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3. You can use this same technique to create a makeshift
clothesline.

Trucker’s Hitch
This is a knot virtually everyone can use. It has many practi-
cal applications in survival situations but also in day to day
living. If you ever need to secure a load to something like a
trailer or even to the roof rack of your car, you might want
to consider tying a trucker’s hitch.
For those of you who don’t already know about this
knot, you’ve probably experienced how difficult it can be to
securely tie something to the roof rack on your car or to a
trailer. Most people will pull and pull to get the rope tight,
but when they tie a knot they lose the tension and the load
is no longer tightly secured.
A trucker’s hitch is designed to make use of mechanical
advantage similar to the way a pulley or block and tack-
le work to apply tension to the rope that is securing the
load. Due to the way it is tied, the tension on the rope isn’t
lost when the knot is tied. It performs similarly to ratchet
straps, but instead of using a mechanical device to tighten
nylon webbing, you are using rope and a really useful knot.

Pros: If tied properly, this knot isn’t likely to slip and should
therefore maintain tension on the object(s) it is secur-
ing. Also, because of the fact that there is the benefit of

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