You just saved my ass big time. I had a brittle 5 gallon plastic paint bucket full of sewer water. Every time I tried to move it it started cracking and breaking around the rim. Your video saved me from a rotten smelly mess. And the most excellent thing it is customizable to fit sized containers. Just use at least 10 feet of rope or more and it will carry 100lbs with the right sized diameter rope. ROPE DIAMETER IS IMPORTANT.
Your first knot is what is usually used to join two rope, lines, strings of different or the same size. Works well. I'm a yatch chandler and have twenty years sea time. If you want ideas please ask.
How about doing this with any object, not just ones with "feet"? This doesn't even work for a cardboard box, let alone smooth plastic containers with rounded bottoms.
I see how I may be able to make this work but I was wondering if there was a better knot/solution for tying a harness for a rolling portable cooler? It is a 28 Qt cooler so not too large but becomes difficult to pull over the sand when I take it to the beach. The fully loaded cooler can get a little heavy so being able to temporarily carry it on my back with shoulder loops/straps would be very convenient.
While your video is clear and simple to follow, are there limitations to using this effectively? I've followed it exactly, using a 3" diameter stainless steel water bottle, but the bottom of your carrier knot seems to easily slip off from underneath. I'd be curious to know what I've done wrong, if anything, or perhaps you could show the underside in your video when finished.
It has feet. His container has feet. This doesnt even work for a cardboard box. Look up "shibari friction hitches" and just use those wherever you need with a repeated sheepshank for a handle. 👍
It needs a knot at the bottom to keep the cross stable under the object. It slips right off a glass jar and a plastic jug. Please provide a fixed carrier knot that can work on slippery items...
Can you make something to carry a cylinder on its side. I have a big cylinder shapped bluetooth speaker I saved from trash. Works great just needs a handle
Oco Jan 2014 - A Knot A knot Is never just a knot A knot Is a problem Meant to be undone Or a solution Holding something together And never anything between There is a knot Between you and me I extend toward you And you toward me And we get tangled And I don’t know If it is a good knot Or a bad knot
What if the bottom of the object slopes upward? Like a sphere does... I'm trying to hang the soap dispenser's refill vessel for our restroom until we get the replacement dispenser casing delivered, but the thing is shaped like a "U" with the top squared off at a 90⁰ and this video's method does not work at all.
Looks like just what I need! Gonna use it to pulley an old water heater up an already-grimy carpeted staircase, and then slip a new hybrid w. heater (heavy!) down. Will let you know! BTW, you came up as the 2nd item when I Googled "How to make a rope cradle for lifting heavy object." Glad you did!
Not great. The cross at the bottom of the jug isn’t locked in any way, making it prone to slip. Only a jug with 4 lobes at the bottom will sit properly in that cross. Any other shape slips fatally and falls right through the bottom. Further, only 2 of the side crosses are locked while the other two are just ‘laced’. So the handles are prone to becoming uneven, making carrying anything more of a chore than without the sling altogether. I’ve tried to make it work a number of ways, but ended up choosing a better knot.
I am here to tell you this doesn't work at all unless you got the right shaped container. After two or more hours of trying this over and over it does not work at all on any kind of smooth bottom container the ropes will slip right off and if you are trying to use long enough rope to have a handle that even reaches over the top then it slides all off every way it can. The container has to have humps or grooves in the bottom for the ripe to hold on to and the handles can not extend above the top of the container at all
I’ve been trying to use rexlace on my projects because I don’t have other plastic, resistant cords here, this is the only knot that held that terrible slippery line in place. Thank you!!!
I don’t know how but I can never get this knot to work. Whatever I’m carrying always falls out to the side and the bottom slips out from under. I watch and rewatch but it’s the last step pulling the sides I cannot see it.
Agreed. There has to be a conversion factor relating, say, the diameter of the spherical cow to the length of rope needed to carry it with the carrier knot. 8:1 or 10:1, perhaps. Also useful would be an alternative method for setting up the loop of the carrier knot around the object, concentrating on handling the _fewest possible points_ on the loop itself e.g. points farthest from the crossover point under the object being carried.
Thanks. That is what I've been searching for. I have an elderly lady who lost use of her left arm. Trying to make some way for her to carry a drink or cup of pet food.
I wish I was in Boy Scouts again, so I could challenge the patrols to have a relay carrying a bowling ball using this knot. Six boys have to tie up the bowling ball, then put a pole through the top loop, and two boys carry the bowling ball around a tree and back again, WITHOUT TOUCHING IT!
Cord slides all over.... basically a non-practical application knot. Besides that, if tilted a little the jug will fully dislodge/fall off the cord enclosure. Looks nice in theory but it's a nightmare!
