OK Just tried the pile hitch with some scrap mason line and my stake.
I think I'm a convert.
VERY easy to get undone.
OK Just tried the pile hitch with some scrap mason line and my stake.
I think I'm a convert.
VERY easy to get undone.
+1 Taught line hitch one of the first knots I learned in Boy Scouts many many years ago
"HANGING OUT" has taken on a whole NEW MEANING
I use a fixed loop on the stake, and a prusik loop on the tarp end. That way, if it is raining and I need to adjust the tension, I can do it from inside my tarp.
I tie a loop in one end, run the line/cord around the stake, and tie the free end back to the loop using a slipped half hitch.
Just to be fancy, I attach the loops to the d-ring using a lark's head. That way, I can leave them attached when I pack up the tarp. When I set up, I loosen the lark's head enough to tie the slipped half hitch to the loop.
If I'm feeling really lazy, I pull the line/cord off of the stake when I pack up and leave everything tied. Then, when I set up, I stick a stake in the loop, pull it out taut, and pound the stake in. That way, I only tie them once.
“I held a moment in my hand, brilliant as a star, fragile as a flower, a tiny sliver of one hour. I dropped it carelessly, Ah! I didn't know, I held opportunity.” -Hazel Lee
With nice rope a taut line hitch. With slippery rope a trucker hitch. I do not like to depend on placing the stake in the proper position. It seldom cooperates.
YMMV
HYOH
Free advice worth what you paid for it. ;-)
i don't hitch to the stake, itself
i loop around it & go back up the line to a simplified HAY HAULER'S HITCH(same as i use to secure my canoe to the roof top rack on the truck), finished off w/ a SLIPPERY HALF HITCH, instead of 2 half hitches(i use double slippery half hitches for the canoe)
adjustment is easily accomplished by pulling the tail, snugging & re-tieing the slippery half hitch
removal only requires pulling the tail & it's free
the whole knot is removed by pulling the tail again
this system/method raises the adjustment method off the ground, making it easier for this old fat man to reach
if i have enough line, i just loop around the stake & go back up to the eye on the tarp & secure it w/ a slippery half hitch
anything i can do, to KEEP ME OFF THE GROUND(pun intended) makes me happier
sw
"we are the people our parents warned us about" jb
steve
I go line from tarp around stake back to line using a farrimond hitch. Works great and easy to untie as you never are having to deal with the end of the bitter end of the line. You tube search it
Last edited by Jhb627; 06-27-2013 at 10:45.
Why am I always the weird one?!?
I never even thought of using any kind of knot on my guy lines. I've always used those little plastic slider locks, like on most t*nts, just a flat plastic tab with three holes in it. Weighs nothing, and when matched with the proper size line, works perfectly. It gives me a long loop around the stake that's easy to adjust and I've never had them move or slip on me - EVER.
If I'm going to a tree instead of a stake, I just throw the loop around it and then use a trail stick to lock the loop-end into the lines. Even so, I can still use the sliding lock to adjust tension.
Oh well, just my $.02
-Klauss
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"But hey, 2 trees anywhere is a bedroom waiting to happen, right?"
Ever since Detail man told me to try the taught line hitch on my stakes that is all I use, Thanks Dman!! I did use marlin hitch before
"I love not man the less, but Nature more."
Byron
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