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Summary: A square knot is a basic and easy knot to tie. Learn how to tie square knots for tying two ropes together in this free knot tying video from an Eagle Scout.
John Stewart is an Eagle Scout with the Boy Scouts of America and has instructed boy scouts on climbing, outdoor skills, pioneering, wilderness survival and kayaking for the past nine...read more
"Hi. My name's John Stewart and this is how to tie a square knot. A square not is a very basic and easy knot to tie. Its knot can be used for tying two pieces of rope together. You want to have two pieces of rope that are the same diameter or this knot might slip. So this is best used for tying two similar pieces of rope together. You can connect just about anything together. This knot won't slip and its very basic and easy to tie. To tie this, I've got two different pieces of rope so you can see it. You want to take and cross the ropes. I'm going to use the purple one on first, go under the blue one until you have them crossed. Then you want to take, you went pink over blue last time, so you want to go pink over blue again and come down and pull those tight to where you have a square knot. They're not going to slip one they cinch down and then its very easy. You know its a square knot when you can take while its loose and do this and they slide very easily. And that's how to tie a square knot."
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