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December 16th 15, 12:58 AM posted to rec.bicycles.misc
Joy Beeson
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O/T: knots
On Tue, 15 Dec 2015 13:20:02 -0800 (PST),
wrote:
I've never had much use for the bowline, but it comes free with the
sheet bend.
?
A bowline is a rope tied to its own standing part with a sheet bend.
Likewise, the prussik comes almost free with the cow hitch -- a
prussik is turned two or more times around the rope, a cow hitch only
once.
And the taut-line hitch comes free with the prussik -- you pass twine
around a chair leg or whatever anchor is convenient, tie it to itself
with a prussik, and you can lengthen or shorten the tether on your
sewing bird to keep a comfortable tension on your fabric.
http://wlweather.net/pagesew/SEWBIRD.HTM
(in the picture, the bird is
anchored with two half hitches and tension is adjusted by moving the
chair.)
As taught to me, the taut-line hitch was intended to fasten a rope to
a tent peg. That situation doesn't come up very often.
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