a Round Turn and a Cow Hitch

[sarabande]

as part of my regular contribution to Richard Shead's retirement fund, I bought a copy of Nov PBO yesterday.

I may be entirely wrong but in the articule on Testing Knots and Splices, p79, the RT and 2HH looks a bit different from the one I was taught as a Cub.

Come to look at it, the Clove Hitch doesn't seem too settled, either.

 

[Salty John]

Quite right - the RT and 2HH as shown is a RT and a cow hitch. Oops.

 

[claymore]

This is scandalous, outrageous even. The readership are owed a profound apology and if Richard Shead had anything about him he'd take a cut in the aforementioned pension
Harrumph.

 

[Salty John]

This is scandalous, outrageous even. The readership are owed a profound apology and if Richard Shead had anything about him he'd take a cut in the aforementioned pension
Harrumph.

Calm down, now. Have you been taking your pills like the nice doctor said you should?

 

[rob2]

Regardless of whether they tied the right knots (and their choice of knots seemed rather strange) it did reinforce the old rule of thumb that a knot will weaken a rope by up to half and a decent hard eye splice is a lot better...

Mind you, I would have liked to know which chain/rope splice they tested - I bet it wasn't the one shown a month or two before where only one strand went through the chain!

Rob.