Essential knots for tree work part 3 life support. Figure 8, Anchor bend, Fisherman’s Termination.

welcome to strider tree gear and our part three on the essential knot series here are a few different anchoring knots they they make loops they anchor objects to one another similar to a bowline except these are can be used for life support as they are not going to come free so come with me we'll check it out so first i'm going to start off with the figure eight the figure eight is a good anchor for your harness or for the end of a basal tie it is a life support rated knot it maintains a very high percentage of the rope's minimum breaking strength and if you have a caribbean to attach the end you don't need to actually tie the anchor around something that is fixed then it's very easily done so i'll demonstrate that first you take a bite of your rope you go around all the way around once and then push it through the the gap in the middle you cinch this off make sure all of the uh the strands are laying parallel to each other you don't want any crossing over and you actually tighten each one individually nice and snug and it's that tightening of it each one individually that actually makes this easy to untie if you don't do that properly then if you were to take a large a large hard load then they tend to jump and each other and bind and make it hard to untie so this you can climb on all day and it'll still come free so now if you need to tie your figure eight around something like this fixed ring you just have to tie a figure eight in the rope first so i'm going to do that so we'll do the just just that's just a standard figure eight knot something called a figure eight stop or not so if you wanna you know it can act like a stopper but we'll leave it a little bit loose so you got your figure eight knot and then you could pass the other the end of your rope through the ring this is great for attaching to your harness this is how the rock climbers do it and then you follow it back paralleling the strand that went through the knot initially so i'm going to try and tie it backwards here so you can see i'm going to follow this strand all the way back around to tie this knot around back up here back around and through now we've got to make sure it's dressed and laying flat now we've got that anchored to this in a you know semi-permeable permanent way same thing pull all of these individually make sure it's nice and cinched tight and there's no crossover like that got to fix that when you go to dress it fix that cross over right there all right now we're better off all the strands laying flat and parallel to each other that's a figure eight good way to anchor i don't use it very often honestly because it takes too long to tie and i find it annoying and i use carabiners for everything so it's not very often i need to tie a loop on the end so what do you do when you don't have an eye on the end of your rope ah you get an eye on the end of your rope don't waste time tie knots have an eye on the end of your rope but assuming you don't maybe you cut it because it's always the end with the eye that gets cut first right gosh i hate that well here's how i tie carabiners onto the end of my rope got the carabiner on there my go-to knot is called the fisherman's termination knot i like it because it cinches down really tight and it tends to lock the carabiner in place on the rope and and that's nice because it keeps it oriented properly so that's how that's tied walk that through one more time here you've got it through the through the carabiner going to wrap it once around the rope cross it over itself wrap again around the rope and right where that second crossover would be you push it down through the middle and then you cinch it off when i pull on this it's going to cinch nice and tight around the rope so you've got to cross over here and then parallel the rest of the way another reason i like this knot it's got a very distinctive look and you can always tell if it's tied wrong this will cinch up really tight on that carabiner so that the carabiner doesn't flop around and that's kind of nice because it keeps oriented the right way and is less likely to get caught over the gate now you can back up your knot here i don't think it's necessary this knot doesn't work itself loose if you get it good and tight it's safe so this is the fisherman's termination knot the other great thing about it is when you go to take it out all you guys take the carabiner off and then you pull the whole knot out just like that and it comes free great knot another one is called the anchor bend i don't use this one as much but it is also a life support rated knot you could pass it through the carabiner once pass it through the carabiner a second time so you've got two wraps on the carabiner and then you're going to take it around and back through both of those loops and cinch it off this is another one where you would want to tie off the end of your rope but it's nice in that it cinches pretty tight around the carabiner and tends to not let it shift around much this is a life support rated knot we've got the anchor bend which is this guy the fisherman's termination knot and the figure eight one last knot i want to show you on the same thread of if in fact maybe you accidentally nick your rope no one ever knicks the rope but if you did one of the ways you can isolate damage in your rope say i got a nick right here is this not called the alpine butterfly now i use this knot all the time i like to use it for making hand holds for guys on the ground pulling i like to use it for attaching pulleys occasionally it does bind up a little bit if you pull on it really hard but generally it's fairly easy to undo there's a few different ways to tie the alpine butterfly one of the simpler ways is this method you take one two three wraps around your hand all going the same direction and you pull out the middle wrap put it underneath the outside wrap towards your fingers and then around all of them together when you cinch that out and you go to dress the knot it makes this beautiful symmetrical knot a little crossover on this side crossover on that side parallel strands on this side cross over here parallel strands a couple of wings and a loop now this you can climb on this strand and this strand you can weight this way and this will isolate your nick and the rope so it's a good way to kind of do that it also makes for a good stopper knot if you're using it for a canopy anchor like in that canopy anchor video i've got on my channel a lot of times i'll take that extra carabiner after doing this lock that off and now this can't possibly come loose and you've got this great stop or not this is called the alpine butterfly so i'll show that one more time we got three wraps one two three wraps around my hand pull the middle one out get a good bunch of slack in there under that one around all of it and dress it up it comes out the way i typically tie this though that's the one way to learn it the other way i like to tie it is i will take a bite with my right hand i'll just pull a bite out and i and i hold my left hand with my middle finger in between the two strands and i flip it once and then i flip it once flip it twice and now i've got this gap in the middle i've got this hole right here and if i take my loop and i go around the whole strand and then pull it through that hole in the middle then it ties the same knot i'll show that one more time i know it's a little bit hard to see try and get that out of the way i'll try and reverse my hands here so i've got a loop or a bite flip once flip twice and i'll stick my middle finger in here so it's got this gap around the whole rope and then through that middle hole right there that we created with those two rat two loops there's another method for you there's lots of methods online alpine butterfly's a pretty common knot and as far as stopper knots go i've got one more stopper knot for you i tie this at the end of my lanyard so that my lanyard can't come off i tie it at the end of my climb lines so that my climb lines don't slide through the end of my hardware goes like this here's the the tailly rope it's a lot like the fisherman's termination knot i'm going to go one wrap around two wraps around and then back through itself i've got the crossover and then parallel strands all the way around that's the fisherman stopper knot works great this won't slide through makes for a really solid stop or not for all sorts of different systems fisherman stopper so there you go there's a few life support knots for your tool kit so thanks for joining me here at schreider tree gear with my intro knot series all these knots are super useful but practice them at your own risk practice them low and slow make sure you've got it tied right and make sure you have it checked by someone who knows what it's supposed to look like as you're learning your safety is in your hands so hopefully this was helpful hopefully you found some value uh if you enjoyed it be sure to like comment subscribe let me know what knots you love if there's a reason you don't use one of the ones i demonstrated i'd love to hear it and i'll catch you next time at strider tree gear thank you guys you

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Published: Sun Nov 22 2020