ROOF RACK tie-down tutorial
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- čas přidán 26. 08. 2023
-  This is a great knot to use when you have something long to tie down on your roof rack. It could be a piece of lumber like a 2 x 4 or PVC pipe. When I get access to a kayak, I’ll see if it works so you can take it camping. 
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Learning knots has been like learning redstone contraptions- they're little bits and parts that you start to recognize after seeing them a few times and it starts to click what each part is. That's what I really like about this channel- it's not just showing a complete knot and how to tie it, but why it's being tied and what makes up the knot in the first place.
I repair and build things, and that means I need to carry long unwieldy objects from place to place. That means I always have a length of rope on me and am always looking for better ways to get the job done. This is one such way I have managed to make life easier, one of many that I have learned from you. Thank you very much, I will always have an answer to the question of how to bring home all those pieces of wood from home Depot!
Thanks for the kind words! Brent
ahla ahi
Excellent video. You are really the best thing to happen to the knot hobby in a long time.
Like you even got clear poles so that you can see the knot mechanics better.
Excellent work.
I tried this with a pole saw yesterday on a long freeway drive. Worked like a charm and held solid the whole way! Thanks. 😀
So glad to see this video Brent. It's almost like you read my mind! I have an SUV..there's no good way to carry long items inside the passenger compartment. I do have a roof rack on top. And thanks for the Battle speed finish too: @6:25.
Like always, I'm never disappointed! Thanks for the knowledge that you share (although I'll probably have to watch & rewatch this one a few times....😂)
Well done! I'm constantly pushing people to rediscover the wonders of rope. I've found that so many people have bad memories from their childhood, often using the only rope around, something their grandparents might have had in the barn, and it's just left a very bad impression. It can be a tough sale, for sure, especially when I'm a fan of three-ply rope that often doesn't bend and knot as 'nicely' as the woven lines do. Videos like yours are a tremendous help.
Rope is the most useful, versatile tool we've come up with, ever. I wouldn't say the most important, that'd be the axe but the two cover each other's weaknesses perfectly. The rope tho, allows rigging and mechanical advantage, so it's my favorite by a wide margin (I say this as a guy who owns 9 axes).
Every time I teach survival, first thing is find the rock to make into an axe. Then collect cordage, while we find water and scrounge for edibles and what we need to make a firebow. And besides staying warm and warding off wildlife, you need a fire to harden darts for an atlatl and bend wood for a boomerang, cuz in survival you want to fight from a distance, always. And charcoal. In case you poison yourself or open yourself up in an accident.
Rope unlocks more effective traps and shelter. You can go a loooong way with a decent axe and winding cordage into twine into rope. Beyond surviving. Thriving. With two tools.
Thanks for showing how to fix the small miscalculations (if you will). They help me understand how the knot is setup better and that reality does exist in youtube
I'm an old knot man/rigger, I always learn something new from you :)
Subscribed after watching this, my first video from you. I was a Combat Engineer in the Army and I love knots but have forgotten many of them. I love this video, thank you.
Thanks for featuring my question submission. I'm absolutely awestruck and can't wait to start using this method for my roof racks. Have a beer on me.
Kind regards from Australia,
Jack.
Sure thing! Thanks for reaching out.
This is the most varity of knots I've learned in one video. Unless I'm in a big hurry, I use rope over tie downs too hone my skills. I work for USPS, so I'm always strapping down packages to keep them from sliding all over When I'm bonzying down bumpy dirt roads
They make it look so simple!
Fantastic video. Thanks a lot.
Awesome video as always.
Thanks!
It’s uncanny the way you have a recent video outlining the next thing I’m attempting to tie. Thank you so much for all the help.
first part of the knot reminds me of the icicle hitch.
suggestion for a video
not sure if you have a surfboard but demonstrating how the best way to tie a surfboard or paddleboard to roof racks would be great 👍
Very cool.
I'm a bit confused. Why bring up the Transom knot if you don't use it in your solution?
The structure you use is common to most binding knots for posts connecting at a right angle. You could have also called it the beginning of a square lashing.
The actual distinguishing part of the Transom knot, which is how the tension is held in the middle, is missing.
I pulled this knot off today, transporting flooring trim home from a warehouse. My wife looked at me like she was gonna have to burn me at the stake for witchcraft.
Are u able to put a store link on all your descriptions? That would help. I gotta listen again to hear the link . Great video. Definitely one of my favorites🎉
AwesomeForSale.com
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Thanks. I ordered a bunch of stuff
for someone who although appreciates knots, but doesnt want to commit the time it will take to learn them, only to forget them when needed- will rachet straps be a suitable alternative? i keep those in the car all of the time.
This is what I hear........We'll go around once.... twice.... 3 times a lady!
Same. I couldn't help myself but to finish the phrase each time he started it. 😂
Excellent videl
Video not videl. Sorry
eskerrik asko!!!
Oso erabilgarria eta interesgarria
Ondo izan
Basque / Euskara?
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Bai jauna,
Basque country, in europe
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So I don't need to worry about having no working end on stopper knot? I see that it was tied with some length on working end but when cutting back to demonstration, stopper knot was all the way at end.
I cut it down so not to distract in the video. The end is flared from fusing with a torch so it stays in place.
That's a lot of ropes just to tie the poles. Why not just use jam knots to tie them up using regular 550 cords. Love your videos.
How about a knot for securing a Jerry can to a roof rack?
This is great. BUT it is too complicated to remember for the occasional times I have to tied down a load on my car roof rack. I need a simple but effective system.
I only have the roof rails, I don't have crossbars or a rack. I've been homeless for 5 months now and have a roof bag with stuff to expand usable space, But it tends to slide backward when I take the highway places.
It just uses some plastic clips and a strap from the top of the bag to the bottom tub portion which you wrap around the rails and connect back at the top of the bag, so the tension pulls the bag down toward the roof, if that makes sense. The straps don't torque down well enough, so I ended up tying some jute behind to position I want the straps to stay in to prevent it sliding backward. I used a safety hitch, followed by a spar hitch into constrictor hitches.
My Forester's dynamic weight limit is 150lbs for directly on the roof. I'm definitely already exceeding that and I'm afraid to add a 50 lb bag of dog food someone gave us.
I would love to see a version of this that would secure something like OSB to the rails without using cross bars for those of us on a budget, then I could use this method to secure the contents to the OSB and the rails. I would gain about 50 to 100 lb of additional secure dynamic weight limit by mfr specs which would benefit me greatly. I was thinking something that would probably involve cutting a few notches out of the OSB to make it work somehow, but I can't wrap my brain around it properly.
This is still good to have in the toolbox for whenever I do get crossbars.
Thanks as always for your terrific, clear and concise videos! ♡
If you get a chance, check out his video on lashing to a bare-topped car by making lashing loops that go around the door hinges and locking bar. I think the thumbnail shows strapping lumber to the top of a car. Very handy little trick that doesn't mar your paint and can be removed in an instant.
You could use this method to make crossbars across the rails for a rack system that fits your needs
How long was the rope you used?
What are some of the better ways to take up slack with extra cordage? Either I make some overcomplicated nonsense of half hitches or the whole thing unravels on the interstate (just the extra cordage, not the knot itself).
I just do a full hitch to a half hitch to secure the end. I'll loop back and do it again if I have too, tho that's a rarity.
That’s a good one. I’ll do a video on what I do with the extra.
How would you tie down a kayak in the bed of a pickup? Or in my case, three kayaks?
That video is next!
Very nice job, but is there also a rope-economic version? Most of the time I have a piece of rope in my truck, but not these lengths like you use. Most are 1 - 2 meter and are knotted together.
Rope is cheap.
@@nyetloki Apparently so are youtube responses.
@@jeremiahbullfrog9288 don't expect to do a job right with the wrong tools. Like expecting to get on a roof when you only have a 2 foot stool.
@@nyetloki Your example is quite different than securing a linear item to a roof rack with two short ropes instead of one excessively long one. Cheers
@@nyetloki Indeed, but you don't have it always with you in large quantities/length
Dear Brent. I have been using your trucker’s hitch with the half sheep shank (using the larks head) method. It works great. Let’s say I have 4 of those to really create some tension. On that last one I will use the locking mechanism you taught us(black wall hitch). The only issue, with some rope, when I start pulling, the 3rd larks head comes undone. This only happens if I add the locking mechanism on the last one (4th one on this example) If I pull normally without the locking mechanism, all the hitches behave beautifully. It seems with some rope the black wall hitch somehow pulls the rope to undo the third one before actually pulling the tension it is supposed to create. If I keep tension with one hand on the loop of the third lark’s head as I pull the rope, it seems to do the trick. Any thoughts?
Hey! I think I know what’s going on. Off the top of my head, I would try taking the larks head and twisting in extra loops on both sides before running I’m the loop through. It would almost look like a Prussic hitch.
I will give it a go, again, I love your videos@@First_Class_Amateur
I'm not sure if it would work but you could also try a bowline in place of the larks head. If you know how to tie the spilled version. If I understand you correctly. @@tomasemilio
Me in the Home Depot parking lot for 2 hrs trying to tie these knots
I just tried these knots at home with some cheap rope and rods. Took an hour. I did it 10 times without needing to view the video to gain confidence. Next is to get some long PVC and load it up at the store!
Great video. 👍
Try it at home first.
you have to say "that's not going anywhere" when you're done
My car only racks that run parallel to the front and back doors. There is no horizontal rail
At 0:48, the tail of your stopper knot disappears. What keeps the trefoil from unraveling under tension without the tail sticking out?
The tail is still there, just really short. The end is fused with a game so it has a flared edged. That helps keep it in place.
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Can you suggest a way to get plywood into my attic? I need to tie around the plywood and utilize my pulley system to hoist it up into the attic.
More loops = more friction. Use like a hangman knot. (Whoops I thought you meant 2x4 beams not sheets)
If you do a search for the Ashley Book of Knots, there's a free online version that'll help. Page 335 starts the section that shows "Lashings and Slings", with a few ways to lash a rectangular package (your plywood), that you could then clip onto with your block-n-tackle. ABoK #2074 through #2080. Quick and easy, and keeps multiple sheets securely together.
Basic basket knot. You don't need to complicate this
I would tie a giant loop and hook the opposite corners. Something like this, czcams.com/video/3w4tZigpnkw/video.htmlsi=lIaLrHG3BFXI86FU
But I would leave the loop long enough to tie off from the top for hoisting.
@@First_Class_Amateur Maybe if you put the loops on opposite sides of the sheet. I would still worry about it shifting, but at least it would be trapped between the rope.
I have a request, please demo how to make a fishing rod rack for 6 poles family style, for the inside my Subaru Forrester. Thanks if you can do it or KNOT? There are many ideas on CZcams but I suspect yours will be the Best!!! Rock on...Mr. Engineer...
Can you send me a link on some examples? Thanks!
Yes I can, where do you want me to send them? @@First_Class_Amateur
You can post the link here or email me at Brent@awesomeforsale.com
Some guys actually use bungee cords, too cheap and clunky.
I am looking to build something portable flexible fast in and out but also doesn't "block the rearview" here's a sample of "redneck" cheap: czcams.com/video/qsEJFoomqpE/video.htmlsi=MdfPSy8Trei0tFA4
Very cool Thank you Brent a few people on YT people have used wood but wood gets expensive, I'm more of a Walmart guy! and a sheetmetal man, "a tinner" in the trades..HVAC @@First_Class_Amateur
I counted 31 shackles. am i right?
triumph of form over content
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Very disappointed. You can not step back from a freshly secured load without uttering those fateful words: "and that's not going anywhere..."
Other than that, a very useful vid!
Well said!