Rapid Ridgeline for Survival and Bug Out
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- Опубліковано 10 лип 2024
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I used to be a long line trapper in upper Michigan and have been a hunter and hiker all of my life. But j continually watch these basic videos because there always seems to be a gem hidden in the redundancy and this video is a fine example of that. The internet is a marvelous thing. I've learned more the last three years watching videos than I have in 50 years of the outdoors. Ive .probably crapped more in the woods than in a commode but your rapid ridgeline is totally new.
And....thank you for your service and providing these great videos.
I really appreciate the time and effort you take to explain every knot. It truly makes things easier! But one must practice, practice and practice to utilize the knowledge given.
Man I can't stop watching your videos now! I'm constantly revamping everything I have with every video of yours I see. Can't thank you enough for helping me make mine better!
Thank you, Thank you, Thank you. You would never know how many times my bolen knot ended up as a form of slip knot
I learned this from Corporals Corner but always good to hear it explained from someone who can also skillfully and efficiently add their perspective. Thank you for these videos! Look forward to catching up on your other content now that I’ve found your channel!
D to D ratios are little known considerations for ropes and blocks.
(For those who don't know- diameter of rope vs diameter of secondary rope or a pulley size, that is tied or ran over).
Been watching a few of your videos. You do clean practical subject matter in a clear and concise presentation. I just subscribed.
Awesome, glad to have you here. I appreciate the feedback.
End of video, walk off without a word. Equivalent of the mic drop. Love it!! New viewer. Like what I see so far.
Haha never thought of it that way. I do that sometimes. Welcome to the channel.
The rapid ridgeline really is a piece of magic, so good how it just falls apart in seconds and so simple to loosen a little to raise or lower the height of the shelter
Love your channel
Thanks for your service Sir. I appreciate you and alllll of our serving troops past and present. You have a very natural and smooth way of communicating this type of skill set. Your 18 pound bug out bag was also spot on. Subbed. Now to watch more of your videos.
Thanks, Len! Glad to have you here
You are a very good instructor.
Today I did my first rapid ridge line. It worked so well, even in the high winds. Thanks for your channel and your service.
Glad to hear it! I appreciate the feedback, and thanks!
Awesome. Setup. Thanks for showing us
If you tie your bowline and leave a longer end, a tent stake or toggle could be tied to that end and reade to deploy.
Mors Kohanski /Kelly K has a video that shows a wrap with a button knot on it at the end of the roll so it all becomes untied when pulled. It’s pretty cool also creek Stewart added I think it was a hemp larks head knot as a drip line for rain and you could also use it to make fire if needed.
This will be my standard. Appreciate the time you put in on these.
Hey brother, thanks for showing this. I've always used a figure 8 method for hanking my cordage but never thought of leaving my first bowline hanging out of the middle and un-coiling from the inside out. Definitely keeps things much more manageable when dealing with large bundles of cord.
Great video, I enjoyed this very much. Thanks for the knowledge! I look forward to following your channel.
Joshua, thanks for sharing, great tips / information. Always a pleasure.
Tied my first rapid ridge line this evening and tested it out. Great advice, thanks!
Thanks for posting this video, trued it myself and it worked just great
Got mine done..thanks for the video 👍
Love the videos brother. Thank You and everybody else here for your service. RESPECT!!!!
Thanks Danny!
Absolutely brilliant video thanks for passing on the knowledge 👍
You could use the original truckers hitch with a sheepshank instead of a overhand slipknot, so you dont have to route all of the excess cordage through it. Also you could do a halters hitch instead of the toggled running bowline, so you don’t have to use a toggle.
Still a great video, thank you for sharing your knowledge.
Very good set up thanks and God bless you.
Excellent!! Thank you!
Excellent demo. Thank you.
Great video. Very instructional!
Just found your channel today, looking forward to watching more of your videos. Subscribed and liked.
Thank you
I always make a chain sinnet knot with my extra cordage after the rolling hitch just to keep it out of the way and it is a very easy neat knot. Nice set up though. Just saw Mr. Canterbury’s video of that a few weeks ago.
Yes, I think it is making the rounds between Dave's channel, Corporals Corner, Blackhat Bushcraft, Coalcracker Bushcraft, and here. We updated the way we teach it at the Pathfinder School a couple months ago so we are getting the update out.
Great video. Thanks for that.
Greetings from Germany
Looking good. The location looks good as well. I had some fall colors here for a while but it's all turning white now. No more colors for me for 7 or 8 months . Atb
Good video, I do something similar here because it rains 3/4's out of the year up here in the PNW.
Outstanding
Excellent tip's, will put this to practice at a few of my stealth grow site's.
Very good!
Great video! Just found your channel earlier as I was down the UA-cam rabbit hole and hit subscribe after the first vid. I have been out of the game for a minute and you obviously have damn solid material. Please keep up the great videos. God bless!
I know what you mean, I have spent a night or two looking for the end of the internet. Never did find it, either. Thanks for the sub!
Well explained
I appreciate your no BS, clear concise information. Thanks for sharing and Thank you for your service. I had to subscribe, sure hope you keep making vids, loved the one you did on the light B.O.B.
Thanks! I will keep making them for as long as folks keep watching them
@@GrayBeardedGreenBeret just try and stop me from watching your outstanding content. RAH!!!
The light BOB video was what grabbed my attention to. Then I watched the 11 knots video. Then this one lol. I made a knot tying date with my husband so we can both learn. Thank you for your service!
Master at work
Thanks bro..
son of a gun!!!! I just shot this same shelter set up this past weekend LOL. I love using this shelter in the winter when I ground camp (I use the tent smith 10x10). Also shot the tarp tent set up. Thanks for the video Joshua!
oh yeah, I LOVE the new channel name!
I love that Tentsmiths Tarp, I keep that in my traditional kit. Thanks!
hi josh if you do make up keep me posted on and keep up the great vids,glad i found you
Bro good job man
You made that soooooo much easier to fallow&keep up with then Dave has thank u
Happy trails&be safe out there
Thanks! We all learn from different folks, I can say one thing one way and someone else can say the same thing another way and different people will pick it up from each of us
The Gray Bearded Green Beret ...forshure don’t get me wrong I respecte Dave&all he does allot of very good shared knowledge I fallow him on UA-cam&got plenty of there gear
&But thanx for spreading the knowledge Bro&your Service
I know what you mean, no worries at all! Thanks!
Great video brother thanks
Thanks, brother! When I see you again I will show you all 5 shelters we use this for.
From one greybeard to another, great video. You're a natural teacher. Just found you and subbed.
Thanks! Great to have you here
Concise, no fillers, and easy to understand, you are my favorite outdoor UA-cam channel. I have a question, were you using titan survivor cord for the paracord?
Not for the Ridgeline, its too stiff to allow for the rolling hitch so I just use regular Paracord for it
the Siberian hitch would be a nice replacement for the bowline toggle....love the vids bro! keep up the great work!
It would work well. This ridgeline was chosen to reduce the number of knots that a student has to learn so we chose the bowline (and its variants) because it transfers to other skills/projects easily. This particular ridgeline is used for 5 different shelter configurations so it has a lot of bang for its buck. Thanks, bro! I appreciate that.
New subscriber here, dang glad of it also! Outstanding instruction, so well explained even an old, graybeard Marine like me can follow. Thanks!
Welcome, Marine! Glad to have you here, brother!
@@GrayBeardedGreenBeret thanks! I've been poking around in your back catalog, really dig what I see. Hell most of your gear looks like mine, lol. (Except I'm a Brunton guy😉)
@@hillbillynick2000 Semper Fi, Teufel Hunden. His content is squared away.
J that is such a good system i think i made at least 6 or 8 of em and keep 2 in each bag.. they are simple, and awesome .. J
I really like them. We teach that same ridgeline for 5 different shelter configurations that will cover most environments.
Yeah it is the ultimate ridgeline.
In the demo you said to deploy the ridge line at about knee height but you demonstrated it at about hip height. Is knee high for an actual “low profile” shelter and hip high more common for “non-bug out” camping?
Correct
Enjoy all your vids....but if I could ask.... could you do close-ups on details for instance as in this running bowline?
ua-cam.com/video/tKXuFz6chCk/v-deo.html shows it better
Thanks for the great video sir! Two questions. 1) What length of cordage did you start with for the Ridgeline 2) What purpose does the Prusik serve in this application? Anchor point for the tarp/poncho or simply to hang gear from? Hope that makes sense, thank you for the great instruction.
Thanks for watching! I start with 25-30 feet of paracord (I may have accidentally edited that part out of the video if it didn't say it). The prusik loop serves primarily as an anchor point, yes. If not used, I have also used them to hang my candle lantern. There is a follow-up video to this scheduled to release on Wednesday that goes over 3 out of the 5 shelters I use this ridgeline set-up for.
Awesome! Thank you sir. Subbed on this and personal YT will keep an eye out.
Very nice set-up. Really like using the bankline for the prusik knots. One question - when doing the truckers hitch, is there a benefit to going through the loop twice to make the rolling hitch? I just go through once and tie off with a slippery half hitch. With a longer cord/ridgeline, you don't even have to pull it all the way through...just do your slippery half hitch with a bite. Just curious...have never seen doing the truckers hitch that way. Again, great system.
Found my own answer when I looked at your other videos. I like how this version binds on itself. Nice variation.
Me two I was in the army 12yrs as a 12b combat engineer did three tours in Iraq before getting my But handed to me in Baghdad it's an honor grey beard
Thanks for your service as well, brother!
I was a Marine Combat Engineer Hvy Eqpt Mech. "If we can't fix it, we'll fix it so nobody else can." Thanks for your service, Brother Engineer.
@@lawbuc4918 it truly is an honor, long binh I bet that place sucked
Thanks for yours, Law Buc!
@@lawbuc4918 thank you for your service I just payed back my debt to the men that went before me
what signs to look out for to avoid widow makers ?
Can you picture some evasion escape wilderness video?
Outstanding content as usual. Just one question, I was taught that the bowline should be big enough to put your fist through to be able to pull the wrapped up line through. Thanks for sharing.
That is not wrong. Most of mine are that way. This one being this small had more to do with how far out I could get my arms around the camera for a point-of-view angle in tying it (I had to condense the size a bit so it would fit on screen). We have evolved the Rapid Ridgeline a bit recently and teach to toggle it now, so loop size doesn't matter as much. Nothing wrong with keeping it larger than a fist, also, to allow for an easier time if you went with a straight running bowline instead of toggled
@@GrayBeardedGreenBeret outstanding. Thanks for the clarification and 'splaining the why's, and what for's.
No problem at all.
im new on your block very good thanks josh
Welcome!
Cool patch you have
Thanks! You mean the one for my channel here?
yes sticker/patch?
I don't have any of those made up, good idea. This particular patch I drew up just for myself, it is a blend of the Ranger/Green Beret insignia with a survival twist added to it, I should get some stickers made for them. I have them for my main school though: www.flintsteelcsg.com/shop/
Hey mate, just one question: why use an overhand knot on the bowline? I've sailed for almost 40 years and never seen one come undone, after tying many thousands of them? If used for climbing (I would use a better knot anyway), maybe lock it. Just seems extra time or effort?
The overhand security knot on the bowline is how we always did it in the Rangers, the military has a way of trying to make things as safe as possible, we use security knots for every knot.
@@GrayBeardedGreenBeret fair enough. My life depends on my knots too... Great channel BTW mate, love your explanations and methods. Easy to follow and valuable information.
Thanks! I appreciate you taking the time to watch them.
Great channel! Just subbed and continued watching additional vids. Thank you for your service also! Off topic question - are Rangers SOF or Green Berets or both/neither?
Rangers and Green Berets are both SOF
@@GrayBeardedGreenBeret that was fast, thanks. Stay safe.
Hi from corporals corner
Hey Josh man.. i used this tying method to tie up a 20 by 12 foot tarp as a shade. and the thing has been up for 3 weeks and lasted trough constant rain and a week of wind and rain.. ant it is still going... J
Awesome! Thanks for sharing. I have never had an issue with this system either
great system.....quick & easy to deployed.....quick & easy to strike....!!
This could be improved by using a bungee instead of the three knots on the far end, saves a minute (2 for me) The toggle and the storage method is great.
couchcamper Bungees are made from rubber - rubber dries out, rendering useless.
In a Tactical Sit would you take the toggle stick? I'm thinking Zero Footprint?
Maybe, it wouldn’t hurt. I might not bother with it. Most wouldn’t notice it and an experienced tracker would pick up several other things besides that to stay on you
Thank you.
Do you use twisted or braided bank line?
Twisted, I only carry the #36, its a good size for structural as-is and I break it down into three strands for finer tasks like gear repair or fishing line, I dont like the braided because I cant break the sizes down easily.
Thanks! I appreciate the reply.
Reason for the prussik knots?
Love your vids
They create a grommet tie-out point that is adjustable along the ridgeline. If you watch the follow up video on "3 Quick Tarp/Poncho Shelters" you will see how I use them.
@@GrayBeardedGreenBeret Thanks, Josh.
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