Quick-Release Lashing System

[@Allenballen88]

Your channel is truly one of a kind! My mind can't even comprehend most of the knots you show but i find them incredibly practical and amazing! Thank you for sharing your creativity and great mind!

[@First_Class_Amateur]

Thanks! I appreciate the kinds words. Brent

[@Allenballen88]

@@paddor haha it makes sense! Can't comprehend the complexity of the knots & how to tie them but i can see if they're executed correctly it works wonderfully lol.

[@kevinwiens4804]

Me too I am a visual learner, @@Allenballen88

[@mccallan2798]

Music has Bruce Springsteen, knot tying has FIRST CLASS AMATEUR. The BOSS!!!

[@First_Class_Amateur]

Ha, thanks! This made me laugh.

[@n9oqu]

Sprigsteen sucks, this guy is the real genius.

[@theconfounded5269]

Hi. Do you think you could adapt this in some way to have it permanently attached to a roof rack? I need to come up with a way to quickly any easily secure my window cleaning poles between jobs. It would require minimal tying each time, but also have good tensioning properties to stop them sliding. I'm thinking maybe a soft shackle to make the quick release part plus a way to pull in tension.

[@bindiberry6280]

Thanks for the education about ropes and lashing.

[@ls2005019227]

Excellent video/presentation! Your knot videos are the best, because you always incorporate the application of the knot. Thanks!

[@First_Class_Amateur]

Thanks Robert. Appreciate you taking the time to comment.

[@bn5055]

Hot damn, you only went and did it! Excellent work! At some point I'm going to build a house with nothing but this and trucker's hitches. 👏🙇‍♂️

[@bowlineobama]

Awesome!!! You found another way to use sheep shank knot. Thanks.

[@killumallification]

I always wanted a use for the tomfool knot, could never could think of one

[@zaqqumkitchen]

Consistently great material. Thanks again for making it.

[@Perktube1]

3:35 - I need you to slow down to Johnny Debt speed for me to follow how to lash this horizontal bar to the vertical bar.

[@Jacob_Dwyer]

Thanks FCA; isn't that a perfect rig? as simple as it can be, stout and easy to untie even after loading. That's classy.

[@Nancito101]

Impressive, very useful and well explained!

[@mpk_666]

Your stuff is real practical and innovative

[@patrickstrasser-mikhail6873]

The central feature is the double bight in the fixed eye to lock it off @2:14 . I wonder where else one can use it and how well it works with stiffer material. Paracord is very insusceptibile to pulling through sharp bends, other ropes not so much. Ok, tried it, works. Seems like doubling allows the first part to slip through a bigger loop, and then there is already some slack that allows the second bend to pass through more easily.

[@nokieng6502]

I might be wrong but the purpose of the double bite is to retained applied tension? like a ratcheting system? Thanks

[@michaeldean5787]

@@nokieng6502 if it is only a single bight for the "pin" then the bight of the cord that is being tensioned can slip through the eye quite easily (as the single bight folds on itself) . A double-bight needs far greater force to pull the paracord through the eye which is why this is used

[@explosivemallard8038]

Very creative design, and beautiful result! This is great content and a very impressive ability you have. I'm interested to hear how you got so interested and capable at tying knots. It's a long story for me, and I assume it is for others as well.

[@First_Class_Amateur]

I was a paratrooper in the army. Jumping out of planes was fun, but waiting 3 hours to do it was not. I kept paracord in my pocket to pass the time. I’ve been learning about knots ever since. Thanks for the kind words. Brent

[@explosivemallard8038]

@@First_Class_Amateur Thank you for your service, and also for your interesting origin story of knot-tying! The first man who got me into knot-tying in Boy Scouts was an army veteran. I greatly appreciate both of you, and your effort to teach your valuable skills to others!

[@Perktube1]

I got interested just from the videos and wanted a way to truss a chicken for a rotisserie without having to hold the tension with my hands while tying it.

[@penanceeeee]

Saw this and was amazed.. all u used was some paracord.. u have a new sub.. keep it up 👍🏼

[@nan-alive2020]

You've got great stuff sir. Thanks for sharing the contents of your huge brain.

[@waynenocton]

New to your channel and loving it! I have had an addiction to knots although not anywhere near your level, I probably have 50 knot books lol. But here’s something you may be able to make a video about. When you tie an airplane down, they usually have fairly thick nylon ropes already tied to the ground stakes, and there’s enough line to go up to the tie down points of a typical high wing plane like a Cessna and maybe a foot or foot and a half extra. I used to have a favorite way to tie but have lost tract since I’ve had a hangar last 15 years or so. So, any suggestions? Maybe you can point to a video you already made that I haven’t seen yet or know of some other video. Oh yeah, also wanted to mention it’s your video on the sweat pants knot that brought me to your channel, just fyi it was a great title that drew me right in.

[@First_Class_Amateur]

Hey thanks for the comment. I’ll check it out and see what I come up with.

[@Perktube1]

1:44 - you lost me. You said, "Now , the opposite loop… ", but you used the same loop, so I got cornfused.

[@dmsasser]

Nicely done!

[@ihaliramirez3198]

So great! Thanks

[@ashlardarned2540]

Your knot videos are great, but it's a bummer you don't have a playlist with all of them.

[@First_Class_Amateur]

Good thinking, I’ll get to work on it. Thanks!

[@Resseguie]

I would love to see your thoughts on tying a kayak to the top of a vehicle both flat on a roof rack as well as vertically on a post designed to hold the yak on its side. Thanks! I love your practical rope skills.

[@HoosierRallyMaster]

I'd be worried that the kayak skin would take a beating from any small cordage tightened enough for stuff not to slip. Just use an Ancra cam-buckle strap like you're supposed to. At least on the roof rack, if the kayak has painter lines you could just tie them to the bumpers with trucker's hitches if you aren't travelling far.

[@metheewatchakittikorn4796]

That's so smart. Thank you very much.

[@qpalzmsk1986]

This is magical

[@naomy1701]

now thats a pretty smart and usefull knot! very awesome, thx ^^

[@gillplbgandhtg1]

Any chance of getting a more detailed view of what you’re doing? I’m getting lost on which strand is doing what.

[@dand2760]

You know what’s amazing about knot making is that somebody years ago had to sit there and fiddle around with the rope and eventually come up with these crazy knots that work

[@danielhooke6115]

Nicely done.

[@pwolf15]

How about a First Class Amateur book of knots so we can take this stuff with us in the bugout bag or camping.

[@michaeldean5787]

Nice idea

[@glennhernandez4366]

Keep it going

[@webb618]

Brilliant! Thanks

[@beanrunnerWA]

Grow channel, grow!

[@nokieng6502]

Nice lashing system! Thank you but tad confusing when tying off the initial loops. First u lock off the larger loop. Then the video says “the opposite loop is smaller” when in fact it’s the (original) locked-off larger loop that is shorten to become the smaller loop. Then you locked off the original smaller loop which is now the larger of the 2. I only mention this original smaller loop because in the beginning of your vid you said the larger loop is used for initial tensioning. For clarity the original larger loop becomes the smaller loop that gets the first, single bite. The original smaller loop becomes the larger loop that is used for initial tensioning. Thank goodness one can reference the video to see what’s actually done. Again nice system!

[@ytadmin]

Super obscure reference to the book that only a handful of people would get. I am one of those people. Does anyone one know where I can get a good copy of that book? I’ve heard the version on Amazon is a copy of a copy.

[@patrickstrasser-mikhail6873]

The "Ashley Book of Knots" (ABOK) is The Refernce in the field of knots. There have been found quite some new knots, but chances are high you find most of the knots you ever need there. The copies you get at any book shop are all genuine; the illustrations are all hand drawn, nothing lost even with a bad homemade copy.

[@陳華-k4k]

完全不名用意 睇完用唔得 根本不明

[@AbdulKareemAbdulRahman]

iv got a closed loop of rope. is there a quick release knot i could use to reduce the size of that loop? thanks

[@larryfulton7619]

I don’t carry a Marlin Spike with me everywhere!

[@knight16]

It would be cool to see a knot they used to tie up there horse to a hitching post

[@pajkakraft6049]

Hello. Great videos about knots. Could you recommend any book about knots and their use in everyday life? Thanks

[@First_Class_Amateur]

Morrow Guide to Knots and Ashley Book of Knots are my favorites. Thanks!

[@KetilDuna]

awesome, thank you for sharing

[@samyukgu369]

Isn't it work with only paracord? It looks that friction force is so weak if not paracord.

[@LowellBoggs]

way cool. Thanks!

[@handlesaredumb1]

My first thought was a stack of logs on a hill with these knots. Ready to yank and send them rolling. I guess I watched swiss family Robinson to much.

[@johnr5545]

Nice job god bless

[@JF0913]

Genius!!!

[@mediaphile]

Brilliant

[@leemarylohman3852]

Do you sell those marlin spikes?

[@First_Class_Amateur]

I don’t but instructions on how I made it are here. www.google.com/amp/s/www.instructables.com/38th-Marlinspike/%3famp_page=true

[@leemarylohman3852]

Thanks. You might consider It.

[@JoseScoutmaster]

First half is firmans chair knot

[@SK-qc6fb]

Is this samexas a 'handcuff knot' and 'Firemans Carry knot'?

[@michaeldean5787]

No the handcuff knot is drawn out from the two loops that you would use to make a clove hitch (like a sheep shank). This one is less secure

[@zchuss1]

What you have created is a rope version of kzbin.info/www/bejne/i4u8YaOpbbinsJI (you could just slot a small stick in for the same effect without drilling a hole ) personally I would use a miller's knot kzbin.info/www/bejne/ZqC0kqaqrsqBers is tighter and just as easy to be undo without pre tying loops. Or a slipped constrictor or a slipped backpackers hitch

[@raymondjurado9203]

legend

[@Fmacian59]

Eso es un laberinto.

[@sweetchilli6993]

way to complicated - use a slipped constrictor knot

[@weedeater64]

Clever I suppose, but I wouldn't count on it for holding power. Lashing should be wrapped and frapped. The reason people hate lashing is because they do it in the most time consuming way possible. It's why the guy who messaged you was crying. Way, way faster way to lash is work both ends simultaneously. Bend your line in the middle around one of the beams, and wrap each end in the lashing pattern, save enough to do at least a couple of fraps, then finis off with a slipped reef or whatever. I can easily wrap and frap a crossbeam in proper fashion while you are still assembling that convoluted mess.

[@michaelschneider6106]

What a complicated clusterfuck of a not reliable knot. Loop to big, loop to small... Either way, as you stated, it FAILS.

[@chaikagome9725]

insecure