Everyday is a different puzzle!

That is awesome! Cheers brother... - Patrick

Wow, thank you... really appreciate it brother! - Patrick

Hi in Australia Google hitchmaster. I highly recommend it. I got one yesterday brand new unpacked at a second hand store for 8.50 dollars. I watched a KZfaq video on using it and he was towing a holden Ute. About 1400 kg plus using the hitchmaster. It can be used as a 16:1 setup but no pulleys.it has won awards in the Geneva convention for best invention. There is a guy on KZfaq selling for 20 AUD.

thanks guys I really enjoyed that video please make another one

Another approach is to take an old large link chain and to cut up a good handful of 'C' links to keep in your tool box and rigging bucket. EXTREMELY handy..... Also there is the 'Truckers knot' which I must have invented because I've never seen it anywhere. Its exactly the same as any and every version anyone would describe as that knot but the only difference is that with one simple loop added, it holds the tension with absolutely no need to tie off the tail. The rope is pulled, the tail is let go... the tension remains.

Asplundh guy???

I don'teven OWN a single ratchet strap.

Good for yall. . . But it's the 20th century so it's time to upgrade and put down the ole Nokia phone and pager. Get some new shit. Pulleys porta wrap snatch blocks and the rest of the works. 2020 y'all. Cars are driving them self's now

@@sewallhickman8264 - Haha, it's the 21st century. I guarantee you I have more blocks, pulleys,and Porta-Wraps than you, Haha. Peace, have a great weekend!

@@samuelluria4744 good ole fashioned pissed lol. I love it

@@sewallhickman8264 - I'm so happy right now, it's hard to imagine

It would work, but I wouldn’t want to try it with a tree and all the friction.

@@pb6839 It would work far better that looping through the anchor point friction device. I'd do it any day, anywhere. The rope frictions is not a concern.

@@idadho it’s hard to imagine exactly what you mean but the way I’ve doubled up puts a lot of tension on the one part of the loop, and doubling it up puts significantly more tension between the ropes. I would have to pull really slowly to avoid melting synthetic line. I also would feed back through the anchor before putting the line through.

@@pb6839 A double loop system stops any need to pull through the anchor point. This allows the anchor point to be fixed such as wrapping around a car bumper (60's Plymouth) without damaging the rope by sliding over the steel edge. All of the pull action is in the two or more loops. The friction is from slow movement so there is no heating of the rope. The loop/bight at 1:10 can be repeated multiple times to increase pulley advantage. I would never do a single loop/bight like shown. A second loop creates a rig with no need to pull through the anchor. With a double loop, the friction point is constantly changing, even the bight/loop end. I've been using this multiple pulley trucker's knot since 1963 when I was 8 years old. My brother and I would lash the canoe to my mom's station wagon so she could drive up to the pond. That rope lasted many decades of being tied this way. It works on hemp/sisal/jute natural fiber rope as well as synthetic rope. I need to set up a rig to show this and film it for KZfaq.

@@idadho I think I understand what you mean now, I always wrapped around the anchor again a second time before going through the second loop, so my way puts pulling friction on the anchor as well. Im going to try it your way after I eat something

Canadian version of a Quonset hut(?)🤔

Maybe it retracts. 😜😲😎 that would be nice.

I really appreciate that brother..... I wish I had more time to learn from my father as well.... peace to you ✌️ - Patrick

@@TreeMuggs_PatrickM - Wow. I hear you. I think that if we keep plugging away, we can do them justice

Where are you?

I think it would work

You are correct! This is a 2:1 MA! Not 3:1!

Yessir, it was!

@@TreeMuggs_PatrickM right on, I was wondering who did that one. Hello from Legg work tree service btw!

Untying

Yeah, I just like how it unties after a crazy pull. The alpine butterfly trucker's is also a great choice...

I messed around with it a bit on the back porch. Pretty slick knot. I’ll give it a whirl. Thanks Patrick.

@@TreeMuggs_PatrickM I like the alpine butterfly for the loop, too. I usually just clip a micro pulley into it with a carabiner. Less friction, and I usually have extra micros around.

A "Bowline on a bight" (clip in a shackle) is also a "poor man's" option.

it was an overgrown, lightning-struck Cottonwood, whose time had come 👍 - Patrick

One of those "knuckleheads" would prefer you to use a thimble ("poor man's" or a XRR rigging ring "if I were a rich man") where the pulling rope rubs against the truckers' hitch.

@@orangeshaw2370 - Listen, there is literally nobody who preaches about the avoidance of textile-on-textile friction in all different rigging scenarios, more than I do. I'm pretty sure that it goes without saying, that this video was about something that you can do in a pinch.

The knuckleheads probably have a better solution for this problem. If you're such a poor man what takes ya cutting trees? Stop smoking crack and get some real equipment yall

When climbing you might want to limit quantity &/or the weight of equipment used. But if you have a tractor at hand then there is nothing wrong with planning to have a few miscellaneous spares handy. kzfaq.info/get/bejne/npadgqSorbqad6M.html &t 03-22 & 06-32

@@sewallhickman8264 - Are you being cynical again?😌 Tisk, Tisk. One thing I have observed over the last three decades, is that the most accomplished tree guys have an understanding of the fact that "you never know" what might have found the other person in the place they are in. I will give you an example: Many years ago, I had to have a dump truck left in the repair shop overnight. I was asked to not have any fuel cans left in the truck while it was in the shop, so I removed them from the truck for the night. When I picked up the truck, therefore, it had no extra fuel for my saw meanwhile. As I was leaving the mechanic, which was about 35 minutes from my woodyard, I got an emergency call from a client who happened to be located near the mechanic, and on my way back....so I went to investigate. About a block away was a crew from another company - a much bigger, regional company - that had no reason to see my small business as a threat to theirs. I figured I would approach them, and ask for just enough fuel to put one tank's worth in my saw. One guy was perfectly fine with doing my e the favor, but his foreman came over, and - being the presumptuous type of prick that thinks being cynical makes you seem more professional - told me off, like a condescending ignorant punk - the type that didn't _build_ his company, but _acts_ like he had a damn thing to do with it (what a joke, right?? I know). He said," How do you _call_ _yourself_ and arborist, when you don't even carry fuel for your own saw?!?!?" Well, obviously, he didn't learn the lesson in life/business, that sometimes there might be some reason for something, which _you_ in your infinite wisdom, had not accounted for. Shit happens.

Yes it is a 2:1 system.

Yes it is! 2:1!!!!!

Like I said, it's 3:1. Just ignore those other comments.

Yeah, lots of ways to do a simple trucker's.... slip knot, alpine butterfly, etc... any midline loop knot will work... I just prefer this one :) - Patrick

@@TreeMuggs_PatrickM I like your version. The official version on animatedknots.com is kinda hard to remember. I'd use a carabiner with it tho. You have nice friction on the device at the end and a biner is not as slippery as a pulley

It's an autolock truckers hitch going through the loop twice is what locks it

I was up a Pine last week, that had that light-pink, kinda "salmon-ey" type of colored ooze.....but like EVERYWHERE....and BIG globs! As much as I love the scent, I hate gumming up my lines and my gear😖😖😖....I mean, some of these globs were like double handfuls of sap, 😖😖😖😖😖