Fast Running Bowline

[Danavan]

Tops, a new sport, timed knot tying. Impressed

[ben-jammin]

Tops, a new sport, timed knot tying. Impressed

 

a new discipline for the climbing comps perhaps? not just how quick you can get up and down, reach the workstations and accurately throw the logs out of the basket without hitting the gnomes (cutters and climbers) but how quickly can you setup a rigging system??

 

food for thought perhaps?

[Frank]

don't be shy Frank... Post a bid

 

Yeah I know it's not a hard knot to tie using the classic rabbit-hole method, I just hadn't seen it tied like this before and wondered how many other people had seen it. Useful I think in the knot tying section to show there are different ways of tying some knots as I've found that some make sense an stick whereas other don't. God knows how many different ways I've seen to tie an alpine butterfly but only one has stuck with me!

 

i will film it 2moro and bang it up here in the evening. I reckon tied in 12 seconds.

[Frank]

Ok I filmed it today, with an independant adjudicator timing. 6.4 seconds was the record, in 12 seconds I managed to tie a running bow line and marlin spike. Woohaa.

 

Whos next to step up to the plate???

[Frank]

[ame=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2aRxS8bJTyg]‪Fast running Bowline??? Then marlin spike.‬‏ - YouTube[/ame]

[TreeSpyder]

i tie as in first vid; only make a Round Turn around hand to make slipknot, to then thread the Bitter End and finally invert to make familiar rabbit around tree form. Then give tuck for Yosemite Tie off type finish.

 

The slip knot method is / was a recommended trick to know for getting self rescued off of ledge you are hanging on. If lucky, someone could lower lie down form overhead cliff or helicopter. While holding on with one hand, proposed survivor would draw line around then=m selves with freed hand, and roll to form slip knot, feed bitter end around Standing and thread thru Slip Knot, and back to self, and pinch together. At this pint could pull line, have line pulled, maybe even fall, and if still pinch Bitter back to self as reeves thru slip knot inverting to bowline. could be alright.

 

i find it easier to throw bight of line around target, for more weight in lighter line. Usually then place Half Hitch to run inline with spar, then another flip around target for running bowline as pre-scribed.

 

Running Bowline should pull perpendicular to spar, with inline back of loop as stop. Stop/ back of loop not inline when pull is not perpendicular to host/ spar. For pairallell to spar / inline to spar pull, should precede with half hitch (or marl) so that the stop of the Half Hitch is leg going to Running Bowline, so primary stop is inline with primary load pull on Standing. Rope only resists/ supports on inline axis (and only in tension direction). This is why ABoK breaks inline and perpendicular hitches to spar/rail into 2 separate chapters, the configurations are similar enough that these chapters are consecutive, but separate just the same.

 

DBY walk thru

 

slip knot method of tyng DBY

 

Olde Behind Back gif, showing ease of tie DBY

[Frank]

So I win then, Hooray for me.

[ben-jammin]

So I win then, Hooray for me.

 

I guess so Frank! I liked the flick you did on the Marlinspike, i sort of roll my hand up the rope picking up the bits as i go but that flick looks neat, gonna practice that!