5:08 The actual knot.

You have created a new hitch and I applaud you! I put it around my foot and pulled up and it didn't slip at all. However, I noticed two things: After tension, it became hard to adjust; and after tension it became impossible to untie. The difference between a knot or hitch and tying rope together is that a knot or hitch can easily be undone. I think your explanation of how the third wrap doesn't really do anything than hold the pieces together and it doesn't supply tension is actually the beauty of the taut line hitch. Because that third wrap doesn't get under tension, it is easy to untie. For simple situations, it doesn't really matter as it won't be under much stress so it may remain easy to untie. However it has no benefit over the taut line hitch other than the name sounding better for camping. Also, after a windy night, a lot of tension can be put on a taut line hitch and this hitch may be hard to untie after a windy night. I do like knots so I will likely remember this to keep in my bag of tricks.

I find that this arrowhead hitch (and the alternate version by Laura @ Northstar Bushcraft you mention) both have a lot less friction than simply putting three turns in the usual taut line hitch. Test using slippy paracord, put it under tension and discover which works better for yourself..

This makes a lot of sense, and will now be getting used instead of a taut line. Nice work, sir!

Straight up bro you legitimately made the hitch much better good for you !! And thank you !!

Excellent I always Love when someone can come up with a new and "improved" method of doing things. Just because we've always done it the old way does not make it a better knot.

Great knot ! A big improvement over the standard taut line hitch . Thanks for sharing.

Heya Appleblade, thanks for the share of this hitch. The taught line is one of my favorites as its almost like magic, however always felt it was let down by the last hitch. Your variation locks the hitch down beautifully, greatly reducing the chance of it working loose. Well done mate.

For those that don't like the taut line hitch or think it doesn't hold well; you can also try the Farrimond Hitch. Holds much better and it's quick release. However this version of the taut line or the diamond head feels really solid and taut (lol).

I tried your knot.....and it works great! Holds securely. I apply a bite to mine which I prefer in most my knots where I can for fast removal. Too...I’ve used the Arrowhead with the Midshipmen knot and like it as well. Thanks for better camping knot.

Super-simple, effective, elegant. Brilliant! This knot is now in my repertoire, thank you!

Love your version and your whole talk through. Thank you for posting👍

I like this knot! I do find that I need to pull pretty hard to tighten it using slippery paracord, but once it's tight, it's *knot* coming undone. It's a little hard to adjust the tension, but not too bad. I like that it is secure.

Great hitch. I didn't like it at first as it didn't seem to tie well in the paracord I was using. However with just a little more care with the dressing of the knot it worked perfectly. I now prefer it to the tautline hitch. I have even found myself trying to find reasons to use it. A great knot to have in your arsenal. Thanks for sharing Appleblade.

Brilliant ! I've found a variation of it already by accident. I love knots and hitches. Thx 4 posting.

Great knot. I have this in my book from now on. And the talking? Well, this is youtube. I just jump on to the place where you do the arrowhead hitch. The information in the beginning, is great because it tells the story and the idea behind it all. I loved it.

Great addition to my go to knots... thank you for sharing. Very thoughtful!

Wow .. Good lookin' out! What an improvement, in a couple different ways.

I've just bought a spool of 2mm cord, its a bit on the stiff side and quite smooth, I've tried the taut line hitch and there was some slipping of the knot so I tried this and hey presto no slipping its a great improvement and I'll be using it on all my guide ropes from now on a big thanks for sharing this knot.

I use a bight also.... creating a quick release. Great knot and the back of the Diamond makes a good place to push down and really tighten this knot.

Look into the midshipman's hitch. Any of the taut-line hitch variations can be given more friction by adding an extra half-hitch inside the loop.

Thanks for sharing this knot. I will teach it to my son.

I didn't know Bob Ross could tie knots! Good job Bob👍🏼

This is the best adjustable grip hitch ever. Much better than k taut line hitch.

Brilliant ! from now on I will use this to secure Christmas decorations to my outside walls . No need to save the cheap string for next year . Just jam the line tight to secure against the wind , then cut the line to remove the decore .

Every time I think of you I'm going to think of an arrowhead. I like your idea though good job

I've always found taut line hitch awkward. This is elegant!

I too was messing around with the traditional taught line hitch and came up with something very similar. I basically make the taught line hitch, but instead of making the cross to make the second knot, I stay on the same side and go under the working end, feed it through just like normal, but then feed it through the inner hitch eyelet. Pretty much the exact same you’re doing here, except I still make the second step of the original and just add the third step of taking the end and going back through the front tensioner(just like the way you end the “arrowhead”).

Despite the sort of comments found here for which comment-sections are infamous, I very much appreciated your longer-form video simply explaining your thought process about this altered hitch. I've been tying it this way for a couple months now. I'm a convert. Great video.

My hat's off to you sir 👍 I have been to five or six different channels trying to follow along to tie a "taut line hitch" I come here and I will admit ...you do go on sir...lol.. BUT, all of a sudden I can TIE A KNOT! and it's a very GOOD knot.. walked away did some things came back and still was able to tie this knot straight A Way! Thank you very much 👍😊

Excellent hitch! Thank you. I think it's a great name

I use a taut line quite often around the property. With different type of rope, the taut line needs to be dressed perfectly or the line will slip to release tension. I have been adding a third loop prior to the last over and under loop that is used to close out the know. Takes a little extra dressing to remove any slack, but it has not slipped once. I most often use them on shade tarps which are under constant stress. It adds a lot of extra friction but can still be slid to tack up or give slack.

I have been tying knots in the outdoors four quite sometime now. I use a modified truckers hitch for my ridgeline, as I can guarantee the tightest possible ridgeline using this method. I have been using either the taught line or the adjustable grip hitch for my guidelines. I tried this knot a few times, I'll be honest, I wasn't sure i liked. So I decided to test it practically. Let's see if it lives up to the hype! I put up my MallowMe XL double nest hammock, and my Profly XL hammock rain tarp in a thunderstorm. I have to say I was surprised with how well the knot held. I Mark the Paracord with a black marker and did not notice any movement in the line whatsoever even in strong winds and rain.

One of the coolest and most effective knots for guy-lines there is. Belongs in the ABK. Well done sir.

Thank you for sharing this refreshing improvement knot

well thought out and explained as well as photographed!

Showed this knot to an Eagle Scout after I viewed your video. He was impressed. Thanks for sharing.

Apple blade - Submitted for your consideration: the Tarbuck knot. It has that figure eight twist, for increased friction on the lock, like your knot but it maintains the linear design of the Tautline that allows it to be easily undone when it's time to move on. When the situation warrants more friction the Tautline and the Tarbuck can be tied with three friction turns.

Liked this video, clearest one on knots I've seen. Liked the instructive musing. I learned both the usual way to tie this and your way; helpful. You should have more than one on knots. Do a truckers hitch. You are better than the vast majority at knot explanation.

In-line figure-8 with a quick trucker's hitch is my bag for this sorta thing. But this is definitely an improvement to tautline. Noted and will use.

I really, really like this knot. I'm gonna try it out :)

Arrowhead hitch noble hitch will go down in history!

Been playing around with this arrowhead hitch all weekend, its by far superior and strongest grip yet. Thanks..

Thank you for the information. Found myself falling asleep though.

I have used arrowhead several times. Really good.

I like how it looks and philosophically agree that we should have new knots, even if the fact that the tautline hitch came from sailing is irrelevant to whether it's a good knot. But I tried this in some ~5mm polyester rope. Unless I was really careful in how I dressed it, I found it slipping on me. Not sure I'd trust it in all rope types and the worry is that if the knot loosens up between uses, it could fail to hold when loaded the next time. So it's worth checking out out a bit for whatever rope you're using and your expected use case. For something permanent like this, I really like Blake's Hitch (which was of course discovered earlier by a man named Prohaska who gets zero credit). Anyway, it looks good and it holds brilliantly, so it's worth checking out as well.

awesome troop thats how stuff gets found out right question how or why something is done a certain way and try another outstanding

it's very good, thank you for sharing it

Good stuff. I'm gonna use it for quick setups. "Arrowhead Hitch" got it! Truth be told, I use a slip-loop and a trucker's hitch for this kind of application almost every time. It's just better for tension easy to leave a ton of working end for other uses. But.... I'll definitely give this a shot with my shorter lengths and tent-stakes etc.

Neat little knot. Used it for the awning of our pop-up camper.

I found it to be more efficient and easier to untie if you passed the bight through and made it a slipped version,as I found it was difficult to untie after high tension.

Mr. Appleblade and Cavedog,I found a knot in the Ashley's book of knots.it is on page 295 # 1714.given to Ashly by a guy in Cuttyhunk.called a Lobster bouy hitch! I was playing around with it and have discovered that if tied very tightly,and slipped that it serves very well as a tautline hitch very well as to be equal to our arrowhead.itied around a fairly large tree,and the 2 sides of the loop spread apart,making it stronger,but still adjustable with greater effort.But not even half as beautiful or as elegant as Your Scouting knot, the Arrowhead Tautline Hitch,which you discovered ! Thanks!!!

thank you. the other knots taught are not reliable with small rope. this arrowhead k ot is great.

A better hitch in every way than any other taut line hitch, Thank you sir!

Very good alternative. Thanks.

Cool! I revisited this one as I was working on a adjustable length dog leash. I then wanted something a bit more uniform looking for decretive sake. I make the arrowhead, then brought the working end up and over like the second variation of the rolling hitch and then back down the centre of the arrowhead and the working end finished at the center of the two portions making the loop/bite (still rusty on terms). So, it’s a tidied up version where the finished end is in line.

Good one, I like the variation, and if you feed a bight at the end instead of just the end the rope, you got yourself a quick release. Also, for me, the non slipping power of the taut line hitch is very over rated

I like the Farrimond Friction Hitch. Stronger then a tautline and it's a quick release.

I’ll definitely try it. 👍🏻

I use the second variation of the tautline hitch that you showed, ABOK #1857. It works awesome with the 1.7 mm Dyneema-core line that I use. It doesn't come undone accidently, and it's easy to untie. If you are working with slippery line, you can always add extra wraps to any of these kinds of these sliding hitches. I will try your "Arrowhead Hitch" later. Some of the comments indicate that it will be very hard to untie after it has been loaded. The people that make rude comments almost always have zero of their own videos.

Works pretty good to join two ends, adjustable overlap, each end oppositely wrapping other line.

Beautiful taut line tensioner hitch the best!

I very much appreciated the effort you took in solving the slippage issue with the traditional taut line hitch. Your knot DOES provide better tension. But I have to agree with those that posted / pointed out that just adding one additional wrap to the taut line hitch appears to provide the same improvement in tension, and possibly in a neater package. I can’t say which would be stronger - I couldn’t cause any slippage in either improved knots by stepping into the loop and pulling, whereas the 2-wrap TLH easily slipped. Have you attempted this comparison?

Thank you very much, this one is great!

I do the taut line hitch finishing with two wraps over instead of just one, the second loop on the inside of the first “normal” loop over. Works like a charm.

Well, I have read a large portion of the comments and have never been more amazed what people had to say about everything except the variation of the original taut-line knot ! I like the variation, works for me.

A reasonable consideration. For the consideration of your audience: The purpose of the original and IMO superior rolling hitch is that it does not bind on itself making it difficult to release following being under more tension than your table top example. Nice well presented video 👍

This is incredibly similar to the adjustable grip hitch. Instead of switching directions for that 3rd wrap going around both lines of the loop and tucking into the hole, the adjustable grip hitch continues wrapping in the same direction around both lines of the loop and tucks under the last wrap like the taut-line. I like this better than both of those though because the working end is parallel with the standing end whereas the other 2 leave it perpendicular!

I gave this "arrowhead hitch" a try, but I found that, in order for it to work well, it's very dependent on the "tidiness" of that last step. Then once it is working, it tends to over-tight and have to be loosened up to be able to slide again. Also, I find that, because it is so dependent on those last loops being stacked close together, it doesn't work very will for stiffer, larger diameter ropes. Alternatively, the taut line hitch works for me every time, regardless of the rope/cord being used, never over-tightens and never needs to be re-loosened to be slide further, even while it is still under tension. I'm sorry, but this arrowhead hitch doesn't hold a candle to the good ol' taut line. I would say that, maybe one use for the arrowhead hitch would be to have a somewhat taut-line-like behavior that doesn't untie on its own when there is no tention (which the taut line will do, sometimes).

Appleblade, I believe the knot that you were trying to describe from your reference from that other source, is called the Adjustable Grip Hitch.

Just tried your knot on slick nylon cord didn't seem to hold any better than taut line but the northstar version works very well and tightens down better. I have never had much luck with the taut line hitch except with the old coarse twisted rope we had back in the days of my youth. On the plus side I like the name of your hitch

Your knot is very similar to the "adjustable grip hitch"..., So I think you had the right idea, but I dont know if your version is better or the adjustable grip hitch... what do you think? en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Adjustable_grip_hitch

That's cool. The evolution of knots.

after the initial droning ......the actual knot is pretty good....thanks!

Love it!

great video.... better than babbling brook for going to sleep

I like using the quick release by putting the bite through instead of trying it , everyone has a preference. This is different though.

If I am seeing what you are doing correctly two wraps under in one direction then a wrap in the opposite direction around both downward lines and tuck between opening made, almost like a figure of 8 with extra wrap at top, I am getting inversion of the top with stiff cordage, any similar issues?

8:08 In this knot, instead of going on and through the last loop, I go from under and through, then there is no space between the loops. It is the Taut line Hitche were the loop at the botom has been moved to the top... Thank you for your very strong knot.

That is the adjustable grip hitch. However if it get's over tightened it will not be able to be untied. Put a bite in the knot and it will work better. I use this knot a lot when snow and severe weather camping.

Cool little knot. Appleblade that "extra square space" when you were asking the question of, "Why doesn't someone use that other space?" . Well, there are a lot of variations on a theme that revolve around the know you invented which is cool, but there's another one Paul Kirtley renowned bushcraft instructor uses, which is again basically another variation on the same theme with potential advantages and disadvantages, however it is closer to what you're showing here! Apparently, this known as the adjustable guyline hitch, but he uses a bite there in that "other space towards the stake or square area" for easy release untying. I agree that it is better to use that other space in the square area versus down the line like the taut hitch does. As a matter of fact, I've NEVER used the taut hitch and didn't knot it existed up until recently. That might sound pathetic, but I've always just used the one Paul shows for my outdoor exploits I.E. the guyline hitch when I need and adjustable tension hitch like this. I guess so long as it gets to job done who cares right? This is at least closer to the know you invented using that space. Your knot looks more secure, but the other knot uses a bite in that square area which I love because it is easy quick release to untie! See the video below: kzfaq.info/get/bejne/op96nZR3v6m0cqM.html

i like it too, and gonna give it a try.

I didn't manage to get through this. Fell asleep. 3 times

Good lord. . . . watch this right at bedtime if you have problems falling to sleep.

I've been using this (Thank you!) with a quick release at the end. But I don't camp in really harsh conditions. Just some high wind gusts. Has anyone else been using it with a quick release, under harsh conditions? How did it hold up?

That is a wonderful discovery.

EXCELLENT! THANK YOU!

Looks real effective..how does it compare with a distel ?

Tried all three before commenting. The traditional taut line hitch at 1:18 is the best. It holds the most tension and is easy to release. His "Arrowhead" is the worst. It doesn't hold much tension, and the knot is much harder to untie.

Excellent! Thanks.

Use taut-line a bunch. Think I am gonna try this. Recently, I have been playing around with the taut with a smaller cordage looped through it as a pull tab yo adjust. I will see of there’s a way to do the same with the arrowhead.

I think that when you go down through the hole, you could maybe put a loop in the end so that it could be easily removed? Then, people would have less to complain about? Some people's kids! Great video!

Definitely an improvement to the taut line knot!

Love it, the arrowhead hitch.

Nice knot. Thanks.

Awesome! Thank you.

Good for small guide lines won't loosen if bumped. I will give it a go cheers from down under.

I always have a problem with tautline hitch. In certain weather, perhaps due to expansion and contraction of the cords, the tying comes loose fairly easily. Hope your variation will do a better job. Thank you.

Hi! I tried this knot and in my experience it actually didn't work as well as the Taunt Line Hitch because, when finishing your knot, the loose end that you insert next to the first loop of the taunt line hitch kind of loosens this loop and that tends to reduce friction. Thanks for documenting this knot and giving explanations about the taunt line hitch though. :)

I'm sure I'm a knot geek. That said, what a great knot. Huge improvement. I'll be using it in a week to tension everything in sight. At the end it's like a sheet bend, isn't it?