Comments by "uguysrnuts" (@UguysRnuts) on "Kusk Bushcraft" channel.

  1.  @migmagingenieria  I totally disagree. I've tied a million truckers hitches and the guys who taught it to me tied billions more. Double wrapping only slows the process down and adds NOTHING to the security or ease of tying. As a sailor, speed, ease, security and jamb proof are what make the truckers hitch effective. If you need to double wrap in order to "hold the pull on the hitch" you're doing it wrong.
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  2. Love to know what you were doing. LOL!!!
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  3. If you don't secure it with a slipped hitch it WILL fail, so why FN bother with the jamb? Just learn to use a truckers hitch if you want to do it right.
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  4. More complicated, expensive when your gear falls off the pack, by no means effective since without a securing hitch, it can't be trusted but otherwise eggsellent.
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  5. 100% WRONG. The bitter end is the end tied around a bitt. The loose ends are either the running ends or working end.
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  6. Pedants, pedants everywhere. Utilize means to use something "effectively". You can "use" a chair as a step stool, or you can "utilize" a chair as a step stool. Both are correct.
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  7. I don't think you know what you're talking about. A cinch knot has ALWAYS relied on an overhand knot to secure it.
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  8. Actually, it's not. Learn the proper truckers hitch and you'll be much further ahead.
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  9. By making them more complicated and ineffective. Sheesh!
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  10. Do you not know how to tie a truckers hitch either?
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  11.  @alfredocalzoni8161  It's actually simpler if one includes the hitch.
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  12.  @alfredocalzoni8161  Double rope. Wrap blankie. Put ends through bight. Tie slipped hitch. Same amount of security with half the motion.
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  13. You can't be serious! If you're so pressed for funds, you can put a loop in one end and do the same job with half as much cord.
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  14.  @livingtheriver  As a professional sailor and rigger, I assure you, there is absolutely no place for an insecure friction knot on a boat. The slipped overhand knot is what makes it secure and the double wrap is absolutely POINTLESS.
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  15. There is no such thing as an "auto locking truckers hitch". All truckers hitches rely on an overhand knot to make them secure.
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  16. Why? If you need to use a slipped overhand knot to make it secure, why not just use a slipped overhand knot in the first place?
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  17. The need to produce "content" for YouTube is the only reason we see these ill-conceived and dis-informative instructional videos.
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  18.  @clay1883  so you must have used an overhand knot to secure your cinch and you'll still need to or you'll be leaving gear on the trail behind you. I can't (and don't) believe the sycophantic praise heaped on these supposed "bush crafters" for failed attempts at re-inventing the wheel.
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  19. 176 comments and all of them lauding this fake expurt for a fake improvement of an existing technique. Not one person pointing out the superfluousness of this nonsense, Why? Because dissenting views are deleted in this echo chamber of amateurs.
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  20. Hate to break it to you chief, but a "half hitch" and an "overhand knot" are the same thing.
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  21. Neither one is a knot.
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  22.  @FaroLucas2  I can, but for a complete definition I recommend you google "What is the difference between a knot and a hitch".
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  23.  @FaroLucas2  LMGTFY a true knot is capable of holding its form on its own without another object such as a post, eye-bolt, or another rope to anchor it. A hitch, by contrast, must be tied around something to hold together; remove the thing it's tied to, and a hitch falls apart. Example: clove hitch.
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  24.  @FaroLucas2  Do you fasten your shoelaces with knots?
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  25.  @FaroLucas2  I expected Velcro.
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  26. Oh NO! You MUST use 550 test paracord to tie your blankie to your knappy.
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