Dropped your keys in a storm drain? Use this knot.
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- Опубліковано 21 сер 2024
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You never know when you might need a knot like this. You can use it to grab your gear if it's out of reach. Here I take my keys out of a storm drain using paracord. You may also be able to use it while camping or working on the job site.
Gravity Hook Knot • Gravity Hook Knot
Missed opportunity:
"You can tie this extremely complicated knot, or you can carry the Gravity Hook XS. Link below."
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That thing is pretty cool!
@@kamkokos I am going to order some stainless steel tonight and hope to have some back in stock by early next week.
@@First_Class_Amateur I'll be placing an order as soon as it's up 😁
Sweet little trinket... never seen I before, thanks!
Very nice. Although in my country there are no drains without water in them. When I saw the video and the keys fell in, I thought “they’re gone”, but the drain being dry makes retrieving a whole lot easier.
Like, a torrent of water? What country is this?
@@toddhoward1892 any country where it rains daily.
There will always be water in the drainage system.
@@monad_tcp Most city area drains are for collecting all sewage, may that be from rain and people washing their cars in their yards or whatever so water that ends up on streets, but also collects sewage water from homes. The main drainages are common which go to the same treatment plants or in some situations directly in the rivers.
@@somnorila9913 storm drains that run to bodies of water are typically seperated from sewers. Storm drains are what is under the grates at the curb. At lrast where I've lived, which wasnt far from the coast until now, but now I'm between two very large lakes, so they are used at power generation and a reservoir. Sewage goes to treatment plant before anywhere else.
@@monad_tcp Aren't 24h enough time to drain all the water?
Imagine having all that rope with you and then realizing you could have tied it to your keys so you wouldn't lose them in a storm drain.😢
Yep or to a spanner ( wrench) and not loose it in earth moving machine. For my car keys i always attach it to my pants where belt passes through. I attach with caribeaner. The other positive of that is my pocket has more space.
My thought exactly. Got a key chain i made of paracord, attached to my belt with a carabiner
You UA-cam-short goonies always think you got shit figured out
carabiner is just my goto
if you still lose it then youre just build different
@@helper_bot and not in the good sense xD Alternatively, the carabiner can serve as a knuckleduster
Excellent tutorial! You have convinced me to add magnets to my camping survival gear...😋
Nice to know. I usually use a neodymium magnet or a small hook, because not all drains will be dry. Magnets will tend to catch the keys much faster and effectively even in drains with flowing water. :)
When you said 'usually' I started to wonder how often you drop your keys into storm drains.
Enough, it seems, that you have protocol in place.
@@beholdandfearmethat was my thought exactly😂
@@beholdandfearme LOL. The term 'usually' was used because we are a group of trekkers and hikers. My inventory for travel is always equipped with a thin but strong nylon rope, about 40 ft long, a small hook and a few small but very powerful neodymium magnets. I'm also a travelling musician and once you learn a lesson, it is a good practice to keep certain things with you just in case, even if you never have to use it frequently, cause you never know. :)) Cheers :))
Whenever I see videos of the mind boggling thing humans have been able to come up with with our time on earth all I can imagine is people in 140 BC being like “yo did you see that new knot Jerry came up with last week? That shit was dope as fuuuuck son!!!”
Dope = “a stupid person” - Merriam, Webster dictionary.
@@BitSmythe Slang = "an informal nonstandard vocabulary composed typically of coinages, arbitrarily changed words, and extravagant, forced, or facetious figures of speech. " Merriam-Webster dictionary.
Be dope. Don't be a dope, you dope.
@@BitSmythe
Dope: excellent-used as a generalized term of approval
ALSO Miriam Webster's dictionary if you'd bother to scroll down a bit
@@Mark73 He is right in one thing though: today's youth severely lacks a developed vocabulary. " Dope as fuck son". That just screams " immature retarded American teenager brought up without good parentage" to me.
Gordian was disappointed with Alexander's response to his talents though.
Clever, now all I need is to be carrying enough rope, have my cellphone with me, and remember the title of this video, so I can watch it, while under pressure, and dealing with embarrassment while I follow the step by step demo using one hand at the curb of a busy street.
Oh wait, the rope is in the locked car! Damn!
He is going to do a video on how to unlock your car with a knot.
This is awesome... Sadly wouldn't work here in the UK, as our drains are designed to have water in them. Kinda like a small well shape with an overflow pipe 2/3 of the way up.
And usually overflowing out of the top 😳
A rare earth magnet on a piece of string or wire rolled up to keep it handy also works and is simpler. This is what goes with us to the pier in case something made of steel goes into the drink.
@Repent and believe in Jesus Christ How about not arrogantly spouting your religious scripture in places that are completely irrelevant!? 🙄
You types of people make your own religions look so much worse to everyone else...
Not trying to be a buzzkill or anything, but wouldn't this be easier to accomplish with just a hanger or a piece of wire, or perhaps a magnet on a string?
Would you prefer carrying 10 yards of hanger or paracord in your day pack?
Survivor Cord has like 7 different strands inside it and one is a wire. It's not exactly that sturdy but you could tie a knot for a rodent trap and it could possibly work.
I make lanyards out of straps of about 10 feet and attach them to bags. I also use it in boots and shoes for laces.
My number 1 rule when selecting items for my bags is that everything has to have multiple uses.
@@thangd7124 fishing line and a small magnet, strong enough for some keys and takes up no space
No it doesn’t trust me I’m a professional
@@thangd7124 Wouldn't you still need to carry the paracord either way. I would say that magnets on a string would require less paracord since you don't need a toggle line.
Great slow explanations and context on why certain knots were chosen
I enjoy the way you describe what you are doing to the rope, and how it works in the knot! As someone just beginning into tying knots, it's great information that can translate to other knots. First video from you I have seen, but definitely subscribing for more!
Come back after your first victim. Let us know how it went.
wait til there’s a nice little reward, tell me and i’ll put 60% on your commissary book.
I can’t tell you how many times I’ve dropped my keys into a storm
Drain but they always land with the loop thing up at a 90° angle!
Oh wait…
Ah. If I ever lose my child down a storm drain I'll know the perfect way to fish them out. Bravo good sir. ❤
They all float down there🤡🎈
Hhaha the IT emoticon and red balloon
That is indeed creative... I'm going to have to try this because it's hard to believe it works as well as shown here... but I will certainly be impressed if it does!
Just tried it & works well 😮 very impressed!
You are some kind of knotistic savant! Bravo sir, I don't know how you do it!
How perfectly you somehow articulated exactly what I was thinking/feeling while watching this video!
👏👏👏👏
😂
Metal hangers, not just for hanging clothing. A multitude of viable options with some imagination.
Dropped my keys in a storm drain once. Attached a rare earth magnet i had with me to a shoe lace. Worked great.
Best knot channel in the world! Super cool!
I have honestly never been so bored, watching a knot be tied in my entire life
This looks like magic and I still don't understand how it's so solid and strong
A very rational and cool-headed solution. I'm pretty sure I would stomp around and have a temper tantrum like a child.
I did this once with a wire coat hanger from a dry cleaner shop.
Thanks for teaching how to tie this knot.
"...all right let's go get our keys from the storm drain" lol awesome
Also see - "Extendo magic magnetic rod thing." Granted, this could solve some issues i've had in the past that magnets couldn't solve. Cheers for sharing!
Never in a million tries would I be able to recall how to do this without having to watch the video again (several times probably.) So, I'll just make one and keep it in the trunk of my car. Oh, ya, wait, I just dropped my keys in a storm drain............!
there are definitely ways to use this besides a storm drain, like what you showed at the end. especially if you're a hiker and drop something between some boulders or something. (all the storm drains where i live are filled with water up to about 2 feet below the grate,)
The loop that sits 90deg to the rope at 2:46 is a great tip all on its own
Awesome info! I will never remember this but still awesome.
I wish we had those sorta drains here, but no... every drain here is the type that's like, 10 feet deep and has water at the bottom. And yes, I've once dropped my keys down one of those and I'm still amazed I managed to fish them out using a bunch of wire hangers that I straightened out and taped together. I do believe I spent like an hour scraping around tho, since... you know, water at the bottom, so I couldn't see where the keys had landed or if they'd gotten washed away already.
That looks like something that requires infinite patience and a very strong flashlight... if you happen to have that rope on you, great. Otherwise, just get hook or magnet on a string and save yourself a huge amount of wiggle frustration.
Bravo Maestro! Thank you for sharing. Keep up the great work.
You know a man's confident in his knots when he yeets his keys down a storm drain.
This might be quite useful if our street drains were not full of water and completely opaque. A magnet and string and a piece of tig wire are needed !
Tig wire for welding?
E X C E L L E N T C L A S S !!!
THANK YOU so much for a verrrrrrrry good lesson on a FIX that has plagued me since my keys slipped thru a hole in my pants pocket, slid down the inside of my pants leg about the time I was trotting in the rain from my truck going to drop off a book at the downtown library & I stepped on a storm drain and my keys were GAWN !!! I borrowed two wire coat-hangers from tge library and spliced them together and fished my keys out. Luckily, tge worst of tge storm hadn't gotten there or they would have been washed out of sight into oblivian! THANK YOU !!!
I SUBBED.
Calm down dude
Just finished watching the gravity hook knot. I only watched the first 5 seconds and I literally Pog-faced =0 Brilliant improvement, my friend!
I like the idea. I just don't know who all would remember all the steps in the knot tying.
Happened to me last year just grabbed a fishing pole and tied a crank bait lure to the line then cranked it snug agains the rod tip. Fished my keys out instantly.
You should reseason that Lodge lid before it starts to pit, I only saw it briefly as you lifted it but the rest of the dutch oven looks okay.
My key ring has a 17 lbs. pull 1/2” neodymium magnet mounted within a 1 3/8” pedestal that works great. Your knot would be complicated from my lack of use . A paper clip may be formed in different variations for any sort of hook if needed . Amazon magnets .
This will be good ammo for the “just use a straaapppppp lollll!” crowd.
If you mean "just attach your keys to your pants" then yes, it is a good idea if you have a high chance of dropping them. You can drop your keys in some place much less ideal. With no way to see it, and if it will be during the rain, then...good luck with the ropes if you don't have a magnet on the other end
Yea just use a piece of wire or a ratchet strap with a hook already on it lol
This seems to be helpful, so long that you can see it! One time someone dropped their car keys into the storm drain full of water. There was no way we could see anything in there. I didn't know this trick, although I'm not sure if it would have worked under water. I had to get creative. So, I found a largish rock with a flat face and wrapped a rope around it. I happened to have a bunch of mini neodymium magnets on hand, so I hot glued a bunch of them onto the flat side. That was the longest part because I had to wait for the glue to harden before I could move on to the next magnet, if not, the neighboring magnets would pull it off. This thing looked like a disco ball, at least on one side! LOL. Anyway, I went back to the storm drain with a safety officer, so that they could block off some traffic, since it was on a busy road. I asked him where he thought it might've dropped in, but since it was dropped it in the night before, no one knew. So, I guessed a spot that would've made sense and lowered the "magne-rock" into the drain. I started pulling it up and the officer started jumping up and down saying he thought I got it. I was like, "no way, this is just the first try." And no lie, I pulled up his keychain with his keys! I wasn't even sure if it was going to work because keys are not attracted to magnets, I was just hoping his keychain was! The guy whose keys it was, was overjoyed! It's a great memory. 🙂
And then everyone clapped!
@@CNSninja We were jumping up and down cheering. LOL
Carry a small powerfull magnet. Dropped keys down a 20' deep air vent shaft at a loading dock after work once. Truck was older w wing vents so easily broke in, got magnet tied to chalk line and was on the road in minutes. It was dusk so glad I had a florescent orange key fob!
i think you can maybe improve that system with a small magnet and a steel washer? anyway this is genius!!
Fascinating skill. I just keep a small powerful doughnut magnetic on a string handy for these frequent scenarios.
Fishing magnet works great too.
I remember in 8th grade, another student and I were tossing the garden keys back and forth and threw them down a drain. We went straight to the closest classroom and borrowed two metal hangers. Can’t believe we got them out before lunch 😂
Usually if I have to do any complicated knot like this video, I just put my wired ear buds in my pocket for a few seconds and voila…I can retrieve keys and climb a mountain.
Neat, although I feel like tying a metal hook to a piece of string would accomplish the same thing :)
Once with a trucker hitch, i tightened it so hard it ripped my 550 paracord
Given the truckers hitch is a force multiplier ...You pulled it with the force of 225 pounds to break it...or another explanation is that you used a frayed cord that required a lot less force to break it
This guy is the knot wizard.
I keep a handful of different sized paper clips in my car, at home, at work, and two small ones in my wallet. Probably the most handy thing you can have.
My keys are fitted with a superstrong magnet. Every time I drop my keys towards a storm drain it sticks to the metal before it has chsnce to fall in. Since the magnet is really powerful it magnetises the keys too and so far I've never lost them. However there are drawbacks to having a powerful magnet attached to your keys. They stick together and are a bugger to use. Since then I've bought a tether which works much better 😂
I've never dropped my keys not just in the drain but anywhere, and i don't think i ever will, but these knots are awesome
Your “magic” moment at 0:58 is actually what mathematicians call supercoiling. Molecular biologists know about it too because DNA undergoes the same kind of reaction when it’s being replicated and so forth.
now the magic is gone
Thanks for scientific input 🙌🏼
I don't have any rope, so I just borrow nearby children and lower them in by their ankles and shout "If you don't find those keys I'll drop you in there!" Works every time, even when there's water.
That's pretty snappy, good tool w/ alot of applications 👍
Very handy. In 2024 and beyond, when I drop something, somewhere, I will remember the video called….um….something about a “use this knot”
Thats a great McGuyver trick. More impressive than the icesicke hitch.
My wife told me this stuff never happens so i dont need to learn it. Thank goodness she was here to stop me b4 it was too late!
A whole bike from the storm drain?!?! Nice catch.
A neighbour's child dropped the keys there. The lady simply asked the mechanic nearby for help. He lifted the cover, got into the hole (literally!) and retrieved the keys for the woman! Quick fix ;D
Might not work so well with a soft and really floppy cord (have to be able to push out on it a bit), but it's an interesting and potentially useful idea none the less.
Yeah i could think of ten less complicated ways to get the keys back...But its a cool knot... just not sure where we would actually use it practically
I found that getting a cloth hanger was much easier than buying a good enough paracord. But hey maybe this work better if you drop them somewhere deeper
A wire hook would work as well for keys. But I like that this system could work for heavier items that would just bend a wire hook. Like the bike and cast iron pot he showed.
Very good skill and a lovely presentation Combined with good English.
Just lift the grate off like a normal person? Lol
That perpendicular loop certainly takes a bit of coercing
For such cases i have 2 neodymium magnets and thin cordage in my bag.
You could have just used the handle from that Rusty Paint Bucket to make a hook, but I'm sure this is good for something
Clearly, this exercise is gaining an understanding and familiarity with cord/knots, very good, 👍🏻
Cool knots. I would just tie a strong magnet on the end of a string for keys though.
Verry cool! But you need a big key ring and it standing up.
Comments are absolutely ridiculous…….. “ can’t you just use a metal hook “ ….. “a magnet on some string would be better “ …. “I just use a fishing pole with a crankbait “……. “wouldn’t work cuz our drains have OPAQUE water in them “……. 😝😝
WTF people? Just take the video as *possible* useful information and add it to your keys retrieval repertoire! 🙂🙂
Instructions unclear. Using a storm drain as keys
By the time I figure this out, I can start a new career so lucrative, I can buy a new house with new keys.
That's a very clever use of knots in a rope. Interesting too. But in the real world? I am never going to carry lengths of rope, and the expert knowledge and memory for tying such a complicated thing, on the off chance that I drop my keys where I can reach them with rope.
A genius. I will just call you professor.Well done. I'm in awe with your expertise.
I remember the days when we just lifted the storm drain grate.. how times have changed lol
I’m just going to pull the magnet I keep in my little jeans pocket put a string through it and drop it down Ms pull it out. Who is going to remember all those twist and turns for a once in a blue moon scenario? McGiver would use a stick of gum.
Bravo! Well done! Thanks.
Brilliant. But not something I'm confident I'd recall were such a situation to arise. One would need to be a knot fan with loads of knots etc. memorised and instinctive.
fortunately I always carry ropes in different lenghts, colors and sizes with me, especially when walking along streets with storm drains ;-)
I'll just stick with a magnet.
damn that is a nice looking storm drain
i can barely tie my shoes but i was scrolling by and saw you drop those keys and the sheer confidence made me have to watch
Love this 👌 could we get the single line ‘gravity hook knot’ link?
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The odds of me carrying a shop vac in my back pocket are just as high as those cords.
Now I know next time that happens!!! Lol never underestimate power of rope and knots!
Really nice… and them… you grab a string and a tie a magnet to it! ;) 😅😂
How about getting a crow bar and lifting the cover? Tying knots takes too long.
The time it takes to search and buy that kind of special rope, and to make those complicated knots.
VS
The time it takes to simply use a hook made from iron wire taken from an ordinary spiral notebook. (Or, even out of a large paper clip)
See, spiral ntebooks and paper clips are more common here (in my country) than special pliable ropes.
This is crazy, so useful and handy. Thx.
So this is interesting, but one of those cases where tunnel vision has driven this. Clearly there are simpler, non-knotting/paracord solutions. Neat knot, but I'd use a coat hanger way before attempting this. Good video, nonetheless.
Love the video :)
What’s the name of the loop you tied at 2:40?
Edit: Nvm, it’s just a wonderful way to tie an alpine butterfly loop
No need for fancy rope tricks that looks like you need, well, fancy rope. Chewing gum on a broom or mop stick or other long pole like conduit etc. and Boom! Keys are up and out.
Just get a freaking coat hanger. 😂
this guy knows so much about rope, theres so many words and terms and shit wthhh
Cool video, but I dropped my paracord down the storm drain and I only have my keys. Is there a way to reverse this?
Last time I dropped my keys in a drain (full of water as well) I just grabbed an old hard drive, cracked it open for the magnet and tied it to a piece of kitchen twine.
Got the keys back in less than five minutes and the whole process took a fraction of the time this unnecessarily complicated knot did.