Tying a Runnin' Bolan

[Viking]

Tying a Runnin\' Bolan

Quickie video of how I was taught to tie a running bowline. I have yet to see any other arborists (excluding my boss, who showed me this way) tie this knot this way. It is the fastest method I have found.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3102u9MEvCM

 

[RopeShield]

Re: Tying a Runnin\' Bolan

Very cool!

Got try that upside down now!

 

[Jamin_Mayer]

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Your Kung-Fu is too strong for me.

 

[tomthetreeman]

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I learned a similar trick on Sunday, and forgot it quickly thereafter.

 

[rangerdanger]

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I've seen this method before. Can't remember his name, but I'll go find it in a few, but he was one of the only people I knew of who tied it that way.

 

[Gord]

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I've practiced tying bowlines this way but found that I still needed to dress and set the knot afterwards, making the speed of tying about the same as usual. It also usually produces a less favored variant of the bowline.

Cool method though, thanks for posting it.

 

[Viking]

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Gord, you were my inspiration to post this after watching your fir video and how smooth you tie yer bowline. Thanks for the inspiration brotha!

 

[Rickytree]

Re: Tying a Runnin\' Bolan

I tie it where you wrap the rope around your wrist giving you the hole and then you have the tail in your hand and then you follow up and around the rope then down. Hard to explain but will try to post a vid. I can almost tie it one handed but need to cinch it.

 

[flyingsquirrel25]

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Ive heard it called the "dump" bowline. But have only heard that in the rope rescue world.

 

[Rickytree]

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http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=p9qj8IBBLEA

Here's the running bowline. Video is crummy. Its my first post with the cell phone

 

[adolan]

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I worked with a guy who worked on an oil rig out in Alberta and that was how he tied the runnin bowline......

 

[southsoundtree]

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that's how I roll. The tail end up to the outside of the knot, but in life support application, I tie off the tail, and in rigging, its going to stay loaded, where the tail is almost surely not going to get snagged, inverting the RBl, and releasing.

I hold my the rope in my left hand, palm down, with my thumb pointing toward me. I can only roll my arm the right direction, and reach to pull a bight between my fingers, ready to be threaded with the tail end. Fast and few available motions in which to make a mistake and have to retie.

 

[whiz]

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That's how I've done it for a long time too. It's something of a blur...that you dress and set. Since everyone has their own knot, maybe I'll name one. The blurry bowline lol

 

[masterarbor]

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I tie it that way too. Have dun it that way fer years. particularly helpful when you do it upside down and behind your back.

 

[Viking]

Re: Tying a Runnin\' Bolan

YER GONNA DIE!!!!

 

[Treebobb]

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I tie it the way Ricky does. It was told to me to be the "boyscout method". Didn't Southsound say he used this way also?