What is this knot?

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mathmonger

Discussion Starter · Jan 28, 2020 (Edited)

Usually when I have to tie a rope to something I try to look smart and I pull out my old Boy Scout skills and try to tie a bowline or two half hitches. But in real life, it's usually upside-down and backwards and I screw it up. So either I make a big Frankenstein knot or it just takes way too long to tie. Either way I look like an idiot and that kinda defeats the whole purpose.

I saw a quick glimpse of this knot in a compilation video. It's really quick and easy. Anybody know what it's called?

https://drive.google.com/file/d/1-Qb9_2KKIaBNSq8tRAOG2c2p5_sQFB2d/view?usp=drivesdk

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lenaitch

· #2 · Jan 28, 2020

It looks like a bowline but he's finished it off with a slip loop so it can be collapsed quickly. Maybe useful for whatever purpose it's being used for but that type of modification makes any knot potentially unstable.

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mathmonger

Discussion Starter · #3 · Jan 28, 2020

That's what I thought at first, but if I pull it through, now it looks like this.

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Nealtw

· #4 · Jan 28, 2020

I think it is a truckers knot. Many years ago the people that made molding would tie bundles with that knot.

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de-nagorg

· #5 · Jan 28, 2020 (Edited)

I think it is called a Clove Hitch.

Used in the Cowboy world to tie his horse to a hitchin post, or a tree, or other solid object, so the horse don't wander away.

ED

I'll check and report back.

Well scratch that, it ain't one of those.

But I use it often when I am tying down something.

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lenaitch

· #6 · Jan 28, 2020

mathmonger said:
That's what I thought at first, but if I pull it through, now it looks like this.

Assuming the free end is passing down to the lower left, instead of passing it under the knot from right to left, make a loop and bring it back out on the same (right) side.

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lenaitch

· #7 · Jan 28, 2020

Nealtw said:
I think it is a truckers knot. Many years ago the people that made molding would tie bundles with that knot.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FnlaQHIoCs8

I don't think so, Neal. The knot she is using quickly comes apart, but the initial loop knot is still intact. In the OP link, the whole thing collapses.

They again, I never did much time in Scouts. When I took marine training, our instructor said 'if you can't make them pretty, make them lots'; basically meaning that for most day-to-day boating uses, if you intertwine a rope on itself enough times, it will generally hold. Might be a bugger to untie but it will hold.

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ktownskier

· #8 · Jan 28, 2020

Damn, I like that truckers hitch. I have been doing something similar, sometimes with success and sometimes without, for a long time. Now I know how to repeat it successfully.

And she makes it look so easy.

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joed

· #9 · Jan 28, 2020

It's a quick release bowline.
It's a bowline where you only pull a loop through instead of the entire tail.

https://www.thesprucepets.com/tie-a-quick-release-knot-1886029

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Colbyt

· #10 · Jan 28, 2020

joed said:
It's a quick release bowline.
It's a bowline where you only pull a loop through instead of the entire tail.

https://www.thesprucepets.com/tie-a-quick-release-knot-1886029

My favorite knot for tarps and all things temporary.

If tying with a slick rope a few additional chain loops on top of the first will add endurance and still allow it to unzip.