Venus Fly Trap - Rope Buckle Knot 

With this knot and the the improved trucker’s hitch, I can literally secure my canoe in seconds and without a lot of back and forth. I’ll never use commercial straps again, thanks for this game changer!

Still don't understand how you're able to improve knots that I've never seen before... But i love it! Lol

If you pinch a bite instead of the bitter end, you would make it a quick release, plus I’d imagine the buckle would bind a little stronger. Great video, thanks!

I played with this a lot, and generally like it. However, rather than using this Portuguese Bowline with its adjustable loops, I created a Double Figure Eight with fixed loops, and it has a third, smaller loop on the opposite end of the knot that can serve as the bight in the Trucker’s Hitch. Try it!

@<a href="#" class="seekto" data-time="52">0:52</a>. ABOK 1072-Portuguese bowline. Called the French bowline nowadays.

This knot named as bowline with a loop. But it's first time ever i see THAT use of it. Brilliant!

This is crazy amazing and simple, I've added a simple overhand stopper knot right at the end of the bitter which helped lock it. So many uses so little time

I could see this being the basis of a "Remote Release Knot", where you lower, say, a tool box with a two ropes. One is a thick rope that holds the load with the Venus Fly Trap Hitch, while a thinner, longer cord is tied to the bitter end. Once the load is down on the ground, you tug on the smaller cord and the trap comes loose!

<a href="#" class="seekto" data-time="50">0:50</a> That's the French bowline. The Portuguese bowline be is very similar but in this case the first loop of the working end doesn't go through the loop of the bowline but it's trapped by the 'walking around the tree' movement of working end in the last part of the knot. Thanks for the video. It's a very imaginative way to use these bowline variants.

My suggestion; tie a stopper knot at the end of the tail. Love your vids.

2 of the mods you've displayed do have names. The one you began with is the French bowline, EXTREMELY similar to the Portuguese bowline which does NOT pass the working end through the knot twice to capture its 2nd loop, instead capturing it with the finish around the standing end. Next, doubling up the knot is just a Double bowline. I'm not sure if the round turn you used in the end has a name as a bowline, but adding a round turn to the finish of a normal bowline makes it look neat on the front side; the back has the round turn covering up the bowline's iconic triangle. Altogether, you've made a round turn double French bowline.

I've been using this knot every day since this video was uploaded. Thanks!!! I had about 2 fathoms of a thick nylon cord, leftovers from a drawstring bag that got pulverized. The cords were wasting space for about 1 year until this knot helped me turn them into quick-tie & -release straps to add to my bands for resistance training.

Wow, that's an amazing and creative use of a common knot. Love the suggestion to use as a chest strap for a backpack.

I saw it in your tarp video, and I was amazed. I have on in my pocket at all times, with an 8 knot at the free end. That seems perfect with a constant tension, but it may open when the line is pushed then pulled, try to wiggle vigorously.

I have tested this in the last week, and i will swallow my pride and state it far surpassed what i thought it could take. In fact it didnt fail, and untied with two fingers. I dragged 2 tonnes of onion and water 40 feet on a dry bed trailier....i am impressed to say the least and bow down to the functionality of this....i will be using it more often.

I love this channel. Wish I knew this in my 20s. Would have saved me a lot of time on things moving all the time.

This looks like the solution I've been looking for to secure cable bundles in a way that can be added to over time, and I can expect coworkers to open instead of cutting. It has a lead out the back for securing to something, I can do that overwrap on the tip of the bitter end in a larger cord so it's a stopper (these bundles aren't much of a load to engage the locking)

This is absolutely genius, and very satisfying to play around with. It just works so well, requires no precision really, and a longer bitter end allows you to finish with half-hitches if you really need it to hold. Seems a great way to tie off a dog leash, and gives you a double handle to hold when walking. Just a thought. Also maybe has applications in cold weather, where you set it up once, and then can re-apply it with numb hands, or gloves on.

I used a double alpine knot. Seems to work as well, and much easier for me to tie

Scientific, but concise and interesting. Excellent production, well-explained, and easy to understand. My new favorite channel. Thanks for sharing!

Extraordinary use of an ordinary object, well done!

The French Bowline, also known as the Portuguese Bowline, is also very similar to the Bowline On A Bight**. The Bowline On A Bight is another knot that forms two reliable loops that can be used as a Bosun's Chair, I find the Eskimo bowline good for this. On another note, have your heard of the VooDoo hitch which is used in fire / rescue but can be used to strap down things with a ton of force due to the nature of the mechanical advantage.

Love this, thank you! I’ve been trying to figure out a good knot to carry my target stands together and this is it! Also for those who want a little additional security, you can wrap the working end under itself between the two loops to create a sheet bend. Still easy to untie without a load.

Nice, very nice, and I love your study on how and why it works, how it breaks!! Great job!!

This is awesome, and I look forward to mastering and using this setup. I feel like the bitter end should have a stopper knot. Clearly it works without it, but mines gonna have one anyways 😉

Incredible performance of that knot, thank you for sharing!

That looks like a very handy buckle knot. Thanks alot, I will definitely put this one to use!

How well does this hold against being wiggled loose in a situation where the load comes and goes a lot?

I would have thought a sufficient modification would be to just feed through 3 loops instead of two and pull the middle one tight? This seemed to solve the problem for me but I don't have your comprehensive test setup. Great videos, thanks!

My favorite and most frequently used knot now has an upgrade and increased utility. Thanks for sharing!

This was a really interesting video. Besides the useful knot you presented, I really enjoyed the process and testing. Thx. 😊

This is a sick knot man. Quite useful. Will put it in the tool box! Thank you so much!

Could you do this same thing with a double figure eight knot?

So I've heard that adjustable double loop bowline, called the fireman's bowline before. Just the knot itself not the hitch you did

That's a pretty neat and nifty not looks to have some real world applications like that of a truckers hitch or combined with the truckers hitch can't wait to put it to work nice presentation on the various ways it works with the different rope sizes

Excellent work Sir, please keep up the good work !!

That was a cool test and machine. Perhaps you could demonstrate the thing about rope supposedly being weaker if it's wet, knotted, or dirty and to what degree. I'm also curious about the strength difference between paracord in various conditions, like how tight the outside vs inside relates to strength. Also, because it's supposedly used for breakaway links to deploy military parachutes when the guts are removed and the jumper reaches the end of his static line, I was wondering how strong a loop of gutless paracord is. There is a military urban legend about a jumpmaster - who had beef with one of the people jumping - used two loops of (possibly gutless) breakaway 550 cord instead of the normal 1 loop, and this was said to not break away, and the fella was left bouncing against the side of the aircraft... with unfavorable results.

If only I had head brains so I could remember this amazing stuff.

This is a great knot, will definitely give it a try, thanks.

Awesome! It's work! Thank's for sharing!

It looks like it could fall apart unless you keep tension on it. Maybe you could pass a bight through, and then pass the end through the bight? It would take two pulls to release instead of one, but it would be less likely to come open.

Its 2023... we can invent this rope knot, yet we can't get back to the moon... OkAy!

nice knot if you leave the tail end longer and loop it through for easy release dos it edfect knot durability

Great. Looking forward to the Dr Johnny Fever knot.

The double bowline can be tied as a single bowline on a double bite. This would pull tension from both loops as the knot collapses, but a figure 8 might be a more secure option. I've never seen this before and I'm definitely going to use it (definitely for non life supporting work loads).

Portuguese bowline! Wonderful knot.

I've been using this knot a lot to make (4mm paracord) shackles for cable routing at work, and I have a couple of twists on the formula. First of all, for a basic shackle what I do is exactly as shown in the beginning, then put a figure 8 knot on the locking tail, and tie an overhand on on the standing end to lock the bowline so I can cut it off. I use these mainly for ethernet in wire shelving so I just include the shelf wire in the shackle, then they can be easily moved around as we retool for different work. It can be a bit tough to judge how big a shackle will eventually need to be once all the cables are run and that's not much of a problem in this hanging configuration, but without holding up a weight, I'm not sure how much jostling they'll stand; for example if you just wanted to keep a hank of cabling coiled up, but there isn't enough thickness to fill out the shackle. What you can do is tie it with a third loop, and include the middle loop inside with the bundle. Then you can pull on it to take slack out of both other loop. There's a caveat here, that pulling out the slack this way tends to open up the bowline knot. What you can do is leave the locking tail longer, and tie it as an overhand around itself before "going around the tree". This, especially paired with the overhand outside the bowline, stops the knot from spreading. The last trick is that the lock tail is a fixed length, so the loop on that side needs to stay about the same length, with the far side loop doing all the course fitting. This won't keep particularly much tension in, so if you want to squeeze a thing, use something else, but it will let you close down the shackle to where the lock performs as expected. I've found that "under load" the bowline squeezes down and does a good job of holding the tensioning loop at it's adjustment; but I'm not really dealing with any loads, just restraining and organizing ethernet

That is great know for ad hoc crane. If you need to pull some roof tiles (not whole roof, but just 10 or so), make this know and you are good. Or some small logs. You need different size? Just adjust the knot. I like it, I have to remember that one.

Probably already pointed out but it's a Portuguese bowline. The loops should be adjustable as in they can pull through making one smaller and one larger. Personally I've moved to a bowline on a bite for this setup. Super handy for sure.

I am a retired firefighter and learned basic knots in the academy. You should make a video series on the knots used by firefighters. Thank you. ❤️🤍💙

Approximately all the respected lead players are in fact fantastic rhythm players. Paul Gilbert is one of my favourites in terms of: his shredding sounds just as powerful on an acoustic guitar. I guess it was a lesson for me to play the rock/metal things on an acoustic guitar once in a while. Also to make them sound good on an acoustic as well. Then you can add distortion to sound right but not to hide shortcomings or inability to play dynamics. And the one thing I feel like everyone skips until they learn how important it is (partially baked in that comment about being good at rhythm): playing with metronome but remembering to make it sound musical. If you become great at rhythm, your lead playing will sound good. Also learning chords is another side of that coin, your leads will sound better when you play chords.

Your buckle mechanism reminds me of the highway man's hitch, though that's a slip knot that fully unties itself with finished use. It ties quicker though, but it's a little sensitive while you're tying it.

Traditionally, it is pronounced bowlin. Neat idea, I’ll have to give it a try. I wonder if it would work with a bowline on a bight. Perhaps not since the bitter end isn’t facing the correct direction with that.

More sternum strap knots/examples please. 😊

Can make the same type knot with a super eight I think I will call it a grapple knot Or loop 🤔 Thank you for the video!! I love it!!

Fantastic work, as always, and much appreciated! Much respect.

Nice!! This reminds me of your "5 loop bowline" that you used as a ratchet strap

Are there videos showing applications for that in more detail? Like the one on the first shot with the bag and the cool orange quick release… some really cool stuff you have on your channel btw. I’m learning a lot. I’m kind of new to these things but I’m starting to really catch things up now. Anyways thx for the knowledge and the presentation and keep up the good work 👍🏼

Really like this buckle! Would you be able to show more detail of how you do the sternum strap though? Looks like a cow hitch on one end, but I can't tell what you do with the other end of the cow hitch that's not connected to the buckle knot. Thank you!

Hi I'm new to your channel, really loving it. I have little experience with knots so please take with a pinch of salt. I was playing around with this I like the Angler's Loop version of this when seeing the slippage. I've not tested it under high tension yet, I only have cheap rope. Angler's Loop version of the "Venus Fly Trap" - normal Angler's Loop but you loop through the overhand knot once creating the two loops, then capture the lines as normal to finish it off.

It looks pretty impressive! All sorts of possible uses. I’ve been tying a flying bowline for decades and only recently learned the name for it. I’ve figured out a way to tie it slowly and smoothly without throwing the tag end. I should make a quick video and send it to you. It may help someone.

Great creativity. Love to see it!

What you call a Venus try flytrap actually seems to be a variation of a bolin on a bite and a bowling on a bike is much easier to tie then your demonstration. Hope this helps.

Would you please explain the type of paracord you use and what you would recommend. Thanks

Really it's a smart and Very useful Idea. Congratulations!

Honest question, is not the end you're working with the "working end" and the far end of the line the "bitter end"?

A slow motion video of your knots being tested to failure might be interesting.

It seems to me that the Spanish bowline would be the perfect knot for this technique. It's 2 loops will not allow slippage from one to the other at all.

So the bitter end is acting like a spike or toggle in a marlin spike hitch, or a knot end of a soft shackle. Cool!

That's beautiful man😁

I'm looking for a knot to secure appliance cord. The idea is the string remains attached to the cord. With the cord coiled, bring the standing and working ends together then tighten. I've tried several ideas. I wonder if you've found something you like.

Why wouldn't you use something like Tumble Hitch, Mooring Hitch or Slipped Constrictor Knot?

The "buckle" reminds me of a highwayman's, tumble or becket hitch (all based on the same three-way friction idea).

wow very useful

Perfect...using on board, thanks so much.

I am very, very good at untying knots. I don’t know how to tie knots. Sorry. is this a problem? Please let me know.

Well, I just found a new knot I'm going to start using!

try a double bowline at the friction point effectively a double bowline on a double bite

Very cool!! Love it!

As variation, similar design can be tied using a double Kalmyk loop

The term,"Bitter End" is nautical. It refers to the final part of the rope between the anchor chain and the thick stanchions known as the "bits"at the front of the boat. It was attached firmly to the bits and when you had reached the "End of your rope" you had paid out all your rope and reached the "Biter" end. (Spelling is correct). The use of the term to describe a "free end" of rope is therefore incorrect.

I really like your knot ideas! Way to go! Regarding your strength tests: Ever thought about a collab with @howknot2?

Instruction not good can't repeat it or maybe i can but how i can be sure, this loops supposed to slip on each other?

From what I remember is tying a Bowline results in about 40% loss in breaking strength of the line.

Great knot! Thank!

That is the working end. The term bitter end refers to the part you don’t see. Imagine throwing an anchor overboard without having secured the back end to the boat. I think that may be the derivation of the term.

this is brilliant

Note the similarity to the Highwayman's Hitch!

you're the lockpickinglawyer of rope. a knot savant.

I geel like this could be used in arbor work for lowering limbs down with a small chaser rope tied to the bitter end so you could remote quick release from in the tree.

Could replace the use of toggles as quick releases in some scenarios.

Awesome Knots and testing, every knot should be testet to see if they hold and to see where the braking points are. Maybe a new idea for a sub channel, testing strength of Knots and devices ect. 🤔

You should have clarified that it makes the breakaway ability of a bracelet much more impossible. I'm sure it still opens as intended just fine.

So ironic that a knot master uses the less common pronunciation of bowline.

I'd still concider this an unsafe knot due to its slipping potential. But i do see myself using this feeding a toggle through instead of the loose end. thx for sharing

I think this would work better as a variation of a double figure out/bunnies ears. But also, a soft shackle would just make more sense. Interesting hitch but nothing that exciting. Far more practical knots or equipment for all the proposed purposes. Also just feel like I have to say the terminology used here is incorrect, a bitter end (standing end) refers to the end of your line not being used within the knot, often terminated to an anchor point before the functional knot. What you are referring to as a bitter end is the working, or running end.

I see a lot of "ropers" using a thick rope as you do @<a href="#" class="seekto" data-time="420">7:00</a> in the video (blue rope). How thick is it and where do you get this? Can't seem to find it. How many kg's can it pull?

Does it release under load? If you double over the bitter end I bet you could.

why you dont show how you tied it to the bagand allof this

Problem: it's only tight when under load. Is it possible to make it so that I can tighten it manually?