Comment on What is the name of this knot? And how does one tie it?

waterSticksToMyBalls@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

• nocturne@slrpnk.net ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

  When I loaded the canoe onto my suv the seller and I used the loop in the knot to tie a trucker’s hitch to secure the canoe to my roof.

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• chocrates@piefed.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

  Depends on which end you pull, it looks like

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• ikidd@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

  If you look at the loop as what goes around the post, it’s a mooring hitch/loop. It just pulls tight if you pull the long end, and the short tag end stops the other loop from pulling through. You pull the tag end out and it falls apart.

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