[TowerTalk] Need a Knot Expert

[Patrick Greenlee]

A double sheet bend will join a couple lines together.Man made material 
is slippery compared to natural fiber so a single sheet bend might slip, 
hence the double.  Worried?  Use a triple.

Patrick        NJ5G

On 11/27/2019 2:20 PM, jimlux wrote:
> On 11/27/19 10:35 AM, 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.
>
> Exactly..
>
>>
>> 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. 
>
> And, worst of all, you might meet your demise at the jaws of a big 
> fish named Bruce.
>
>
>  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.
>
>
> Make a loose single figure 8 with a long free end.
> Take the end of the free end and follow the rope back through the 
> figure 8.
>
> As a check, take a doubled rope and tie a figure8 (to make a loop). 
> Check if it looks right.
>
> That is the huge virtue of the figure 8 - It has a specific, simple 
> look, and if you're unsure, you can untie and retie. And, it has a 
> shape that is easy to feel in the dark.
>
> Between the figure 8 and a variety of half hitches (some with multiple 
> turns), you can do just about anything you need.
>
>
>
>>
>>
>> Rick N6RK
>>
>>
>
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