hey everybody Craig cuddle as a naughty professor again coming to you today to show you how to tie the clove hitch both to put over an apparatus or to tie a round and apparatus very useful hitch that we're going to show today the clove hitch yeah the clove hitch is a very useful hitch that you can utilize in boating paddling farming outdoorsman ships are viable bushcrafting any number of things I'm going to show you how to utilize it as well as how to tie it two different ways and since what we want to cover is being able to utilize the clove hitch in such a way that you can put it over a post and then if you have some sort of pole where you can't put it over it we're going to show you how to tie it to that PO as well so glad you're here the first thing we're going to take a look at is the clove hitch where we tie it independent of anything over here in the air and then we slide it over top of a post a tree in this case a dead tree I could actually slide this over a bumper and oftentimes I do that I'll make this clove hitch slide it over my bumper to tie a load down to my truck but in essence all you're going to do and I'm going to turn so you can see I take my right hand put it over top of the left and that makes a loop I take my right hand put it over top of the left that makes another loop and I take that second loop this one and put it behind the first that's my clove hitch right there now all I need to do is slide this over top of my post my bumper or whatever I'm utilizing and I can pull it tight by pulling on the two ends now I have a clove hitch now what a lot of people tell you and their right is that if I pull on this this loosens the clove hitch so it's not a really secure knot because it's not a nod it's a hitch but in essence what I want to do to make this more secure is just take my working into my rope tie half hitch and now it's secure and it can't come untied and the beauty of this is that all the constriction happens the tightness happens on the clove hitch and this remains loose but secure so when it comes time to untie it I can easily the half hitch pull on one side of the clove hitch you can see that starts to loosen it pull on the other side of the clove hitch that starts to loosen it and then it's really easy like to slide that right back off so what happens though if we're going to tie to a tree such as this or a post on a barn or something of that nature and we can only tie in the middle we can't go over top at the end of the posts in essence what we have to do is we take our working in bring it around the tree take it under bring it back around and then that loop that's created right there I bring that rope back through what you're going to note if you get it right is once you pull it tight there's constriction from the main portion of the rope that's pushing against two parallel lines that's the two parallel lines I'm talking about right there in essence what you have is a secure clove hitch if again you want to make it more secure then take this around and tie your half hitch how about we take a look at some usefulness for the clove hitch number one let's assume that this is much smaller because it's hard to show this on camera but what I want to do is show you how I could use a toggle or a handle where some of that nature where I'm using the first way that I showed you the clove hitch left right second goes in behind in essence I slide that right over top of this piece again because I have the ability to do that I have the end dress it up and if I want to to make it a little bit more secure I'll tie my high pitch on it now the beauty of this what I have here is if I have something big like this then I have a handle I can swing off of into a river if I wanted to I could have a nice seat if I wanted to to swing for the kids but the bushcraft usefulness is several fold number one I can make this much smaller and I have to give a shout-out to my friend Clinton Javon because he's going to show me this but you basically make a small toggle that will fit inside your water bottle let's say you've got a water bottle that you're heating up water to blow it to cleanse it you stick this down in the water bottle let it open and when you pull it back up the ends of the toggle and again this is a larger version so you can see it on camera better but the smaller version of this goes into the water bottle and then comes back up and you don't have to grab the water bottle with your hands that's pretty slick another option for this is the same setup right here for use in a pedal trap in essence if I have the V on the ground and I'm gonna set this up for you if I have a V on the ground I want to put this under to set up the trap itself it'll fit very nicely and this holds the rope to the toggle so here's the V I'm using something dead for the purposes but for our purposes here today but if I were to sharpen this up and again I'm making this big so it's easy for you guys to see this on camera but once that is made I've got a V my toggle could come through and I have that clove hits sitting there to make sure that it is stationary on my petal trap so what's the video on the petal trap and you'll see how all that's done but this is a big version of it let's say you got that favorite piece of gear that you can slide your clove hitch over like let's say your favorite tomahawk and you want to make sure that it's secure you tie that clove hitch tie the half hitch to it so you know that it's secure and the beauty of this is that you now have a secure way to let your gear down over a cliff outside of a cave into a shelter whatever it is that you might want to lower a piece of gear into because the beauty of it is if you put a lot of weight on it maybe even want to lower a log or a rock or whatever reason you're wanting to lower something you have the clove hitch to hold it you have a half hitch to secure it and then an essence real easy like they come unloose and it doesn't matter how much weight you put on it the half hitch is going to come loose easy once that half-hitch again comes loose all you do to loosen on your load pull on the right pull on the left and everything starts to fall apart which is good to untie this hitch now we want to secure it to a bumper or a bumper hitch or whatever it might be we make our clove hitch and again this is where we have the hitch where it'll go around the end of it put it onto our hook pull everything tight now again if I start to pull a load on this side of it it's going to come loose because that's pulling the tension off so I just take my half hitch to secure it and that fixes it and again the beauty of this is it doesn't matter how much I pull with this truck is the half hitch going to come off loose and again once the half hitch comes off loose pull from the right pull from the left and everything starts to loosen up now now I've shown you several ways to tie up a tarp let's say we want to build a Ridgeline or something of that nature and this is just one more way we can do it we can tie that clove hitch secure it with a half hitch and then once we set that up we can then pull tension over to another tree which I'm getting ready to do and then I'm going to show you another real important use for a clove hitch that seems to make everybody really happy in my survival classes so this is a common problem in survival classes bushcrafting or just people want to set a tarp up and get out of rain on a hike or whatever is that you set up a bomb-proof shelter you know how to put your corners in you know how to tie your prusik so you can keep this tight or loose whatever you need it to do however once you get this tight you don't have a lot of headroom here so a clove hitch with a small rock or an acorn or a hickory nut or something that nature is going to work exceptionally well to pull the head of this back out so you've got a lot more room in this area so I'm going to show you how to use a clove hitch to do that we're going to have to move around so you can see that side of it so that's where we're going here's our issue you're at the back of the tarp now looking in on and you can see that it's there's a lot of swag no matter how much I pull that it's there's a certain amount of swag that's in there especially if there's going to be rain or snow on it which is just a given if you're going to be outdoors very much at all and this is another reason like the proof six I can loosen up my tarp real easy like go to the center of it and all I've done is placed a rock in the center of the tarp I take that first clove hitch I taught you to tie right over left right over left the second one goes behind the first I put that around the rock once I get all that in there I pull this tight and what the rock serves to do is now that I've got that in there it won't pull through the tarp so when I pull my prusik back out to put tension on it I can then go out to here pull tension way up on my tarp tie this off to this tree right here or branch it's overhanging and then I'm going to have a lot more Headroom there inside my tarp so yeah that's a real simple look at the clove hitch pretty simple actually always utilizing hitches where you attach to something else whereas knots are basically where the rope is attaching itself to itself so in essence that is a few uses on the bushcraft obviously you can utilize this for mooring boats that's so common I didn't want to put that in there but take the clove hitch put it over a post holds the boat steady there's a number of things that look similar to this knot there's the bag hitch which is how you tie bags together so you can untie them real easy utilize that on the farm for years with bags of corn that we were feeding cattle as well as when we were tagging and banding cattle we did the same thing by tying the legs up I think I'll show that in another video because it's a real useful little hitch the bag hitch and utilize it for that but with that said that's the clove hitch I'm glad you joined us as you can see now that I've got the rope pulling through the center utilizing the clove hitch right in the center of the tarp I've got a lot more Headroom in here what used to be a place that could hold two or three might hold five or six if we had to get in out of the rain in this situation with plenty of head room to spare so that's Craig Hutto of nature line school I really appreciate you checking us out do what you can to follow up on Carbon TV subscribe to our YouTube channel we really appreciate that if you look in the description below to the blog piece I'll show you some places where you can buy some paracord always anything that we have links for if you're buying stuff from our links you're helping us support and do what it is that we do and we cannot thank you enough for that always come on join in let's learn together