Axle Hitch Tow Rope - Useful Knot for Dragging Heavy Objects - or Emergency Towing 

🛠 *Practical Knots* 🛠 ru-vid.com/group/PL7nysDkNnZHeCGqhDqTN8deGU4x6VnLb0

Two years later, I still flip through and refresh myself to your amazing videos JohnnyDee! You have a true talent for teaching. 🤘🏼🤘🏼

It is impossible to imagine how anyone could instruct the tying of this knot any more clearly. Of all the very many knot instruction videos by numerous content creators that I have watched, this is by far the best presentation style.

I love that you did that with the bowline, that’s hilarious! Great videos, very clear instruction.

My kids laugh when I combine your knotting with Austin Powers..You make it fun.. cheers

The fourth knot I've learned from this channel. I'm very sure this knowledge will be useful in the future. There are other channels that also teach about various knots but this is where I understand the steps significantly faster. Thanks for these "Knots for Dummies" videos.

Dude I love your channel! This hitch is a favorite of mine. One day at work they were taking down a tree next to our building. A very skilled tree surgeon was up there taking it down chunk by chunk. He'd tie an axle hitch around each piece before felling it. He would just finish it off with an overhand knot and he had a stopper knot as well. Very quick to tie and after a log dropped, tightening the line just above the ground, it was easy for his coworkers to untie it.

I vote bowline knot to finish it off. Maybe with another knot to secure the tag end. Another awesome video like always!

That's a very good effort on your part in explaining a rather challenging knot, IMHO. Last year I had to rescue two vehicles in the Kentucky winter snow and I used a round turn and two half hitches with excellent results.

Aside from too much talking, it was still a great tutorial. Thank you kind sir!

Thanks Knotty Johnny. I like this knot.

The bowline is a great knot. The description and instructions are easy to follow. Good content. I may get roasted here but oh well. When I was taught to tie knots. I was taught that a bowline should have a tail about the length of your tip of your thumb stuck out like you are hitch hiking to the opposite side of the palm. Also that ALL knots should finished off with a half hitch. Just in case the line pulls back through.

Very detailed description. Only one thing to mention....The bowline is used from sailors exactly because, no matter how much weight or presure you put on it, you can very easily untie it even when the rope is wet

Excellent knot. Another tool in my toolbox

ive towed ships with a bowline and still been able to untie them ,,, other than that , an interesting video.

Thank you.

Thanks much for this explanation, clear to a novice! Really nice content on the channel. I just used this knot to pull a boat lift ashore and published "Operation Boat Lift Lift: using snatch blocks to pull a boat lift ashore".

I like your detailed instructions

Hello. I just discovered your channel when it popped up on my RU-vid feed. I am a bushcrafter with a small YT channel. I am always looking for good information for my viewers and will likely use some of your knots in future videos, giving full credit to you of course. Thank you for the clear and detailed presentations

Great video. Real clear. Godspeed.

good one mate! I"ve been looking for something like this for a while now. Thanks!!!

Como siempre sus nudos muy practicos, seguro que no tardo en usarlo. Gracias por compartir.

A handy, different way to skin a cat. Sometimes spreading the pulling load helps and this is a way to do that. Well described.

Cheers Mate!

Really great. I was trying to use commen sence while using my climbing rope to rige something up to get myself out of a ditch... But this is way better!!

Excellent

I am a yachtsman from Russia very good video. Thanks!

Thanks for the knowledge I’ve developed a interest in knots your videos have been extremely helpful

Very helpful

Interesting!!!

I’ve used this knot to build an equalized redundant anchor for rappelling. I replaced the bowline with a retraced 8, because security was more important than ease of untying. Other knots could be used with this hitch in the middle of the line if I wanted to retrieve the rope from the bottom of the cliff. Cheers

nice job on the instructions. I don't think I ever put my working end straight into a loop anymore - it's always a bight, for the quick pull release.

Top hitch!

Super helpful now I need someone in my other car sucks when u have a family member with a broke. Leg

Just discovered your channel. ANother subscriber. Good stuff.

Noiiiceee!

I had always heard and thought that one of the benefits of the bowline is that even after you apply tension it’s easy to undo. I’ve used it to pull boats onto a trailer when the carabiner wouldn’t work, had no issues undoing it and it was an old nylon strap

in some situations I might be worried about the loops on the axle drifting inward. I suspect adding a round turn with your initial bight around the axle might help. the extra turn would be on the inside, in the same vein as initial steps of a prussik hitch. nice knot!

Knice knot! 😄👍

The only problem I see with that slipped knot at the end is that it appears to be only secure under tension. If you were pulling on something, like a cart, there is a lot of time that all the tension is removed, like when you're backing up to get another go at it. I don't see a bowline as being a bad not to use, and you can put a bite in them to make it a slipped version. However, I've always found them perfectly easy to undo once tension is removed. Of course, I've never tried to undo one after hundreds of pounds of force has pulled it taut, either.

Its a pretty “intense” knot, I like the design of it and am wondering how it can be used around the camp site..

You could always tie a figure of eight in the standing end and rethread it with the working end

Nice knot I've used this for ages ,however ,at the end Instead of looping end over I loop it through to make a slip knot ,makes it a bit easier to undo

dont know if ive ever seen a truck without an axle, lol

Did you know.... if at 3:22 , if you pull harder on the working end, it ends up inverting the standing end into a nipping loop .... and you're halfway to the Portuguese bowline!

Tension and stresses within a bowline. Imagine there is a tiny instrument that rides within the cord, and measures stress. As the imaginary instrument is running up the standing cord it first encounters some stress as it bends a bit passing the first contact with the knot. Then it passes that and encounters a reversal in direction at the sharpest corner and most load that the cord will encounter. That is where the cord will break. If you put a bite into the end of the cord as it completes the bowline tie, it will increase the material under that sharpest corner. Distributing the stress over a slightly larger "corner." Beyond the actual bowline the load is distributed to multiple parts of the end loop. So the bowline is the weakest part of this hitch. At that first single standing cord making it's sharpest turn. Soften that turn and the knot will be stronger, and be easier to untie. I made a knot that was similar to a prusik. It seemed to be a bit (11%) stronger than a bowline. But not usable for all situation. The standing part went straight through the knot, and the working end wrapped around the standing part like a tightening fist.

Hmmm. Towing lines can be under a fluctuating load, I think I'd prefer a knot that might bind rather than a slipping knot, even if the bowline turns into a gopher knot afterwards. 😅

Use a double tag line on the bowline, that way you can just pull it out

Question about using this for towing a sailboat. I own a 50’ Monohull sailboat and have always wondered what the best hitch would be for towing if I ever needed a tow. Let’s see if I can draw you a picture. On each side of the vessel are large cleats that could be used for towing. Optimally, you want an equal amount of strain on both sides versus being pulled or towed from a single cleat. I am wonder if this axel hitch is my best choice... your thoughts??? The challenge is the cleats are about five feet back from the very nose of the vessel where I have two large anchors in addition to rigging for my head sail. The axel hitch would have to have large loops to reach back to be placed around each hitch and then tied forward of the anchor roller. These loops would have to be about six or seven feet. It seems doable and like a good option. Obviously, this would be done with large line probably 1” in diameter. I will practice this so I can execute it quickly if it is ever needed, but wanted to get your thoughts on using it in this application or if you have a better recommendation.

This guy reminds me of the science teacher at the beginning of the old "Charlie and the Chocolate Factory" movie

Would you recommend a stopper knot on the bowline? Great video bty.

Good video, but I have to disagree about the bowline being hard to undo, I used bowlines daily with 65Pax vessels in rapid flowing water always reliable and always able to undo them.

I am newish to knots but my only concern with the Bowline in a towing application would be it coming untied while its put under pressure then slackened and dragged on the ground then re-tightened over and over in a vehicle tow situation. Otherwise I like this knot...

Is there a relative connection between naughty and knotty ?

I use this to tie my sister's kids together when I babysit

Would be nice if you show how it is used in the real world situation.

You should say "let's get knotty"

Wouldn't a clove hitch with a couple of half hitches work just as well in this application?

I vote volume

Just cause you doubled the rope over the axle doesn't mean it's any stronger lol cause you are still pulling with a single rope so you might as well just use a clove hitch or just a bowline straight on the axle 😆 if you're looking for more strength just use two ropes lol

If a bowline is dressed properly it will not get too tight to untie

05:18 That is NOT how to undo a bowline! If you only do it like this, no wonder you find it hard to untie after having it under tension. There's a proper way to do it. Look it up.

Just use a bowline knot, I’ve pulled on them full force with pick up trucks, The loop doesn’t close up, it doesn’t slip and you can still untie it by hand 🖐 Why use anything else????😁. Why???

Turn the speed on 2x kids

I stared at this for 2-minutes, and couldn't quit asking myself, "and, what exactly is the problem with a Prussic knot, that it wouldn't work in this exact same situation...since it's designed to be a 'high tensile pulling knot'?' Then I realized, this is RU-vid, and logic really falls apart once you start looking at videos and clicking links.

If your pulling a vehicle out of a mud hole and going around a axil why go through all of that. Just do a cow hitch or a clove hitch if you don't have a long anufe rope to do the cow hitch

🇵🇬🇵🇬,,,

David Walliams does knots ... thankfully it was not Matt Lucas .. would have been a complete disaster

Pure smut at 2:58 if rope porn is your thing 🔥

Didn't have enough time to watch fully

Get on w it

Too many words...

Holy repetitiveness batman

too much talking

The only way to watch your video is to silence completely your too-many-words, to simply watch what you do, and how you do it. Your words add too much time to each of your videos; and, candidly, your words distract from your knots.

Too much repeatative talking. Almost unbearable, almost. You asked

Too much repetition..u know we can rewind the video?