I just found your channel tonight. Have to say you are awesome. Very clear on how to tie knots, how to use them and practical applications. Great job.i subscribed right away. Keep up the good work!
I use 1/4" solid core braided nylon, its strong , stretches, about all one person can pull. For the mid-line knot use a Span Loop (Ashley p.190, knot #1049) it can be untied when pulled tight and wet. G. Stevenson
Is this really a halter hitch? When looking at what happens around 1:00, it doesn't seem like a halter hitch (notableknotindex.webs.com/haltersiberian.html). It looks more like a simple slipped half hitch: www.lovetheoutdoors.com/sports-knots/Scouting-Knots/Slippery-Half-Hitch.html Am I wrong?
Hey Lars, thanks for the question-nice to "meet" a fellow knot nerd! It's a great question and to put it simply, all of these- what I'm doing, the halter hitch, and the slippery half hitch are all the same: a slipped overhand knot, just tied around something in different ways. The beauty and fascination with rope for me is that it's never that simple! In essence they are all slipped half hitches. The slippery half hitch as presented in the photo you offer is a half hitch tied around wood. If I pulled the bight all the way through I end up with an overhand knot around the wood itself. If I take the Halter Hitch tied in the photo you've provided and pull the bight all the way through I end up with an overhand knot tied around the standing end of the rope (interesting that it also ends up exactly the same as a Canadian Jam without the stopper knot which is a running loop, so the halter hitch is also a running loop tied around something using friction: hence it now being called a hitch). You're right in that what I'm doing is more of a slipped half hitch (that's why I call it that at the very beginning of the video despite the title of the video). It's just wrapped around the standing end of the rope versus around the wood which makes it act more like a Halter Hitch though it's not the same. If I pull through the bight of what I do in the video it is also an overhand knot around the body of the rope (like a Halter hitch), but it dresses exactly like a half hitch, which a Halter hitch does not. It has to do with the way the lines move through the overhand knot and the underhand twist done in the body before the bight of the Halter hitch is pulled through. I prefer the way I tie this hitch (whatever you want to call it) to the true Halter hitch because I find it easier to hold the tension without the extra twist. What I do in the video is how I was trained to finish off a Trucker's Hitch in my SERE training. We didn't give it a separate name, the whole ensemble (bowline around the tree, slip loop, then come back through and do whatever you want to call this to hold the tension!) was just called a Trucker's Hitch. However if I look up a slipped half hitch online, I get something that looks and acts like the slippery half hitch you provided which doesn't perform the same way as what I do in the video. So in essence, I'm not sure of the best name for what I do in the video though if you find an example of it somewhere that has a name I'd love to hear it! I use it often in many different applications, so no matter it's name it ties sweet!
I just found your channel tonight. Have to say you are awesome. Very clear on how to tie knots, how to use them and practical applications. Great job.i subscribed right away. Keep up the good work!
I use 1/4" solid core braided nylon, its strong , stretches, about all one person can pull. For the mid-line knot use a Span Loop (Ashley p.190, knot #1049) it can be untied when pulled tight and wet. G. Stevenson
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Is this really a halter hitch? When looking at what happens around 1:00, it doesn't seem like a halter hitch (notableknotindex.webs.com/haltersiberian.html). It looks more like a simple slipped half hitch: www.lovetheoutdoors.com/sports-knots/Scouting-Knots/Slippery-Half-Hitch.html Am I wrong?
Hey Lars, thanks for the question-nice to "meet" a fellow knot nerd! It's a great question and to put it simply, all of these- what I'm doing, the halter hitch, and the slippery half hitch are all the same: a slipped overhand knot, just tied around something in different ways. The beauty and fascination with rope for me is that it's never that simple! In essence they are all slipped half hitches. The slippery half hitch as presented in the photo you offer is a half hitch tied around wood. If I pulled the bight all the way through I end up with an overhand knot around the wood itself. If I take the Halter Hitch tied in the photo you've provided and pull the bight all the way through I end up with an overhand knot tied around the standing end of the rope (interesting that it also ends up exactly the same as a Canadian Jam without the stopper knot which is a running loop, so the halter hitch is also a running loop tied around something using friction: hence it now being called a hitch). You're right in that what I'm doing is more of a slipped half hitch (that's why I call it that at the very beginning of the video despite the title of the video). It's just wrapped around the standing end of the rope versus around the wood which makes it act more like a Halter Hitch though it's not the same. If I pull through the bight of what I do in the video it is also an overhand knot around the body of the rope (like a Halter hitch), but it dresses exactly like a half hitch, which a Halter hitch does not. It has to do with the way the lines move through the overhand knot and the underhand twist done in the body before the bight of the Halter hitch is pulled through. I prefer the way I tie this hitch (whatever you want to call it) to the true Halter hitch because I find it easier to hold the tension without the extra twist. What I do in the video is how I was trained to finish off a Trucker's Hitch in my SERE training. We didn't give it a separate name, the whole ensemble (bowline around the tree, slip loop, then come back through and do whatever you want to call this to hold the tension!) was just called a Trucker's Hitch. However if I look up a slipped half hitch online, I get something that looks and acts like the slippery half hitch you provided which doesn't perform the same way as what I do in the video. So in essence, I'm not sure of the best name for what I do in the video though if you find an example of it somewhere that has a name I'd love to hear it! I use it often in many different applications, so no matter it's name it ties sweet!
It's that 2nd bite thingy that's confusing me..