Knots:

[Talon]

Bowline


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Q9NqGd7464U

http://www.boatsafe.com/nauticalknowhow/bowline.gif

[Talon]

Several knots


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ABIRlz-qxSI

[Talon]

A good searchable resource

http://www.animatedknots.com/spanishbowline/#ScrollPoint

http://www.animatedknots.com/imagesprelim/spanish_bowline.jpg

[Talon]

Very quick knot for an emergency rappel


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6HNCXTWojnI

[Unclefred]

Dammit T, my whole life I cannot wrap my head around making decent knots. I'm knot autistic. Nice thread.

[Talon]

If you can tie your shoes you can learn to tie knots. I grew up working on a farm ran by an old WWII Navy vet. Tying knots was cussed into us... "Tie a half-hitch you flat headed cock sucker!!" That's how he taught us...

[Talon]

http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-Arat2lJqImc/TvZUuQ1x0jI/AAAAAAAAANI/vsz30Vtipyw/s1600/1.jpg

[Talon]

Emergency rescue harness with webbing


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AQHlIASNTCQ

[Ricekila]

A piece of string walks into a bar & sayz -- "Give me a beer" --

Bartender throws him out -- "We dont surve your kind here" !

String puts a loop in his neck and takes a comb & teases his head strands -- walks into the same bar --

"May I please have a beer" ?

Bartender -- WTF -- you were just here" !

"Nope -- I'm afraid knot" --

[Talon]

Webbing is another option to carrying rope.


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=s6HUWt25LQU

[Talon]

I'm usually pretty quick, but I'm going to need this one spoon fed to me...:confused:



A piece of string walks into a bar & sayz -- "Give me a beer" --

Bartender throws him out -- "We dont surve your kind here" !

String puts a loop in his neck and takes a comb & teases his head strands -- walks into the same bar --

"May I please have a beer" ?

Bartender -- WTF -- you were just here" !

"Nope -- I'm afraid knot" --

[Talon]

Nevermind. I just got it!! ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^:headbanger:

[Kfilly]

Emergency rescue harness with webbing


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AQHlIASNTCQ

If you are interested in making a small repelling kit, this guy also has a video on how to make a firefighter bailout bag (repelling from a building as a last ditch of escape). I strap one onto my SCBA every shift. You would not need all the things he recommends in that video. The rope designed to fit through the the descender he uses is spendy though.

[DerBiermeister]

You haven't really learned a bowline until you can tie it behind your back. Not joking.

[Inor]

You haven't really learned a bowline until you can tie it behind your back. Not joking.

I can tie one one-handed, but not behind my back. Does that count?

[Walter Tyler]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CP7iAF_YU7A&feature=youtu.be
Pruisk Knot... Get up... AND STAY THERE.

Its principal use is allowing a rope to be climbed - ascending or "Prusiking". Two Prusik loops are alternately slid up the static rope: a long Prusik loop reaches the climber's foot – to allow leg power for ascending, and a second short Prusik loop is attached to the harness – to allow sitting. In rescue work, if a climber has to be pulled up, a Prusik loop can hold a pulley block purchase system on a climbing rope.

[DerBiermeister]

I can tie one one-handed, but not behind my back. Does that count?

Almost. You know how the term "muscle memory" is often used in shooting? Well it is the same thing with a few knots like the bowline. You have to practice it so much that you don't even think about how to tie it. It should become part of you like tying shoelaces. My dad taught me the bowline when I was five while sailing. It is the most universal knot there is. As I've been a sailor forever, somewhere early, along the way, it just became automatic. There are times, especially when sailing and during an emergency, that the knot must be tied pdq. You can't take the time to think about "going around the tree and down through the rabbit hole".

I just did it slowly so I could list the moves.

1. I simply hold the line in both hands, the bitter end in my right hand

2. then while holding my left hand steady, and using my right hand, I slap the bitter end over the line in my left hand

3. twist the line with my right index and middle finger which forms a loop

4. and then the bitter end is in place to go behind and then back down through the loop.

I think the best way to learn this "muscle memory" is to take a short length of line (a 3 foot piece of clothesline is good) and while watching tv, practice the technique over and over. After a few times of looking, take your eyes off of tying and watch the tube while continuing to practice it over and over. After one tv show, you'll never forget what you just learned.

[OSFG]

Almost. You know how the term "muscle memory" is often used in shooting? Well it is the same thing with a few knots like the bowline. You have to practice it so much that you don't even think about how to tie it. It should become part of you like tying shoelaces. My dad taught me the bowline when I was five while sailing. It is the most universal knot there is. ....


thats how I learned this one..

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[Kfilly]

Bowline


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Q9NqGd7464U

http://www.boatsafe.com/nauticalknowhow/bowline.gif

A bowline is an ok knot. However, do not use it for life safety purposes. Fire departments used to use it for rescue applications until it was discovered the knot can slip. I would my life to it. Fire departments adopted the 8 family of knots for just about everything. However, I still like tying a bowline if I have to tie a quick knot around an object. I got a quick method I post pictures with captions tomorrow.

[Talon]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mxR5HBEa76w

[Kfilly]

This is a quick and easy way to tie a bowline around an object. I might use this knot as one side of a shelter and use a knot I can tension on the opposite side. Before I begin, there are some basic terms about ropes you all should know. Working end=the side of the rope you are tying the knot on. Running end=the part of the rope going toward the load. Hauling end=the side of the rope opposite the working end.

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I just took a piece of 550 paracord and wrapped it around my table leg. The working end is the side where you can see the end of the 550 cord. This knot will be tied on the running end as I am tying it around an object (i.e. my table leg)

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I just put a simple loop in the running end of the rope. I made it so the loop is on the top side of the running end.

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I took a piece of rope from the running end closest to the hauling end side, and I made a "U" shaped loop (called a bite and referenced as such from now on). The bite is the piece of 550 cord closest to the loop made in step 2.

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I took the bite I made in the previous step, and I fed it, from the underside, through the loop. I just put enough through to leave a small loop bit enough for the working end to fit through.

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This picture is kind of hard to see. However, all I did in this step was I took the working end and fed it through the bite I pulled through loop in the previous step. The working end just goes through that and nothing else.

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To make the knot, you have to pull on the hauling end and the running end on the opposite side of the knot. The knot will flip into a bowline. Also, the knot can be tensioned by pulling on the working end if needed.

[Walter Tyler]

yer pic is not a knot...yet.

[Walter Tyler]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gX1dWKg6Ttc

The butterfly loop, also known as lineman's loop, butterfly knot, alpine butterfly knot and lineman's rider, is a knot used to form a fixed loop in the middle of a rope. Tied in the bight, it can be made in a rope without access to either of the ends; this is a distinct advantage when working with long climbing ropes. The butterfly loop is an excellent mid-line rigging knot; it handles multi-directional loading well and has a symmetrical shape that makes it easy to inspect. In a climbing context it is also useful for traverse lines, some anchors, shortening rope slings, and for isolating damaged sections of rope.

I use this when tying off a load instead of using the ole ratchet straps.

[Kfilly]

yer pic is not a knot...yet.

Actually, it is a bowline. Just a poor photo.