Comments on: Animated Knots

Animated Knots

netbros — Fri, 15 Aug 2008 18:22:02 -0800

Knot, knot
Who's there?
Bowline.
Bowline who?
I'm going bowline ... wanna go too?

Because you never know when you'll need a good knot.

By: C17H19NO3

C17H19NO3 — Fri, 15 Aug 2008 18:27:03 -0800

That first link's a double.

By: flapjax at midnite

flapjax at midnite — Fri, 15 Aug 2008 18:29:04 -0800

Bowline, bowline, bowline, bowline... I'm begging of you please don't take my man

By: HuronBob

HuronBob — Fri, 15 Aug 2008 18:38:02 -0800

great link... Nothing I loves better than a good palomar knot,,,

By: kcds

kcds — Fri, 15 Aug 2008 18:54:01 -0800

I'm a frayed knot.

By: phrontist

phrontist — Fri, 15 Aug 2008 20:21:17 -0800

Grog make knot. Grog make animated gif.

By: Manjusri

Manjusri — Fri, 15 Aug 2008 20:42:54 -0800

The second link shows a bowline being tied with the tail on the outside which is wrong, at least for climbing and rescue use. It's more likely to slip in that configuration.

By: yhbc

yhbc — Fri, 15 Aug 2008 20:43:33 -0800

I'm going to vote this one of those doubles that it's probably just as well to repost every two or three years or so.

By: Xoebe

Xoebe — Fri, 15 Aug 2008 20:46:53 -0800

Man, these are great! Every year I search for knot sites to find good info for my son's Cub Scout pack, and man, there has just been nothing! You'd think the internet would have lots of stuff on knots, but it's been slim pickin's. Thank you! I really like the animated site.

By: bowline

bowline — Fri, 15 Aug 2008 20:48:16 -0800

You rang?

By: enn

enn — Fri, 15 Aug 2008 21:04:03 -0800

Once again the showy and overrated Carrick bend hogs the limelight while the superior (and elegantly understated!) Zeppelin bend receives its customary snub.

By: not_on_display

not_on_display — Fri, 15 Aug 2008 21:09:50 -0800

Take the (mole)skine-heads bowline, take them bowline.

By: Tube

Tube — Fri, 15 Aug 2008 22:23:54 -0800

Knots for climbing, knots for boating, knots for fishing, etc, but what about autoerotic asphyxia?

By: speug

speug — Fri, 15 Aug 2008 22:40:16 -0800

Excellent site - thank you. And yes enn, the Zeppelin Bend is indeed the cat's PJs.

By: Sweetie Darling

Sweetie Darling — Sat, 16 Aug 2008 05:36:57 -0800

Oh God, what horrible memories. The summer I was ten my father (the sailor) decided that the way to make his seasick daughter like boating was to force me to learn to make bowline knots. I had to practice every day and I could not do it, which only made me hate boating more. Knots bad. Boats bad. Dads bad.

By: mandal

mandal — Sat, 16 Aug 2008 06:48:42 -0800

I'm going bowline ... wanna go too? ...bowline...I'm begging of you please don't take my man Take the (mole)skine-heads bowline, take them bowline. Hmm, knot jokes.

By: flapjax at midnite

flapjax at midnite — Sat, 16 Aug 2008 07:26:57 -0800

Hmm, knot jokes. Knot appropriate?

By: nevercalm

nevercalm — Sat, 16 Aug 2008 07:47:40 -0800

Stagehands (of which I am one) need primarily only two knots, the bowline and the clove hitch. On some calls, you need both over and over again, and you need to be able to tie them over your head, with one hand while holding unstable weight with the other, without looking, etcetc. My first night on the job, I was taken to the roof of the studio (maybe 25, 30 ft) in a genie by the assistant head. He showed me both knots a few times each, then handed me the line and said "your turn." Then he started rocking back and forth in the bucket. I learned those knots damned fast.

By: Dokterrock

Dokterrock — Sat, 16 Aug 2008 11:30:35 -0800

I wish I remembered all my Boy Scout knots... the bowline is about the only one I can still do.

By: ijoshua

ijoshua — Sat, 16 Aug 2008 11:43:34 -0800

yhbc: "I'm going to vote this one of those doubles that it's probably just as well to repost every two or three years or so." Even if it hasn't changed in as often?

By: raygirvan

raygirvan — Sat, 16 Aug 2008 11:48:14 -0800

Being mildly a knot geek, I'm always irritated by these display cases you see around, some kind of fair trade product that show a set of knots with entirely the wrong names.

By: Herodios

Herodios — Sat, 16 Aug 2008 11:50:02 -0800

Once again the showy and overrated Carrick bend hogs the limelight while the superior (and elegantly understated!) Zeppelin bend receives its customary snub. Now, now, enn, don't shed a tear for the zeppelin bend. I mean, good times, bad, times, y'know it's had it share. Sure, it may look like the carrick is putting on the squeeze now; and you might be tempted to ask,"How long has this been going on, Ace?" Well, I need you to understand: there's never been a whole lotta love lost between the two. No doubt a communication breakdown -- it's always the same. But it's not as if the zeppelin bend is getting trampled underfoot. Anyway, give me one good reason I should hang around to listen to these complaints. I mean, Hey! Hey!, What can I do? If it's bumming you out, it's just the black dog howling. Take a misty mountain hop over the hills and far away and I'm sure dancing days will be here again. I realize I might be on dangerous ground here, but for once in our lives, take my comments in the spirit in which they are offered. By the way, Mr. H is on a solo vacation in the Carribean. . .

By: Herodios

Herodios — Sat, 16 Aug 2008 13:01:28 -0800

Ouch. that was supposed to be: _MRS._ H is on a solo vacation in the Caribbean. . .

By: Devils Rancher

Devils Rancher — Sat, 16 Aug 2008 15:29:07 -0800

There's really only 3 knots you need to know in caving -- figure eight on a bight for attaching the rope to things, the butterfly, for same, except when side-load is a possibility because it won't deform like a figure 8, and prusik, in case you lose your ascenders. Occasionally, someone will say a bowline is useful to rig a quick belay around your waist, but that knot confuses me. I still like having sources of how-to's though, so bookmarked.

By: X4ster

X4ster — Sat, 16 Aug 2008 18:50:19 -0800

That's a poor way to tie a truckers hitch IMHO. It's quicker to tie one in a way that you don't have to feed the tag end through the loop (bight). That's the way we learned to tie the hitch that's also called a drayman's hitch in the Ashley book of knots. Lacking the skills to post the animation I'll just have to let it go at that.

By: enn

enn — Sat, 16 Aug 2008 21:11:17 -0800

X4ster, the bowline instructions are a bit off, too — it's probably easier to demonstrate their way, but slower to tie and harder to do by feel than the way I was taught: initially, rather than forming the loop through which the bitter end will pass, lay the bitter end over the standing end, then "flip" the intersection and the bitter end through the main loop (the loop that will remain open when the knot is finished). This leaves you with the secondary loop with the bitter end threaded through it once, and all that remains is to run it behind the standing end and back down through that loop.

By: Netzapper

Netzapper — Sat, 16 Aug 2008 23:56:39 -0800

I looked at this post, saw that all the links were visited. I was confused until I realized that I just learned a taut-line and a trucker's hitch from those sites, and browsed most of their knots. Can't beat the right knot.

By: X4ster

X4ster — Sun, 17 Aug 2008 12:51:46 -0800

Right you are enn, I know your way too, it's quick and easy.

By: desjardins

desjardins — Mon, 18 Aug 2008 10:00:58 -0800

Because you never know when you'll need a good knot. Actually, most Friday and Saturday nights. Unless I'm lazy, then it's back to the leather cuffs.