What knots do you teach your groundies?

[billpierce]

Is nice when you get regular marlin spike hitches sent up but if I get anything else it's never that tricky to deal with tbh and doesn't bug me too much

Pretty easy to teach the Marlin spike too

[daveatdave]

4 hours ago, treebark said:

Why is it so hard to get stuff sent up to me properly?  I always teach just 2 knots which cover anything that might need sent up to me.  First is a clove hitch, for anything that needs to be clipped on.  This is my knot of choice as it just falls apart after you unclip the krab.  Second is a reef knot, for having seocnd line/rigging line sent up etc.

Both are incredibly easy to learn, yet I still end up having things sent up the tree with the most bizarre knots imaginable.  Is there an easier way to teach these simple knots that I am missing?

send them to a cub or scout pack they will learn loads of knots and first aid 

[stihlmadasever]

Sheet bend,marlin spike and bowline.

Teach em a prussik too for setting up a 3:1 pulling system

[Darrin Turnbull]

maybe i should try a clove hitch , but i normily use a overhand knot on a bight.

for some reason the marlin spike knot is for me  unsafe

[daltontrees]

"Send me up a combi!". 5 minutes later as hypothermia sets in you see the combi spanner fall yet again to the ground.

 

That's why I teach the clove hitch first chance I get.

[daltontrees]

Sheet bend very useful, a big heavy wet bull rope doesn't make a good reef knot with a 13mm climbing line, sheet bend much easier to tie and untie and more suited to 2 different diameters.

[Steve Bullman]

2 hours ago, Darrin Turnbull said:

maybe i should try a clove hitch , but i normily use a overhand knot on a bight.

for some reason the marlin spike knot is for me  unsafe

You should!!  Remember, you read it here first

 

[treebark]

On 10/10/2017 at 14:58, Darrin Turnbull said:

maybe i should try a clove hitch , but i normily use a overhand knot on a bight.

for some reason the marlin spike knot is for me  unsafe

overhand knot on a bight?  Got a pic of that?

[Darrin Turnbull]

[Joe Newton]

"Send me up a combi!". 5 minutes later as hypothermia sets in you see the combi spanner fall yet again to the ground.
 
That's why I teach the clove hitch first chance I get.

Or you could just send your saw down, or get the groundies to check tension beforehand?