7 SUPERIOR Ways To Store Paracord And Rope Like A PRO 

WOE Paracord Store Is Launching Soon! ▶ www.paracordweavers.com/ GET MY FREE EBOOK ▶ www.weaversofeternity.com/freebook TUTORIAL TIMESTAMPS: 0:19 Fast Rope (Long Hank) 2:29 Fast Rope (Short Hank) 3:29 Water Bottle 4:50 Hand Wrap Hank With Carabiner 6:37 Spool 7:38 Key Chain 9:53 Donut

As far as I can tell, only the donut allow you to take the length of cord you need without having to redo the whole wrapping process. That's a winner for me despite being a slower method on the wrapping.

I'm definitely converting to the fast rope method. I've been using paracord and making things with it as a hobby for years and I'm tired of having to undo the whole bundle to avoid knots everytime I want to use it. Thanks man 👍🏻

The donut method is exactly the same as single stitches in crochet, and when you pull it out, in crochet we'd call it frogging it. Funny how all these weaving hobbies are inextricably linked.

Thanks for posting this. I've been trying to figure out the best way to store my paracord and rolls into a sort of kit and this will be a huge help.

Thank you for sharing this is so useful and I’m going to use these methods you have showed. I am new to paracord craft but managed to do one from your vid which is really clear and slow which is brilliant

Keep on Tim!

Love the donut idea! That has a lot of the qualities I was looking for: wearable, compact, can pull as much as you want without unraveling the whole thing.

Agradezco mucho tus enseñanzas Amigo realmente es un agrado ver tus videos por que aprendo mucho de ellos. Gracias Tim.

The water bottle is perfect, except I’ll use a 1 liter soda bottle for 100’ lengths. Donut method is good for backpacking.

Found this video looking for a refresher on how to start the donut coil, used to make some large ones back in my Infantry days. 1) it was almost cathartic to sit and coil a long stretch of rope in a boring down time period (there are plenty), 2) super clean way to pack it, no tangle, no zip lock baggie, it has some rigidity to it so it's easy to grab and go, 3) crazy easy to pull some off in a hurry when you need some cord, 4) the donut doesn't fall apart or get all loose when you pull some off, unlike the basic fast rope style coils. Definitely the best option for tactical cord storage.

Super helpful, thank you! I thought it would be super hard but this was easy to learn and remember.

Dude you're awesome! I recently got into paracord. Started with your monkey fist knot begleri and can't get enough. Thank you for the informative tutorials!!

As a crocheter who needs to bundle up emergency paracord, I shall be crocheting a paracord donut, thank you! That’s awesome

The bottle is dope. You can make a shelf with holes in them and put the bottle threw them upside down. Have a project desk under the shelf and have a 6in-12in strand of cord coming down. So as you need the colors you can just pull down the amount you need. As you do you can watch the bottle deplete of cord. You could have 4 to 6 bottles in a foot. A 6 foot long shelf could have 24-36 different colors of cord.

The Hand Wrap Hank was what I needed to solve a problem I had with some household paracord. Thank you!

Very very useful to store the paracord.thank you very much for sharing.

Love the keychain method. i have so many short lengths of paracord its rediculous. now i can keep em stashed easy peasy! thanks!!

The first two methods are definitely the best

Good video. Been knotting quite a while and this is new ideas for me. Thank you for sharing.

Cheers for that mate, incredibly useful knowledge.

How many years have I been messing with tangled paracord... 52 now so about 30 odd years lol. Never too old to learn. Thank you

I really recommend the donut it is relaxing to make and during training in the field it came in handy since it was easy to pull out what you needed

I like the paracord in the bottle. Neat idea. Thanks.

The number 6 way to store the paracorde is definitely the best one I ever seen for stock it in my EDC Pouch...

All of them. as you said they all are unique in their own way. Great video.

Thanks for this video! Well dun.

Thanks for sharing, great information 👍

Thank you Sir, for sharing an excellent video. I like and use the paracord donut it may take a little longer to make but it also has several added benefits that the other methods cannot do to store the paracord. For one, It has an incredible amount of strength to it, the larger you make the paracord donut the stronger it gets. You can easily hook tow straps or tow ropes to it and pull stuck vehicles out as you can make the paracord donut stronger than any tow straps/tow ropes, and you can also use the paracord donut to add other items to it like attach other ropes, chains etc. to have a loop on the end. You can also make this where you can custom fit the loop to your hands and then you can attach the loop to the end of a rope and tie the rope to a beam overhead or even a high tree limb, and let it hang down from the floor high enough so your feet does not touch the floor. Using two of these suspended loops you can do all sorts of exercises without the danger like when using the metal rings hurting your hands or causing blisters etc. You can also use it as a pillow when camping and makes a great cushion to place between all sort of items when moving that you don't want to get damaged. Only your imagination limits the uses that you can do with the paracord donut. Thank you again for sharing. Respectfully, dd

For the long hank method you can use a thumbs up and your elbow. You just continually wrap it around your thumb and elbow until you are out of rope.

Sick, I gotta try the cord bottle🤘🧵

Really smart!

Every method is best bro! 👍

VERY COOL!!! I thought the water bottle trick was very ingenious.

Legendary as always!

I use the spool method. I bought some paracord ladders from Amazon (10 for about $15) and put a 100-foot hank on each one and put in my backpacks, glove compartment, etc. That way I don't have to worry about unraveling an end-of-world prepper bracelet, belt, etc. I like the donut method also and noticed years ago that mountain climbers and rescuers use that storage method for their climbing lines as well. They tie the loose end to an anchor point and throw the other end over a cliff or whatever and it unspools perfectly without any tangles as it drops. The water bottle technique is very similar to how the Australian Navy handles their messenger lines when conducting underway replenishments. They put the messenger from the other ship in a trashcan as its being pulled over instead of faking down on deck like the US Navy and other navies do. It's very ingenious and doesn't tangle and takes up a very small footprint on deck whereas faking down takes up quite a bit of space. The other methods are fine but I'm not a MacGyver so I won't be unraveling my paracord keychain, bracelet, or whatever because I'll probably be needing much more than that which is why I prefer the 100-foot spools I mentioned earlier.

The water bottle trick is my favorite !!

Useful to know the fast rope thing exists. I have recieved hanks of paracord from the sellers and did not know how to undo them. I would unwind the middle binding and then have to run out the length. I now see that I only need to pull the other loose end to easily run out the cord. Dohh!

Excellent video. An issue I have found with the first several methods is that as you pull cord out of the hank, the wrapped cord becomes increasingly looser. Is there any method to tighten it other than to take it apart and re-wrap it?

I am a complete beginner and a new subscriber. What I don't like about the bracelet form factor is cutting the expensive Mil Spec paracord into what I'm afraid will be basically useless (or of little use) pieces, so I was happy to find this video. I made the 'Fast Rope Short Hank' with approximately 31 ft. of cord. Then I made the 'Keychain Capprox 10 ft' using another 31 or 32 ft. of cord by making the core loops 8 inches instead of 4 inches. I'm going to try the 'Donut' next, with my remaining 35 ft. of cord. Love this channel. Many thanks for the tutorials.

I gotta admit it's pretty superior!

Very cool! Yeah, had issues with all my newly purchased REI paracord getting all tangled when I unwound them. Method 1 was too loose. Method 2 was too light. I ended up using the handles of long bolt cutters to give me the right distance. They were at an angle which kinda sucked, but I just made sure not to wind my figure-8's too tight so I could get them off. I got a new swiss army knife showing up in a few days. I think I'll used your key chain method to wind some Survivor cord onto it. Thanks for sharing. That was a very useful video.

I made a jig for wrapping my cord. It's a board with holes for dowels every inch. The donuts are neat but they take forever to make and they always leave my fingers raw.

My son loves your videos 😜

Didn't come into this expecting to like the donut method the best but here we are I guess. Thank you this is extremely useful

I like the fast hank on the hand. I tried the donut, very cool, but kinda long to do. In the field, with cold fingers, I'm never gonna do it.

Ooooh thumbs up I like that lol

I found that useful

thanks very informative... i was thinking the bottle is a good idea as you can add a weight to the bottom of the bottle tie the end of the cord to something then throw/deploy you cord and it unspools out of the bottle

I love your videos

Love the donut 🍩

I might hot-glue a clip or something inside the bottle cap rather than drilling a hole. If I'm going to add the weight of a bottle, I want a working bottle. Also nice to know that at least your rope is dry after an unexpected dunking.

The keychain 1 was pretty cool. 1 day i will make this into an actual hobby for myself rather than just watch other ppl

The water bottle one is genius!

Donuts the best but the water bottle is a pretty good solution for a small amount.

I really like the donut! You can go all the way until there's no hole in the middle. It stores a lot of cord on a very compact form factor, and unlike a spool there's no tube eating up space. The downside is that you need to have plenty of practice to know how wide the initial coils have to be in order to store any given length of cord; too wide and it won't be as compact as possible, too little and you will eventually be unable to store any more cord

I use the fast-rope hanks for most cord, but the donuts work best for the 100' cords I keep in my vehicles and the 50' in my day pack. The donut method kinks the cord, so isn't great for project cordage, but is fine for emergency prep.

The water bottle is the best one we have ever used in the field as a smart water holds 100ft

That orange for the keychain is awesome. Is it a blaze orange?

Your doughnut method wrap is the same way I am going to do my knife handle. Thank you.

cool

Would the quick rope deployment method work with extension cords?

Nice wacht!

I like the bottle method

donut is so great it give more space and fast deploy

I make cord wrapper out of thick card board. Cur a square about 6 inches square, then cut in concave ends . Make sure the ribs run vertical for strength. I cut a angle slice in on side to hold the biter end. Then just wrap like other wrappers.

I do it between my elbow and hand... that works also

To make the long and short hank methods more sure fire, make sure you leave enough cord left to wrap the entire hank up to a couple of inches on each end. Leaving the loop ends long allows for them to loop over each other and stop a pull.

could U make a video on how to make a little sack from paracord?

I like the water bottle method.😃😀😃😄😄😃

For the fast rope method, you can easily do the figure eight between your off-hand thumb and elbow. Fast easy and doable alone, no friends/sticks/chairs needed 🥲

That Donut is pretty, but who has the TIME for that? Thanks for the vid. (c:

What kind of weave is the paracord on your wrist? 1:00 or earlier.

Indonesia hadir...

It seems like the hand wrap and the spool would add lots of twists in the line. The spool would work without twisting the line if you rotated the spool to take up the line rather than twisting the cord around the spool the way you did.

Is there any nice bracelet that uses both 550 and 275 paracord?

I liked the doughnut.

Source for the winder? Thanks

The first two are the best. The rest is pretty gimmicky or not as practical to store cord. (Except maybe the keychain thingy. That's neat.)

By coiling in figure 8 way you avoid twists in your line. When coiling circular way to not get twists when unspooling you would have to manually uncoil each circle or spin the coil. So figure 8 method is better. There is a way to coil in a circle without twist but you have to alternate each circle hard to explain. This advice is from sailing experience, and video production and music as well. People who coil lines on sailboats, or xlr cables for production do it without twist if they do it correctly.

Best one not shown is the handle zipper weave. Lay a loop down the handle and with the long loose end wrap under and around your handle loop then back under and around. Keep going and tuck the end in once you get to the other side. When you pull the loop out from the inside it “unzips” and the cord comes loose in one pull with no tangles.

The chain sinnet works well too. It never tangles.

Spool tool is best. Also the most costly.

The water bottle one seems easy to store

I imagine the bottle method will be prone to tangling after a few shakes and tumbles. I wonder if anyone can tell from experience.

Dude you forgot to include the single loop and double loop daisy chain for storage. As long as the loops aren't to lose it never tangles and you can remove only the length you need, also you can tie the daisy chain onto things like a pack or use it like a thicker rope.

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1 00:20 5ft, 2 02:30 3ft, 3 03:28, 4 04:50, 5 06:39, 6 07:34 4in, 7 09:54

I don't understand how to tie a scaffold knot with a loop. I can tie one without it but I only get a sliding knot if I try to tie it with a loop.

All I’mma say is if someone invents a machine to make donut parachute, you can sell a ton of these.

Whats that carabiner ?

Found this video during a 12 hour shift while deployed. Just spent the last 3 hours making a donut out of 100 feet of 550 cord. Now what?….

I haven't tried any of these yet but i have used the Slatts rescue weave for a bracelet and was able to store a minimum of 24 feet of paracord on my wrist until my nephew unraveled it and broke the buckles but its an easy fix so i wasn't too upset

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I have been searching for zodiac inspired bracelets, but I can only find 6 or 7 out of the 12. I am looking for the Scorpio but can only see it on Paracord Crafters and I don’t really like how they do their tutorials, they are not nearly as good as yours. Please can you finish the zodiac themed tutorials?? Or at least do the scorpio? Thanks!!!

What is your opinion on daisy chain

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you can use your forearm in the first example, same result

Crochet, again, teach! The donut method is really fast if you use a crochet hook!

Wrapping in the same direction around your hand or spool are not good methods if you are dealing with long lengths as the cord gets twisted the more you wrap around. Wrapping in a figure 8 is vastly superior, because the cord gets twisted one way and then back again, thus removing the twist. You can use a spool by rotating the spool rather than wrapping around it, but it's much more awkward and time consuming. Figure 8s work so much better.