by hellroaring » Sat Oct 10, 2009 6:28 pm
by kiwiw » Sat Oct 10, 2009 6:46 pm
by brenta » Sat Oct 10, 2009 6:57 pm
by TimmyC » Sat Oct 10, 2009 7:32 pm
brenta wrote:Knots do roll at high loads.
by Aaron Dyer » Sat Oct 10, 2009 7:44 pm
by hellroaring » Sat Oct 10, 2009 9:17 pm
by Rocker Paully » Sun Oct 11, 2009 5:29 pm
Aaron Dyer wrote:I am a big fan of a butterfly knot to connect two ends together. It is not intuitive at first, but it unties easily like a figure 8 but it low profile like a double fisherman's.
by Rocker Paully » Sun Oct 11, 2009 5:37 pm
TimmyC wrote:brenta wrote:Knots do roll at high loads.
Gah! The third video in that series is really unsettling; at about 50sec, you can see all the knot walking you'd ever want to see.
Thanks for the pointer to those vids, brenta.
by MarthaP » Sun Oct 11, 2009 7:57 pm
by mvs » Sun Oct 11, 2009 9:59 pm
by MarthaP » Mon Oct 12, 2009 1:48 am
mvs wrote:The EDK is the simplest of all of these, widely used and it's low profile really does help with the stuck rope situation. It's been used by thousands for years. It's the only knot I've used for raps for about 9 years. Why are people so afraid of it? Looks too simple?
by kiwiw » Mon Oct 12, 2009 3:19 am
by mvs » Mon Oct 12, 2009 9:49 pm
MarthaP wrote:mvs wrote:The EDK is the simplest of all of these, widely used and it's low profile really does help with the stuck rope situation. It's been used by thousands for years. It's the only knot I've used for raps for about 9 years. Why are people so afraid of it? Looks too simple?
No, anything called a "death knot" is going to give me pause, for certain.
by mfox79 » Mon Oct 12, 2009 11:07 pm
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