Bushcraft knots!?

[TheViking]

Hi...

I saw on the Jack Mountain bushcraft page, something called "7 essential bushcraft knots".....? This really makes my curiousness grow!
Is there anybody who can tell me what those knots are? I can tie a bunch of different knots, but which ones is it that they call 'bushcraft knots'?

[ScottC]

I have no idea but the search button is your friend.

[Adi007]

Here are seven outdoor knots ...

http://www.isu.edu/outdoor/knots.htm

:pack:

I'd add the constrictor knot to that mix.

[Hogan]

I'd add the constrictor knot to that mix.
Here's a good one that includes the constrictor.
http://www.netknots.com/html/outdoor_knots.html
Regards

[Ed]

Good links... cheers guys :-) Thats just what karen has been looking for.

Ed

[Stuart]

one of the most useful knots i know is the falconers knot

the alpine butterfly is also useful if you cannot get hold of the ends of the rope

[TheViking]

Hi...

Thanks for all the links! :uu: I found a page on knots that I think you should take a look at! Disadvantage: It has TOO MANY PAGES on knots collected! :oops: :biggthump
http://www.earlham.edu/~peters/knotlink.htm

[TheViking]

Just found this link (http://www.troop7.org/Knots/). It's possible that it has been mentioned before. :wink:

[alick]

Not in my seven essentials, but the surgeon's knot is handy for tying loops in shockcord. I'll assume we're not doing sutures :o):

I also like the two extra variants on the sheetbend for bushcraft - they come in handy when you're using a light throwing line to pull a heavier one. Say for suspending a parachute or getting a rope across a river.

Lots of good ones in ray m's bushcraft too.

[Keith_Beef]

Hi...

I saw on the Jack Mountain bushcraft page, something called "7 essential bushcraft knots".....? This really makes my curiousness grow!
Is there anybody who can tell me what those knots are? I can tie a bunch of different knots, but which ones is it that they call 'bushcraft knots'?


I would have said, off the top of my head, that you need to tie a line to something solid like a tree, to suspend a hamoc or basha, pull perpendicular or pull parallel to the support. For this, you want womething that stays tight even if the load is taken off (so no clove hitch for this job). A bowline or a fisherman's hitch can do for the perpendicular pull, and an icicle knot for the parallel pull.

Then, to join a line to another line; double sheet bend, or two interlinked bowlines.

Then, for building shelters, you need to be able to join poles together. The diagonal lashing would perhaps do it all, and the straight lashing is useful.

For weighting a line, for throwing, nothing beats a monkey's fist. You can use this as a grapple to climb a tree.

But a simpler stop knot would be a figure of eight.

So at a guess, you could get away with four:
bowline,
icicle knot,
diagonal lashing,
monkey's fist.

Keith.