knot question?

[RANDY10]

The other day i was asked what knot the old loggers used to use for their lanyard? Is it a buntline around the hip d ring?? I have tied many knots in my day but never used this one, because I have always used a prussic or a mechanical adjuster. Anyone know?

 

[Rocks_and_Trees]

I remember that knot, it was some kind of munter tied directly to the side D. Crazy stuff mang.

 

[bonner1040]

 

[simplyarbor]

becket bend.

 

[whiz]

Good eye SA. Chapman's also lists it as a sheet bend.

 

[whiz]

I've also heard it called a cat's paw but the same book shoots a cannonball through that one. lol

 

[oceans]

I would have called it a sheet bend. It's the same knot I learned as a fisherman when tying the gangion onto the bridle of a lobster/crab trap, but the bridle (side D) is rope and would conform to the ganglion (lanyard). If the bight rolls off the side D, it turns into a running overhand knot.

 

[whiz]

nyea nyea nyea I used to tie lobster traps... pollywog

 

[oceans]

pollywog for a salted skate?...one from the barrel sitting in the sun all summer? mmmmmm!

 

[simplyarbor]

You guys are right, funny, didn't even recognize it as a sheet bend. When I was taught to tend my lanyard like that, they called it a becket.

 

[oceans]

Yeah, it's a becket bend, or a sheet bend. Same knot, and the D is like the other bight of rope.

 

[Adkpk]

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nyea nyea nyea I used to tie lobster traps... pollywog

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Lobsters??? Montana??? I didn't know that.

 

[whiz]

Mass

 

[knudeNoggin]

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I would have called it a sheet bend. It's the same knot I learned as a fisherman when tying the gangion onto the bridle of a lobster/crab trap, ...

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Did you do any tying of the other end of the gangion
(you called it by that name, and not "snood"?!) --i.e.,
the end tied to the long line (trawl)?
(And at least on the east coast, mostly?, required now
to be more rightly "ground" line --i.e., sinking,
not floating--, to keep it out of the mouths of endangered
Right Whales).

Do you recall how the gangions were hitched to the long
line? (I'm presuming that you fished in "trawls" of
long lines w/many attached pots. I think though that
in Maine area, pots are not long-line'd but individually
set & hauled?

Oh, and re the sheet bend, did you use single or double,
and did you secure the tail by tucking it through the
lay (seems de rigeur w/commercial fishing knotting)?


*kN*