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Lora: Hey Dick, what are you doing there?

Dick: Well I got a nice and it is too big to carry on my belt so I am tying on the outside of my packs. It will be handy for clearing trail, that type of thing.

Lora: Right I know that you have some quite and a lot of different course, I want to use some of this.

Dick: Well the uses are multiple, it is the kind of item you do not want to be without in the bush because you can use them for special raises. You can use them for guiding a camp, you can use them for fishing line substitute, you can use them to tie your pants while on the bottom to keeps bug from coming into it etc.

Lora: So your main point here then to all the viewers out there, course is an absolute essential part to be in your back pack.

Dick: Definitely you want cords with you; I do not travel, all the time I got plenty. Now we got different kinds, let is go back in time. Here is rawhide cord now this has been used of course for millennia taken from animals and it has certain purposes that especially well for, but for general purpose because it tends to not be as strong as the synthetic cord and the mats tend to jam when they wet, we do not use it very often. So going onto other cords here, this is a core shift type of cord with parallel lines cords inside of it so that we can strip it and use smaller units if we need ask for a fishing one.

Now we have here braded cord which is very strong and because it is braded it tends to resist abrasion better at a thinner place were it is moving like on a guideline for instance then I have those in different colors so that things can be color coded and then over here, we have rope and this rope is again, this is a braid and that is a laid rope and this are painter lines or of the canoe which I use of course attaching the canoe to shore to help anchor it in that type of thing. Now taking about attaching things to your body, here is a good example here, your knife has a cord attached to it which it will be attached to your belt or to a belt loop so you are not going to loose it and then one of mine of course, it is very important to me is to have a hat that it is not going to go flying off in the wind and there is my chinstrap so but we can put up a shelter in a very few minutes if you want to see that .

Lora: Oh I live to do that, alright, let is go.

Dick: Okay here we go with a slippery but a very strong knot, they are very easy to tie and we release instantly. Same procedure again here, well four cords in the tarp and here we are, with shelter under which to cook, under which to slip and for shade when it is hot.

Lora: So basically Dick you are saying to me and all the viewers should never leave without of course of lot of sizes so you know what, I have got another idea the use of a cord.

Dick: What is up?

Lora: And the cord so a great course line to dry things off.

Lora: Hey Dick, what are you doing there? Dick: Well I got a nice and it is too big to carry on my belt so I am tying on the outside of my packs. It will be handy for clearing trail, that type of thing. Lora: Right I know that you have... click to read more