Tying Timber Hitch Knots

Video Transcript

"Hi, my name is John Stewart, and this is how to tie a timber hitch. A timber hitch is going to be used for two different things. First thing you can use it for, is if you're beginning to lash stuff together. You can use this as your base knot, to start the lashing. A second thing, and most commonly used with this. Pulling bigger logs, two by fours, stuff like this, in bigger bundles. You can take and tie the timber hitch. Loop it around all of them. Tension it down, and it will grab all that stuff, and you can haul it away. I'm going to show you how to do it, around a log. To tie this, you're going to take, put a bite in your rope and come down. You want to begin to twist. Twist it six or seven times, where you got some good twist in there. Then you want to take and go down. Lay your log in this. Take and go through the loop, that you still have formed. Pull all of that through there, and then cinch it down. This is going to put a bunch of binds in the rope, that's going to grab the log, to where you can then take, and pull the log, and that's how you tie a timber hitch."