[TowerTalk] Knots

[Dave Sublette]

That Prusik knot sounds a lot like the Sheepshank...

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On Fri, Aug 7, 2020 at 9:57 AM Charles Gallo <charlie at thegallos.com> wrote:

> On 2020-08-07 09:41, Dave Sublette wrote:
> > Everything I need to know about knots, I learned as a boy scout.  I
> > have
> > been climbing for 63 years and the knots I use are, bowline, square
> > knot,
> > two half hitches, clove hitch, pipe hitch, square lashing (not often),
> > sheet bend (not often) and any of them on a bight.
> <snip>
>
> Yeah, those are the basics - two you MIGHT want to add, as they are just
> darned useful
>
> 1)Prusik knot - useful for adding a bight in the middle of a line
> https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Prusik
> 2)The Figure 8 knot.  Not really used to tie things off, but as a
> "stopper knot" - to prevent a line from falling through a pulley (or
> your hand for that matter)
>
> Then there are some of my favorites, one of you MIGHT know Dave, from
> the scouts, where they often called it a Woggle - totally decorative -
> the turkshead knot
>
> And if you are working with laid rope (the ones with strands) - a
> Matthew Walker or a Wall and Crown as a stopper knot.  Not really more
> effective than a figure 8, but a lot better looking.  The other thing is
> learning to splice (particularly laid rope) - a spliced loop or a splice
> between two lines is WAY stronger than a knot
>
> (disclaimer, I used to be a member of the International Guild of Knot
> Tyers )
>
>
>
> --
> Charles Gallo
> http://www.thegallos.com
>