How to Tie a Turks Head Knot 

I just stumbled upon your videos recently. I make a living working under horses and working as a day hand for a few different spreads in west Texas . Love the history lessons. Not many old hands left around these parts to share their knowledge and I appreciate what you’re doin here. Thank you

That is the funniest recipe I have ever heard my husband and I laugh so hard you have such a good sense of humour we love you 💕

Gotta tell you, that’s the best antelope recipe I’ve heard. Works well for several species of fish as well

I see absolutely no problem with anything you have said.! Have been listening to Daves stories for quite a while now feel the same way! Thanks for sharing and take care. 👍

Both your knowledge of history and horsemanship are fascinating. I appreciate what you have to share. Thank you!

Any time you wanna' share a history lesson, I'm ready. Thank you both for your work here.

Thank you for what you do mr. Pat. I like how you explain why you do what you do and how it fills in in the horses training. You make a person look down the road and avoid holes in the horses. Thanks again.

Dave is just a wonderful and talented singer/song writer and I have enjoyed his work for years. A great testimony.

I hang onto each and every word you say Pat! Thank you! Dave Stamey ..I hang onto each word he has to say as well! He’s my music of choice when I’m just walking along with my horse.. a lot of history he has to tell! Much thanks to you both!

I learn 2 important things in this video, 1 how to tie a knot an a history lesson which you don't learn at school's in the way how you did,thank you so much...

I sure enjoy the history lesson . Sharing what we gather along the way is a way to bless others thank you for that. God Bless

Enjoyed the history lesson as much as the knot tying thanks Pat & Deb

Love Dave Stamey! We all went to see him when he came to central Montana....it was like a ranch field trip. I think it was 2 years ago now. Hope he comes back to serenade us again soon. Oh yeah, & thanks for the tips on the knots. I am usually horrible at them, but Pat's step by step, dummy-proof explanation really helped me get one tied that didn't look half bad.

Pat, just finished reading your book, In the words of a Reinsman, and have been watching your videos for several weeks. I did not realize how little I new about horse training and riding. I am your age but hope an old dog can still learn. Also, I am also a Marine Corp/Viet Nam Vet and thank you for your service. Maybe some day I can make it to a clinic. Looking forward to watching your new videos as you make them. Plan to purchase one of your bits as soon as I get a horse to work with your method. I am too old to be ina hurry

Thanks Pat for sharing your knowledge of horses and history.

Red Steagall as well. I came to learn of both of them by watching your videos. Thank you for what you folks do!

Love Dave Stamey listening to his songs is how I first lurned of the vaquero and I was still cracking whips at the time till I found a few videos of how they rope. I thought to my self saying man i want to lurn this life style and did more and more research and just fell in love with it. Thank you for the stories there just fanominal can't wait to here about the Hawaiian cowboys when I first hurd of them I was shocked. I'm still trying to lurn more as I go still trial and error tho but I can work out all the Kinks while I'm over seas on base with some down time. Again thank you and safe riding.

Love the Hummingbirds - of course your knowledge and Dave Stamey

i liked the way you told the story tied the knot at the same .Also like the humming birds in back ground at the end

The history this man talks about is so important. I love it; we need to share more history so it doesn't die off through the generations. Thank you for the history lessons, we need more soon!

Your video was excellent! I thoroughly enjoyed hearing some great history of our great state.

Some comments lean towards individual aspects of the lesson....rather than the fullness.....I was introduce by a man who was trained by the US Gov......via the 10th Mtn Divison Remounts, Italy WWII.........hot..cold...corrective....diagnosis & inoculation...packing and all phases of care.....I have never met another as knowledgeable..(and he has been dead since spring 1968...)and a have met a few......yet these folks continue to amaze me and illustrate how little I know. Thank you all.

Love the shout out to Dave Stamey. Been listening to him for years. Also id like to throw in Brenn Hill and Ian Tyson.

Boy if I had Pat for a grandfather. Thanks again sir.

I;'m73 years old and as a kid PA taught me to tie 2 Turks head Knot's. An over and under. Watching you tie the under Turks head is one way. The other is to go over the top instead of under. Then you go under one strand and up through the center with each strand all 3 strands come out the center when pulled down tight. I have used these Knots all my life to keep my ropes from fraying. I Appreciate watching you and the Knowledge you pass along. But most of all is the respect you give to the HORSES you brake and use

My spurs they don't ring much, I never did sing much..... I came to live in southern Spain in 1981 because of the spaghetti westerns...filmed not so far from my place.. Thanks for your time, and sharing of your knowledge. I rode from the Mediterranean to the North Sea. Changed me forever. Rachel, a Scot, in Spain.

Very interesting man. Could listen to you all day.

Omg!! You crack me up!! You would have a field day with me at one of your clinics! Please announce when you'll be close to Tennessee

Man thanks for making things simple best teacher ever.

Great video and great sense of humor

PAT,you are sarcastically funny,enjoy and learning front you OLD GRINGO,love from jalisco.

I truly enjoy your cometary thank you for sharing your wealth of knowledge

Lol! Good video! Awhile back I shot a antelope that had been eating on a farmer's winter wheat, the steaks were tender and not sagey. So, I am glad I didn't eat the board and throw the steaks! Thx for sharing your knowledge and your sense of humor. Oh ya, I am from Colorado. Craig

Tonapa is one of my favorites of stamey, listening to it you can almost feel empty range land and wind

Amazing history.im in the uk and it seems they are trying to make us forget all ours.thanks for that history lesson that rope prep is phenomenal. All the best your way.subd

John here old time wisdom of a hard but proud life my hat off to you.

I'm going to have my Grandchildren watch this. Not only for the Turks Knot but the History Lesson. Love the Humming Birds in the background. Thank You!

I am gratefull you do this for us.... sooo gratefull

I have ranch property in N' Arizona near the Babbitt Ranch and have read a lot on the history of the area. You are so correct that we are all historians.

Another great lesson. I was wondering if you had any tips for a left handed roper in the branding pen?

Thanks you for the lessons.

I love the Yellow Case Knife. My uncle carried that same knife... Granddaddy was an Old Timer kinda of cattleman...

Awesome video. Explained a lot.

That was very interesting, always wondered how you connected the Hondo to the rope! Tsk from alberta

Have you ever visited the Flint Hills region of Kansas? Lots and lots of 90 day yearlings on grass from April to July! Many times they will average 4lb / day gain solely on grass. Interestingly Coronado explored into Kansas around 1540!

Thank you for the Turks Head, thank you for the history, but especially thank you for introducing me to Dave Stamey. Wow. just wow. Really good stuff. Coming from a non-country music lover. Thank you.

Dave Stamey is the best! Thanks for the video!

Not many cattle in my country nowadays compared to years ago, no rain and too many vineyards. Thanks for the lesson . Central Coast Cali.

My son works at good sized ranch and rides the same pastures his great, great, great, Grandfather rode 115 years ago when he came up from the states to live in Alberta.

I would like to see how you tied that Hondo. I've seen it tied in the end of the rope but not a seperate piece.

Interesting and very entertaining way to tell. By the way reminds me of makeing coffe- first a horseshoe in and add coffe till the shoe floats and that's it.

I should not be surprised but I am surprised that 20 dinks (as of Jan 9th) could give this video thumbs down. I love it and am working my way through all of them.

Pat You are a hand Somehow I’ve ended checking ya out So someday why don’t you tell us the Fl TX CA history and how you got from there to here Keep it up vaquero I really enjoy yours and Debs spots

Capt. William Thomas Turner would tie these and give them to his crew to figure out. It was his idea of humor. A little tidbit I found out in The Last Crossing of The Lusitania by Erik Larson. A great read so far!

Love it, thank you

Thank you much.

Hey Pat I really like your stories and cowboy ways! Where can I get one of those Hindi’s?

Thanks for the close up of tying the Turks Head knot and the history lesson of California during the heyday of the vaqueros. In addition to listening to songs about the West people can also learn a lot about the times of the Californios by close study of the artwork of three excellent artists of this period. James Walker lived during this time and saw the horsemanship first hand. He shows detailed work of the saddles and bridles of the period, the manner of dress of the vaqueros and gives a great sense of place in all of his work. In one particular painting "Charros at the Roundup" he even shows a Don that has taken down a steer with a figure eight loop. Another painting shows vaqueros roping a grizzly just as Pat mentioned in this video. Jack Swanson worked as a cowboy in the 20th Century and also has some excellent detailed images of vaqueros in Old California. He also has a painting of vaqueros roping a grizzly but his shows them roping it on the coast of Carmel. My favorite paintings of his are "Vaqueros Moving Camp" and "Fall Gather" as they show the land beautifully. President Ronald Reagan who also loved the Californio traditions had one of Mr Swanson's paintings hanging in the oval office when he was president. Ernie Morris is someone who practiced the vaquero tradition during the 20th Century and may still be alive today. He has several paintings, posters and books that cover the time of the vaquero horsemen. He was also an excellent rawhide braider of bosals. Sheila Varian owner of Varian Arabians in Arroyo Grande used to praise the quality of his bosals and she knew horses as her bloodlines are prevalent in the pedigrees of many current arabian horses and she Won the World at the Cow Palace on an arabian mare.

Back in the early 1990's I lived in an area that was heavily influenced by Monty Foreman. This was back in the VHS era. At the county library (Elbert County CO.) was a VHS tape that was a rendition of home movies made by Monty Foreman in the 1950's. I checked it out and watched it. In it was the claim that Monty was one of the first people in Western style riding to recognize that horses had leads. At the time that was not surprising to me because I had seen a lot of what I would now call crude riding from the early 1970's on. My question is this. Was this claim true of all Western style riding, or was it only true for the AQHA/Texas influenced riders, or maybe just for the locale that Monty was from?

Richard Henry Dana wrote Two Years Before the Mast. They gathered hides on the W Coast and the Sandwich Islands to take back east.

So interesting.

Love your videos, but this is one thing I may disagree with you on. Other than a rabbit antelope have the most high mineral content in North America. Louis and Clark other than dog & Beef tongue which was a delicacy thought antelope was the best meat over the top of beef. Antelope is an excellent meet. Most of the people that I know that have bad experiences with antelope ran the envelope for sometime. But if properly dispensed & care is taken that the high does not touch the meet, it is possibly the best meat we have ever had in our house. Just a friendly comment from a rancher in the north western part of North Dakota. Again I love your videos and your sense of humor. If you ever get to the western side of North Dakota look us up you got a place to stay and will feed you. Happy trails Luke

Didn’t know, about the hondo , headed my first steer in 72, and all this time, never knew.

Who the hell,would give this a thumbs down???????

“Unless you’re getting married” !!!😂

"Through the Antelope away and eat the board" ..... Greatest start to a video ! Awesome & Keep it Up !

Down here in Florida, we call it 'tying a rosebud' and we use it often when making our tie hards...

Can you tell me about Ed Conell? I believe that's his name.

Then you throw away the meat and eat the board 🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣 cracked me up. I miss my grandpa

I would like a video on how to build a campfire. Not for the fire but for the stories.

I thought that was the recipe for preparing carp. I like my pronghorn with chokecherry sauce.

Where are you from originally?

Hacienda~ Spanish Rancho~ Mexican

I have a tip for you kangaroo is dame fine eating so would through the board away but it does int say much about your antelope ..... LOL

That is a wall and crown knot. Perhaps you call it a turk's head, but a real turk's head is a different knot. Interesting background. Hummingbirds at a feeder, and Datura (devil's trumpet) on the ground. Datura (probably Datura Inoxia) is a very strong hallucinogen, and a close relative of locoweed, aka Jimson weed.

Nice. Turks head, Californio History, and a shout out to Dave. These vids keep getting better and better. If you can, would you please show us how the mare is doing outside when you use her on cattle? I think that may really tie all of this up together. Blessings to you and Deb.

I love these videos. Where do I find your email address?

"this is how you tie the knot, unless you're getting married"

There are 2 Wall Knots! Why you do it? Why are you misleading people? Genteleman uses 2 consecutive wall knots as a stopper unit.

That's the way you prepare and eat a carp, the very same recipe.

cute hummer :-) what is he?

Everybody ignores the French Buccaneers. Barbque and meat shipping/trade came from generations of French hunter marksman.

May I ask ...Your family's background?...

Hey, partner. That is a Wall knot that you tied. A turk's head would use a separate piece of rope tied on the end. Good story, though.

Well ok..

There is not of whisky to make a speed goat taste good

where is Turks Head Knot????? What do you mean????

Откуда можна купить лассо

LOL!!!

Someone who likes antelope meat as much as I do.

Come for the knot tying, stay for the questionable history lesson.

You can eat a horse. But, ya gotta be hungry...

Pat, I love your videos, and you are a fine horseman, but that is NOT a turkshead! It is a double Wall knot.

Like it? Frayed So....Understand? Frayed So.......Does the Millennium Generation? Frayed Not......Thanks......

Interesting history lesson,but that is not a Turks head. D.C. Crocker USN retired.