Solution in search of a problem. A clove hitch is only using one of the strands instead of two, but it's a hell of a lot faster and easier.

@howtoclimb

Жыл бұрын

agreed on that whole statement!

I saw a video years ago on an industrial rigging/ SAR website where they demonstrated this knot. For efficiency these professional groups usually have pretied webbing slings of varied lengths (i.e. “red” sling tied length 10 feet; “blue” sling tied length 20 feet; etc.) to speed up rigging scenarios. After using a basket hitch/rigging around an anchor and the sling length was too long to properly set the location of the masterpoint, they suggested using this Belgian knot to easily/quickly adjust the sling length rather than untying the loop knot (water knot) in the sling.

@howtoclimb

Жыл бұрын

Ah interesting. A couple of the rescue teams I work on still have this color coded webbing system. But ours are open and not pre tied. Thanks for the comment!

Clove and go- faster and not as fiddly. (you can clip the end loop after the clove back into the bine if that bothers you)

@howtoclimb

Жыл бұрын

Yup. My thoughts as well.

Weird. I’ll have to try it out.

Only point I see in this is like you demo'ed at the end. But I think I'd just go for bowline on a bight (my most used anchor now when guiding) instead or have the masterpoint tripled up if the sling is too long🤔

@howtoclimb

Жыл бұрын

Agreed and thanks for the feedback!

I feel like clove hitch and bowline on the bight do this more simply and with better isolation.

@howtoclimb

Жыл бұрын

Agreed.

It’s interesting, but it kind of looks like a solution in search of a problem to me. If your direction of pull changes that radically after you’ve made your master point, I think you have some more fundamental anchor building issues that need practicing. Not that this applies to you… :-)

@howtoclimb

Жыл бұрын

Lol. Or maybe it does! Definitely seems like something you could find a better solution for if needed. Did you see the comment below about pre-tied webbing and SAR teams. Wondering if that might be where it came from?

Interesting. And yea. Not sure where you would use this

@howtoclimb

Жыл бұрын

Agreed!

Not heard of it

@howtoclimb

Жыл бұрын

I hadn’t really either!

@namelastname2449

2 ай бұрын

@@howtoclimbwas used to make the knot for stringing a bow (bow like in bow and arrow), similar to some Korean knot variation

@namelastname2449

2 ай бұрын

@@howtoclimbI would perhaps use it if I wanted to make the one side of the anchor more stiff than the other