Non-tightening knot?

[treebandido]

pull ten foot a bight of rope through your eye or hook then wrap it on itself about six times working back up the rope towards the tree, then reverse the rope back down the line towards the hook/eye wrapping between the braids you already put on once you get to the end place the small loop back over the hook.

when you start pulling it will grip itself and away you go, I use it to pull vehicles out, pull trees over with machine winches even a loaded 7.5 tonner and tractor tow once.

It never binds to the point where you can't undo it. hope that makes sense easier to show than tell,

[Big 'Ammer]

I pulled over a dozen 50' trees yesterday on the same midline bowline.

 

No stick or combi spanner or whatever, came undone so easy, my four year old could have undone it.

 

Maybe its how you tie it, or you use a huge hinge?

[Mark Bolam]

Huge hinge = Gaylord

[Mesterh]

What knot did you end up using?

 

I woulda just gone for a doubled up bowline, used this to pull trucks out of fields and has always undone with ease.

 

When pulling trees over I use a wagoners hitch to get some tension plus it always comes undone afterwards. Dunno if it would work with a winch though!

[Justme]

Try using a fig 9 on a bight.

 

You just add an extra half twist to a Fig 8.

[RobP]

Try using a fig 9 on a bight.

 

You just add an extra half twist to a Fig 8.

 

 

 

Errr, that'd be a fig. 8.5 then wouldnt it

[Justme]

Oddly no.