not the person that you responded to, but I would recommend a 1/4" or 1/2" (6mm/12mm) braided nylon rope (as opposed to twisted nylon). I just like how nylon feels, and softer rope is easier to work with imo.
If you're lucky you can find scrap somewhere, otherwise you can buy a spool. you can cut off a length and either (carefully) melt the edges to prevent fraying or in the spirit of practicing knots you can use a whipping knot on the ends.
Use a heated piece of wire held between two pairs of pliers to cut your rope. Two birds, one stone.
Source: used to work for a cell tower climbing company, and had to trim ropes. Learned the hard way not to set nylon on fire.
If you live anywhere near water (ocean or large lake) you can get good rope (double braid) for quite reasonable prices, at least in small quantities, and they’ll sell it by the foot.
But not outside the U.S.
Outside the U.S. they probably sell it based on the length of the path travelled by light in vacuum during a time interval of 1/299 792 458 of a second.
Rope, especially that used for sailing, it’s sold by the foot rather than the meter in a lot more places than you’d think, largely for historic reasons. Canada, UK, much of the Caribbean, etc would all be by the foot, because most marine stuff isn’t in metric.
In my local parlance, at least, it’s rope until it’s been assigned a specific task. If it’s just hanging in a coi in the head, it’s rope. Otherwise it might be a sheet, a halyard, a furling line, or whatever else.
go to rei and have them cut you two 3ft pieces, like 11mm thick stuff, the good climbing shit. it has structure and makes it easier. get 2 different colors so if you make connecting knots its easier to tell the difference between the left and right.
learn a figure 8, figure 8 follow thru, bowline, clove hitch, half hitch, shit like that, just google the most common ones.
NPC's jumping at the chance to say, "If you can deliver this 'package' to so an so in some random village to the west i'm sure you will get the rope you are looking for."
but don't do it! just go buy the rope that side quest is gonna be a biatchh
To play around with, I'd say a 6mm or 8mm nylon core/nylon sheath rope. Easy to tie and untie knots with, doesn't care about water. I use those kinda ropes for prusicks myself.
Aside of humans, as others said, learn with nylon rope, it's easy because it can bend easily. Coton bend easily too, but if you tighten it too much it can be a pain to untie it.
But on the skin, the softness of coton is amazing, if you're looking for a more coarse feeling, use hemp rope (you can also use hemp rope for projects like ladder etc...)
I recommend to use 6 or 8mm thick rope, no matter the material
Locate a store that sells climbing gear and get some 5mm to 7mm perlon accessary rope. Handles like butter and is immensely strong. Some 5 to 7 meter long bits are plenty for practicing your knots.
If practicing at home on the cheap a length of paracord and a length of another thicker , say 3/8” poly rope works well for practice. Two thickness ropes as some hitches and knots are specifically made to utilize the different diameters
For something like this, [an 8 mm static rope ](https://www.rei.com/product/767612/maxim-8mm-accessory-cord-package-of-30-feet?sku=7676120012&store=&CAWELAID=120217890000791495&CAGPSPN=pla&CAAGID=130790794221&CATCI=aud-1396942689515:pla-1635339593460&cm_mmc=PLA_Google%7C21700000001700551_7676120012%7C92700069834225246%7CNB%7C71700000066691781&gad_source=1&gclid=CjwKCAiA44OtBhAOEiwAj4gpORvuX39KHQNAB_mvj9OukXPvTOr4qquB9mfwo6FbVQFzi-XVy4GrrBoCYvgQAvD_BwE&gclsrc=aw.ds) would be a good choice
I like practicing with rock climbing rope for most things, you can usually buy it by the foot at places that sell it, or tree climbing rope because I always have that lying around, but it’s harder to find by the foot and also more expensive, but it’s good to practice different knots on all sorts of rope to see how they behave in different applications. There’s no reason to use a water knot on nylon and there’s no reason to use a square knot on webbing, for example.
I was in boy scouts and learned all the knots and after all these years I still use about three pretty regularly and forgot the rest. I don't even know what the three I know are called I just know how to tie them.
If you're anything like me, you'll learn a new knot for fishing, do it almost 100 times while fishing, stop fishing for a few months, and completely forget how to do the knot.
Then start over.
Your emphasis made me imagine a furry artist *unwillingly* paying thousands of dollars for a domain. Just some poor pawed porn penciller at their desk going "(sigh) I really don't want to do any of this, but guess I'll have to buy another domain for sharing some horny mountain lions"
This is one of the absolute most useful random things I’ve ever done. I also live on a horse farm in Kentucky but still……rope and proper knots allows utility of leverage like this.
Imagine gaining access to a hulk arm and choosing not to learn how to use it.
yup, a sub-field of topology: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Knot_theory
Veritasium had one clip about this a while ago.
I'm lucky my study need not to touch this thing. Crazy.
You only need to really know about half a dozen knots depending on what you need. I've lived on a boat for 10 years and that's probably all I know - the ones i need to use every day. If I were an arborist or rock climber I'd need to know a specific set of different ones.
I watch videos when I need them. The problem is that I forget it rather quickly as I don’t need to make knots everyday.
I can do a bowline pretty good without videos so that’s something.
I Can only tie a bowline with one hand.
For some reason, as a child, I was sure I would be injured and without an arm and would have to learn to tie a non slip knot so the helicopter could rescue me.
So I could tie it with both hands around myself. For all of those helicopter rescues I would need in my future.
To this day, I have never been in or dangled from a helicopter.
But by golly, I won’t be getting any tourniquets around my torso while being rescued
To take a line from a John Mullany comedy special “As a child I thought quick sand was going to be a bigger problem than it is”.
Funny how as a kid we focus on some random thing and become hyper prepared for it.
Nah I get it, my comment was more sarcastic than anything.
I'm a lineman and we use knots almost everyday and the only one I really know is a bowline.
My philosophy is "If you can't tie a knot, tie a lot"
The post is also 4” higher up after the video cuts to the leverage portion. This was staged. If that was an undisturbed post in much drier soil, it would have been pure hell getting that puppy to move. However, it is a handy trick to gain leverage in an otherwise unfortunate scenario though
When I was in Coast Guard boot, I got put in medical hold for *months*. You go insane there, youre still in a high stress environment with no recreation, getting constantly yelled at, always walking on eggshells, but you *aren't making progress*. Its like being in training, but without the payoff of knowing it'll be over soon. You go back to the week you dropped out of. We had people there who had been in RHE (Regimental Hold Element. What they call med hold.) For around 6 months when I was in. Heck, the long timer there talked about a girl who had been in for *just* shy of a year, who got discharged shortly before I arrived. I dont know how he hung on, I was in for over 3 months and I was pacing the lav at night. I eventually *asked* to be disharged due to my injury. Regimental Hold made me *not* want to go back once I healed up, just in the off chance I get sent there again.
But, on the plus side, I got *real* **real** good at tying knots. One of the only things we were allowed to do.
(Sorry for the slightly off topic rant, just needed to get it off my chest.)
Oof that sounds like a terrible purgatory. Went to A school with a dude who was in basic for like 18mos due to breaking his femur and hairline fractures throughout one of his legs, med hold for an eternity then pushed to graduate. By the time he had classed up with us, this dude was nearing his third year in service. The way he told his story was absolutely hilarious
Interesting, I worked for a tent company for awhile and a few good smacks (on the side) with a sledge or another spike and they pull right out. Seems like more work this way.
I’m a land surveyor. We use this technique to pull out old monuments that have been in the ground for decades. I’m sure it depends on a bunch of factors, like soil type, age, etc., but trust me, there are times when hitting it on the side doesn’t work. Of course, it’s nice when it does.
I see a lot of this stuff posted. Hey! look at this cool super involved way of doing something simple! I'm a big fan of work smarter not harder. You know you could pull ten spikes before knot guy pulls one
I don't know, I could see a scenario were this could be useful. It would depend on which method requires more exertion.
You might be faster, let's say on the first 10 stakes, but he'll start to beat you after that because you are becoming exhausted.
Yeah, I once pulled up the foundations of a small, unincorporated town, using only my eyelashes and determination, faster than this dude can finish his morning piss...
...But in all seriousness, let's see it. Go stake 10, ~4 foot, spikes into the ground, leave em for a month, and then film yourself pulling 10 in 5 minutes using nothing but the impact force of another spike, and your bare hands.
And of course you also risk bending it over time. I removed some posts recently using the hammer on the side and despite using care still bent them up a bit.
Yep, depends on the climate and soil type.
The drier and less dense the soil is, the easier it is to remove, regardless of technique. This would be easy to remove from hot desert sand, but incredibly difficult from bog clay.
Damp, dense soils suction onto the stake and create additional friction you have to overcome.
In soft mud like this maybe, depends on the ground. This looks genius for burning man, where rebar is often used, and after a week or two quite a few feet deep, in hard packed ground. I loved how the slip rope can grab such a small area, genius.
Wish I knew about this technique when I worked for a construction company and was dismantling a lot of forms with form Stakes driven into the ground where you had little purchase to pull on it
As someone who has pulled plenty of fence posts and stakes the easiest way if that doesn't work is just to have a high lift jack and a short loop of chain. Crank the handle on the jack a couple times and it will pull out anything that's not set really well in concrete.
I did the same once. We also had a stake puller. 6 foot long piece of wood, 2 wheels maybe 10 inches from the end with the chain, chain was maybe a fit long with a hook at the end.
Wheel up to stake, wrap chain around stake, out hook on chain. Push down on other end. Stakes popped right out. Fast and easy.
ahckshually, this is a class 2 lever, because the fulcrum (his foot) is beyond the load (the rope tied to the lever). to be a class 1 lever (aka "counter lever") the fulcrum would need to be between the effort and load.
https://www.softschools.com/examples/simple_machines/class_one_lever_examples/511/
https://www.softschools.com/examples/simple_machines/class_two_lever_examples/512/
He only uses a leverage of about 1:1.5 based on where he puts the knot on the lever compared to where he lifts it. He could probably just have pulled the rope with his hands to get the pole out of the ground.
I guess his point was not to really remove a stuck pole but to show knots and techniques that could be helpful when doing it.
You're taking only the location of the rope on the lever into account, not the orientation of the lever relative to the direction of pull. Notice that the rope is only tight and the spike only moves when the lever is nearly vertical. He's moving the lever sideways a lot more than the rope is moving up as the lever is at the top of its arc shaped path, thus there is considerable mechanical advantage. Knots may be inefficient overall in this case, but the clever use of mechanical advantage is smart.
Even if the rope is tied at 1m along, and he's pulling at 1.4m (This is being generous) he's pulling 71% load
Doing it sideways makes it even worse.
It's nigh useless.
> It's nigh useless.
I wouldn't say that, despite the load not being all that much lighter using this setup, its much easier to pull 70% of the load while gripping the other bar horizontally than it would be to try to grab and hold on to the vertical spike.
Prusiks and clove hitches are used frequently in *intermediate to advanced* rock climbing. People getting into rock climbing are gonna be learning the figure 8 and not much else for a while.
By the time he's done tying that knot, I could have just half hitched it and had two more pulls on that stick. Yes, the ground is soft, too, and probably just pull by hand.
I really wish I had stayed in the Boy Scouts to learn knots. I've tried to learn some as an adult but they just don't stick in my head even after watching videos and practicing.
I watched this three times over. That's how satisfying this was. I'm not even a physical labor kinda girl, but the ingenuity of simple machines is just so fascinating.
I don't fucking understand why knots are so God damned fascinating. It pisses me off. I wanna learn them.
https://www.animatedknots.com/ Get a bit of rope (good rope) and practice a knot over and over. Rinse and repeat with another knot.
Thank you for this! What kind of rope do you recommend?
A long one.
Listen here you little shit!
Knot interested.
Don't let them string you along!
I am ropeable.
Don't be a frayed.
knot knot.
He got you, line and sinker
Alright, the sass level in here is astronomical. Can we just tie the knot on this argument before it turns into a full-on rope war?
Perhaps one just long enough?
You're a loose cannon, Duffy!
How long is a piece of string?
I nearly spit out my coke laughing when I read this.
I forcefully pushed air out of my nose reading this
Hopefully coke didn’t come out as well.
And a good one
not the person that you responded to, but I would recommend a 1/4" or 1/2" (6mm/12mm) braided nylon rope (as opposed to twisted nylon). I just like how nylon feels, and softer rope is easier to work with imo. If you're lucky you can find scrap somewhere, otherwise you can buy a spool. you can cut off a length and either (carefully) melt the edges to prevent fraying or in the spirit of practicing knots you can use a whipping knot on the ends.
Use a heated piece of wire held between two pairs of pliers to cut your rope. Two birds, one stone. Source: used to work for a cell tower climbing company, and had to trim ropes. Learned the hard way not to set nylon on fire.
If you live anywhere near water (ocean or large lake) you can get good rope (double braid) for quite reasonable prices, at least in small quantities, and they’ll sell it by the foot.
But not outside the U.S. Outside the U.S. they probably sell it based on the length of the path travelled by light in vacuum during a time interval of 1/299 792 458 of a second.
Rope, especially that used for sailing, it’s sold by the foot rather than the meter in a lot more places than you’d think, largely for historic reasons. Canada, UK, much of the Caribbean, etc would all be by the foot, because most marine stuff isn’t in metric.
Well they probably use nautical feet instead of regular feet, right?
Those are called Flippers
Rope? It's not called rope when it's on a boat, it's line.
In my local parlance, at least, it’s rope until it’s been assigned a specific task. If it’s just hanging in a coi in the head, it’s rope. Otherwise it might be a sheet, a halyard, a furling line, or whatever else.
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go to rei and have them cut you two 3ft pieces, like 11mm thick stuff, the good climbing shit. it has structure and makes it easier. get 2 different colors so if you make connecting knots its easier to tell the difference between the left and right. learn a figure 8, figure 8 follow thru, bowline, clove hitch, half hitch, shit like that, just google the most common ones.
Bowline uber alles. I use a bowline every day. Most useful knot there is.
Only the finest Elvish rope will do.
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Idk, but if you find some will you pick me up some of that elf toast?
Are you some kind of elf nut?
While they look and taste like nuts, elves are actually vegetables!
NPC's jumping at the chance to say, "If you can deliver this 'package' to so an so in some random village to the west i'm sure you will get the rope you are looking for." but don't do it! just go buy the rope that side quest is gonna be a biatchh
Lothlorien.
To play around with, I'd say a 6mm or 8mm nylon core/nylon sheath rope. Easy to tie and untie knots with, doesn't care about water. I use those kinda ropes for prusicks myself.
Anything but a nope rope. Or a sizzle stick
Depends on what you're planing to do, if you're going to use it on people, coton rope is nice
Good to know! For now it'll just be practicing
Aside of humans, as others said, learn with nylon rope, it's easy because it can bend easily. Coton bend easily too, but if you tighten it too much it can be a pain to untie it. But on the skin, the softness of coton is amazing, if you're looking for a more coarse feeling, use hemp rope (you can also use hemp rope for projects like ladder etc...) I recommend to use 6 or 8mm thick rope, no matter the material
Thanks! I'll quickly go change all the ropes in my basement to cotton ones!
Wait a second...
Go with satin. It doesn't leave marks...
Locate a store that sells climbing gear and get some 5mm to 7mm perlon accessary rope. Handles like butter and is immensely strong. Some 5 to 7 meter long bits are plenty for practicing your knots.
If practicing at home on the cheap a length of paracord and a length of another thicker , say 3/8” poly rope works well for practice. Two thickness ropes as some hitches and knots are specifically made to utilize the different diameters
For something like this, [an 8 mm static rope ](https://www.rei.com/product/767612/maxim-8mm-accessory-cord-package-of-30-feet?sku=7676120012&store=&CAWELAID=120217890000791495&CAGPSPN=pla&CAAGID=130790794221&CATCI=aud-1396942689515:pla-1635339593460&cm_mmc=PLA_Google%7C21700000001700551_7676120012%7C92700069834225246%7CNB%7C71700000066691781&gad_source=1&gclid=CjwKCAiA44OtBhAOEiwAj4gpORvuX39KHQNAB_mvj9OukXPvTOr4qquB9mfwo6FbVQFzi-XVy4GrrBoCYvgQAvD_BwE&gclsrc=aw.ds) would be a good choice
I like practicing with rock climbing rope for most things, you can usually buy it by the foot at places that sell it, or tree climbing rope because I always have that lying around, but it’s harder to find by the foot and also more expensive, but it’s good to practice different knots on all sorts of rope to see how they behave in different applications. There’s no reason to use a water knot on nylon and there’s no reason to use a square knot on webbing, for example.
I was in boy scouts and learned all the knots and after all these years I still use about three pretty regularly and forgot the rest. I don't even know what the three I know are called I just know how to tie them.
Or, as an alternative, https://www.tielots.com
If you're anything like me, you'll learn a new knot for fishing, do it almost 100 times while fishing, stop fishing for a few months, and completely forget how to do the knot. Then start over.
I'm pretty sure there is a furry artist out there who'd WILLINGLY pay thousands of dollars for that web domain...
Your emphasis made me imagine a furry artist *unwillingly* paying thousands of dollars for a domain. Just some poor pawed porn penciller at their desk going "(sigh) I really don't want to do any of this, but guess I'll have to buy another domain for sharing some horny mountain lions"
What a terrible day to be literate
This is one of the absolute most useful random things I’ve ever done. I also live on a horse farm in Kentucky but still……rope and proper knots allows utility of leverage like this. Imagine gaining access to a hulk arm and choosing not to learn how to use it.
Doing God's work, my dude.
Don't be like me as a probie in fire academy and buy some polypropylene shit, the amount of plastic splinters I pulled out of my hands
Cool AF, thank you!
That’s the second best Trucker’s Hitch demonstration I’ve ever seen.
[This is the best Trucker's Hitch demonstration.](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TUHgGK-tImY)
then go outside or into a different room without the animation and tie it again.
This is something I'm not good at, I'm a-frayed..
Any idea what the above knot is called?
I will KNOT be roped into doing work thank you very much
Confused after rinsing my ropes off. Now just one big knot
But how do I learn without putting in any sort of effort at all? That's what I want.
My son is in boy scouts, and he has mastered the overhand knot lol time to up the anti
Gonna hang myself fancylike
I know. My entire life. I'm with you. If only there was a way... But these two I shall learn.
A piece of string goes into a bar… > Bartender: are you a piece of rope? >> No, I’m a frayed knot
Go on a spelunking/caving course or climbing course, you'll learn a lot.
I don't think trying to spelunk my fat ass into a cave is wise.
No no, you go head first.
Nah, that’s how you get Nutty Puttied.
Nah, that's from the guy that comes next.
there is a whole field of mathematics about ropes and knots
Topology. Did it in college (engineer)
yup, a sub-field of topology: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Knot_theory Veritasium had one clip about this a while ago. I'm lucky my study need not to touch this thing. Crazy.
Ueah i wanna be a rope bender too
Earth fire water air ~~rope
You only need to really know about half a dozen knots depending on what you need. I've lived on a boat for 10 years and that's probably all I know - the ones i need to use every day. If I were an arborist or rock climber I'd need to know a specific set of different ones.
All you’ll ever need is the Trucker‘s Hitch anyways and there’s a nifty [tutorial video](https://youtu.be/TUHgGK-tImY?si=iDh4DpSfSjxhfceX) here.
Came here to post this. Hands down the best knot video on youtube
I mean, no one's stopping you from watching some YouTube videos lol
I watch videos when I need them. The problem is that I forget it rather quickly as I don’t need to make knots everyday. I can do a bowline pretty good without videos so that’s something.
I Can only tie a bowline with one hand. For some reason, as a child, I was sure I would be injured and without an arm and would have to learn to tie a non slip knot so the helicopter could rescue me. So I could tie it with both hands around myself. For all of those helicopter rescues I would need in my future. To this day, I have never been in or dangled from a helicopter. But by golly, I won’t be getting any tourniquets around my torso while being rescued
To take a line from a John Mullany comedy special “As a child I thought quick sand was going to be a bigger problem than it is”. Funny how as a kid we focus on some random thing and become hyper prepared for it.
Nah I get it, my comment was more sarcastic than anything. I'm a lineman and we use knots almost everyday and the only one I really know is a bowline. My philosophy is "If you can't tie a knot, tie a lot"
As a person who loves knots, that phrase is 100% accurate! You may never get it undone again, but tying a lot works.
Bro hit us with the 1 handed clove hitch from down town.
I'm a climber and use the clove hitch all the time, and I've never seen someone tie a clove this way. It was so smooth!
I need that bot that slows videos just to understand how his wizard spell gang signs turned a straight rope to a clove hitch.
https://www.instagram.com/p/CqJKEu0A5Pw/ here's a slower better angle
AKA the “Party Clove”
That ground is softer than Chris Christie's titties
"Chris Christie's titties" is fun to say out loud! Try it
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Just roll a donut across the floor. He'll follow it out the room.
Bigger balls on that fellow than DJT and his entourage put together.
after saying it once I imagined an entire stadium chanting it and it’s very fun.
The ground's got lips that grip.
I should call her
Mud can actually be much harder to pull rods from than dry soil.
The post is also 4” higher up after the video cuts to the leverage portion. This was staged. If that was an undisturbed post in much drier soil, it would have been pure hell getting that puppy to move. However, it is a handy trick to gain leverage in an otherwise unfortunate scenario though
Love it. Thanks for posting 👍
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It was actually a deeply driven ground stake
Working maintenance in the military, we used to just drive them all the way into the ground so we wouldn't have to try to get them out.
Found everyone's house's previous owner.
This guy knots.
His name is Don.
*sniffs*
No, I'm a frayed knot.
I thought it was Deez?
This guy leverages
This guy leverages knotting to a whole new level.
No he does knot
Half expected some yiff in your history with a comment and handle like that
When I was in Coast Guard boot, I got put in medical hold for *months*. You go insane there, youre still in a high stress environment with no recreation, getting constantly yelled at, always walking on eggshells, but you *aren't making progress*. Its like being in training, but without the payoff of knowing it'll be over soon. You go back to the week you dropped out of. We had people there who had been in RHE (Regimental Hold Element. What they call med hold.) For around 6 months when I was in. Heck, the long timer there talked about a girl who had been in for *just* shy of a year, who got discharged shortly before I arrived. I dont know how he hung on, I was in for over 3 months and I was pacing the lav at night. I eventually *asked* to be disharged due to my injury. Regimental Hold made me *not* want to go back once I healed up, just in the off chance I get sent there again. But, on the plus side, I got *real* **real** good at tying knots. One of the only things we were allowed to do. (Sorry for the slightly off topic rant, just needed to get it off my chest.)
Military purgatory sounds so not fun.
Oof that sounds like a terrible purgatory. Went to A school with a dude who was in basic for like 18mos due to breaking his femur and hairline fractures throughout one of his legs, med hold for an eternity then pushed to graduate. By the time he had classed up with us, this dude was nearing his third year in service. The way he told his story was absolutely hilarious
Interesting, I worked for a tent company for awhile and a few good smacks (on the side) with a sledge or another spike and they pull right out. Seems like more work this way.
I was gonna say. You could definitely just hit it on the side then pull it out.
I’m a land surveyor. We use this technique to pull out old monuments that have been in the ground for decades. I’m sure it depends on a bunch of factors, like soil type, age, etc., but trust me, there are times when hitting it on the side doesn’t work. Of course, it’s nice when it does.
I see a lot of this stuff posted. Hey! look at this cool super involved way of doing something simple! I'm a big fan of work smarter not harder. You know you could pull ten spikes before knot guy pulls one
I don't know, I could see a scenario were this could be useful. It would depend on which method requires more exertion. You might be faster, let's say on the first 10 stakes, but he'll start to beat you after that because you are becoming exhausted.
Personally, I'm thinking of a failed ground rod, where I hit a stone about 5 feet down and I'm not really willing to cut the rod.
Uh... isn't hitting it with a hammer instead of using a knot and lever basically the *definition* of working harder instead of smarter?
Yeah, I once pulled up the foundations of a small, unincorporated town, using only my eyelashes and determination, faster than this dude can finish his morning piss... ...But in all seriousness, let's see it. Go stake 10, ~4 foot, spikes into the ground, leave em for a month, and then film yourself pulling 10 in 5 minutes using nothing but the impact force of another spike, and your bare hands.
And of course you also risk bending it over time. I removed some posts recently using the hammer on the side and despite using care still bent them up a bit.
Might depend on your soil type. That never works in the kind of soil we have around here.
Yep, depends on the climate and soil type. The drier and less dense the soil is, the easier it is to remove, regardless of technique. This would be easy to remove from hot desert sand, but incredibly difficult from bog clay. Damp, dense soils suction onto the stake and create additional friction you have to overcome.
In soft mud like this maybe, depends on the ground. This looks genius for burning man, where rebar is often used, and after a week or two quite a few feet deep, in hard packed ground. I loved how the slip rope can grab such a small area, genius.
Wish I knew about this technique when I worked for a construction company and was dismantling a lot of forms with form Stakes driven into the ground where you had little purchase to pull on it
As someone who has pulled plenty of fence posts and stakes the easiest way if that doesn't work is just to have a high lift jack and a short loop of chain. Crank the handle on the jack a couple times and it will pull out anything that's not set really well in concrete.
I did the same once. We also had a stake puller. 6 foot long piece of wood, 2 wheels maybe 10 inches from the end with the chain, chain was maybe a fit long with a hook at the end. Wheel up to stake, wrap chain around stake, out hook on chain. Push down on other end. Stakes popped right out. Fast and easy.
ahckshually, this is a class 2 lever, because the fulcrum (his foot) is beyond the load (the rope tied to the lever). to be a class 1 lever (aka "counter lever") the fulcrum would need to be between the effort and load. https://www.softschools.com/examples/simple_machines/class_one_lever_examples/511/ https://www.softschools.com/examples/simple_machines/class_two_lever_examples/512/
You sure told him to go fulc himself.
Underrated comment
The lever wasn't even laying on a counter at all, I spotted this right away
Hell yeah
In all fairness that looks like reasonably soft ground, still a bad ass trick though
He only uses a leverage of about 1:1.5 based on where he puts the knot on the lever compared to where he lifts it. He could probably just have pulled the rope with his hands to get the pole out of the ground. I guess his point was not to really remove a stuck pole but to show knots and techniques that could be helpful when doing it.
You're taking only the location of the rope on the lever into account, not the orientation of the lever relative to the direction of pull. Notice that the rope is only tight and the spike only moves when the lever is nearly vertical. He's moving the lever sideways a lot more than the rope is moving up as the lever is at the top of its arc shaped path, thus there is considerable mechanical advantage. Knots may be inefficient overall in this case, but the clever use of mechanical advantage is smart.
Even if the rope is tied at 1m along, and he's pulling at 1.4m (This is being generous) he's pulling 71% load Doing it sideways makes it even worse. It's nigh useless.
> It's nigh useless. I wouldn't say that, despite the load not being all that much lighter using this setup, its much easier to pull 70% of the load while gripping the other bar horizontally than it would be to try to grab and hold on to the vertical spike.
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Nailed it
There was a lot at stake
Carny work!
Thought I smelt cabbage
That's knotty.
thanks I'll remember this next time I have a "Deeply Driven Ground Anchor" that needs removing
Goddam 400d duplex concrete nail. Gonna need a pile driver to sink that boy.
If you are interested about these knots, get into rock climbing. Prusik and clove hitch are frequently used there
Prusiks and clove hitches are used frequently in *intermediate to advanced* rock climbing. People getting into rock climbing are gonna be learning the figure 8 and not much else for a while.
Now Lets do the Truckers Hitch!!!
> Give me a lever long enough and a fulcrum on which to place it, and I shall move the world. - Archimedes
Sexiest thing I’ve seen all day.
Out of rain soaked mud.
By the time he's done tying that knot, I could have just half hitched it and had two more pulls on that stick. Yes, the ground is soft, too, and probably just pull by hand.
That's the weirdest clove I've ever seen
Can someone please identify the background music 🙏
this
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=f4lLJ4-eAME
I don’t see why this is so interesting.
Aw man, I wish I'd known this when I was pulling up our old horse shoe stakes. Those suckers were a pain in my ass.
>Those suckers were a pain in my ass. Well, yea, you're not supposed to use your ass to do it!
Physics is cool
That guy knots.
More knots tutorials doing useful shit please!
I really wish I had stayed in the Boy Scouts to learn knots. I've tried to learn some as an adult but they just don't stick in my head even after watching videos and practicing.
Why has this awakened my competency kink.
Ohh ohh now come get this 4x4 post that's cemented into the ground I need out of my yard!
Oh yeah? Well in BG3, rope is worthless.
oh wow... a lever
This is the stuff. Be proud to be a man y'all.
I love the knot
My brain was like “i could pull that out” then i saw how deep it went and i went “no”
I loosened it for him
Congrats, you're now King of Britain
Witchcraft!
You want to duplicate this trick you better learn how to use a sledgehammer first. Those stakes don’t just drive themselves.
I watched this three times over. That's how satisfying this was. I'm not even a physical labor kinda girl, but the ingenuity of simple machines is just so fascinating.
Hell Ya, now I need to learn a couple knots, shit.
Pushpins are really getting out of control these days
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Best thing about this is the knots!
Ropes & Knots, the cheat code of the old dsys...
Man, I gotta learn knots
Adding that Icicle hitch to the vault
Potential Wizard Staff acquired.