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I’ve been using that knot or a variation of it for years for broken fishing lines.
WTF?!?! What has this site become? A video about tying knots. I watched the whole thing waiting for some kind of political, comedic or tech pay off…
… but all I learned was how to tie a knot for fishing or pranking your friend by tying his shoes together. Once again I say… WTF?
Rakarich, all of which shows to go U that ol(:-) Uncle Dave is knot just about knefarious
( eg. – kneo–con ) or knaughty or knerdy stuff.
And that’s knot just a knee jerk reaction.
Allen McDonald, El Galloviejo®
It’s even called the Fisherman’s Knot, although it’s used in other sports such as rockclimbing too (see http://www.chockstone.org/TechTips/JoinRopes.htm for example).
#2 This is about the advances in knott technology, alas we’ve come so far! The Neanderthal Man could never have imagined the heights to which modern man can knott strings *and* rope.
Gordions Knot?- – – aka, any knot can be undone–just work it backwards? Now almost any knot is impossible to undo when tied in .1mm nylon filament.
This knot seems to be a bit fiddly compared to other knots available that can be easily done and I assume are easier to undo? Who wants an unreversible knot, even if such a thing existed?
#6 People who do pranks maybe?
7–Yea, if its really untieable===but how much of a prank is it? “”Bet you can’t untie that knot!” Theres a hoot.
Talk is cheap, I need to go find some rope. I’ll bet the untieability of the knot is directly related to how stiff or pliable the rope is?
#6 – This knot is a great way to put two (or more) lengths of rope (or whatever) together without fear of it coming apart.
OK, just for fun, try the uniknot — with quality monofilament it’s not coming undone either. One knot for many purposes. Best thing about it — you can tie it in the dark. ——– [Snore]
http://www.in-fisherman.com/magazine/guides/cg2003Sp_Uniknot/
In the Navy the goal is to tie a knot that will hold, but be easy to untie. Knots like the bowline, square, beckett, double becket, bowline on a bight, etc all have specific uses, but after the job is done can be untied and the line stowed away. The knot shown starts out like a double becket then gets corrupted. If something a bit more permanent is needed then that’s where a splice comes in. In the days of commercial sail the phrase “splice the main brace” meant more than just knocking back a couple mugs of grog.
Ask what knot your country can do for you; ask what you can undo for your country.
#11, Omar, thanks. Nothing like being a Boy Scout or a Navy / Coast Guard vet for learning knots. (Where is mark?). When tying down an airplane, I use the Midshipman’s Hitch, has never failed me yet.
http://www.realknots.com/knots/hitches.htm#tautline
Besides fishing line, this knot can be untied. The video used the knot t o make a prusik cord, which is used in rock climbing and extensivly in rope rescue. Unlike some other knots, this one will stay tied under repeated loading (falls!)
Before the Evangelicals made it so easy to untie, Marriage used to be the ultimate knot.
Of coarse, anyone wishing to wear their knots would be a Don Knotts.
To be or knot to be.
If your knot drips, would it be called knot snot.
I’ll bet the untieability of the knot is directly related to how stiff or pliable the rope is?
or knot.
10 BubbaRay – That knot is basically a hangman’s noose.
16, Hop, it’s very close. Now if those Carolina rigs would quit hanging up on stumps and rocks, I wouldn’t have to buy so many hooks, beads and tungsten sinkers. That knot is strong.