Now THIS is why I go on KZfaq so much. Because of informational videos by people of this caliber. Thank you so much, for a job well done! Thank YOU Thank you!

I love the internet. You made a video 7 years ago and it's still helping people you'll never meet. Best explanation I've seen on some of these knots. Thank you!

Knot Index: 0:47 - Half Hitch; 2:18 - Fisherman's; 4:20 - Prusik; 7:10 - Trucker's (Canoer's?); 8:39 - Clove Thanks for the instruction. All the steps are very clear. I'm looking forward to your 101 video!

Excellent tutorial! Always been intrigued with knots and admired my friends that could do em...now I can. Thanks Craig!!!

Thank you for the wonderful tutorial! I use Truckers/Half hitch daily, in my moving business. As a kid my father and I used to tie knots from a book he had. These were great to remind myself how to do after all these years. I'm sharing with my sister who will also appreciate. Thanks for taking the time during a cold day. Ropes are definitely easier to tie with warmer fingers. Especially the untying part of smaller ropes :)

I was taught the trucker's hitch by an old-school tech director when I studied theater many years ago, and it proved one of the most useful little things I've ever learned. It gives you a functional equivalent to mechanical ratchet straps for all manner of purpose.

Oh my gosh, this is great!!! My Dad taught me the truckers hitch when I was about 11 or 12 and to this day, I use it for all sorts of projects when reorganizing or related. I remember the Clove Hitch was demo'd in the boyscouts book we had around that same time but we never never really used it. I had just started working with my Dads painting handyman business that summer after 8th grade and that knot was invaluable!!!! Thanks for sharing this

Thanks bud, as a guy who never did scouts but have really got into outdoor activities as I've aged, I really appreciate you sharing your knowledge with us 👍

Appreciate your video. Was trying to remember how to tie a clove hitch hitch today...haven't used that for 50-60 years, since BSA and owning a farm on Ohio A long long time ago in a world far far away.. Thanks !!! Good Refresher for me.

Good video! Very useful. One thing my Dad taught me was the half hitch with a bight. Take the loose end when you are all done and stick it through the loop. If things start to slip, the loose end gets caught as the loop starts to pull loose and locks everything down. Also, I use the pulley/knot system ALL the time. Very easy to get items cinched down tight. Works great. Also love the bowlin knot which is great for tieing off things and easily getting the knot loose.

Thank you Dan. You are a wonderful teacher and inspiration to watch. You have learned alot of uaeful knowledge in you life and are now returning the favor by giving it back freely to your audience. Hope your example will inspire others to do the same!!😇

The best explanation I have ever seen for a trucker’s hitch. I can never remember how to tie it when I need it. But this, I think I’ll remember. You broke it down beautifully. Thank you!

Nice video with some practical info and a positive, friendly attitude. Appreciate it.

Just found this channel. Good information clearly explained with excellent voice tone and expression. Well done, I wish everyone trying to teach had your talent.

I really enjoyed this video! Very clearly explained. My proudest day for wiring was when I was helping a friend prepare for his wedding. I needed to join two different types of wiring without them pulling apart under load. I made a sheep shank knot with the actual connection in the middle. It held up and worked well.

Clove hitch and two half hitches have always two been my favorites. Thanks for teaching me three more!

I am a retired Naval officer. I have been a scoutmaster, camper, outdoorsman, small boat sailor, and twisted line splicer. I have seen lots of videos on lots of line work knots. Yours are on the mark for applications and simply explained for the neophyte. Nice Job!

One of the most easy to follow knot instructionals I've watched, great job!

I learned your "canoer's hitch" at my first job, and have used this knot for the past 45 years! One of the best knots I ever learned. You can NEVER know too many knots! Thank you for sharing!

Thanks man. It's good to know the formal names for some of those knots I do. Your tutorial really sticks in my head.

Thanks, man! I'm a city boy about ready to retire in Colorado where I intend to do some backpacking. This is one of several bits of knowledge I need to brush up on.

👍🙏Thank you kind sir!! 🙏 💝 😔Daddy died and I had no idea how to do these knots!! It’s so helpful to have someone show how to do it. Daddy always had the answers to my questions and I could always count on him to help me. I feel like can do this now with your help sir!!! 🙏 Thank you for helping us daddy less daughters out here!! RIP Daddy. 🤗💞🤗

Thanks, Craig! Very clearly explained. I was surprised you didn't show the bowline and bowline on a bight in your top five, but then again, I'm not the outdoorsman these days that I used to be, so I guess your top five are much more useful in the setting you describe. I will be sure to practice the five you demonstrated, as I come across a need for them almost daily. Thanks again.

I use the truckers hitch all the time for tying loads to my ute, my friend’s father showed it to me 25 years ago and it’s been very handy RIP Mr Drewett.

jako korisno the most useful stuff, Im using this in a real life because Im a scout.....nice

Very useful and a great teacher, this is really what KZfaq is all about. Thank you for the video.

Thank you for your patients , I learned more today . Hope to see more again .

I especially like your explanation of the canoeing hitch. I use a different variation but I will be using yours from now on. Thanks! Great explanation on all knots!

An outstanding tutorial. Working from diagrams is much more difficult and prone to error for something that could ultimately mean life or death. This leaves no room for mistakes and the demos are crystal clear. I thank you for one of the best tutorials (on any subject) on KZfaq.

That Fisherman’s knot was so great! I’m not a camper or an outdoorsman (I wish I was) but knot tying is cool as heck. Thank you for the clear explanations for us newbies. Very practical information!

Brilliant lesson! I was Boy Scout (Life) and a conservation camp counselor. I always had trouble with my knots. Those were the best demonstrations of knot-tying I've ever seen. You might want to do a video for nautical knots.

I once read a book called the Ashley Book of knots, 7,000 ways to tie 3,800 knots, a masterpiece, written in the days of sail, now that was an eye opener & inspirational. I still have a fascination with both functional and decorative knots.

Cool, knew them all, forgot about the clove hitch. One missing and one I use a lot is the bowline.

Damn it's cold, and we learned. Thank you.

its so cool to see someone pass this knowledge along, I've been using those knots all my life and those very knots have helped me more than i could ever tell you!

6:30 most useful for me. It's what I've been trying to figure out every time I try to tie things down in the back of a pick-up for example

Best explained I've seen. I always have trouble remembering knots. The way you explained, I'll never forget. Thanks!

Thank you Craig for your patient styled videos. I realized I needed to learn more than a shoe knot when camping. Now I can keep up with the big dogs. :) I'll be checking out your different videos. It would be helpful to know a few to several functions the knots are good to use with to expand the survival and camping experience for us Ladies!

This is absolutely the best description of how to tie these knots, that I have found on YT. It's simple, and therefore easy to remember. However, I just wish we could have had "over the shoulder" shots though, so I could see the knot tying as a first person view, without having to rotate everything around in my head!

These are great. You explained the half hitch and "canoeman's" hitch well. I definitely look forward to using those. The fisherman seems useful too. Thanks!

Knots are so useful, they are almost magic. With a mental toolbox of knots, (the more knots the better) a person almost always has a resource to fall back on. I don't just use knots out in the woods, I use them a bunch for work and at home. A quiver of knots is almost like having secret ninja skills! I highly recommend young people (and older ones too) learn every knot they can. They are just so useful!

So simple when they are explained by someone who knows what they are doing. Thank you, thank you.

Thanks so much for this informative and straight-forward video. I am a somewhat novice 'prepper' and am finding myself needing to develop some basic skills (in addition to filling my larder with survival foods and equipment), Skills will be as valuable as food in any disaster or grid down situation.

Great tutorial! Thank you for your hands on Demonstrating and your explanations.

Oh, and adding a third or fourth similar wrap to a clove hitch is the knot used to hang trawls. It doesn't slip.

thanks- I used the canoe knot, as we went camping this past weekend. I used it to tie down my canoe to my SUV. best knot - Thanks again.

Thanks so much, Craig. Probably saved a few lives with these.

i like the clove hitch especially of these.. It is so helpful to know that one for tieing bag end closed. I think learning knotts is something all kids should learn in school.. I wish i learned them in school.. they would have helped me so much.. but i am very thankful to youtube and people such as yourself for taking the time to make the videos and showing how to make these knots.

My dad taught me a lot of knots growing up but I never learned the half hitches on a bight or the truckers knot. I saw my dad use them all the time but I never learned them. Thanks for the lesson.

very interesting and well describe easy to follow you. Great video.

Thanks a million, Craig. Despite working 30 years in industrial weaving l learned a lot from this video.

Most useful tie down knot is that truckers knot. I learned it as a Home Depot lot boy in college. Have use for anything from Christmas tree tying to securing a tarp above a tent or anything basically. So useful! I like that fisherman knot. Learning it!

I learned all these knots when I was employed on a zip-line course in Alaska and use them continually when setting up at the farmers market, moving furniture, setting up camp. These knots are extremely useful and I would be handicapped without knowing them. Great content thx for sharing!

The fisherman knot is perfect for adjustable necklaces made from leather or the like . Great video, thank you! My father, who was born and raised in Finland, said he had to learn many knots, he used to know at least fifty different ways when he worked on cargo ships in Scandinavia in the early sixties

Just now learning these things due to the current situation of our world. Thanks for these videos, very helpful

Using these knots for years! I learned how to do them in Boy Scouts in the 50's. So there you go. Learn how to do these basic knots well, kids. You won't regret it. Promise.

Great bunch of knots you've shown! Many moons ago, when my kids were in Girl Scouts, I was one of the trainers; knots were my specialty. In fact, my camp name was half-hitch! LOL One of my favorite useful knots for camping is the tautline hitch! I rescued many campers who'd lost those silly metal clips they put on tent lines when they're sold! ;-) And when it was warm at night, I tied up my hammock using clove hitches--never did I hit the ground! They're tied a bit differently, though, when you don't have an open end of a post to tie to--such as around a tree! ;-) That "Prusik hitch" starts out like the knot called a 'lark's head' if you're doing macrame! I'm guessing you'd use it for hanging things from the heavier rope.

been tying and untying knots from Mexico to Alaska, work'n boats-fish'n & sail'n,,,truck'n -haul'n loads of material, wood, cargo, etc. Climbed 20 yrs all over Yosemite to Alaska. etc.,... I met a many a folk tell and show ya all bout knot's, myself included...noth'n here to be critical about...this sir is just what a fella needs to know for common applications, except the few for climbers of course!...good work mate!

Thank you for knowledge sharing, we need more people like you. Fantastic job.

Cool stuff. Specially if you're a guy that like outdoor activities or working in the garage etc.

1:27 I like it. Easy release.

Brilliant! Best demonstrated and easiest video to understand on KZfaq on these essential knots.

I used a different knot to start my truckers hitch but the slip knot you demonstrated makes better sense to break it down. Thanks!

I taught ropes, knots and hitches in the Fire Service for 14 years and yours is the best, simplest and clearest explanation I've seen online. Nicely done!

Nice demonstration of knot tying. My favorite knot is the "taught line hitch." I use that more than any other, especially tying out tent tabs and tent flys.

Thanks for the teaching. My dad taught the truckers on the farm. This is the first time I've seen some else using it. I would have liked it more if you would show how they are used in camping. Thanks for the time you put into this video.

Literally useful to any human. Appreciate the context and examples, not just the how-to up close. Thank you!

Loved it!! Next video can you include taut line hitch and bowline.

I watched and followed the moves. Some were loose, so I keep at til I get them perfect!

I used a child's book on how to tie all kinds of knots with the string and everything and these are a LOT more informative than that! Thank you!

Thanks for a great bunch of knots and clear instruction, and stay warm.

The Best Great Examples I Have used those knots all my life Boy Scouts to Present I am 74

great knots, good instruction. One suggestion: on future demos, use a background of a different color than the chords. Thanks for this.

Clear, concise, kind & to the point! Thank you for a well done video good Sir!

Thank you for posting this. Even though this was posted last year, it comes at a good time because I just bought a book on tying knots and want to know several good options.

we appreciate YOU for hangin' in there and doing that video with freezing hands, great info, thanks for that.

Knotty video Thanks it was helpful.

APPRECIATE YOU BEEN OUT THERE IN THE COLD TO SHOW US KNOT DUMMIES HOW TO TIE A SIMPLE BUT USEFUL KNOTS. I AM FOR SOME ODD REASON VERY INTERESTED IN LEARNING HOW TO MASTER THOSE KNOTS THAT YOU SHOWED US. THANK YOU SO MUCH. YOU WERE AWESOME AND THANKS FOR TAKING THE TIME TO SHOW US HOW TO SURVIVE IN THE COLD OR KNOT SO COLD. TYVM. AL

knots have always been really hard for me for some reason, but your video explained it really well. thanks

Saying thanks from an 80 year old man who never learned knot tying. Thanks my friend. God bless. From an 80 year old man, who loves camping. !!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Thanks for showing how to do it.

There are lots of videos about how to tie knots. This is one of the best; not too quick, not too complicated and the explanations are easy to understand.

straight to the point. No waffle. Really well-presented video and very easy to follow

You have a gift for teaching.

I started sailing merchant marine in 1978 and just retired 2 days ago. In order of importance: #1. Sheet bend (otherwise known as a Becket Bend to join two lines together. This is the #1 and FIRST knot in the BIBLE of Knots which is Ashley's Book of Knots. I find writers all over the place saying that this bend is intended only for two lines of different circumference but do not believe it, although they are correct about it's value for joining two lines of different circumferences it also works just fine for joining two identical lines. Make it a double Becket and it's twice as good. #2. Clove Hitch (when given an extra turn becomes a Round Hitch) both (and their variants) are ALWAYS followed by a half hitch to lock them. A clove hitch is really just two opposed half hitches and are then followed by another half hitch to lock it. #3. Bowline because it's a classic and it's a classic because it deserves to be. The bowline is so old it might have come down from the Phoenicians. #4. Square knot. So simple, right over left and then left over right OR left over right and then right over left. No mater how you start it, just do the opposite next. See how simple that is? #5. A knot I learned long ago which has no name that I am aware of so I can't even tell you the name of it but it puts a loop in a line that I can pass another line through to draw the line tight and will never foul so as to become difficult to untie. (any knot that easily binds to become difficult to untie is useless) I have used this knot countless times to secure cargo on decks headed to Alaska in the winter and it has never failed me. This knot deserves to be #2 or #3 at least but I'm sorry to say I have no name for it. Go find a knot like it that never fouls and you're good to go. I know people use a truckers hitch or a similar knot which I do not know because I fell in love with mine very early on and needed no other. I'm very sorry that I don't have a name for mine. I'm so frustrated that I have never found it in any book, not even Ashley's. It's served me so well, I would love to know it's name. Ok, here's a bonus knot - #6. Stopper hitch. Great for securing a super taunt line to keep it taunt. Learn these knots and you're pretty well set. Oh and HOW to learn knots is another thing. REPETITION. Carry a small length of line around with you and practice practice practice. There is NO OTHER WAY TO LEARN KNOTS! When you can go a month without tying a knot and then pick up a line and tie it without having to think about it, you've got it. Then tie it every now and then and you've got it for, well, maybe not forever but you're getting there. Knots are fun, show off! Chicks dig'em! (not really) Good luck!

I was familiar with all of these knots but your how to tie was the best I've seen

Excellent video! Love stuff like this from someone who knows what he's talking about. Very useful stuff to know. Thanks very much!

Has a great teaching style.

This city slicker didn't use knots enough, so I forget them. I always end up creating a knot from trial and error when I need one. Appreciate your video here. Might save the day for me eventually. Who knows

The clove hitch knot is also helpful to lift perfectly smooth vertical cylinders like a pipe or a log. The knot will tighten when the load augments and won't slide plus... it is really fast and easy to untie.

Loved your video. I searched main camping survival knots and you showed up. Thanks. Excellent!👏🏽👍🏽 I'll be watching it again. I need to learn.

Excellent stuff here. I'll refer back for more.

New friends here from Trail Trash Outdoors! Refreshing on my knot game! Glad we ran acrossed your channel!

Thank you, brought back some flashbacks from the past, Thank you.

Thank you. You demonstrate so well! I've used some of these but I always forget except for a couple. Thanks again!

you make it easy to understand! thanks alot. great video

Gary's Index Updated: 0:47 - *Halfhitch* ~ This knot is commonly used for ridge lines. 2:18 - *Fisherman's* ~ Climbing, bridging, and connections for two loops seem to be the most common fit for this rope, good for any daubers/climbers out there! 4:20 - *Prusik* ~ A dual-tied hook rope, does not slide. 7:10 - *Trucker//Canoer* ~ Want to pull something? The Trucker's Hitch is the knot for you! 8:39 - *Clove* ~ A nice, tight, and versatile tool. Used for support most commonly.

Very good. Clearly illustrated. For what its worth, I use what the Boy Scouts called a Taut-line hitch frequently. Most recently to secure a line to a block and tackle to lift my 70 pound telescope from its pier in my observatory. I can pull to lift the scope then easily slide the knot which then holds without slipping so I can work on the scope's electronic control boards while it is suspended in the air.

My Dad served as a lowly Seaman during WW2. He spent many long hours passing time learning to tie knots. He learned a bunch of them from the Navy and from the boys he served with. He always griped about the knots I use to anchor lumber to the truck rack

I'm Knot one to really say, however , this is really well done and practical, and is very much appreciated. Thank you very much for this really great video.