Handy skills... you know... those skills that are probably easy to learn, but you just never took the time to actually learn, despite being in many situations where said skill would come in handy.
One of my goals for this year is to learn a bunch of these skills and then, of course, blog about them. These blogs will be super short; I'm mostly just going to briefly explain what the skill is, when I would use it and then throw down a few links that helped me out.
First skill of the series: knots.
A few weeks ago, my mate Dave asked a bunch of us to help him move into his new house. Between my group of mates, we've all helped each other move dozens of times, so we all got involved again. Dave hired a three ton truck, we started loading up his furniture on a scorchin' Sunday morning and so presented our problem: none of us knew how to properly secure the furniture inside the truck.
It was a little frustrating because I'd watched my dad tie all kinds of knots hundreds of times since I was a kid.
Michael, another mate who was helping out on the day, and I jumped on Google and quickly picked up how to tie a clove hitch. It turns out that's not the best knot to use for that kind of work, but it mostly served its purpose for the day: we got the furniture where it needed to go without damaging any of it.
Anyway, that night, fed up with not knowing something so useful, I jumped on the internets and sat there with a piece of rope tying and retying knots over and over again:
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