Last spring I had the opportunity to take an abbreviated
wilderness survival course conducted by Emergency Response International (visit www.eri-online.com). One component of their presentation was
emergency shelters. Key to emergency
shelter building is the ability to tie a reliable knot.
An excellent resource for knot tying is an online web site
animatedknots.com. This site offers downloadable apps for the
smart phone and categorizes knots by topic (such as scouting, boating and
fishing. The instructions are concise
and easy to understand.
There are hundreds of knots that the hunter can choose
from. I recommend learning just a few
knots that expand beyond tying your boots or the square knot.
A great knot to start with is the timber hitch. Wikipedia claims that the timber hitch was
first mentioned in a nautical source around 1620.
“The timber hitch
is a used to attach a single length of rope a cylindrical object. Secure while
tension is maintained, it is easily untied even after heavy loading.”
For complete instructions watch the video at animated knots:
www.animatedknots.com/timber
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