what knots work best?

[Dean Lofthouse]

Use it often also, just have to be careful it doesn't damage rope where it runs through loop. Can be some awsome pressure with rope rubbing rope

[bob]

Rope onto towball with a pile hitch for pulling with a vehicle

 

try using your capstan tie onto rowball with a little loop and can always undo rope no matter how much riving you do

[Jamie]

Anyone else oldschool enough to use a waggon/carters hitch to tension a pull rope on a tree being felled.

 

Yep used it a few times. best to know thew old school tricks. also used a (steel) carabiner as well to reduce the friction

 

Jamie

[Marc]

Anyone else oldschool enough to use a waggon/carters hitch to tension a pull rope on a tree being felled.

 

Other than the usual climbing knots, the carters/truckers hitch is probably one of the knots I use most, and i'm not old school by any means, i've used it to tension lines, pull over stems/trees, drag out timber and tie down loads.

 

You can double up carters hitches and add biners to reduce friction a top multi-use knot, you got to love multi-use.

[Shansen]

Attaching the pulley, timber hitch on large trunks and cow hitch on smaller trunks

Lowering down big section, running bowline with half hitch

Tying to truck or tractor, I use a port-a-wrap attached to my tractor and put the rope on it with 4 wraps and a couple of half hitches around the little stubs. You can pull as hard as you want and there is no knot to tighten and it doesn't bend the rope a lot.

[vduben]

Anyone else oldschool enough to use a waggon/carters hitch to tension a pull rope on a tree being felled.

not used it in a while but have done, used a load of micro cenders b4 as well

[bill]

 

 

i recommend this book highly.

[countryboypa31]

Anyone else oldschool enough to use a waggon/carters hitch to tension a pull rope on a tree being felled.

 

I'm not familuar with this knot, Can anyone give me a link on how to tie it? Thanks a million

[benhudson treeworks]

Is good for knot tying demo's !

[bill]

try using your capstan tie onto rowball with a little loop and can always undo rope no matter how much riving you do

 

 

or forget the capstan and use a sling with a friction hitch.