Alternatively, You can add "chapters" to videos that are displayed when you scrub through the video showing the name of the knot being shown. Regardless, this is an awesome video man!

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I was looking for The _Don_ Knott

Red Rope Challenge!! :)

Even better to learn to tie it one-handed.

​@@simonthmyand upside down facing south tying shoe with other hand while hoping on one foot saying abc backwards

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You’re very welcome.

Thank you, I appreciate you taking the time to watch.

Here comes the knot

I appreciate the compliment.

Thank you for taking the time out of your day to watch.

Thank you very much.

For a fixed loop, use the bowline unless you have a reason not to. (For example, if you don't have access to the ends.) The square knot is mostly for binding around something, like a bundle of firewood or a rolled-up blanket. If you look closely, you'll see your shoes are tied in square knots, just as a slipknot version for easy untying. Do NOT use it to connect two ropes together. The figure-eight is used mostly to keep the end from pulling through a hole, or to prevent the end from unraveling. The figure-eight done with a bight is for creating a fixed-loop in the middle of the rope (notice that you don't need the ends to tie it). I generally prefer the alpine butterfly for that, though -- I'm surprised he didn't include it. The marlinspike hitch is for exactly what he showed -- attaching a rope to a stick in a way that it will easily come free when you're done. It holds very strongly in one direction, and comes apart easily when pulled the other way. It's handy for dragging a heavy pole behind a tractor, too. The sheet bend is also as he showed -- connecting two ropes together, especially if one is larger. Taut-line, exactly as he showed -- its virtue is its adjustable nature. For tents, tying down loads, and other cases where you have a hard time getting the tension right, or where something will change and need to be re-tightened. Several of the hitches are rarely actually used, in my own experience. If the line doesn't need to be tense (like a safety line just in case I fall overboard), I typically use the bowline. If it does need to be tense (like a ridgeline between trees to hold up the top of a tent) I use the taut-line. The cow hitch gives you a hitch that lets you use both ends and is always easy to untie no matter how hard it gets pulled on, but I don't recall ever actually NEEDING it, as opposed to simply using it because it's quick and easy. The one time I saw it used commercially, it was attached to a crane hook, with the ends tied to straps on a bundle being lifted. It provided resistance so the rope wouldn't slide through the hook and cause the bundle to tilt. He has another video where he specifically discusses the truckers hitch, which I consider more useful than most of these, but that might just be because I do the majority of my knot-tying when strapping down loads. Most people don't need to know dozens of knots. Bowline, square knot, alpine butterfly, truckers hitch, taut-line, and sheet bend are probably the most useful in my opinion. Marlinspike and figure-eight are special-purpose knots that are handy to have if the need arises. You may find a need for others, depending on what you do (for example, I've never sailed, so I have no idea what knots they use.)

Marlin Spike gets used a lot in camping. You can use it to do a PCT bear bag hang, or to pull on a thin rope. And it gets a lot of use in hammock camping too. For camping, I usually use bowline, marlin spike, taut line, or 2 half hitches. And I'll use truckers hitch to strap Christmas trees to the top of the car.

The Animated Knots website has good recommendations. Up-to-date, too, as reference books like Ashley's used to exist before most synthetic rope materials.

@Nedw good point about the rope material. Thanks.

This was your chance to be the timestamp guy, with the added improvement you suggested. You failed.

I appreciate that, thank you.

Thanks for the tip.

You are so welcome!

If you're just covering it like a tent, bowlines on the tarp grommets and taut-lines on the anchor points. Pull snug and it should hold until something breaks. If you have enough cord, I'd go bowline on the anchor, pass through the grommet, and back to a taut-line on the anchor -- twice as many strands for strength, and you also have the option of tightening by putting a stick between the strands and winding. This can also be handy if you can't reach one end or the other -- put all the knots on the end you CAN reach.

So, I noticed that you are forming a 6 from the right side portion of the rope, where the right end goes OVER the left portion (for the overhand knot).

Well, it is really dependent on what type of things you are doing with rope that determines how extensive your knot tying ability should be. As a millwright, I use rope from a bunch of different aspects such as safety, rigging, tying down loads, and hoisting tools and equipment. Because I use rope for a wide variety of things it is important for me to know a lot of different knots. The average person can probably get by with about a dozen knots. When it comes to hitches, four of five would probably be sufficient for most people. When it comes to the Cowboy/Dutch Bowline, there is really no evidence that one is superior to the other. Though there are a lot of Bowline variants that can be very useful.

How are you connecting the art to the cord? Draping it over a horizontal line? Attaching a cord to each upper corner and running to mounts above? Do you have a stick across the top keeping it straight, or does the cord have to be tight enough to do that? Are you putting nails in the wall, or do you have some kind of structure above to hang from?

@@stevenscott2136 so its like a sheet of plastic with square holes in it, the cord goes through one of the corners, horizontal to the other corner, then above the artwork its gonna hang on like a nail or hook ish thing

You are referring to the Midshipman’s Hitch. The Taut Line Hitch is exactly the way I showed it.

@@txtoolcrib Thank you for that clarification. Accepting your nomenclature, I would have to say that, as an adjustable fixed loop, the Midshipman's Hitch is head and shoulders above the Taut Line Hitch. Keep up the good work!

That's clever.

@@txtoolcrib sorry I had to do it. Looking forward to some more advanced knots!

Why don’t you enlighten us then?

I’ll do my very best to tailor my future videos to your every whim and desire!

If you don't immediately see how the knot would have helped you in a project you've done, maybe you DON'T need to know knots -- many people don't. It's really more of a blue-collar and outdoorsman skill -- if you're a lawyer or software guy living in a city apartment, you can probably go your whole life without tying anything other than your shoes. (Square knot with double slipknot ends.)

Someone didn’t take their medication I see.