I already have a few knots I use for fishing I know by heart and they come in handy for other things. I just need to find some info on a knot/knots to use for tying things down in say a truck bed. I already have a method that works great, but remember my grandfather teaching me a knot when I was young (forgotten now) where you tie your load down and when you sinch down the rope it tightens everything down.
Evenk
Quote from: WWW on December 10, 2015, 12:32:21 AMEvenk I didn't know that one. I have usually used a sailor's hitch. (They obviously have different characteristics, but some of the problems they solve are the same.)
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Spelunking where people push themselves through narrow openings with real danger of getting stuck is smurfing scary. (And exposed to heights, I feel "the attraction of the void", so I'm really not the adrenaline junkie kind of guy. )
Well there are also really deep pitches. 1431m is the deepest we have. (Image removed from quote.)
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Quote from: 50ft-trad on December 11, 2015, 12:32:02 AM[...]Chain sennitDoes the rope look OK after prolonged storage, or do you have to stretch it?
I already have a method that works great, but remember my grandfather teaching me a knot when I was young (forgotten now) where you tie your load down and when you sinch down the rope it tightens everything down.