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What? No. A reef knot will never pull apart under tension and allows you to have a flat knot with a loop. Its also way easier to tie and you could make multiple
by thinkingkong 6y ago
What? No. A reef knot will never pull apart under tension and allows you to have a flat knot with a loop. Its also way easier to tie and you could make multiple passes if you want.
- regularfry 6y agoThis knot traps the two lengths together. If you just use a reef knot, a) you'll have more slack, because there's no pulley mechanism to take advantage of to tighten the string, and b) it's easy to accidentally hang the picture by only one of the lines, so the slack has twice the effect, and the picture hangs lower than it otherwise would.
- lkjasdfasdf 6y agothis isn't just bad advice, it's dangerous. i wouldn't want to drive behind somebody that tied down an external load with only reef knots.
- KMnO4 6y agoEveryone should learn a tie down knot. Way too many people use unsafe knots (such as an overhand) to tie loads down because that’s all they know. A truckers hitch is as simple as it gets: 1. Tie a loop in the middle of the cord (I like the alpine butterfly but any loop, eg a figure 8 is fine) 2. Put the cord through your anchor point and the newly made loop. 3. Pull it tight and tie it off with a half-hitch. You now have a 2:1 mechanical advantage, meaning you can tighten a load twice as much as you normally can. It also won’t loosen itself, and you only have to untie one knot to remove the entire system.