Stopper knot

[morten]

Have a look though this lot

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No stopper knots in there, mate

Edited April 21, 2012 by morten

[lop and top]

Granny knot:001_tt2:

For extra safety 2 granny knots:001_rolleyes:

 

i totally agree!!!

[old snake]

Back splice?! With a small ring or clip in it.

[Adam Bourne]

Back splice?! With a small ring or clip in it.

 

haha that may look real good and neat mate but not many of us splice????

[Stephen Blair]

Never used 1, not something that shouldnt be recommended but

1 if you don't know where the end of your line is, then stay away from trees especially with a chainsaw.

2" the knot gets caught round epicormic, forks etc and that makes me mad.

Use a long enough rope, simples.

Rab always puts them on my rope when his grounding and I take them out:biggrin:

 

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[Mesterh]

Never used 1, not something that shouldnt be recommended but

1 if you don't know where the end of your line is, then stay away from trees especially with a chainsaw.

2" the knot gets caught round epicormic, forks etc and that makes me mad.

Use a long enough rope, simples.

Rab always puts them on my rope when his grounding and I take them out:biggrin:

 

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I know that one for sure.

 

Every time I coil a rope be it climbing or rigging a sneaky bit will always find the nearest twig of a nothing,decide to form a knot then continue to wrap itself 42 times around said offending thing!

 

In response to OP, i asked same thing and I think the barrel knot is a winner.

[DrewB]

totally agree steve, i cant stand stopper knots in rope!

[Pedroski]

Never used 1, not something that shouldnt be recommended but

1 if you don't know where the end of your line is, then stay away from trees especially with a chainsaw.

2" the knot gets caught round epicormic, forks etc and that makes me mad.

Use a long enough rope, simples.

Rab always puts them on my rope when his grounding and I take them out:biggrin:

 

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All true stuff. I have had the stopper on my lanyard catch in forks before and it does make me mad too. I'm going to change from a 5m to an 8m and ditch the knot I think.

[Stephen Blair]

All true stuff. I have had the stopper on my lanyard catch in forks before and it does make me mad too. I'm going to change from a 5m to an 8m and ditch the knot I think.

 

On side strops, I used to use rope that had a big spliced eye on the end so it would never get by the prusik and now I use a flexible steel strop it's the same, it will never get through the clogger.

[Adam Bourne]

i hate stopper knots on my line, but side strop i do have one sometimes gets stuck but no biggy....just get it out and move on.....