Knots

[Simon]

Hmmmmm Sheet bend

 

[MagiKelly]

Reading "Song of the Paddle" at the moment (great book but I will post about it when finished). In the book Bill says that he can never remember any knots. He tends to make them up as he goes along. He also says when it is important a knot does not come out, he ties LOTS of them. When hanging over a waterfall to take some pictures he estimates he had about a hundred knots tied on top of each other but as he points out for all his lack of knowledge of knots he has never been injured due to one coming out.

 

[Ferrion]

hmmm, theres so many knots i like/that are usefull, but i'll say the Marlin SPike hitch, just to be different

 

[Hogan]

I'd have to go along with the constrictor (or miller's) knot as favourite, but most used would be the half-windsor (for my tie) and the bow (shoelaces).

 

[Keith_Beef]

Fisherman's hitch.

This is more or less the same as a round turn and two half hitches, but with the free part going into the round turn, before the half hitches.

But this is a close call, since I have about twelve knots that I use frequently, and unfortunately the original post precludes me from mentioning the others...


Keith.

 

[TAHAWK]

Simon, thanks for the link.

Tom

 

[RovingArcher]

The first one I learnt was the truckers hitch.

 

[leon-1]

I like the alpine butterfly ):

 

[alick]

There are several knots that I find indispensable, but if it had to be only one, then it's the figure of eight, backed up to make a loop. Despite it's popularity among people here, no climber today would use a bowline knot because they DO slip under heavy load and are simply not as safe as a figure eight.

Cheers

 

[Adi007]

Excellent point - the bowline does slip, no matter what many books on the subject say. Maybe with natural fibre ropes the scope for slip was limited, but with synthetics, it's far from ideal.