The Clinch! Bushcraft Tips, Tricks, and Hacks

What's up guys, Dan here, Coal Cracker. Today I'm going to teach you a new knot for you all to know. Now, when it comes to knots, okay, we like practical utility style knots. So one of the most popular knots that you're going to use in bushcraft is going to be the good old clove hitch. So most of you know that probably as you make your two Mickey Mouse ears, fold it over, drop it over the top of your stick, give it a pull. See, it's so fast, so easy. And then you have this really nice hitch that pinches really, really tight against the stick just like this. It doesn't slide down. It works great for a ton of different stuff. The problem with the clove hitch, all right, is that if we know this way, what happens when we want to tie it against a tree? So say we're going to go with like a clothesline or multiple trees for different ridge lines, right? We're going to have a group of people around. You go from tree to tree and then you're like, well, what am I supposed to tie now? I can't get over the top of the tree. I'm wrapping rope around that. That is just a waste of line. Maybe you don't have long enough rope. There's all these different problems. So what I'm going to show you today is a rendition of this that you don't have to go over the top of the trees because that would be a nightmare and you don't have a cut end. So what do you do? Well, that's what I'm going to show you right now. Okay, so we have our rope. You can do this in the middle. I'm doing it more towards the end. Ideally, when you're putting it off multiple trees, you're going to do this second, third tree and work it all the way down. And at the end, you can even use something like a trucker's hitch to get this thing super tight. But this knot, you can actually get really tight for how simplistic it is. So when you come up to the tree, you're going to wrap around a tree and then you're going to pull back towards yourself. So that's step one. So we have a single wrap only. Now we're going to go back around and when we get to this point, we're going to throw the rope over the tight line. All right, real easy. That end is going to go up through and you're going to give it just a tug towards you. Now, as I do that, what I want to do is slide this hand back to that top loop and create some space here. Okay, when I do that, my cut end is going to go in that loop and I'm going to pull and that tightens everything down. And now we have a beautiful clinch knot that is ready to go. And if this line was longer, I just continue my process and now this thing's not going to go anywhere. Bing! All right, and there you go. Just like that. Just like that. Another tool for the toolbox. Another fun one. I hope you all enjoyed this video. If you did, hit like and subscribe down below. You can also check us out at kohl-cracker.com for all our class yard gear and our blog. And until next video, stay in the woods.