millbilly
ArboristSite Guru
Should of used a hatchet bowline there very east to untie no matter how tight they get just get out the hatchet. In my next post I will explain the dragin bowline :jester:
We pulled out a chip truck from the mud with a double bowline and it was easy to untie.
Jeff
Jeff,
I still say the Clove and Half Hitches will successfully bind beyond what is needed. I've found that the two have been extremely purposeful, my friend.![]()
Bullcrap101 I've been tying a proper bowline for more than 20 yrs. and I've had a couple stick under extreme conditions. I bet plenty other people on here have too.
Are you 'Left-handed'?
Jeff :msp_wink:
An outpouring of agreement no doubt ...
Not from here... sounds like another internet jackass, know nothing wannabee to me..![]()
You can tell all that from one thread about a stuck knot huh? From the amount of people talking about beating on knots with hammers I'm pretty sure I'm not the only one ever had a knot tighten up on me. Hell, if I'd wanted to do that I wouldnt have come on here looking for intelligent feedback. People like you are the reason I dont post on here more... Gotta love an internet hero like you, bet you wouldnt talk like that to my face, not but once anyway.
You can tell all that from one thread about a stuck knot huh? From the amount of people talking about beating on knots with hammers I'm pretty sure I'm not the only one ever had a knot tighten up on me. Hell, if I'd wanted to do that I wouldnt have come on here looking for intelligent feedback. People like you are the reason I dont post on here more. I have too much work to do to spend a lot of time blowing my own horn on here. Also have a family to raise. But since you've called me a "know nothing wannabee" I will give you a little background... I started out running ropes and dragging brush on weekends for an old friend who worked for a right-of-way company through the week and did residential on weekends. This guy was an exceptional old-school climber, he amazed me and made me want to learn the trade. When an opportunity came up I went to work for the same company (approx. 1 yr. later.) I made foreman within 2 yrs. after proving myself on the Blizzard of '93. This company was a little different than most of the others around here, we trimmed everthing from ground to top. Lots of limbwalking over powerlines. Have you ever pulled overhang growing 20 ft. across a 3-phase line, only a couple of ft. above it? Maybe you have. Of course we wore spikes while doing so so I guess we were hacks but we were hacks who made proper cuts and tried our best to make the tree look decent when we got done with it. Ran a crew for 16 yrs. for this company, worked a lot of storms... hurricanes (Fran, Opal, Katrina, cant remember names of all of them) tornadoes and a lot of ice storms. All this time I'm running an ad and doing residential work on Fri. and Sat. Learned to climb spikeless though I'm not the best at it. Now I'm running my own show with an International chip truck, a Brush Bandit 250+ lot of climbing gear and saws. I still do almost all my own climbing at 50 yrs. old. Oh, by the way I found time to become a certified arborist along the way (C.A. no. 182113), Are you a C.A.? Sorry for wasting your time as a wannabee. Gotta love an internet hero like you, bet you wouldnt talk like that to my face, not but once anyway.
He'd pee his pants if he had to deal with anyone face to face. His type gain courage from being behind an internet connection. Any knot can overtighten with enough force applied. That's why this was invented hundreds of years ago:
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Oh. Nevermind then.
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