Video: How to Tie a Trucker's Hitch Knot

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Learn how to tie a trucker's hitch knot from an expert outdoorsman in this free knot tying video.

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oldtrucker1 Oct 16, 2008
Hi there, In England we do it differently! It certainly seems to be stretching a point to call it a trucker's hitch as anything tied on a flatbed with that would probably slide off at the first corner you came to !! Only kidding. We called the whole thing 'roping and sheeting' and I loved it ! Nowadays it's all those nylon things and enclosed backs on the trucks, but the knots we learned go back to load tieing (?) on the old sailing ships and it's a shame they're getting lost and forgotten after such an illustrious history. Andy.
oldtrucker1 Oct 16, 2008
Hi there, In England we do it differently! It certainly seems to be stretching a point to call it a trucker's hitch as anything tied on a flatbed with that would probably slide off at the first corner you came to !! Only kidding. We called the whole thing 'roping and sheeting' and I loved it ! Nowadays it's all those nylon things and enclosed backs on the trucks, but the knots we learned go back to load tieing (?) on the old sailing ships and it's a shame they're getting lost and forgotten after such an illustrious history. Andy.
hunter3572 Sep 19, 2008
Not a true truckers hitch but a useful knot
hunter3572 Sep 19, 2008
Not a true truckers hitch but a useful knot
joebarbarian Aug 02, 2008
essential information for any man, thank you.

Video Transcript

Hi! My name is Dan, and I’m here with Expert Village today to teach you how to tie a trucker’s hitch. A trucker’s hitch is a good knot to use when tension in a line is important, for example setting up a tarp or a clothes line. It’s basically a series of slippery hitches. I’ll tie one wrap around the tree, or in this case a piano leg, feed the tail end of your rope through. It functions like a two-to-one pulley, so when I pull towards the piano leg, it’s tightening the whole length to the line. To make fast, I’m going to pinch it and tie another slippery hitch. The nice thing about this knot is if you need to drop the tension on it very quickly, you just pull out and it’s good. I can tie it for you one more time…make a slippery hitch, go around your piano leg, feed the tail end through, tighten, pinch, slippery hitch. If you want to make it fast, in the case of a tarp, in case someone were to pull on this end, you just feed the tail through the loop in your slippery hitch, and if someone accidentally pulls on it, the knot tightens as opposed to coming untied. So we’ll tie it one more time, and we’ll make it secure by doing that passing tail end through one more time. Slippery hitch, tighten, pinch and feed the tail end through to make it fast… the trucker’s hitch.

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How to Tie a Trucker's Hitch Knot

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