yes, i've never had trouble untying a bowline either, i've also never had one slip, you could always just use a yosimite backup or tie a double bowline or both, but i find the non backup single very...
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yes, i've never had trouble untying a bowline either, i've also never had one slip, you could always just use a yosimite backup or tie a double bowline or both, but i find the non backup single very...
yeah, i'm not switching to it or anything, but it did hold, with two same sized pieces of slippery cord too!
ok, the knot that i tied was a variation of the klemheist, that i could not find. several sites said the klemheist and the autoblock are interchangeable terms, except one site that said the autoblock...
i found a friction knot that works. it even gripped uncovered vectran, which is just as slippery as uncovered spectra. i also used same sized lines for the friction knot and the line that gets...
off the subject a little, but i have recently switched to the 1" owf polyester camo webbing for my tree straps. i have always tied a variation of the sheetbend as i had broblems with the single...
an exploding knot, i like the sound of that.
when you tie it just make sure the loop (the one that goes through the coil and wraps around the live end), is bent 90 degrees backward even when set, when ready to untie, just push it forward and...
what do you mean? a bowline is one of the easiest knots to untie, that's one of it's best characteristics.