Important, Your help needed for knot database

[Steve Bullman]

I would like some help with researching a few various knots. I have experience with a lot of knots myself but am looking for a broader range of opinions/experience. I'm going to start an individual thread on each knot. Some are well known, some are quite obscure. If you are not familiar with a knot please refrain from commenting as time is short and I hope to have good feedback and a subsequently large work load.

 

Where applicable please could you list your chosen application for the knot in question, size cord you prefer, length of cord(or loop in some cases), pros and cons, etc etc...anything you can think of really.

 

Your help will be greatly appreciated, thanks

[Tony Croft aka hamadryad]

oops (refrain) lol

 

timber hitch is one of my faves

[Steve Bullman]

Thanks for all those who have contributed so far, keep them coming please

[MOG]

Knut 10mm OP 1.35m 3 and half wraps, works mint on 11.5mm line.

 

Cow hitch is wicked too!

[Steve Bullman]

if you could post in the appropriate thread id would be a great help

[MOG]

haha Ooops

[pgkevet]

I'm posting here 'cos they may not be relevant..as you know I'm no arborist but we have a few useful knots.

The hunter knot..about the simplest there is.. is used for joining suture lengths in multi-use reels. Checking on wikepedia it looks like you guys might use it too..

Hunter's bend - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

 

The 'surgeon's knot'.is a simple quick reef knot. We knot with instruments and it's a single throw followed by a single throw..throwing into the direction of the free end each time gives a flat reef. For a higher tension area we might use a double throw followed by two singles. Occasionally a triple throw first. For material with poorer friction (some of the newer synthetics) we swap it around and us two singles and finish with a double..

 

Clever beggars can do them one handed inside cavities:

[ame=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sHBlx1UdNYw&feature=related]YouTube - ‪Surgical Knot Tying - One Hand‬‏[/ame]

 

We also use a constrictor to keep tubes in.. chinese finger trap.. one better than a series of simple half hitches to pull a log?

[ame=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CZycvOdMfeE]YouTube - ‪Chinese Finger Trap‬‏[/ame]

[Pedroski]

Steve, Icicle Hitch is one of my favourites - I use it for sending drink bottles up to the climber, not dropped a single one yet. Works well on wine bottles too.

[Cuttup]

I use a Distel Hitch for 'prussiking'. Rest I imagine are the usual suspects various Bowlines etc. Alpine Butterfly is a handy knot for some midline applications. Reckon you can get by with half a dozen knots and does well to know them backwards. I'm interested in knots but I realise many people are less so. Trouble is if you don't use them often enough, you forget them

[BenR]

Midline alternative to the alpine butterfly. This knot unties much easier after heavy loads.

Circus bowline/ABOK 1056