Zig, well said....apparently some guys have little direct experience with
the Scouts....too bad, they'd be very impressed with the training these boys
receive and the level of skill some attain while in the Boy Scouts!!!
73 /k6sdw
>From: "S. Markowski Jr." <km9m-zig@attbi.com>
>Reply-To: zigm1975@alloymail.com
>To: "Bill Aycock, W4BSG" <baycock@hiwaay.net>
>CC: towertalk@contesting.com
>Subject: Re: [Towertalk] knot tying help
To: <towertalk@contesting.com>
>Date: Mon, 23 Dec 2002 01:55:03 +0000
>
>snip
>Really- I think Boyscouts would be a last resort. They usually learn knots
>as
>a display art, and not by repeated use where your life depends on your
>skill.
>
>below is FYI, and NOT a Flame Job IMHO!
>
>Well,
>Many of the knots mentioned in this long-running thread, as well as MOST of
>the knots I've been tying as a firefighter for 25 years, I LEARNED to tie
>in
>the Boy Scouts. Not used as "display art", but when at camps we lashed and
>knotted: ladders, bridges, observation posts, piers, etc........Never a
>failure, and all were tied the same, exact way as shown in the Boy Scout
>Handbook, and well as the top Fire Service Books on rope and knots, as well
>as
>the technical rescue books.(which part of them cover rope and high angle
>rescue)...including rigging, ascending/decending methods and devices, etc.
>Some of the knots used in the Fire Service are not(or were not)covered in
>the
>Boy Scout Handbook(namely hte Figure Eight(and all its variations)when I
>was
>in. I've been tying bowlines and clove hitches the same way for 35 years.
>
>You may be surprised what you can learn from a Boy Scout! They tried to
>teach
>me CW at age eleven........ I opted for semaphore and waited 13 more years
>to
>learn CW and got licensed in 79.
>
>73,
>Zig Markowski - KM9M
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