Knot for hanging block off horizontals

[Gord]

What knot are people using to tie on a block (or eye sling, biner, pulley) when it's on a fully horizontal limb or stem? I generally use a cow hitch for vertical stems and haven't really settled on what to use for horizontal placings.

 

[NickfromWI]

Cow hitch.

 

[Kevin]

No knots, Loopie, tuflex sling or loop runner.

 

[Blinky]

Usually a loopie, sometimes an eye sling with a cow hitch.

 

[BostonBull]

Cow hitch. If its a BIG limb, or a small sling, I use a timber hitch.

 

[Paul Biester]

loopie,cow

 

[Roger_Barnett]

Heh...stillson hitch....tell me what that is, ya'll long facers.....


For small stuff, a girth hitched webbing sling, or basket hitched for more strength, if bigger-- loopie, or eye sling tied with the above knot.....

 

[Norm_Hall]

It depends on the task at hand. If it's gonna stay for a while, a loopie. If it's gonna be continually moved, a cow hitch.
Roger, stillson and cow are 1 and the same. I 1st learned of the stillson in the early 90's from 'Ron Danise'. Now that's a name from the past.

 

[Knotahippie]

I use alot of 1" tube webbing when I climb.

I also cut much smaller branch chunks than most folks!

We do alot of end weight reduction.

I bring about 6-8 various size loops in the tree

I loop a 1" webbing sling/large pear carabiner/munter hitch, rig the sling cradle style for max horizontal strength, super quick too!

Or girth hitch on smaller stuff. I like a munter hitch to lower off when on a sketchy stance.

Anything bigger I use a piece of 1/2" arbor plex, cow hitch.

 

[Jamin_Mayer]

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No knots, Loopie, or loop runner.

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Same here.

 

[treeb]

started off with a cow, went to loopies, and back to the cow. It's goes on and of so easy.

MOO

 

[familytree]

usually a loopie if possible but i use a timber hitch for the big boy stuff, seems to work well and its really easy to tie and untie

 

[Paul Biester]

I tai them all; ya know to stay in practice . I must be a freak?!

 

[treesandsurf]

Same here, tie a cow almost always. Friend keeps trying to convert me to carabiner rigging (using a carabiner off a spliced eye instead of tying knots), I like tying knots.

jp

 

[tophopper]

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Same here, tie a cow almost always. Friend keeps trying to convert me to carabiner rigging (using a carabiner off a spliced eye instead of tying knots), I like tying knots.

jp

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Wouldnt tying the block to the spar still require and knot or hitch?

 

[KentuckySawyer]

Whats the difference in strength/security between a Cow hitch versus a Clove hitch?

I think the Clove is easier to tie.

 

[Gord]

I would say a cow is a lot more secure than a clove...a clove w/o half-hitches is almost useless.

 

[Knotahippie]

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I would say a cow is a lot more secure than a clove...a clove w/o half-hitches is almost useless.

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Cow's pretty fast. Clove isn't for a lengthwise pull.

 

[KentuckySawyer]

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I would say a cow is a lot more secure than a clove...a clove w/o half-hitches is almost useless.

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I would always back up a clove hitch, of course.

Is the cow hitch so secure that you would not back it up?


KH,

What do mean a "lengthwise pull"?




To terminate a rigging line, if I don't use a running bowline (maybe w/ marl), I'll use a clove hitch (w/ two half hitches). I can definitely tie this faster than a cow. (Probably because knots are hard to tie with hooves)

 

[TreeCo]

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Is the cow hitch so secure that you would not back it up?


KH,

What do mean a "lengthwise pull"?

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Yes, the cow is that secure.

A lengthwise pull is a pull that is perpendicular to the wraps the rope takes around the anchor point. In other words, down the limb. If you tied a running bowline around a spar to pull it to fell....and if you hung on that rope at the base of the tree....that would be a lenghtwise pull.

Or something like that.