all right this next night we're to look at is the clove hitch knot it's the clove hitch is another knot that you can use the secure rope to a tree or to a pole or whatever by itself it's not a really secure knot I can't take to withstand a lot of you know heavy load but it's an essential not to know to begin lashings which we'll talk about in a future video so let's get started with the clove hitch knot okay so to start off with the clove hitch you're gonna take your rope and bring it around the pole like so you're gonna take your working end and bring it underneath the standing end just like that okay so you should look like that your intake you're working in and bring it up and around the pole again and what you're gonna do now is you're going to take the working end and you're gonna bring it down through this top loop right here okay just like that and then just pull it through and pull it tight so what you should end up with is an X like that with the rope coming out perpendicular like so and that's a clove hitch