Having mastered a few simple knots, you can secure even very heavy objects with just one rope, and, if necessary, quickly release them.
We will show five options with which you can securely secure things during transportation, make an adjustable loop for hooking onto a support, and make a very strong knot that is suitable for towing a car on a cable.
1. Gazebo knot
For its simplicity and strength, this knot is also called bowline, or “king of knots.”
With its help, you can make a non-tightening loop at the end of the rope, secure it in rings or eyes, and wrap it around a support – a tree or pole. After removing the load, the gazebo knot is easy to dissolve.
1. Make a small peg – a loop for further tightening the knot. Keep in mind that this is not the main loop, so you don’t need to make it big.
2. Pass the running end into the peg, threading it from the bottom.
3. Wrap the running end around the main end.
4. Pass the running end into the peg so that it is parallel to the end of the rope already there.
5. Tighten the knot well.
2. Triple bayonet
This unit was used in maritime affairs. With its help, you can tie the mooring ends of a ship to mooring fixtures or secure heavy loads. It’s really durable and suitable for heavy pulling, but comes undone easily when needed.
1. Throw the rope over the support, pass the running end behind the main end, and then insert it inside the loop and tighten.
You will get a knot called a half-bayonet.
2. Perform the same steps again: pass the running end under the main end, insert it inside the loops and tighten.
It is important here that the half bayonet is exactly the same as the first one. If you pass the running end not under the root, but above it, you will get a cow knot, not a bayonet.
3. Follow the steps a third time. You will get a triple bayonet, which is considered the most reliable knot.
Please note that all three nodes are the same.
3. Protracted midshipman’s knot
If you want to tie something down but still be able to adjust the length of the rope later, try this knot. It allows you to easily change the size of the loop, but when it tightens, it holds tightly.
1. Make a loop, wrap the running end around the main end and insert it into the loop.
2. Wrap the running end around the main end again.
3. Repeat the same thing a third time, making one more turn.
4. Wrap the running end around the main end above the entire winding, and then insert it inside the resulting loop and tighten.
5. If you did everything correctly, the knot will easily walk along the rope, and under load it will tighten on its own.
4. Figure eight loop
This knot is useful for those who want to make a reliable loop that can be used to hook a carabiner. It is easy to tie, it can withstand heavy loads, and, if necessary, it is quite easy to untie.
1. Fold the rope in half.
2. Make a loop from the double rope by placing it on your finger.
3. Make a peg by bringing the end with the loop on top.
4. Wrap the looped end around the other double end.
5. Insert the end with the loop into the peg that is on your finger.
6. Tighten the knot.
Double eight is ready.
5. Eight with one end
This knot is a little similar to the previous one, but it is somewhat more complicated. But with its help you can tie a rope to some static object and do it without using a carabiner.
Before you hook the rope to the support, you need to make a blank on it – a simple figure eight.
Make a peg and the end that went through the top, circle it around the other end and push it from the outside to the inside. Tighten. You will end up with a knot with two hemispheres.
1. Hook the rope onto the support.
2. Insert the running end into the upper hemisphere of the assembly from the inside out.
3. Pass the running end under the root and insert it into the lower hemisphere of the assembly from the outside to the inside.
4. Now you will need to insert the running end into the left side of the upper hemisphere of the knot from the outside in, and then pull it out of the lower hemisphere. In the picture below, the required holes are marked in red.
5. Insert the running end of the rope, pull it out from the bottom of the knot and tighten.
6. Eight is ready.
6. Driver’s node
Using this knot, you can secure a thing well with just a rope, without additional devices. Drivers often use it to secure cargo in the back or on a trailer.
1. Hook one end of the rope and roll up the peg. Hold the junction with your right hand, and with your left move the loop down, passing it under the rope.
2. With your right hand, turn the loop over and insert the end that is in your left hand into the opening.
3. Tighten the knot.
4. Secure the rope on the other side, and then insert the running end into the loop.
5. Stretch the rope well.
6. Holding the knot with your left hand, drag the running end under the other ropes with your right.
7. Insert the running end into the loop and tighten, then pull it under the ropes again.
8. Insert the running end into the loop again and tighten.
9. The node is ready.
If necessary, such a knot can be quite easily untied, freeing the load.
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