Comment on What knot(s) should I use to secure this?
wjrii@lemmy.world 3 months ago
As a bonafide Eagle Scout, I remain firmly convinced that any rope tying needs can be met with a combination of square knots and more rope. 🤣
Comment on What knot(s) should I use to secure this?
wjrii@lemmy.world 3 months ago
As a bonafide Eagle Scout, I remain firmly convinced that any rope tying needs can be met with a combination of square knots and more rope. 🤣
anton@lemmy.blahaj.zone 3 months ago
As a climber I have to disagree, figure 8 knots are the best, especially when double back.
It’s the one knot I trust my life to on a weekly basis and I have rarely encountered a situation where they weren’t part of the solution.
wjrii@lemmy.world 3 months ago
Look, friend, if you can’t trust 15 year-old me, who acceptably tied FOUR different knots that one time to check off the box in the handbook, or 17.83333 year-old me who managed the building of not one but TWO picnic tables for a local elementary school because my Dad was being a pain about finishing the final Eagle Scout project, then who can you trust?!?!?!?!
counselwolf@lemmy.world 3 months ago
double back figure 8 knot?
HonkTonkWoman@lemm.ee 3 months ago
It’s a standard figure 8 knot, but the end of the rope doubles back through the eight. This leaves the end of the 8 at the top of the knot & would look similar to this:
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Waveform@lemmy.world 3 months ago
Looks easier to undo than a bowline.
gedhrel@lemmy.world 3 months ago
Figure eight on a bight.
fmstrat@lemmy.nowsci.com 3 months ago
As a normie knot-know-nothing, I have to say, whatever happened to my double-knotted shoelaces.
HonkTonkWoman@lemm.ee 3 months ago
I like Velcro.
fmstrat@lemmy.nowsci.com 3 months ago
Me too, me too.