[TowerTalk] Need a Knot Expert

[Pete Raymond]

Tie a square knot with a half hitch at both ends after the Square knot.  
It will not slip!!
73, Pete N4KW

On 11/27/2019 1:35 PM, Richard (Rick) Karlquist wrote:
> On 11/27/2019 7:44 AM, jimlux wrote:
>
>> Or a figure 8 on a doubled rope.
>>
>
> I am NOT a knot expert.
>
> That is why I can highly recommend the figure 8
> knot in general, and specifically here
> with a doubled rope, and specifically
> with 3/16 inch dacron rope.  I have
> tied hundreds of these.  I use the
> figure 8 for everything.  I don't need
> to be an expert to tie it.
>
> I could never learn to correctly tie
> a bowline.  The mnemonic such as the
> rabbit comes out of the hole, goes
> around the tree, and goes into the
> hole doesn't uniquely describe a
> bow line.  The figure 8 is completely
> fool proof, doesn't untie itself, yet I
> can always get it untied.
>
> It is easy to double up the rope and tie
> a figure 8 with a loop as the original
> post asked.  But what if the loop has to
> good around a tower leg, etc?  You can't
> just tie the loop and drop it over the
> tower leg since the bracing gets in the
> way.  However, if you are clever, you
> still tie the loop around the leg and the
> end result looks just like you had
> dropped it over the leg.  Too complicated
> to explain here how to actually do it.
>
>
> Rick N6RK
>
>
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