Making Rope from Plastic Bottles: Survival Hack, Bushcraft Hack, Urban Survival Skills

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Stay in the Woods,

Dan

[musico]

Best explanation on bottle cutter. You explaned in detail what most left out - how the cutting knife or blade is positioned and especially to create the initial first cut on the bottle before placing the bottle on the cutter. Thanks a lot!

[Kyryyn_Lyyh]

Someone has mentioned, but applying heat to the bottle cord will cause it to shrink and tighten up.
Advoko Makes has a video where he made a device specifically for cording bottles.
Great improvised method, for those of us without a specially made device :)

[richsaylor]

Your ability to teach & simplify skills is appreciated.

[cerealchild]

I'm glad I watch your channel Dan! I'm always learning things!! Thanks !!!

[readerofbooks]

Great tutorial. This is another reason to always keep your knife sharp.

[divasg]

Thanks for sharing. Now to make it super thin. Going fishing & gardening. Cheers!

[nickprague]

Great tip. Not a bad idea for repurpose of plastic bottles even at home.

[visnuexe]

I love this! I have cut them with one side of Fiscar scissors by hand too without a jig, but the jig is much more uniform. My fav to cut are milk jugs. You get around 14 feet of cordage with it!

[chetfishmt]

Nice setup. I like the on the fly ease of setting this up. You can also heat/shrink wrap the cordage, with a lighter or over a fire, as well to make a very strong bond.

[MrMigido]

Apply heat to strapped joints. Get it right and it tightens incredibly!

[bryanepp]

Nice! This should go under the category of urban bushcraft survival. If I'm correct, I believe Tom Brown did a teaching on urban survival.

[mjhill]

Good info Dan. 👍 Yes, one should always have cordage, but stuff happens, right? Tips like this are great.

[scipio]

I really like the hand tool Lars had what four years ago now. But your iimprov was stellar.

[robertderby]

Thank you again for your videos and knowledge

[Garythedog]

I would not have guessed you could do something like that. Thank you.

[Lootoodle]

This is so bomb. I’m trying to learn to make natural cordage but this idea to use bottles for plastic cordage is brilliant for small jobs. It’s also faster.

[JohnSmith-vyoh]

Good tip. If people are going to practice this please take the plastic when you leave.

[johnwyman]

Hey that's a dam good idea, and great tool idea for the tool box!! You nailed it on people leaving garbage in the American woods. Nicely done on video!! 🇺🇸🇺🇸🪓🔪👍👍

[antonwearsakilt]

Easy peasy lemon sqeezey, well done and easy to remember. Thank you.

[kingsclownvideos]

You are the best at what you do.
Thank You.