DeanBrown3D
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This is what I am planning to use for life support line. Its an anchor knot backed up with a sliding fisherman's.
All ok?
Thanks
Dean
All ok?
Thanks
Dean
DeanBrown3D said:Thanks for the knot! I have not seen how to tie that one anywhere but I will look.
Dean
Fireaxman said:Dean, Stumper or somebody can correct me if I am wrong, but I think the knot 046 is showing you is the same knot you backed up your anchor knot with in your first post of this thread. 046 just put an extra wrap around it with the bitter end before he ran the bitter end back through the center of the knot. Stumper, isn't that the same " Scaffold knot(Dble or triple overhand noose knot aka (due to misnaming several years ago) Dble or triple Fisherman's." you were referring to? I looked up the history on it. Just as you said, it really was used for a gallows (Scaffold) knot before the "Hangman's Noose" was invented. Seems it resulted in a slow death by strangulation, and the more humane "Hangeman's Noose" replaced it because the Hangeman's Noose (properly tied with 13 wraps in heavy enough rope) broke the neck with the heavy wraps above the bend.
046 - you do good work - all very new and neat and tidy. You put me to shame. But just to share with Dean I'll embarass myself with what I have. Same knot, just an extra wrap.
Ekka said:What I dont like about it is the two thicknesses, or turns on the biner, a space hog.
I have 1 biner on my centre D's. I open it to remove the terminal end of the life line, chuck it over another limb and put it back in the same biner. That's what I do. Only one biner to watch, no 2 biners rubbing or clashing for room, no throwing biners above me.
Now if the end of your lifeline doesn't have a tightly spliced eye you are supposed to girth hitch to the biner so it bites.
So all of a sudden if you are a 1 biner bloke like me that anchor hitch hogs too much room. Just do a sliding double fishermans, no????
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