works well under tension and if is under proper tension it shouldn't be jostling around enough to undo it anyways
@TarikVann
Жыл бұрын
@@samuelwaller4924 if a car it's you, you'll jostle around and now the tied down object has become a projectile. It's less safe and take the same amount of time or slower than a regular truckers hitch.
@kevinwiens4804
3 жыл бұрын
Very COOL sir...Thanks..
@jimbola77
4 жыл бұрын
awesome!!!!.
@TarikVann
Жыл бұрын
The only thing that I can see this useful for is if you have 10's of metres of rope to pull through, otherwise I can't see how it's any faster than a truckers hitch.
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