Tripwire and Breakaway Knot

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  • Опубліковано 22 сер 2024
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    A couple interesting knots to add to your survival knowledge. This could be modified as a camping alarm or a hunting snare. It works with rope, paracord and fishing line. Support my channel at www.AwesomeForSale.com Thanks

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  • @beansmalone1305
    @beansmalone1305 Рік тому +1066

    As an electrician id caution against putting your light switch in a halfway state. Switches are designed to snap from on to off to minimize the chance of a spark when the connections are either made or broken. The odds of it leading to a fire are low but the risk still exists. Interesting idea and video though.

    • @stewiepid4385
      @stewiepid4385 Рік тому +130

      As a former US Navy I.C.E. ( USS Kincaid DDG-965 ) I humbly disagree for the following reason:
      Technically you can’t leave a light switch in the middle.
      I’ll pause while you no doubt go and try - I’m sure you want to see for yourself.
      Suppose you come back thinking you’ve proved me wrong.
      In that case, I’ll bet that the switch had some resistance when you tried to leave it in the middle, and it was a fine balancing act to prevent it from snapping back to the state it was already in.
      That’s because the internal of a light switch works using a snap-action that’s called hysteresis.
      This is where the switch is designed to instantaneously switch at a specific position.
      As you start pressing a light switch, you’re moving the internal switch, but the contacts stay completely motionless.
      As soon as the switch reaches a certain point, the pressure causes the contact to snap into the second position, completing the circuit.
      So you might be able to position the external switch ‘in the middle.’ Still, the components inside won’t have moved until you pass that threshold.
      Nothing is happening inside the switch, and so like I said, technically, you can’t leave a light switch in the middle, despite how it might appear.
      Except, that’s only true with working light switches in good condition.

    • @beansmalone1305
      @beansmalone1305 Рік тому +189

      @@stewiepid4385 The Navy must use higher grade switches (thank you for your service by the way) than what the typical box store has because i guarantee you that if you slowly switch every switch in your home one or two of them will make a crackling noise while doing so.

    • @solenoidnull9542
      @solenoidnull9542 Рік тому +113

      @@beansmalone1305 Can confirm, mine sound like they are sparking inside at a couple points if I switch it slowly.

    • @CL-vz6ch
      @CL-vz6ch Рік тому +17

      @beans malone yes. Often true in UK as well.

    • @PatrickKniesler
      @PatrickKniesler Рік тому +60

      @@beansmalone1305 you have to believe 90% of switches in American walls are contractor specials costing less than $1

  • @insurancedice
    @insurancedice Рік тому +282

    Do I have a clue what I'd actually use this for? No.
    Is this an excellent presentation? Yes!

  • @SuperPatleo
    @SuperPatleo Рік тому +386

    I'm glad you like it!!!!!😂 Thanks so much!

    • @JoeWayne84
      @JoeWayne84 Рік тому +9

      Very kind of you! God bless

    • @iDoPew
      @iDoPew Рік тому +2

      Do you ship to switzerland? Where can I order? :}

    • @SuperPatleo
      @SuperPatleo Рік тому +1

      @@iDoPew how can I contact you?! 🤔

    • @iDoPew
      @iDoPew Рік тому +1

      @@SuperPatleo Do you have IG? :)

    • @SuperPatleo
      @SuperPatleo Рік тому

      P a t r y. Alt without spaces

  • @RemingtinArms
    @RemingtinArms Рік тому +3

    These types of videos manage to become super interesting late at night when you have work the next morning...

  • @bloodbond3
    @bloodbond3 Рік тому +9

    I love that the tripwire in that *Two-Loop 4-Strand Knot* breaks the tension of the counterweight-not by releasing a knot but by acting as a simple lever to nudge the knot out of the way.

  • @KayakingVince
    @KayakingVince Рік тому +86

    Genius design, as always. Please never stop making knot videos. You are great at explaining them and I like that you start with the practical uses where other youtubers might just show how to tie a knot, largely ignoring its practical value.

  • @springbloom5940
    @springbloom5940 Рік тому +3

    This is really going to up my spiky log trap game, at my hobo camp.

    • @overclucker
      @overclucker Рік тому

      I'd stick to toggles for your spike traps and ied's.

  • @razordu30
    @razordu30 Рік тому +15

    This is fantastic. I've used exploding knots for this type of application, but like you pointed out, there are varying degrees of resistance and it's finicky to get right.
    This solution is awesome and I plan to fold this into my assortment of go to knots.

    • @windowsxseven
      @windowsxseven Рік тому

      not to mention it's also hard to piece the rope back together after it explodes with the knot

  • @b.aleman8401
    @b.aleman8401 Рік тому +6

    This is one of the most in depth videos on tripwires I've ever seen. Awesome. Thank you.

  • @WingsOfADream1
    @WingsOfADream1 Рік тому +4

    I feel like in the same way when you demonstrate the ability to others to tie a noose and they quickly come to a conclusion on your mental health...
    When you demonstrate the ability to make a tripwire you show that you are a methodical well read individual that should not be fucked with.
    I guess it's almost the preemptive nature of learning the knot and the knot itself shows a sort of readyness, just lying in wait... preparation of shit going bad...
    That being said it is a tool, nothing inherently bad about it but kind of funny the connotation things have in the mind... Rope knowledge is so neat.

  • @leandrovm45
    @leandrovm45 Рік тому +4

    Once when I was a kid, I tried to put he switch on the middle position, and I got a shock, I don't remember well how it felt, but I think it hurted a lot.

  • @antiquegeek
    @antiquegeek Рік тому +29

    Finally an alternative to The Clapper. Excellent presentation and explanation of a very interesting knot. First time seeing your Channel but it's the content I never knew I needed so subscribed.

  • @jodicobb6382
    @jodicobb6382 Рік тому +1

    FCA ,2 me. I Believe in learning!
    Interesting readymade; with thought?
    I believe wholehearted.

  • @SirchBehindTheBeat
    @SirchBehindTheBeat Рік тому +3

    This the first time I ever watched a video about a knot. Now I'm heavily intrigued

  • @armwrestling_nerd
    @armwrestling_nerd Рік тому +5

    I use a reverse Kalmyk as a tripwire, then the loop can bear as much load as possible but has very little resistance to trip it open

  • @walkingcontradiction223
    @walkingcontradiction223 Рік тому +3

    As a professional amateur myself, I thoroughly approve of this message. Be careful about leaving switches in the middle like that, you can get arcing between the contacts. Unless of course you've just insured your home and.. Nevermind.

  • @Little_Sams_Top_Guy
    @Little_Sams_Top_Guy Рік тому +3

    Ive never had an easy time understanding knot tying until this video thank you

  • @protocol6
    @protocol6 Рік тому +10

    I wonder if it would work with magician's thread. It's usually nylon monofilament so elasticity might be a problem but it might be something you can account for. You know, just to take your scalability to absurd levels.

  • @Jack_Woods
    @Jack_Woods Рік тому +1

    This looks like it's a setup for some Home Alone style death trap but it just switches the light on lmao

  • @tonyg.8688
    @tonyg.8688 Рік тому +25

    Honestly you should make an app with all these knots. You could have a menu with “stopper knots, joining knots, end of the rope loops (bowline, figure 8, ect). Then link or have the videos built into the pages

    • @Edward.Hillier
      @Edward.Hillier Рік тому +3

      I would pay good money for that app

    • @nos9784
      @nos9784 Рік тому

      I have bought a similar app, it's called "useful knots" (or useful knots pro)
      Its really handy, if first class amateur doesn't want to make his own app they could just cooperate with them and save himself the work of making and entire new app...

    • @froyboy4life
      @froyboy4life Рік тому +1

      Knots3D already exists. It's like $4, best app out there.

    • @WoodRabbitTaoist
      @WoodRabbitTaoist Рік тому

      Apps like that already exist. Knots3d is a good one.

    • @inncubus666
      @inncubus666 Рік тому +1

      There are a bunch of knot apps already; animated knots by grog has a website I've used regularly too (website's free, app is paid).

  • @getinthespace7715
    @getinthespace7715 Рік тому +3

    Now my daughter can take her pranks to the next level. 😉

  • @marcwilliams9824
    @marcwilliams9824 Рік тому +3

    So that double-coil knot is effectively a mechanical version of a semi-conductor being used to amplify a signal. Very cool.

    • @disqusmacabre6246
      @disqusmacabre6246 8 місяців тому +1

      Yes. The analogies between a paracord tripwire and an electrical relay are interesting. One type of electrical relay uses a low voltage / low amperage circuit to control a high voltage / high amperage circuit. The equivalent paracord "circuit" uses a low tension knot to control (release) a higher tension knot.

  • @Liberty4Ever
    @Liberty4Ever Рік тому +3

    This looks like the (mostly) grown up version of Home Alone. If I ever used this information, the results would be significantly more kinetic. :-)

  • @gqkokidko
    @gqkokidko Рік тому +5

    Another masterful demonstration. I can’t adequately express my level of appreciation for your content so I have to settle for this comment and a declaration of my commitment to buy some of your shirts I see linked below this video.

  • @ssnerd583
    @ssnerd583 Рік тому +1

    How bloody marvelous!!! new ways to boobytrap my place when I leave for a month at a time!!! i can see this making some very interesting vids from my hidden SIM trailcams

    • @cyy3793
      @cyy3793 Рік тому +1

      It can only be triggered once, like an airbag. Unless you plan to rig booby traps like Home Alone or Rambo, better use CCTV or sensors. You'll be in a lot of trouble if someone gets injured

    • @ssnerd583
      @ssnerd583 Рік тому

      @@cyy3793 ......only if they find the body!!!!

    • @cyy3793
      @cyy3793 Рік тому +1

      @@ssnerd583 omg.. may god bless the intruder..😂

  • @sailingcapedissappointment2012

    Bravo, I do something similar to this because I have a slip that's hard to get out of when the current is running .. so now that I think about it I'm going to rig all my fenders to drop simotaineously when I get back to the slip .. single handed sailing

  • @wpridgen4853
    @wpridgen4853 Рік тому +2

    Nice!
    I used to use something similar to this knot to hold loose rope out of my face while in precarious positions during limb removals, only it wasn't as elegant because I was an autodidactic quasi-rope-wizard...
    Meaning I made sh-t up and prayed it worked... The autodidactic part came in when it didn't..💥💀

  • @BadDadio
    @BadDadio Рік тому +3

    Excellent video. First time I’ve seen this type of knot.

  • @brightbkh07
    @brightbkh07 Рік тому

    Or you can get a German shepherd. They will alert you to an intruder by barking/growling first and then the screams of the intruder as they are being mauled and having their face ripped off! That’s my favorite security alarm. Haha but this is awesome and I love these ideas and videos!

  • @empmachine
    @empmachine Рік тому

    Is your kid saying "I did a work" ?? adorable !

  • @PR0XYL1NK
    @PR0XYL1NK Рік тому +3

    as a dirtbiker, i've been finding many dangerous traps like this being set in the trail to hurt us riders, there are really people out there just trying to clothsline people going 50 mph on dirtbikes and atv's, its so wild.

    • @Sophia.L64
      @Sophia.L64 Рік тому

      Although I'd assume you don't need a tripwire knot to clothesline someone, just a couple square knots! Thats crazy though stay safe!

    • @PR0XYL1NK
      @PR0XYL1NK Рік тому

      @@Sophia.L64 oh, yeah no i just meant the straight wire, yeah we have to avoid some trails now, because there are psychos setting traps.

    • @Teh_Random_Canadian
      @Teh_Random_Canadian Рік тому

      Some kid was killed on a snowmobile by someone who did this. He wanted to pull the rider off their machine but a kid being much lower took it to the neck and killed him. Guy is doing time now rightfully so

    • @PR0XYL1NK
      @PR0XYL1NK Рік тому

      @@Teh_Random_Canadian yep, sounds about right

  • @TrueHelpTV
    @TrueHelpTV Рік тому +2

    Im building this at my tower company to surprise whoever is first into the office

  • @jerkfudgewater147
    @jerkfudgewater147 Рік тому

    Fantastically easy to understand

  • @vegasbluedevil7328
    @vegasbluedevil7328 Рік тому +1

    Reminds me of my youth back in Ohio. Perhaps minus the knot skills. I was always rigging up stuff like this though. Now I work as a maintenence engineer at a Las Vegas casino. So those skills payed off. Haha

  • @brandonleesanders
    @brandonleesanders Рік тому +2

    I’ll never need this but I watched the entire video at 3am just in case…

  • @nicholassmith7359
    @nicholassmith7359 Рік тому +1

    When we were kids my Brothers and I created a pulley to turn off the lights if the door knob turned. We drove our Aunt crazy one night, because she couldn't understand how we were turning the lights off and be quick enough to get into bed. LOL good times.

  • @jamesdevlin5000
    @jamesdevlin5000 Рік тому

    As EOD, this is a wonderful presentation and certainly being used in my next practice op.

  • @-TheShaun-
    @-TheShaun- Рік тому +1

    Shows us how to set up boobytraps and then makes a kid walk through it. This guy has all the best ideas.

  • @davek89666
    @davek89666 Рік тому +1

    Awesome channel

  • @plumber1192
    @plumber1192 Рік тому

    Thanks for this! I just dropped a huuuuge log on a hiker, LOL!

  • @michaelosmon
    @michaelosmon Рік тому +1

    Beautiful home and family, this was a great video. Thanks so much for sharing

  • @aurelienyonrac
    @aurelienyonrac Рік тому +3

    You guys are adorable

  • @COMB0RICO
    @COMB0RICO Рік тому +1

    Awesome knot, friend! God bless ya in Jesus name. Thanks from Texas.

  • @juliogonzo2718
    @juliogonzo2718 Рік тому +1

    If I was a burglar, my first though would be "I'm glad that was not connected to something spicy that goes bang" and then I would run away

  • @WaschyNumber1
    @WaschyNumber1 Рік тому +1

    A wireless remote switch to a light(or socket plug Wher a siren or other thing could be plug in) under the carpet would probably work too. 🤔 😂

  • @geoff4383
    @geoff4383 Рік тому +2

    That's going to be useful the next time I'm in the jungle bringing hunted by an alien trophy hunter.

  • @pauljs75
    @pauljs75 Рік тому +1

    The fun begins when you combine this kind of thing with a mousetrap and matches to launch a bunch of bottle-rockets at somebody poking around at a back entrance.

  • @VegasPrintDaddy
    @VegasPrintDaddy Рік тому

    cheers from Las Vegas my friend!

  • @Swimdeep
    @Swimdeep Рік тому +3

    Great video. Your skills are extraordinary. Thank you for sharing them. 🪢

  • @phant0
    @phant0 Рік тому +1

    This guy is one more COVID lockdown away from figuring out a cure for cancer that you can make with random household objects

  • @slicksnewonenow
    @slicksnewonenow Рік тому +4

    Speaking ONLY for myself, Rube Goldberg and Wyle E Coyote, the three of us are EXTREMELY PROUD of your work!!!!
    Gotta LOVE a good Boobie Trap😁

    • @juliogonzo2718
      @juliogonzo2718 Рік тому

      That's hilarious I was thinking of Rube Goldberg and Wyle E Coyote watching this as well

  • @EricBishard
    @EricBishard Рік тому +1

    They'll never notice, they're all gonna notice. They'll never notice, they noticed.

  • @elwayb.602
    @elwayb.602 Рік тому +1

    Great video thanks these knots help a lot

  • @davidroddini1512
    @davidroddini1512 Рік тому +1

    I was watching this because I was bored and none of my channels I subscribe to had anything that I haven’t watched. I thought that it was going to be uninteresting. KNOT! 😉

  • @quinnbrown6382
    @quinnbrown6382 Рік тому +2

    This is cool af
    But a tripwire can be done so much easier with a close pin and 8th grade circuit knowledge

  • @richarddiss1643
    @richarddiss1643 Рік тому +2

    AWESOME, crazy, funny and cute! Thank You very much Sir for sharing Your genius ideas! Greetings from France ^_^

  • @mr.mcpurrz3143
    @mr.mcpurrz3143 Рік тому +1

    Kevin Mccallister would be proud.

  • @mrdanger4851
    @mrdanger4851 Рік тому +1

    In Vietnam it was called a trigger knot!

  • @Sincubi2
    @Sincubi2 Рік тому

    This video makes the movie 'Home Alone' a bit more plausible.

  • @daveb2384
    @daveb2384 Рік тому +1

    A motion sensor LED light bulb works too.

  • @Emanemoston
    @Emanemoston Рік тому +1

    Thanks for the video.

  • @SkyNet-ty1tm
    @SkyNet-ty1tm Рік тому +1

    An occupancy sensor ?
    But I do like the knots that you are showing 👍 you've must have been in the Navy

  • @eritain
    @eritain Рік тому +1

    Loved the knots themselves, and the exposition. Cringed so hard my face popped right off my skull at the un-blinded taste test. Expectations distort flavor perception like crazy.

  • @plazmotech5969
    @plazmotech5969 Рік тому +1

    Neat little knot!

  • @ronnieettienne6335
    @ronnieettienne6335 10 місяців тому

    4:08," ima bird,ima plane ,ima choo cho train!.

  • @youtube.commentator
    @youtube.commentator Рік тому +1

    1:33 2 loops in 1 of the corners is some space/time stuff

  • @WaschyNumber1
    @WaschyNumber1 Рік тому +1

    The olive oil test would be better without telling it before what oil is from where. 🖖

  • @RussianCabachoc
    @RussianCabachoc Рік тому

    Absolutly Usefull

  • @kingtriton7202
    @kingtriton7202 Рік тому +1

    You can also tie the tripwire to a trigger on a shotgun and get rid of some low life home intruder. Happy tripwiring kids!

  • @mandelaeffect1111
    @mandelaeffect1111 Рік тому +1

    Thank you

  • @lilyxenos2380
    @lilyxenos2380 Рік тому +2

    Could you put a pen in the bite to act as a safety pin while you’re assembling the tripwire?

  • @Lb.q2
    @Lb.q2 Рік тому

    Be careful keeping the switch halfway, the spring was put in them to stop them arcing.

  • @jodicobb6382
    @jodicobb6382 Рік тому +1

    Teach a teacher a shortcut, without possible trouble.
    You became a teacher.

  • @xuantringuyen9010
    @xuantringuyen9010 Рік тому +1

    I like to think he sets up this light switch tripwire every day before leaving for work.

  • @Eduardo_Espinoza
    @Eduardo_Espinoza Рік тому +1

    Brought to you by Italian olive oil. :)

  • @jesustyronechrist2330
    @jesustyronechrist2330 Рік тому

    The burglars are going to be impressed at my lightswitch tripwire traps I've set up for them.

  • @brandonb9764
    @brandonb9764 Рік тому +1

    This is a very neat video! Does this work with a shotgun?

  • @CurmudgeonExtraordinaire
    @CurmudgeonExtraordinaire Рік тому

    I prefer a "12-gauge alert"... Messy, but effective...

  • @gigistrus490
    @gigistrus490 Рік тому

    So thankful and grateful.

  • @ZOMBIEHEADSHOTKILLER
    @ZOMBIEHEADSHOTKILLER Рік тому

    using the screws for the light switch cover to hold the string, is pretty damn clever................... but...... you cant tell some one which is which in a taste test untill after they taste it.

  • @lightningcasino9761
    @lightningcasino9761 Рік тому +1

    Awesome

  • @whybotherwithusernames4880
    @whybotherwithusernames4880 Рік тому

    my claymores have never been more efficient

  • @lepterfirefall
    @lepterfirefall Рік тому +1

    So clever

  • @phillydterminaldisease6578
    @phillydterminaldisease6578 Рік тому

    Idk what I'm gonna use this for but thanks 🤷🤣

  • @SolathPrime
    @SolathPrime Рік тому +1

    Good for a house trap

  • @jerichojoe307
    @jerichojoe307 Рік тому

    Awesome on the presentation of tripwire knots; however impractical because of so much effort in order to turn a light on when somebody walks through the door. Just buy a motion-sensing light switch they are cheap and don't involve all the extra bs. 🤷

  • @7vampirycprf6d32
    @7vampirycprf6d32 Рік тому +1

    Klasse Idee, danke.
    Ich verwende normalerweise eher 1 Nagel.

  • @altamiradorable
    @altamiradorable Рік тому +1

    That's not how you taste olive oil !! You use a spoon !! Good stuff should be shown respect !

  • @SevenRavens007
    @SevenRavens007 Рік тому

    Could be useful in urban conflict if the counterweight is a hand grenade.

  • @josephlbrociousjr3951
    @josephlbrociousjr3951 Рік тому +1

    Considering the technology today, motion sensor light switches are available. This is useless in this application and unsafe.

  • @emarr3720
    @emarr3720 Рік тому +1

    I once saw a UA-cam video of a guy pulling a backyard power line taut with a paracord knot. All he needed was a length of cord that fit in his hand. I can’t find it. Do you know what I’m talking about?
    Where did you learn this? Empirically of Is there a book detailing general principals & you extrapolate from them in every specific application? Love to know. I see elegance in simplicity (using geometric constructions instead of measuring, that sort of thing). I think there was a naturalist (Moreland something) that said that the more you know the less you need. I see that here. You don’t generally need a specific tool for a specific task if you know what you are doing.

    • @juliogonzo2718
      @juliogonzo2718 Рік тому

      Oh I hate that when you can't find an awsome video you remember. I've desperately tried to find a video of a female news anchor asking the weather guy "where's that 8 inches you promised me last night, bob" and everyone breaking out in hysteria 😂 she meant snow

    • @emarr3720
      @emarr3720 Рік тому +1

      @@juliogonzo2718 sounds like something Jenny milkowski would say. She’s in San Diego now but use to be in Chicago

    • @First_Class_Amateur
      @First_Class_Amateur  Рік тому +1

      I’ve never seen that video. I’ll keep an eye out for it. It’s mostly self-taught. I learned from the Ashley book of knots and trial and error.

  • @Asgard-1
    @Asgard-1 Рік тому

    Omg I would love some of that olive oil how do you do a trade like that?

  • @pixelheart4840
    @pixelheart4840 Рік тому +1

    kinda wanna make 1000 mask murder scene from detective connan with this

  • @ringolee543
    @ringolee543 Рік тому +1

    You are MacGyver!

  • @LoseTheFur
    @LoseTheFur Рік тому

    Every ounce of me says never trust a guy who talks about tripwires in a happy voice.

  • @AnthonyApilado
    @AnthonyApilado 2 місяці тому

    Hey wheres the video you made of lifting something onto the top of a truck. suspending it inside the garage, then driving under it?

  • @quack420
    @quack420 Рік тому

    as a parent i always make sure my kids test things for poison too.

  • @kendalconnolly5644
    @kendalconnolly5644 Рік тому

    I just wanted to see how to make a rope pretzel. Thx

  • @mikayla_collie
    @mikayla_collie Рік тому

    the key is to just relax after the knot.

  • @cheeriosaltcream
    @cheeriosaltcream Рік тому +2

    what kind of bread is that? the one they dipped in the olive oil