@@MrLittlereese Smart!!! Full disclosure: on really really long trips I’ll throw an actual zip tie around each knot. Then they reallllly ain’t going anywhere. 🤓

BAM!!! Happy to help!!

Let's see if I can help you figure it out. Considering that it's a brief 1-minute video, what part of using the tool are you still not understanding?

OK now... that makes me want to up my sound effects game! :)

BAM!!! This whole time you've been doing it right! Now you know the name. Cheers Brother!

Thanks for the comment. It's made me think of how to demonstrate it without a block and tackle. There are two elements to a mechanical advantage: Distance, and force. The distance is easy to demonstrate. I'll just set up a trucker's on the ground, attached to a weight plate or something at the starting end. I'll show that if I pull one foot of line through the loop on the trucker's the plate only moves 4 inches. I'd need to pull the line 3 feet to move it 1 foot -- hence, 3:1. What will be more interesting is to run the truckers hitch across a scale, and show that I can pull 3 times more "weight" or force with the hitch, versus just using a rope with no trucker's tied into it. I'll work on it. Check back in. Thanks for the inspiration.

Sorry it's not for you. Good luck!

The GE is legit!!! Glad you liked it.

Absolutely right! Been paddling a pre-preg carbon V10 since 2008. Still using the same boat 16 years later. I used the "new" V10 in 2013 to break the 24 hour distance world record on flat water. Paddled 151.87 miles on Lake Padden in Bellingham, WA. Love Epic, love Greg and Oscar and have paddled with them and learned from them for nearly 20 years. Cheers to you!

@@estevanorozco3954 Atta Boy!

Hahahah, well thank you! Keep practicing and then USE IT REGULARLY!!!! It's an essential life skill.

Ryan, great question and a popular one. The answer is 3:1. Do a quick search for a “Z drag“, a simple mechanical advantage system that rafters and climbers use. It’s the exact same configuration as a truckers hitch. There is a diagram on Wikipedia that shows it really clearly. Thanks for the comment and best of luck with your knots!

What a lovely comment, I’m so glad it helped! Thanks for sharing.

Oh man, sorry this isn’t quite the right solution! I hope it worked out.

You & every other knot expert on here. Look j@ck@ss, unless the knot you think is so much better is listed in the US Navy official book of knots, I don’t wanna hear it

It’s called the G.E. Knot, though no one outside the river guide community seems to have heard of it or what its origin is. You can use anything you like there, a bowline or a Clovehitch, But this one works well because it unties so quickly.

Thanks for letting me know Martin. I’m gonna work on a video that doesn’t follow the format or the title of the channel, and slows it way, way down. Don’t give up on it though, whoever you need to learn it from, once you have it, you will never forget it and you will use it thousands of times.

Hey Sam, great question. This knot can be tied with 1000 different types of line, strap, webbing, shoelaces, all sorts of things. The material determines how you need to lock it off. For example, slippery nylon rope does not hold the hitch very well, so I will often double or triple the number of final half hitches. You can also do the first half hitch leaving an extra long loop, and then tie that back onto itself a couple times. Whatever you need to do, so that it is appropriate for the material you are using as line, to make 100% sure it is locked off. There should be no loosening whatsoever, and that is totally achievable. Good luck!

Hi Bob. Let's start at the first hitch: you attach one end of the line to one side of the trailer. Then you cross over the load with the running end, and pass it under the bar on the other side of the trailer. Let's call that line that is now laying across the entire load, the "laying-on-the-load line." THAT is the section you want to grab, make three twists in it to form a loop, and then -- on that same laying-down-line just a little closer to the running end of the line, pull a loop of rope up and through your twisted loop. That's your pulley, that you then pass the running end through, before pulling tight and finishing the knot. Does that help? Let me know if that description makes sense. Thanks for the question.

@@BrandonNelson thank you!!

Man, that is a seriously rough day. I hope tomorrow is better for you! Post your message to KZbin here, and I'll see if I can address your specific questions. Cheers, LordOfThePancakes!

The bowline’s fully legit. Thanks for the nice words my friend.

That's a great story! Thank you for sharing that. Neither of my kids know the knot yet... I probably need to get another dad to teach them, so they'll listen. Hahahah. Thanks for sharing!

Cheers!!!

No time for BA Mike! We got things to tie down!!!