Every rope-making video I've seen starts with string or twine or something that's already basically rope. You actually started with nothing, found a vine and showed how to get to where everyone else was starting. Thank you.
As a former boy scout, even though I know how to do this (haven't practiced in quite awhile), it is definitely rare to see any video actually showing how to do it as if you had nothing except the natural world around you. Subbed my man and good luck on the channel, and the journey of wisdom and knowledge.
I literally started this yesterday. You can even use paper. I found cheapo industrial paper towel works well. the stuff that barely functions as a paper towel that most businesses have? Just cut it into strips, twist the strips and them do like this guy does with them. Now I found some twine and I've made chordage that's like over 6' long. The paper towel rope isn't very strong, obviously but it's good practice and if you are bored on a 12 hours shift like i was, a good way to pass the time.
I love stuff like this so much! My family and I spend an hour or so every week on survival topics and skills, especially given how bad things are looking for our nation, and videos like this are so great!
I watched the video 3 years ago and have now developed my own technique to make smaller ropes. It is a combination of what you show here and a ropewalk. So I will get 4 strands, mostly pre-made jute twine and tie them to a tree or chair in my house. I will tie 2 strings each to a pen or stick and twist them individually clockwise. Then I will take both sticks into my hand and twist them together counter-clockwise. Tie off the ends and I have a nice bit of rope. I hope this technique is something you didn't know before and that you may try it out and show it to the people. :)
How many thousands upon thousands of strings and ropes must our ancestors have made before they found optimum techniques like this. And now we can learn it at the touch of a button. Thank you kindly for sharing.
We're currently homeschooling our kids (like, legit--not virtual/distance learning) On our science walks we've been talking about things that we're curious about that we see out in nature, or on our walks that we'd like to learn more about. Today, my 5 year old wanted to learn more about how ropes were made and we stumbled across this video! Very cool!! I think you may become a regular in our homeschool discoveries and learning. Thank you!
Hosting my own Wisteria Cordage workshop on my farm this weekend thanks to your informative blog and videos! Thank you kindly for passing on the knowledge 🙏
Great video man this is the best tutorial I could find on this website everybody else moved too fast and don't like to verbally explain at all for some reason
I really like this video and your explanation and I subbed your channel. I'll leave this "book" in hopes of encouraging others. I'm not bed bound but I can't easily get out and about so I've traded cabbage for fiber. Alright, the cabbage was greenbacks and the fiber..well you'll see. I've used jute and hemp twine for practice and I've produced some fair sized rope to use with my camping tarp. One way to do this is by making reverse twist cordage twice as long as the finished product. When I get the end of a piece of cordage I'll tie it off using an overhand knot. Then stretch the cordage to set it. Basically you want to stress it over its entire length. Once that is done I find the center and start the process over again but the twists will be just opposite of the first time. This will nearly double the thickness and decrease the length by approximately 50%. (Jute fiber makes a pretty good tinder.) Using raffia from a craft store I've produced thin, refined two tone bracelets and a heavier leash for a sub-30 pounder dog. Also, with the raffia I've stripped many of the harder, thin "threads" and I've done the same reverse twist producing very small and strong thread which I hope to use as some would use heavy linen thread on mocs and other projects. Yucca is great to work with. I drag the leaves over the edge of a picnic table to start breaking it down and scrape away all but the fiber using a spoon.
I have recently hand carved a wood pipe from a tree branch that fell in my back yard, wanted to make some rope to wrap around the stem. Thank you for the lesson
A few years back I needed a piece of hide to make lacing for a project and all I had at the time were remnants of bearhide with the hair on it. I got that bear in Southeast Alaska so it had very dense hair that was five inches long. I tried to cut the hair off with hair clippers but it didn't go half an inch before binding up. Had to scissor the hair off and then torch the stubble and scrape the burnt stuff off so I could make lacing. After cutting the lacing I wondered if I could twist that hair. It took a little bit to get it down but made a 50 foot two strand rope and a 75 foot rope from that hair from a one foot by one foot piece of bearhide. It was strong enough it wouldn't break if I pulled hard, which is at least 150 pounds.
I was pruning some wisteria this week, and rather than dispose of the runners or chop them up for mulch I thought “I bet I could make rope out of these...” And now I know how. Thanks! 😉
I’m using corn husk right now on my lunch hour. I’m just starting out. I love the idea of making things with my own hands and understanding how things work. Thank you for your instructions Al video!
I make cordage all the time using various plant fibers from my backyard; I've found vine fibers to be stronger but wheatstraw and tall grasses work really well, too!!!
I think this is just fun by creating something out of something less by effort. In school we did worked with rope and different turning techniques. We even started with sheep wool, not plant fibers. We also did weaving, so with enough time and effort, I feel like I could make some fabric from plant fibers. Perhaps come in handy one day.
With thicker rope I recommend the 3-way twist. I want to find a rope-maker to do that video though because it's somewhat difficult to do by yourself in the field.
Good question. I was in boy scouts too and never remember doing this. I remember trying it with three strands though. Was there a rope-making merit badge? There had to be. :)
@@UntamedScience boy scout here, no rope making merit badge unfortunately,shame though rope kinda is on of the most important tools you can have out there
I really like this method,i took 3 palm leaves and then just make a knot on the front then start braiding and when im done make a knot on the end,it will dry up and then become something almost like hemp rope,the same colour
If you can do this and make say 1200 ft length of this, you pretty much have your self enough for a natural rope hammock. It would take about 2 hours of this per day for about a week and a half, (because in survival you pretty much have other hunter gatherer chores) but you can now sleep off the ground. It would be a challenge though. if you do three weeks of this with smaller diameter, you can have enough netting for fishing. The shuttle and gauge can also be made in the wild(bush)....
Ayo this is really cool!! I have been trying to make some thin rope out of a few grasses at my school campus, and this has really done it! I wasn’t very sure of the weave before but this video has really helped and it came out pretty nice, thank you for the great content!
Great knowledge your sharing...i have a ton of that plant here the purple and white variety and both are taking over two parts of my yard...its a beautiful plant/vine and Bri vs tons of birds and bees into our yard! I'm so so stoked that you shared this as I'm really getting into the learning and teaching others about things one would need if of survival and I know if one runs out of cordage that this would come in handy setting up shelters as well other things you would need cordage for! Hope your weekend is blessed my friend thanks again for sharing this video with everyone! Watching from the Cowichan Valley on Vancouver Island in Canada! Cheers, Jerbs #22ADAY 👍🏼🇺🇸🔥🔪🔥🇨🇦👍🏼
Came here because I'm writing a novel set in medieval Japan and in my research I read that cliffside board walkways were held together with wisteria bark. Very informative demonstration, thanks!
I'm watching this to learn how to make cotton cords to use as wicks for a kerosene camping stove that uses a hard to find, wick diameter. Thanks for the video.
This is one of the most basic, easy, but yet extremely necessary survival skill everyone should know. If you are wondering, you can make this with pretty much anything that is strong and flexible. - Grass - Hay - Flower Stems - Vines etc.
Thanks for this video! I recently just made a fox hide hat and want to make some rope to make the hat more secure around my head. I am going to go out busy to see what vines I can find!
Excellent tutorial! Very clear and easy to follow. I pulled fibers out of cotton balls and made a surprisingly strong string using this technique in a short period of time. I did not know about using wisteria until your other video.
We did this in boy scouts and I was in scouts when we lived in cannada cause Dad was stationed there with the United States airforce. And then after we made a few hundred feet of rope like this we used it on our once a year 200 mile two week long canoe camping trip and used this to hang stuff make tarp shelters tie down tents and anything really we made around 2k feet of this between the 40 kids who was part of our troop
I was wondering of a way to make a nature made sled for hauling animals. I discovered that the local bark is really sturdy and can be removed in sheets, basically unwrapping the dead tree. im so excited about eventually making my own primitive tools and using them skillfully.
By adding a third strand you can make 3 stranded rope. Same twist and turn technique but with 3 strands. Twist and turn each strand in turn just as you are doing with two strands but with three instead.
For some reason, I can only make any sort of consistent yarn or rope with the reverse wrap method. While I think it's time to upgrade to the drop spindle, that has a learning curve.
I've a roll of hemp cord. I'll get my muscle memory from that while watching YT. I plan on a level of efficiency with cord making from nettles and brambles and then to rope. The core of the Wisteria looks great for baskets, coil, dry and soak core and bark. Use the bark for the binding. The core might work for a bit of wattle and daub. Core and bark for fish traps too. Thx man. ^^
ye, I enjoy making cordage and rope from time to time, not done a lot of it though for how long i've been able to do it. But more knowledge I think I may some day get to a point where I can just make wtvr rope I need instead of buying it.
Very cool video, made a good bit of rope from paracord as practise, only wish he showed how to finish the rope but thanks! P.S. Ok found out, that you just tie a tight knot with the leftover strands and it holds, very cool!
You have NO IDEA how thrilled I am to see and save this video. Isaiah 40:31”but those who wait upon the Lord shall renew their strength…… The word wait taken from the Hebrew language means: TO GATHER STRANDS, TO TWIST, in order to strengthen, as in making a rope, or cord. Wait also means to expect, to hope. If your waiting on the Lord for an answer, start gathering some strands of fibers together, and start twisting, and strengthening them as you twist; what you’re doing while sitting there, your building hope, a cord of hope and expectation. They that wait (twist, and build hope)shall renew their strength!
Im making nettle string. The fibres vary in thickness because i didnt take much care about keeping them even thickness whem processing the fibres. So i plan to weave a few strands together to make it into a thicher string. The 3 strands going together is what im looking for now
Every rope-making video I've seen starts with string or twine or something that's already basically rope. You actually started with nothing, found a vine and showed how to get to where everyone else was starting.
Thank you.
Thanks John. I appreciate that. :)
As a former boy scout, even though I know how to do this (haven't practiced in quite awhile), it is definitely rare to see any video actually showing how to do it as if you had nothing except the natural world around you. Subbed my man and good luck on the channel, and the journey of wisdom and knowledge.
I literally did it with normal tissue paper & it worked! I’m surprised how strong & useful it became.
Finally a video that does it from scratch
Dang, I’ve always wondered how they made rope, thanks for showing me, I’ll be sure to try it with my shoelace xD
You can actually try it with all sorts of things - like that little paper that comes off straws!
StoneAgeMan Sounds cool but I’m pretty sure I would accidentally break it, I did try it with copy paper that I folded and it worked
Plz give me boiled peanut
@@peanut-.- you got a sub from me
I literally started this yesterday. You can even use paper. I found cheapo industrial paper towel works well. the stuff that barely functions as a paper towel that most businesses have? Just cut it into strips, twist the strips and them do like this guy does with them. Now I found some twine and I've made chordage that's like over 6' long. The paper towel rope isn't very strong, obviously but it's good practice and if you are bored on a 12 hours shift like i was, a good way to pass the time.
I love stuff like this so much! My family and I spend an hour or so every week on survival topics and skills, especially given how bad things are looking for our nation, and videos like this are so great!
This video, the skill and the concept behind of the channel. Just freaking great.
Thank you for sharing!
Thans Justo!
got to appreciate the old ways of doing things, and the people who maintain them, thank you sir.
I watched the video 3 years ago and have now developed my own technique to make smaller ropes. It is a combination of what you show here and a ropewalk. So I will get 4 strands, mostly pre-made jute twine and tie them to a tree or chair in my house. I will tie 2 strings each to a pen or stick and twist them individually clockwise. Then I will take both sticks into my hand and twist them together counter-clockwise. Tie off the ends and I have a nice bit of rope.
I hope this technique is something you didn't know before and that you may try it out and show it to the people. :)
How many thousands upon thousands of strings and ropes must our ancestors have made before they found optimum techniques like this. And now we can learn it at the touch of a button. Thank you kindly for sharing.
Your channel should have millions of subscriber you teach people useful things
Thanks Lewis. Very kind of you.
it warms my soul to see you show your passion from one human to another
Thanks! Going out into the woods and doing stuff like this is whats keeping me sane in quarantine
Glad that you are showing how to do it from scratch, so many other videos on ropemaking require rope or string to start it.
We need more people like you
Thanks for the video. I've got Chinese wisteria growing & just used to make wreaths with my pruning. Now I'll be making ropes. 👏👏
We're currently homeschooling our kids (like, legit--not virtual/distance learning) On our science walks we've been talking about things that we're curious about that we see out in nature, or on our walks that we'd like to learn more about. Today, my 5 year old wanted to learn more about how ropes were made and we stumbled across this video! Very cool!! I think you may become a regular in our homeschool discoveries and learning. Thank you!
Awesome. Thanks for that note! I hope we can provide some useful videos for you!
Rope making is an essential part of wilderness survival. Fantastic video.
Tried with reclaimed yarn. Real impressed at how easy it is, if a little tedious. Thanks!
Thank you! And I won’t let the knowledge stop here, I will teach my children and grandchildren!
Hosting my own Wisteria Cordage workshop on my farm this weekend thanks to your informative blog and videos! Thank you kindly for passing on the knowledge 🙏
I've made quite a bit of cordage using Dogbane. Great stuff.
I did this today in just a couple minutes using the fibers of the leaf of one species of palm. Amazingly strong and easy to do. Thanks!
Awesome!
Great video man this is the best tutorial I could find on this website everybody else moved too fast and don't like to verbally explain at all for some reason
I really like this video and your explanation and I subbed your channel. I'll leave this "book" in hopes of encouraging others. I'm not bed bound but I can't easily get out and about so I've traded cabbage for fiber. Alright, the cabbage was greenbacks and the fiber..well you'll see.
I've used jute and hemp twine for practice and I've produced some fair sized rope to use with my camping tarp. One way to do this is by making reverse twist cordage twice as long as the finished product. When I get the end of a piece of cordage I'll tie it off using an overhand knot. Then stretch the cordage to set it. Basically you want to stress it over its entire length. Once that is done I find the center and start the process over again but the twists will be just opposite of the first time. This will nearly double the thickness and decrease the length by approximately 50%. (Jute fiber makes a pretty good tinder.) Using raffia from a craft store I've produced thin, refined two tone bracelets and a heavier leash for a sub-30 pounder dog. Also, with the raffia I've stripped many of the harder, thin "threads" and I've done the same reverse twist producing very small and strong thread which I hope to use as some would use heavy linen thread on mocs and other projects.
Yucca is great to work with. I drag the leaves over the edge of a picnic table to start breaking it down and scrape away all but the fiber using a spoon.
I have recently hand carved a wood pipe from a tree branch that fell in my back yard, wanted to make some rope to wrap around the stem. Thank you for the lesson
Thank you sir for you cordage lesson. I have to go out and give it a try. Many thanks! 👍
Thanks this helped now i can build some cool stuff in the woods.
In San Diego, yucca fibers work very, very well. You can also use palm tree fans, and also agave. To get agave fibers you have to cook it though.
For god sake why does this have 700 views and 27 comments? It needs more
your wish is my command look at the views
A few years back I needed a piece of hide to make lacing for a project and all I had at the time were remnants of bearhide with the hair on it. I got that bear in Southeast Alaska so it had very dense hair that was five inches long. I tried to cut the hair off with hair clippers but it didn't go half an inch before binding up. Had to scissor the hair off and then torch the stubble and scrape the burnt stuff off so I could make lacing. After cutting the lacing I wondered if I could twist that hair. It took a little bit to get it down but made a 50 foot two strand rope and a 75 foot rope from that hair from a one foot by one foot piece of bearhide. It was strong enough it wouldn't break if I pulled hard, which is at least 150 pounds.
SUPER cool! Why anyone would dislike this video is beneath me.
Wow that is so cool. Making rope from raw material. I don't know it was so simple but so patient grating process at the same time.
I was pruning some wisteria this week, and rather than dispose of the runners or chop them up for mulch I thought “I bet I could make rope out of these...” And now I know how. Thanks! 😉
I’m using corn husk right now on my lunch hour. I’m just starting out. I love the idea of making things with my own hands and understanding how things work. Thank you for your instructions Al video!
Amazing. How is that working for you?
I make cordage all the time using various plant fibers from my backyard; I've found vine fibers to be stronger but wheatstraw and tall grasses work really well, too!!!
I think this is just fun by creating something out of something less by effort. In school we did worked with rope and different turning techniques. We even started with sheep wool, not plant fibers.
We also did weaving, so with enough time and effort, I feel like I could make some fabric from plant fibers. Perhaps come in handy one day.
I'm not making rope myseslf rn but this really helped with a story I'm writing, thank you!
How did the story turn out ? What’s the name
Now I want to go into woods and try this. I feel like everyone should know basic wilderness tasks. You never know what could happen
I'm so happy I found this!
My wife and I actually did this today with your video
Awesome stuff Rob, are there other techniques that you could recommend for thicker rope? Braid or weave? Super cool stuff either way!
With thicker rope I recommend the 3-way twist. I want to find a rope-maker to do that video though because it's somewhat difficult to do by yourself in the field.
Why, oh why did Boy Scouts never teach me this?
Good question. I was in boy scouts too and never remember doing this. I remember trying it with three strands though. Was there a rope-making merit badge? There had to be. :)
knowing how to make rope is racist.
@@commiekillareee912 what
@@ryanstockdale3413 r/wooooosh
@@UntamedScience boy scout here, no rope making merit badge unfortunately,shame though rope kinda is on of the most important tools you can have out there
Making cordage out fabric scraps lately! Have a 20+ foot length and still going. Thanks for the video!
Fantastic!
I'm not making rope, but this did help me learn how to draw it. thanks!
I really like this method,i took 3 palm leaves and then just make a knot on the front then start braiding and when im done make a knot on the end,it will dry up and then become something almost like hemp rope,the same colour
If you can do this and make say 1200 ft length of this, you pretty much have your self enough for a natural rope hammock. It would take about 2 hours of this per day for about a week and a half, (because in survival you pretty much have other hunter gatherer chores) but you can now sleep off the ground. It would be a challenge though. if you do three weeks of this with smaller diameter, you can have enough netting for fishing. The shuttle and gauge can also be made in the wild(bush)....
This is truly breathtaking
Ayo this is really cool!! I have been trying to make some thin rope out of a few grasses at my school campus, and this has really done it! I wasn’t very sure of the weave before but this video has really helped and it came out pretty nice, thank you for the great content!
I can't wait to try doing this! I live in a desert so I want to try doing this with yucca fibers and make my own stone age bow!
Don’t forget making circles and then squares with Thale’s Theorem. Requires string/cord. Marking straight lines, etc.
Rope merit badge, I would have done that one in a minute if they had it. Interesting stuff but next time make an umbrella.
Great knowledge your sharing...i have a ton of that plant here the purple and white variety and both are taking over two parts of my yard...its a beautiful plant/vine and Bri vs tons of birds and bees into our yard! I'm so so stoked that you shared this as I'm really getting into the learning and teaching others about things one would need if of survival and I know if one runs out of cordage that this would come in handy setting up shelters as well other things you would need cordage for! Hope your weekend is blessed my friend thanks again for sharing this video with everyone! Watching from the Cowichan Valley on Vancouver Island in Canada! Cheers, Jerbs #22ADAY 👍🏼🇺🇸🔥🔪🔥🇨🇦👍🏼
Came here because I'm writing a novel set in medieval Japan and in my research I read that cliffside board walkways were held together with wisteria bark. Very informative demonstration, thanks!
Thanks for the vid. I have a school project tomorrow and I don't want to go to the store.
You got me in the first half not gonna lie.
I've done this with grass and my own hair after a hair cut.
I'm watching this to learn how to make cotton cords to use as wicks for a kerosene camping stove that uses a hard to find, wick diameter. Thanks for the video.
This was great. Learning great things
OMG Thank you for teaching us how to make ropes your a genius!
This is one of the most basic, easy, but yet extremely necessary survival skill everyone should know.
If you are wondering, you can make this with pretty much anything that is strong and flexible.
- Grass
- Hay
- Flower Stems
- Vines
etc.
I'm 32, just felt like learning how to make rope, thanks
Def gonna use this to make a stone hatchet
Thanks for this video!
I recently just made a fox hide hat and want to make some rope to make the hat more secure around my head.
I am going to go out busy to see what vines I can find!
you are a live saver bro
Wow... This is simple trick in nature. Thank you🙏🙏🙏🙏🙏🙏🙏🙏🙏
Finally, exactly what I need! Thanks!)
we’re so complacent in our life you never know when you’ll need this skill
I started making dandelion cordage today! I'm hoping to use it in my crafting.
Excellent tutorial! Very clear and easy to follow. I pulled fibers out of cotton balls and made a surprisingly strong string using this technique in a short period of time. I did not know about using wisteria until your other video.
Commenting for the algorithm he might need it
Nice 👍
Thank you. Fixed my curiosity
We did this in boy scouts and I was in scouts when we lived in cannada cause Dad was stationed there with the United States airforce. And then after we made a few hundred feet of rope like this we used it on our once a year 200 mile two week long canoe camping trip and used this to hang stuff make tarp shelters tie down tents and anything really we made around 2k feet of this between the 40 kids who was part of our troop
learning this stuff so i can js disappear with the boys for a week
Yes
Until I saw your very informative video, I was at the end of my rope!
This was so interesting to watch
I was wondering of a way to make a nature made sled for hauling animals. I discovered that the local bark is really sturdy and can be removed in sheets, basically unwrapping the dead tree. im so excited about eventually making my own primitive tools and using them skillfully.
By adding a third strand you can make 3 stranded rope. Same twist and turn technique but with 3 strands. Twist and turn each strand in turn just as you are doing with two strands but with three instead.
Nice!
For some reason, I can only make any sort of consistent yarn or rope with the reverse wrap method. While I think it's time to upgrade to the drop spindle, that has a learning curve.
So I knew how to make rope I just didn’t quite know how to extend it so thanks for helping
I'll do it tomorrow!
I've a roll of hemp cord. I'll get my muscle memory from that while watching YT. I plan on a level of efficiency with cord making from nettles and brambles and then to rope. The core of the Wisteria looks great for baskets, coil, dry and soak core and bark. Use the bark for the binding. The core might work for a bit of wattle and daub. Core and bark for fish traps too. Thx man. ^^
That's a great idea! Try raffia and experiment with more than one color as well seeing how thin you can make reverse twist cordage. Be encouraged.
I’ve been in survival for three years and just now learning it
Easy for making bow string ;)
ye, I enjoy making cordage and rope from time to time, not done a lot of it though for how long i've been able to do it. But more knowledge I think I may some day get to a point where I can just make wtvr rope I need instead of buying it.
Just the other day I started make rope out of stinging nettle and it's crazy how strong it is
Very cool video, made a good bit of rope from paracord as practise, only wish he showed how to finish the rope but thanks!
P.S. Ok found out, that you just tie a tight knot with the leftover strands and it holds, very cool!
Thank you for the video!
Getting plant fibres is that hardest part of this process and the one that no one spends any time on.
You have NO IDEA how thrilled I am to see and save this video. Isaiah 40:31”but those who wait upon the Lord shall renew their strength……
The word wait taken from the Hebrew language means: TO GATHER STRANDS, TO TWIST, in order to strengthen, as in making a rope, or cord.
Wait also means to expect, to hope.
If your waiting on the Lord for an answer, start gathering some strands of fibers together, and start twisting, and strengthening them as you twist; what you’re doing while sitting there, your building hope, a cord of hope and expectation.
They that wait (twist, and build hope)shall renew their strength!
Let’s go I made a 2 foot rope out of wisterias with this
Duuuude... way groovy!
Rope is so underrated
How do you finish the cordage off? Does the tensile strength of the wraps stop the thing unwinding? Wonderful video though, thank you Sir
What type of tree bark could i make this from? Would a branch of willow, beech or pine work also?.
Thanks for doing the atv and boater safety course I appreciate it a lot
Yer awesome bro! keep 'em comin'!
this good skill to learn
One step closer to be zombie apocalypse ready 😎
thanks for the great video
Im making nettle string. The fibres vary in thickness because i didnt take much care about keeping them even thickness whem processing the fibres. So i plan to weave a few strands together to make it into a thicher string. The 3 strands going together is what im looking for now