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The adjustable grip hitch is a simple and useful friction hitch which may easily be shifted up and down the rope while slack. It will hold fast when loaded, but slip when shock loaded until tension is relieved enough for it to again hold fast. It serves the same purpose as the taut-line hitch, e.g. tensioning a tent's guy line.
Husky is a line of hand tools, pneumatic tools, and tool storage products. Though founded in 1924, it is now best known as the house brand of The Home Depot , where it is exclusively sold. Its hand tools are manufactured for Home Depot by Western Forge , Apex Tool Group , and Iron Bridge Tools. [ 1 ]
Clove hitch, Ground-line hitch The snuggle hitch is a modification of the clove hitch , and is stronger and more secure. Owen K. Nuttall of the International Guild of Knot Tyers came up with this unique hitch, and it was first documented in the Guild's Knotting Matters magazine issue of January, 1987. [ 1 ]
The half hitch is a simple hitch knot, where the working end of a line is brought over and under the standing part. Insecure on its own, it is a valuable component of a wide variety of useful and reliable hitches , bends , and knots .
When a rolling hitch or Magnus hitch is tied around the standing part of the rope to form an adjustable loop, it is often referred to as a taut-line hitch or one of several other names, although some sources fail to differentiate by using a separate name. Ashley shows this use as #1855, #1856 and #1857.
For example, the slipped buntline hitch is an excellent choice to fasten a line to one side of a vehicle's luggage rack, with a trucker's hitch being used on the other side to tension the line over a load placed between them. The buntline hitch is the same knot as the four-in-hand knot used for neckties. [6]
The actual question is whether the "taut-line hitch" is a description of a class of knots where a friction hitch is tied around the standing part of the rope in order to produce a tensionable setup or whether it only describes one particular method of accomplishing that. Specifically two similar hitches are often tied around the standing part ...
The ossel hitch [1] is a knot used to attach a rope or line to an object. It was originally used on Scottish gill nets to tie small line to larger rope that supported the net. Ossel is actually the Scottish word for "gill net" and for the line attaching the net to the float rope. [2] [3]