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Our Knot of the Week series continues this week with reader requested knot called the Trucker’s Hitch.
The Trucker’s Hitch is a fairly involved knot, but it produces a much more reliable hitch than some we’ve reviewed here.
It’s primary purpose is to secure a load on a vehicle, cart, or in earlier days, a wagon.
This is why the Trucker’s Hitch is sometimes referred to as a Wagoner’s Hitch. [Read More…]
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Our final Underwater Knot Tying Test “Knot of the Week” continues with the fifth of five knots taught to Navy SEAL candidates at BUD/s.
The Right Angle is a knot that is typically used as an alternate to the Clove Hitch, which we went over last week.
When used, the Right Angle creates a more secure knot than the Clove Hitch and if you know how to tie the Clove Hitch, you know how to tie the Right Angle. [Read More…]
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This week’s “Knot of the Week” continues with the fourth of five knots taught to Navy SEAL candidates at BUD/s for their Underwater Knot Tying Test.
The Clove Hitch is an especially important knot taught at BUD/s, which also has it’s purpose rooted in demolition.
A Clove Hitch is the preferred knot to fasten det cord (detonation cord) to underwater obstacles, linking them together in a chain for demolition. [Read More…]
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Our Knot of the Week series continues this week with the Clove Hitch.
The Clove Hitch is a fairly easy knot to tie, but a hitch that’s quite versatile and often referred to as an essential knot.
It can be used as a quick and easy way to secure a rope to a post or in climbing as a TEMPORARY tie-in to an anchor point. [Read More…]
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The Knot of the Week continues this week with a knot submitted by one of our users, Mr. Max, via our comments on the Highwayman’s Hitch post.
His brilliant knot, the Tarantula Hitch solves the tendency of the Highwayman’s hitch to pull through whenever weight is applied to the load bearing line of the knot.
Another wonderful benefit of this knot is that the release line cannot be pulled when the load bearing line in under heavy tension. [Read More…]
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The Knot of the Week climbing mini-series ends this week with the Bachmann Knot. Yes, another relative of the Prusik Knot.
Our reason for reviewing so many similar knots is to illustrate the different applications they all have, and Prusik Knots are extremely important in climbing.
Like the standard Prusik, the Bachmann Knot is a friction hitch, which works by gripping the rope and providing friction to support a climbers weight. The Bachmann’s main characteristic that visually separates it from Prusik Knots, is the use of a Carabiner. [Read More…]
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The Knot of the Week mini-series on climbing knots is coming to a close with only one more week remaining. This week we focus on the Klemheist Knot, another relative of the Prusik Knot.
Like the standard Prusik, the Klemheist Knot is a friction hitch, which works by gripping the rope and providing friction to support a climbers weight. With the Klemheist, too many wraps around the main line will bind the knot and not allow it to function. [Read More…]
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The Knot of the Week continues with our climbing knots mini-series, and the French Prusik Knot. This variation of the Prusik knot’s most important attribute is it’s ability to be released under load.
Like the standard Prusik Knot, the French Prusik Knot is a friction hitch, which works by gripping the rope and providing friction to support a climbers weight. With the French Prusik too many wraps around the main line will bind the knot and not allow it to function. [Read More…]
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This week we’d like to continue where we left off with our Knot of the Week, by introducing the Prusik Knot. The Prusik is the one of the earliest known “gripping” knots named after Austrian mountaineer Dr. Karl Prusik.
The Prusik Knot is a friction hitch, which works by gripping the rope and providing friction to support a climbers weight. The number of wraps around the main line will determine how tight the grip on the rope will be…more than three is considered excessive. [Read More…]
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Continuing with our “Knot of the Week” series, we present the Highwayman’s Hitch. This knot is another interesting one to talk about, due to its history. The Highwayman’s Hitch was supposedly used back in the late 1800s by stagecoach robbers. According to Wikipedia, Highwayman describes a robber who traveled by horse rather than foot.
The Highwayman would tie up his horse alongside the stagecoach he was robbing using the Highwayman’s Hitch, enabling him to make a fast getaway. The hitch will hold fairly strong, yet will release very quickly with a simple tug on the free end.
(Strength: 2/Security: 3/Stability: 2/Difficulty: 2) [Read More…]
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