7 Attachment(s)
Knot gurus... what knot is this?
I stumbled across this while playing with bowline and kalmyk. It is for a fixed loop, with the advantages being it is super quick to tie, no feeding the tail to tie, and releases extremely easily. I've searched a bit and haven't been able to find it on various knot websites.
It seems as if it shouldn't work, like some Euro Death Knot, but it does. Not that I would ever suggest using it for climbing or shock loading. I've been using it on my tarp ridgeline for a couple of months and it has never failed. Recently I tied it with 2" kevlar and MikekiM and I pulled on it with all our combined weight plus as much ooomph as we could muster and it didn't budge a millimeter. It looks as if it might invert and that the slipped bight might get sucked thru the loop but it doesn't... when tied correctly, which is of course a crucial caveat for any knot.
The trick for dressing it is to pull the standing end and the slipped bight against each other.
I hope this photo sequence is clear enough but if it isn't I'll try to do a video next time I'm outside. Anyway, thanks for help IDing it and opinions about the advisability or stupidity of using it. :D
Attachment 168285 Attachment 168286 Attachment 168287 Attachment 168288 Attachment 168289 Attachment 168290
Knot gurus... what knot is this?
Neither the photos nor video are a Kalmyk loop
Very similar and maybe mirror imaged.
The standing part, in video, is a bight.
The standing part in Kalmyk loop is the other part of knot. The standing part would trail away and connect to a leashed animal. Kalmyk loop is fixed loop used around a tree to tie caribou or horse so that it could circle tree many times without tangling and shortening its leash.
I would not use a fixed loop on a tree for tarp or hammock. It would not be cinched up close to tree. Instead I’d use a Siberian hitch
I can be wrong. The proof is in the pudding.
Standing part in photos might also be a bight.
I tried to tie it as shown. When tightening knot standing part became a bight. It did hold against me pulling with both hands. And released easily, your photo knot disappears when ripcord is pulled
exploding knot!
In Kalmyk loop only one side of bight gets stressed. The other side dangles.
In both of other knots, both sides of bight get stressed—-possibly enough to straighten bight into a straight part of knot, then it would no longer be fixed loop. It would cinch close to tree and I’m not sure it would hold.
Still I have doubts about what I’ve said—-you said it worked great. And if it works great—-there you go!