Trucker's / Wagoner's Hitch, Old School Method

[Muggs]

This is the method I have shown many times over the years, but I normally show it with a carabiner or pulley at the anchor. The method shown here is better when you have a solid anchor point that must be passed around, rather than a carabiner or piece of hardware that can open. This is also called the dolly knot or the wagoner's hitch.

Hope this makes sense and you can get some value out of it.
- Patrick

"We are all apprentices in a craft where no one ever becomes a master." - Ernest Hemingway

 

[96coal449]

I use a variant of that and often. For pulling a leaning spar, or small tree, I'll use a block at the anchor and biner at the hitch knot. The biner offers just enough friction to "hold" the rope until the back cut is made.

When tying loads to my ladder racks, I use a bowline then pass the rope through to ''loop in'' the load. Then a trucker's hitch for tensioning. All rope on rope here.

 

[Mick Dempsey]

Important knot for pulling over spars etc. Because you have progress capture.

 

[Mick Dempsey]

I use the loop on its own as a way of shortening a pulling line to attach to a machine, better than a knot as it undoes with a flick no matter how much pressure it’s been under.

 

[southsoundtree]

Do you not have a bollard on your machine?

 

[Mick Dempsey]

Do you not have a bollard on your machine?

No, my rotator hasn’t got one.

 

[rico]

This is the only truckers hitch I use to pull over trees. A bomber hitch that has never let me down in over 40 years of use...

 

[Muggs]

That's slick @rico

 

[Lignotuber]

This is the only truckers hitch I use to pull over trees. A bomber hitch that has never let me down in over 40 years of use...

If I'm not using Patrick's variation, I often do something very similar to Rico except I do girth instead of clove and pop it through both loops instead of adding wood. Typically can pop it loose pretty easily. If tying cargo down I'll often do beast horn style bites to avoid feeding a bunch of rope through or adding carabiners.

 

[Muggs]

The version I use was shown to me by an English climber, so for years I called it the English Trucker's Hitch. More commonly called the Dolly Knot. The trucker's hitch is such a great concept, there are hundreds of different ways to get essentially the same result. Biggest factor for me is ease of untying it after a heavy load.

 

[Lignotuber]

The version I use was shown to me by an English climber, so for years I called it the English Trucker's Hitch. More commonly called the Dolly Knot. The trucker's hitch is such a great concept, there are hundreds of different ways to get essentially the same result. Biggest factor for me is ease of untying it after a heavy load.

Yeah, love the English trucker's hitch. The main reason I often use this girth trucker's variation is because I'm frequently tying things down with webbing and the English trucker's hitch won't hold consistently with webbing.