Comment on What knot(s) should I use to secure this?

wjrii@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

• anton@lemmy.blahaj.zone ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  As a climber I have to disagree, figure 8 knots are the best, especially when double back.
  It’s the one knot I trust my life to on a weekly basis and I have rarely encountered a situation where they weren’t part of the solution.

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  • wjrii@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    Look, friend, if you can’t trust 15 year-old me, who acceptably tied FOUR different knots that one time to check off the box in the handbook, or 17.83333 year-old me who managed the building of not one but TWO picnic tables for a local elementary school because my Dad was being a pain about finishing the final Eagle Scout project, then who can you trust?!?!?!?!

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  • counselwolf@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    double back figure 8 knot?

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    • HonkTonkWoman@lemm.ee ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      It’s a standard figure 8 knot, but the end of the rope doubles back through the eight. This leaves the end of the 8 at the top of the knot & would look similar to this:

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      • Waveform@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

        Looks easier to undo than a bowline.

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    • gedhrel@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      Figure eight on a bight.

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  • fmstrat@lemmy.nowsci.com ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    As a normie knot-know-nothing, I have to say, whatever happened to my double-knotted shoelaces.

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    • HonkTonkWoman@lemm.ee ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      I like Velcro.

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      • fmstrat@lemmy.nowsci.com ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

        Me too, me too.

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