How in sam hill....

[Mark Chisholm]

Did this happen? I swung into a neighboring tree to cut some uprooted trees out of and when I let go of my climbing line if flipped off of a branch and did this!

 

[Mark Chisholm]

 

[oldoakman]

He IS human after all!

 

[rugger01]

Unlucky! That sucks! Have to switch ends?

 

[Leroy]

Were you trying to retrieve your pulley saver? That's what you get for doing the dirty double!

 

[treehumper]

Nice knot! If you were trying to do that it would never happen.

 

[oceans]

What did you do? Tie in with your tail and pull yourself back? What a bummer. It's funny how a little thing can create such an issue.

 

[monkeylove]

You know that wouldn't have happen Mark if you would have driven the bucket truck today.

 

[Mark Chisholm]

Unlucky! That sucks! Have to switch ends?

I did. Thank god I know old school stuff too!

 

[Mark Chisholm]

What did you do? Tie in with your tail and pull yourself back? What a bummer. It's funny how a little thing can create such an issue.

I sure did. No real biggie, but what the hell man!

 

[TreeLogic]

I've had one accidental clove hitch wrap around a branch. Couldn't figure that one out. How did that tail tuck? And I've had too many figure eights somehow show up at the end of the climbing line?

 

[Mark Chisholm]

I had a slip knot get tied in my line somehow in an ITCC workclimb event about 12" from a bullseye landing! Crazy how it happens sometimes.

 

[JeffGu]

"I don't always tie myself into complicated knots, but when I do... I do it faster and better than the idiot hanging off of me. Stay thirsty, my friends."

The Most Interesting Rope In The World

 

[Tom Dunlap]

Don't you know how these things happen?!

Inter-dimensional Creatures

 

[JTree]

how......how did you do that? That's really something, right there! Now if you can figure out how to do it again, and then come up with a use for such a configuration, we can all start pretending that it was intentional and a new revolutionary new technique.

 

[Stihlmadd]

I've had one accidental clove hitch wrap around a branch.

that's happened to some one else other than me I have been telling people about that one for years but no one will believe it is possible.

 

[JakeRiggs]

Yeahh buddy. I had that happen to me with a crane job last summer. Half hitched around the tip after it was all slung up. Had the ground guys tie on another line and sent my rope with the piece. I can't find the picture though

 

[classictruckman]

I've had one accidental clove hitch wrap around a branch. Couldn't figure that one out. How did that tail tuck? And I've had too many figure eights somehow show up at the end of the climbing line?

once had the tail of my rope tie a perfect bowline on a branch below me as I was descending, had to recrotch and continue down just to figure out what happened!

 

[TreeLogic]

once had the tail of my rope tie a perfect bowline on a branch below me as I was descending, had to recrotch and continue down just to figure out what happened!

I think that one takes the cake!

So what do we take from all this? Knots can mysteriously tie themselves. And now I'm beginning understand how some of these knots might have been discovered.

 

[kstreehuggerco]

Its the 'Rope Gremlins' dude. Those little bastards tick me off to no end. The only thing worse are "throw line mites". They are very tiny and almost impossible to see unless you shake them off on a piece of paper. I hate those lil SOB's worse that that Murphy guy who is always fouling up things up for me.