[TowerTalk] Knots

[Dave Sublette]

It's "not" the same as a Sheepshank ... should have looked it up first  :-)

K4TO

On Fri, Aug 7, 2020 at 1:13 PM Dave Sublette <k4to.dave at gmail.com> wrote:

> That Prusik knot sounds a lot like the Sheepshank...
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> K4TO
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> On Fri, Aug 7, 2020 at 9:57 AM Charles Gallo <charlie at thegallos.com>
> wrote:
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>> 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
>>
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