The Ropes Bundle

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Ropes can bring such fun and joy as swings, rope bridges and lashings. They can also cause fair bit of frustration if you’ve ever had to untangle a big knot of ropes…

The Ropes bundle gives you a comprehensive basic overview on what’s important to consider when sourcing and taking care of ropes. We have short films to teach you what we consider the most useful knots when running groups in the woods. And then a bunch of fun challenges that you can use to apply knots – these can create the need and hunger in participants to learn knots and lashings and then they can try them out straight away such as with the stretcher challenge.

Bundle Contents

Ropes and Rope Care

5 top knots for the woods

4 really useful knots

Coiling rope

Tree Health Assessment And Rope Swing Considerations

Putting up and Retrieving a Rope Swing

Stretcher challenge

Rope bridge challenge

Log drag challenge

Timed Tarp Challenge

How To Put up a Tarp

Cordage Bracelet – Rush

Stinging Nettle String

Each resource comes with a downloadable written summary with the primer, rules, kit list, hazards etc. as well as downloadable risk assessment considerations.

Try before you buy

We’ve made a few of our ropes skills in the bundle available for free so you can get a feel for the bundle before purchasing. Select any of the resources below to try them out!

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5 Frequently Used Knots

Here Ellie demonstrates 5 knots that we commonly use in the woods: Timber Hitch, Taut Line Hitch, Taut Tarp Knot, Bowline and Clove hitch.

Basic Tree Health Assessment for Rope Swings

When looking for the perfect tree swing site, one thing to look for is the gradient. Ideally you want a little bit of a slope to get a nice swing without catching your feet on the ground and it makes it easier to get on and off too. You also want a limb that’s accessible to get a rope over and that will give space to swing well from.