Making Rope

Using a nail can yield a tool called a rope spinner to make rope in the field from thin cordage

[denisdegamon]

Excellent video, Dan. Simplistic in application, yet very functional and a useful tool.
I can easily see how to make an even better home tool by using dowel rod and pre dtilled screws, washers, and nuts.

[robertfleming]

Timeless information....thnx my friend...

[alexandrarock]

Best video I've seen on this yet, thank you!

[LGSkywalker]

Truly a guru of outdoorsman. I’ve never seen this before much like your other tips. Awesome stuff

[dwaynerobertson]

Man...I love your channel. Took about 00:00:00:00:00:00:07:23(?) out of my life, so far, to learn this valuable, highly practical skill that I will never ever forget for the rest of my life!!! Gonna' do this right now. Your compass/map navigation videos are just as clear-cut and direct. Straight to the meat and potatoes, and you keep it simple. Thanks so much for sharing your insights and skills, Dan. Fantastic, simple information. Excellent stuff, in every video I've watched - so far!

[adamhumphries]

Fantastic explanation of the process and potential pitfalls! This video made it all "come together" for me in a way nothing I've seen before has, thank you mate!

[senecawarchief]

if you flat beat your nail so it has 2 flats, set the nail for the flats to run parallel to the wood grains, like an old fashioned cut nail, and it'll be far less likely to split out your wood

[AnimeShinigami]

Woooow, also you could totally use that spinner as a baton.

I recently discovered that sisal twine takes in LOADS of natural dyes when you're working in that. I've got samples of army green, rusty scarlet, lustrous pearly pale blue, wine reddish purple, staghorn sumac coral, its NUTS. And they all come out with a dull shine. Whatever your dye is, add the general alum/cream of tartar and if you're doing an iron shift dye like army/olive green add iron tablets, if you're doing cabbage blue or using purple potatoes baking soda will make the blue color, same with tumeric scarlet. Basically any natural purple will shift to blue either with age or with baking soda. For some reason in addition to sisal producing a luster tone milkweed fiber will do the same if you catch it at the right point after its died. If your harvested bast fiber feels papery, wirey, and somewhat like raffia its just right to get that shine on it. Not as strong as it could be. But if you're weaving it will do fine for a nice pale weft that holds a color. You can dye lighter colored natural cordage this way too but its hit or miss whether or not the color will show up. Dogbane doesn't hold cool colors well but it will hold wine red or dark gold. Reminds me I've got to brave the rain and yuck to harvest more of it. Its like a 45 min walk in shitty weather, and we've gotten a lot of rain rn.

[squirrelsaga]

I love that you are a wealth of knowledge and that you are willing to share that knowledge. I know it takes great time to do so but you are committed to doing so. Great video.

[alecboss]

I was taught how to make cordage with natural fibers using the reverse wrap method but I couldn’t imagine doing that for a whole day to get rope out of it instead of just cordage (I mean maybe if my life depended on it I could) this is freaking genius and super time and energy conserving. I absolutely love your videos brother, they always provide great tips, tricks, and info. God Bless and keep on doing what you do, you got the gift haha

[martureomartus]

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[wizeisinger]

I just had a quick trial go useing string and a cordless drill to spin it in both directions. Produced very neat cordage in a very short time. Excelent video thanks.

[HikeByFaith]

I've not seen this before anywhere. Thanks for showing us a new simple skill for the outdoors.

[johnstanley]

You rock man thank you for your continual service to the Bushcraft survival Community God bless you and thank God for your knowledge..

[gogeyeryuzune]

You definitely deserve more followers. You always provide clear demonstrations. Thank you.

[bobswoodlandadventures]

Awesome video! That rope spinner kicks butt! I need to get more sisal twine from my work so I can make my own rope. Thanks for sharing.

[tamdsms]

How was the nail in the tree set & how was the cordage set to begin with & when the cordage was tripled? A really dynamic method, but I'm still mystified by my previous question. Kind of important I would think.

[urflofit]

If you start out by turning your nail point up and with the hammer side of your ax, hammer the tip of the nail, it will flatten out the point slightly and it will not split the wood. I'll be wanting to see you use this in future :)

[outdoordauber]

Great instruction, Dan. Reminds me of my days in Scouts when we used baler twine to make 4 strand rope on our rope making "machine". You truly do wind up with a way shorter rope than your original twine length!

[JapanScott]

Cool to see ya do this. I've been using jute to practice the reverse-wrap technique.