anchor knots

[Waldo]

if you must use a knot to secure your rope to yourself what do you use? i've been rolling with the anchor hitch when i go old school, or the dbl fisherman's when i use splittail system.

 

[BostonBull]

Anchor bend here too! I dont own a spliced climbing line. Only splices on my prussic.

 

[TheTreeSpyder]

Dbl. Noose, is kinda a shrinking eye formed by an Anchor to self, so kinda both the same. But, better hear with the Turn around mount before the Anchor, by loser loading and also, kinda restabilizing at the deformity in Standing as it comes off that Turn- but note that effect is Leese/ perhaps nullified if round turn around the mount before forming Anchor of Dbl.Noose.

 

[RogerM]

Spyder....could you please post a link to your website, particularly the knot section. I want to send it to my father. I have a bunch of books I'm going to loan him, but your animated illustrations are the bees knees. Thanks in advance.

 

[jerseygirl]

Same as you Waldo nice and easy

 

[Raven]

anchor bend, which isn't a 'bend' at all, more of a hitch, but the name comes from sailing as in - "...bend a rope to the anchor"

definitely my favorite for endline attachment, a long tail tied into a fig 8 makes for a real secure feeling inside

 

[Norm_Hall]

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anchor bend, which isn't a 'bend' at all, more of a hitch, but the name comes from sailing as in - "...bend a rope to the anchor"

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I was wondering if anyone would notice that. Good catch Eric.

 

[TreeCo]

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Anchor bend here too! I dont own a spliced climbing line. Only splices on my prussic.

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Anchor bend for my climbing and scaffold hitch for my prussic.

 

[Blinky]

Scaffold to a carabiner on the terminal end, clove hitch for traditional closed system.

 

[treehumper]

Buntline hitch has worked well for me.

 

[TheTreeSpyder]

Thanx, much of the knot animation work evolutions were lost when i had a site crash (when they switched servers) and hard drive crash within a month of each other. i do have these left though on this page that we able to find when they loaded a backup of site. MTL:Flash Animations Page. There is also a KNot Index page . Also of possible interest to climbers is a number of friction hitch pages (menu at bottom of pages); like MTL:Friction Hitch Compairisons . Also, a page with Dbl.Noose/ Scaffold/ Dbl.FisherPerson's whatchma call it hitch we use; and why shrinking eye is preferred on krab, but stoppered Bowline/ DBY is allowed on snaps. MTL:Bolwine & Krab Warning.

Have been still working on the animations though, and their menuing system (probably work on it some between 5-12 days a week...). MTL:Knot-A-Player. Sorry about the cheesy name, but somehow it maid more sense than "Return to beneath the planet of the knot animations strike back part 83"(this has beat me up a whole lot); or at least shorter title than that! And still has a long way to go; for what i've always envisioned (notes and compairisons etc.).

As all ways and always; all cautions and disclaimers apply; this information is extended without promise, and is meant to be part of your journey, not an end all be all. NEVER trust life, limb , property to something you just read anywhere; let alone on the net!!

 

[AspenArbo]

I have always used and liked the anchor bend. I like it because its relatively small, when compared to a fisherman's, its quick and easy to tie, and you don't have to back it up since its a synching knot.

I did have a judge in the last MN climbing comp make be back up my anchor before I climbed, which is the first I have ever heard of that until Raven. It also consequently caused me to time out in that event.
Anyway, anyone have a take on that??

 

[Zac]

I use splices 99% of the time, but other than that the anchor hitch gets the nod.

 

[Norm_Hall]

Sam, I like to see all cinching knots backed up. Just in case.

 

[climberX]

I much prefer a spliced eye it is the must secure and stongest way to go and also works well with more complicated systems I don't need to retie a knot just unclip and clip it back. When I do use a knot I tie a tripple fishermans or a scaffold.The anchor bend is a great knot just not my personal favorite

 

[treehumper]

I have a new rope with a spliced eye and it got stuck around a narrow union in a Tulip. Completely a fluke since it was on it's way down when it wrapped around the limb and snagged. Grrrrrrrrrr.......

I do like the eye though.

 

[AspenArbo]

Thanks Norm!

 

[NickfromWI]

Shortly after I started doing tree work, just before I learned myself to splice, I used this knot. This was when I worked at The Care of Trees. Don't tell my foreman!!!

 

[NickfromWI]

But I backed it up. Safety first.

It ended up looking like this:

 

[NickfromWI]

For the past 7 years or so, this has been my favorite termination knot: