How strong is your knot?
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How strong is your knot?
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#2i really need to know
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#3I'd love them to do a break down on common knots as I trust my life to figure 8s and fisherman knots pretty regularly.
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#4I'd love them to do a break down on common knots as I trust my life to figure 8s and fisherman knots pretty regularly.
get into alpining and trad multipitch. Best way to learn a ton of knots, rope systems, and cool tricks!
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#5Practicality is also big one. There are tons, but I've learned bowline over 10 years ago and use it every day when sailing. It's easy to tie and can be taken apart by hands.
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#6IMO, the 2 most useful knots I know (aside from the shoelace knot) are the Carrick Bend and the Bowline.
The Carrick bend is especially useful - it's basically a square knot that doesn't come undone on its own.
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#7I'd love them to do a break down on common knots as I trust my life to figure 8s and fisherman knots pretty regularly.
Yeah, me too, but I have never read of an actual knot failure causing an accident outside of user error (wrong knot, not tied correctly, incorrect application, etc).
edit: in reference to rock climbing accidents...
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#8The zeppelin has always been my favorite "knot" (the zeppelin is a bend), but one knot is not the "best"... the alpine butterfly they compare it with is a loop. They're used in different contexts.
I'm just knot layman, but other knots I like are: the icicle hitch, bowline (+yosemite stopper), trucker's hitch, siberian/evenk/halter hitch, tumble hitch, and the chinese button knot.
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#9IMO, the 2 most useful knots I know (aside from the shoelace knot) are the Carrick Bend and the Bowline. The Carrick bend is especially useful - it's basically a square knot that doesn't come undone on its own.
I'd put in a vote for the sheet bend, although it's kind of isomorphic to the bowline. The "free" ends are in different places, and it's a joining knot.
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#10Practicality is also big one. There are tons, but I've learned bowline over 10 years ago and use it every day when sailing. It's easy to tie and can be taken apart by hands.
The bowline is fine for non-safety-critical uses, but cyclical loading causes it to slip, so I'd suggest anyone who's learning the bowline to learn a "safer" variant and just always use that one (examples are Yosemite Bowline, End Bound Single Bowline, Double Bowline, Bowline on a Bight).