How to Tie Truckers Hitch | Perfect Knot for Hauling and Securing Loads
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- Опубліковано 30 вер 2024
- Truckers hitch is (in my opinion) the best knot to use for hauling loads and can also come in handy when you forgot/ran out of ratchet straps!
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Should finish with quick release knot, a hitch can become very difficult to undo when there is very high tension which is the purpose of this knot.
Alternatively you could use 2 successive slipknots to finish the knot. I’m a trucker and use this all the time to tie tarps.
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The 2 slip knots is what I use. Simple to tie and then just pull the tail and it comes apart easily.
I saw a trick from the Corporals Corner channel regarding that pinch at 1:14. If you pass the working end through the loop a second time, it will usually friction bite on itself and prevent it from coming loose while you're finishing securing the knot. Works especially well when the line is under heavy load (like a large tarp between two trees that aren't as close together as you'd like) and pinching just doesn't work as well. Then, if you finish it with a half hitch, but use a bite instead of the whole working end, you have quick release.
Sounds like a merging of an anchor hitch, I can dig it!
You didn't form a half twist in the figure 8, I've done it with paracord and it can pull out
Sub out the figure eight for a butterfly knot tho!
Yep... the figure eight will lock after loading, alpine butterfly won't.
Andy, very informative and thank you. Cheers, Mate.
Thanks, Jack!
This is my go-to knot whenever I need to tension a line. I use it to secure antennas in the field and lots more uses.
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Me: Heyyyyy finally a serious video.
Also Me: *I still want to be taught the dance tho, it's cool but never clear*
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I was raised on a ranch and routinely tied off loads of hay and heavy equipment. The knot I still use today is so much easier and it doesn't require trying a looped-knot. It seems to me the orange rope looped knot could be hard to untie if extreme pressure was applied. I'm sure this person is very knowledgable and knows what he is doing but there is a much easier way to tie the Trucker Hitch, in my opinion..
There is a way in which you tie half of a sheep shank to form the loop, but it's not as reliable when shock loaded repeatedly.
@@innerbarkoutdoors This is very interesting, but if you create the first loop with a marlin spike hitch (make sure you roll the loop in the right direction), it's faster, easier and completely secure.
Very very good. I like it. Heaps of so called trucker’s hitch are compromised. Maybe consider a self locking pull down? One guy instead of usual double wrap self lock sends rope through the eye and around the “not standing rope “ ??? And back through eye. Gotta get the correct side though. Before lash off. Works well
Not the truckers hitch I know. Tying Down a real load, 50 ft of rope, multiple points to tie. That way would take for ever.
Is there any reason why you don’t use a slip knot for the first loop that you use as a pulley? It seems faster, easier to untie, with no downside (since your line is going through it, no risk of it coming undone).
Finally someone showing how to actually finish tying it 😭
Why would you use that over a dolly knot?
It doesn't look like its a super popular knot, and I'm not too familiar on it - I will look into it tho!
@@innerbarkoutdoors it's a great knot that requires no untying.
In UK would have been the go to knot before the ratchet straps came along. The truckers hitch seems to be an American thing ,😁
@@innerbarkoutdoors So, what do you think of the Dolly Knot compared to the truckers hitch?
So clear
Thanks Brandon!
When I look up Trucker's Hitch this variation does not show up anywhere. Is it yours alone or does it have another name?
The truckers hitch is a loop which acts as a block, and two half hitches. There's a few variations on how to make the loop, one being half of a sheep shank, another being the way I show here, and there's probably a half dozen other ways.
I’ve been watching these all day trying to figure out how to properly secure my kayak and this is probably one of the best instructional videos that I’ve seen so thank you!!
Awesome! Glad this could help out
Thats is not a truckers hitch
What is it?
Yes, it is
Thank you!
I needed to remember how to tie this so I could secure the two pieces of glass on a plant stand for transporting.
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Nope.
I use a simpler version of this that comes apart very easily by simply pulling on the tail. Like this I have never had it slip and it can be tightened easily as the load settles.. I call it a running line.
Nice! Glad you have a go to.
@@innerbarkoutdoors I can put it together eyes closed.
@@TomokosEnterprize Excellent!
@@innerbarkoutdoors It is just a slip knot by the load, arround the ankor, through the slip knot and yet another slip knot to lock it in. I think I got it explained eh, LOL. See you next post fella.
That isn't a true truckers knot
*puts on truckers hat* how about now?
@@innerbarkoutdoors Ours is 2 slip knots that nearly all of us use. This one is more like a climber would use.