The Daisy Chain Hitch

[Muggs]

My favourite rigging knot, hands down. Anyone else ever use this? I posted this knot on Treebuzz back in 2009 but it was just pictures, not a video.

Between myself, the tree service where I used to work, and the Englishman who showed us this knot, we have well over 30 years of combined experience using this as our primary rigging knot instead of the running bow. It's a beauty. Let me know what you think.

 

[Big rig]

Thats cool cant waite to try it. For sure its easier on the guy untying it

 

[Tom Dunlap]

A little addition...

By tucking the tail back through the last bight there is a chance that the tail could pop out or get pushed out.

If you take one last bite and put it OVER the last bite in your chain it snugs off the rope. It becomes a locking half hitch. I've done this for decades and never had one come off

 

[JustinK]

Sort of kind of uses a half hitch to "lock" it.... if you look at it squinty eyed and sideways

 

[JeffGu]

You have to hold your tongue just right when you look at things squinty eyed and sideways. My wife has a degree in chemistry, and assures me of this. Who am I to doubt anyone who can sit through multitudes of chemistry classes without falling asleep?

 

[iclimbtreesbro]

That is pretty slick! Reminds me of a cow hitch, at least the first half.

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[Muggs]

Wondering if anyone has tried this beauty knot? Just looking for feedback.

Cheers.

 

[RopeShield]

How well does it untie after a hard heavy load?

 

[Muggs]

It definitely tightens up, but you give her a good tug and she pops out. I add a half hitch keeper before it on heavy stuff and this makes a big difference. This is by far my favourite rigging knot and I have tried all the usual suspects. Give it a try.

 

[SomethingWitty]

I know this one.
The guy I learned it from called it a bandit hitch, but he uses it all the time. I don't even know if he still climbs trees.
He taught the old bossman. I don't think he knew how to tie a bowline. He tied it on some BIG pieces and it got locked up every time... I think the full turn was only a half in his case. A half hitch beforehand would have stopped that, but I was still very green and a groundie. Even if I knew how to correct him off the top of my head, I knew better than to try.

It's a cool one.


Wait, so a half hitch keeper before the knot isn't sinful, but a half hitch keeper after the knot doesn't belong on site?
Just poking fun, of course.

 

[treebing]

this is also the knot I tie on my throw bags with, tie my ropes on to my saddle, I use it for redirects and all sorts of things. The extra twist does keep it from tightening up as bad but for me its pretty much my light rigging knot.

 

[RopeShield]

Ok
I am pretty sure i tied it correctly and I really went for it for the 1st time.
tied the dc hitcch to a short norway maple stub 20-24 dbh and bowline at the truck
just a back cut so we could rip out some root flare
didn't need 4x4, but wet pavement with srw dumper 2yds full
slight throttle up mb 2500 rpm before it broke out, flare and all
dc hitch untied just like you show even loaded pretty well in comparison the bowline
took a lil wiggle of the crossover.
thanks its goodun
only thing is you have to handle a bit more rope and if its under a heavy log there will be more to snag

 

[moss]

A standard Running Bowline is nice when the ground worker just slips it off the piece and sends it back up, it won't slide thru the block and drop out of the tree. So one more step with the chained hitch, put an overhand knot on the end of the tail to send it up. Obvious I know ;-)

 

[JustinK]

Moss, slip knot, tied with appropriate length tail for climber to reach from block.

 

[matamorph]

Wow. Love this knot!

How about this though, I learnt these type of knots ages ago (from an American) as a way of ghosting down canyons. Found this video that shows how to tie:

I've used it for ghosting, srt basal anchors, and top anchors, redirects, solo rigging, tons a stuff, even towing a buddy's car (...needed it to be remotely releasable. Long story...)

BEWARE! USE WITH CAUTION!

 

[matamorph]

Here's a better vid:

 

[Jehinten]

I started using this the other day, it worked out well. Untying on the ground was very easy, and a couple of pieces I didn't even lower, I let them swing over the drop zone and the untied mid air (from a bucket) for whatever reason I switched back to a running bowline throughout the day, but I will definitely use it again. Thanks for showing it.

 

[Muggs]

Yessir, I do love the Daisy chain hitch. I think a lot of climbers would appreciate it if they tried it, but to each his own.

I named my daughter Daisy, but she gets more use out of the bowline! I showed her one time about the rabbit and the hole, and now she's tying a standing bow, a running bow, and a sheetbend! The versatility of that rabbit...

 

[Alejandro Concolor]

Tried this daisy chain hitch today to pull a big pine over with a D8 caterpillar. Lots of back weight, over 30"DBH. The back of the chain was a lil tight, just gave it some extra umph and it gave. It's a cool knot. Any educated input of the bend radius at main stress point with this?