[TowerTalk] Need a Knot Expert

[Wes]

I'm with the other Wes on this one. If I understand correctly you only have a 
load on the upper side of the knot. I would join the ends with any old knot and 
tie a alpine butterfly loop on the upper side of the knot: 
https://www.animatedknots.com/alpine-butterfly-loop-knot or one I find easier to 
tie, a bowline on a bight: https://www.animatedknots.com/bowline-on-a-bight-knot

Wes  N7WS


On 11/27/2019 2:06 PM, Wes Attaway (N5WA) wrote:
> Gedas:
>
> You have received a lot of good suggestions.  Here is one more, and it is
> pretty simple.  You are apparently not going to be risking anyone's life.
> You are going to hold up one end of a dipole and there may be 30-40-pounds
> of tension..
>
> I would just join the two ends of the Dacron rope with a simple square knot
> and with 6-inches or so of each rope sticking out from the knot.  Then tie
> the two ends into a square knot.  Tape the ends to the rope if you want to.
> With constant tension this arrangement will never come loose.  I have done
> this many times over many years with ropes into trees and on towers, etc.
>
> Constant tension on the rope will keep the knots nice and tight.
>
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> Wes Attaway (N5WA)
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