A recent 3.5 mile hike with my own SAS belt kit up a local NC mountain trail gave me cause to recall this video and make plans to create at least 1 such rope for my next hike. Better to be prepared.
great video grandpa . i love these kinda videos it documents history and makes it a little bit less forgotten . kids would rather be on there phones now days and have no imagination . that is truly sad . god bless ya my friend
Before you cut the line off the reel wrap it in heavy tape and cut in the tape. This will keep the ends of the rope from unravelling. When you unlay the rope i would wrap the ends with tape or cord to make the splicing easier. Suggest you never start the cut around the toggle with the stick on your leg. That can result in a terrible wound if the end of the knife rolls off the toggle. Put the toggle on something that won't bleed if the knife slips. Yeah, I am an ex sailor. I keep a length of line in both of my cars and in the house. Comes in handy.
HI Sir, I was in B.S. of A. myself. But, we never did make these that I remember. Pretty Cool little thing to start a New Scout out on make'n. Thank's, may be WILL help some Young'n mind to start think'n bout something more than PC Games, I Pray🙏
At last a simple, straight forward instructional on these rigs that I've read so much about in British SAS, SBS, and Commando ops from WW2. Thanks!
A recent 3.5 mile hike with my own SAS belt kit up a local NC mountain trail gave me cause to recall this video and make plans to create at least 1 such rope for my next hike. Better to be prepared.
I still have mine from Boy Scouts, that's 40 years ago.
Great lesson on knot tying. Thanks also for sharing a bit of history on what they were used for.
That's a cool project. I enjoy things like this. I see you are a man with fine taste in hats.
I remember making these as a scout. I wanted to do these with my son’s troop now and glad I found this. Thanks grandpa.
great video grandpa . i love these kinda videos it documents history and makes it a little bit less forgotten . kids would rather be on there phones now days and have no imagination . that is truly sad . god bless ya my friend
Thank you for stopping in, Dark.
Very handy to have that hanging around. Can think of quite a few uses already.
Lots of uses and hopefully you will see me use it in upcoming episodes.
Thank my friend.
never seen a scout roll a blade towards their body
Before you cut the line off the reel wrap it in heavy tape and cut in the tape. This will keep the ends of the rope from unravelling. When you unlay the rope i would wrap the ends with tape or cord to make the splicing easier.
Suggest you never start the cut around the toggle with the stick on your leg. That can result in a terrible wound if the end of the knife rolls off the toggle. Put the toggle on something that won't bleed if the knife slips.
Yeah, I am an ex sailor.
I keep a length of line in both of my cars and in the house. Comes in handy.
I just used that line to drag a 200lb pig from the feeder upto the cabin. It worked well. ;)
Thats a whole lot of rope in my case!!! I was gonna try this a long with ya but i don't have that much rope!! Love this video!!
Turns out it was a lot of rope in my case as well. ;)
Thanks for watching.
First used in a Military sense by British commandos. Lovely to see one being made!!! A lost art. Over here they are called toggle ropes.
Very cool and useful. Shared on fb and put on my list "Alex's favorites"
Thank you Alex!
this rocks! super cool!
HI Sir, I was in B.S. of A. myself. But, we never did make these that I remember. Pretty Cool little thing to start a New Scout out on make'n. Thank's, may be WILL help some Young'n mind to start think'n bout something more than PC Games, I Pray🙏
I thought it was something only the troop I was in did but was not sure. It is a great exercise and even fun to do as an adult. ;)
Thanks Danny.
nice vidja
Leave it to the boy scouts...lol😎