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This is why people use a bowline on a bight. They just work. I've been wanting a midline knot that can take a heavy pull and still untie and where the tail flows nicely towards the anchor so it can capture progress and have enough strength through the knot to withstand a winch failure. It's nothing you can't do with a bowline and another rope but then you need another rope.

Alpines seize with any weight.

It could be that a sack barrow is all you need. They are barrow sacks after all.

Someone said highwayman's hitch. I used to have a double pulley set up on a 15m ish bit of 6/7mm that I used as a retrievable redirect for double rope. Very satisfying.

The farmer's knot/circus bowline that I've just learned to tie and will probably use for midline winch attachment is going to be a bugger to apply this rule to. What a horrible shape.

What kit have you already got? Would a machine do other jobs in your life? Skidsteer, articulating loader or tractor can move bags and do other things. Even a digger.

Stubby listening to Enya following a lifetime of ported chainsaws and motorcycle racing.

Gasket hitch/coil.

With three strand, you can cut the damage and splice it back together in about ten minutes. Viva la hawser!

Are you making the boy suffer the loss of his Sunday handing you spanners or just the wife?

Educated Climber on youtube is the man for nifty, git-er-done ropework.

Good thread btw. I imagine everyone's surprised at the number they know and use. If anyone had said just put a number on how many you use without naming them, I'd have probably said about five.

They just look a little creepier than a fishermans. Floppy bit of tail too.

Working with people who can tie knots is easier.

Similar vibe. Like how you can instruct someone to tie a rope to a tree just by walking round it until they run out of rope.

I'll have forgotten other ones too. Like overhands for people who can't tie knots but need to send you something up. Easy to instruct someone to tie from afar. "Double it up. Tie a knot." Usually yields something that they can clip a saw to.

Sheet bend for joining ropes for moderate pulls. Marlin spike for tools or jamming something temporarily.

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Not often. The most useful application I've found is for a lifty zipline. Othwerwise just little hacks like grabbing something under tension if you need to reset a winch or anchor or something, spider leg balancer, hanging several branches like mackerel feathers. The klemheist is the grabbiest of the prussiks. Doesn't release nicely like a springy VT.

My climbing systems are all pulleys and VTs (or something very close if anyone's going to be a purist for what crosses over, what crosses under etc). Never bothered learning the distels, michoachans etc because a VT always works well enough. If I cobble up a rope tail, hip thrusting type system, it's probably a tautline hitch or something like one. Just whatever grabs on whatever rope is in my hand. English prussik if I have a loop. Bowline with a steel biner for most rigging. If no biner, usually a daisy chain hitch. Otherwise clove, cow or even a round turn and two half hitches. Whatever is proving easiest to untie for whoever is on the ground or just whatever feels right when the rope hits the wood. Bowlines on bights midline. Rigging prussiks usually end up being a klemheist. Progress captures french/VT or english. Just whatever works with whatever bit of tat I have in my hand. Cow or timber for base tie choking or rings/pulleys up trees. Running bowline if I'm short on tail. Cloves for pulling ropes through with throwlines. I think that's mostly it. I probably make up others or just use wraps, boat cleat type hitches round stubs etc on the go. All very jazz. The one knot I really should learn is something for joining two ropes for heavy winch pulls etc that unties easily, probably a zeppelin bend.

Harder. Especially on bigger, vertical timber when the wraps droop and you have to visualise what crosses over what. Less of a difference on a 6" branch.

Couple of half hitches, much like you'd put on a clove anyway. Comes undone easier. Easier to tie on large diameter stuff. Easier to learn I'd say too.

Just have a fight.

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