Thread 2839750

I only have enough RAM in my head to memorize five knots.

Which ones should I learn?

Overhand knot and its children surgeon and double surgeon, half and clove hitch, square, uni, clinch

>>2839750 (OP)
Clove
Granny
Siberian
Bowline
Trucker's

I know lots of knots but here are my favorites since they "feel" good, easy to identify when you screwed up, and are simple to tie:

Double fisherman's - tie together two ropes or two ends of a rope to form a loop.
Double sheet bend - tie together big rope to smol rope. Why use a sheet bend when the double takes about one second more and is less prone to capsizing? Maybe a knot expert can tell me.
Constrictor knot - almost as easy as a clove hitch but much much more secure.
Figure 8 on a bight - I always use this in place of a double bowline. It's just better.
Butterfly loop - The best way to put a loop in the middle of a line.
Tautline Hitch - It's just a cool ass knot, though if you really want to put tension on a line it's worth knowing the Trucker's hitch.

Bowline
Taught like
Double fisherman

Those three will get you through most things. Use the double fisherman to make a loop, wrap that loop around a larger rope and that's a prisuk.

>>2839750 (OP)
Bowline is all you need. A hitch too if you're feeling fancy. I recommend the clove hitch or a pile hitch.

I just use 1 knot all the time for my tent, no clue what it is called and never lernd any. I just fiddle around untill I found one that works. Just 1 pull and it is loose. Always takes a few atemts to remember how I do it, if it have been a while.

>>2839753
Sheet bend doesn't capsize, it can shake loose or slip but it won't roll or capsize like a square knot can. Double sheet bend isn't really substantially better so if you're worried about its security then consider a locking sheet bend, a twin bowline bend or some other bend instead.

Tautline is an unreliable meme hitch that is made obsolete by actual friction hitches like prusik or blake's hitch or by trucker's hitch if you need to pull something tight.

>>2839750 (OP)
i know 29 but i can tell you major ones to know for basics
figure 8 stopper
over hand stopper
threaded figure 8
looped figure 8(can be used in fishing too)
clove hitch
constrictor hitch
reef knot(square knot)
surgeons knot
round turn and two half hitch(best anchoring hitch imho)
timber hitch for hauling logs and firewood from point a - b (can also be used to tie a swedish torch)
truckers hitch for tension and hauling incase ratchet strapes fell (an alternative if your rope isnt long enough for truckers is a double sheet bend and two round turns two half hitches)
figure 8 bend
double sheet bend(regular sheet bend is just double without the second wrap)
bowline
bowline on a bight

all 6 major lashjngs for constructing stuff:
square lashing
diagonal lashing
round lashing
tripod lashing
sheer lashing
whipping lashing(this is just the nocking point knot for archery but not pulled all the way in)

jam hitch
taut line hitch
italian hitch
prusik hitch

all major fishing knots
arbor knot
unit knot
blood knot
palomar
improved clinch knot
non slip loop knot
double uni
snell knot
doublr snd triple snell knot

i recently used 5 square lashings and one diagonal lashing to construct and archery blind
still have more knots to learn
should be at 38 by the time im done

>>2839808
you can alternatively use constrictors, surgeons, reef and tight overhand in place of lashings if you dont have enough rope
i learned vedy quickly that you're gonna need way more than just 5 knots

>>2839809
>>2839808
i practice knot tying very regularly as it's an incredibly good basis for outdoorsmanship

>>2839750 (OP)
Depends what for? Sailing? Camping? Fishing? Mountaineering?

The figure of 8 and grinner knots cover most/all of my needs (camping, mountaineering). Knotless knot for fishing. Double grinner to tie 2 pieces of rope together.

If you need more have a look at sailing websites (usually 5-8 knots). They separate the babble from the essentials.

luv me kalmyk loop

>>2839750 (OP)
Square knot
Clove hitch
Figure 8
Bowline
Hangman's knot.

Should cover all your bases.

I hate the sheetbend and its gay cousin the bowline. Weak ass knots that jostle themselves loose when unloaded 100% of the time. I wonder how many good men these knots have killed.

>>2839838
>knots that are easy to untie untie easily
>this is a shocker to anon
use a stopper knot or a lock if you're relying on it for life saving application.

>>2839838
>Mountaineers use bowline on a bight for glacial travel, fall into crevasses and dont die
What nigger tier shit are you doing where it unties itself? I use them as anchor knots to move timber with a winch and I've never had them slip or untie.
Maybe learn how to tie them right?

>>2839873
afaik bowline on a bight for tying off is mostly a euro climbing thing, burgers prefer a rethreaded figure 8 nowadays and used to use bowlines with a tieoff or yosemite finish back in the day. sports climbers also commonly use bowlines because they load them a lot. more secure bowlines like EBSB or scott's locked are also enjoying a surge popularity following the spread of modern synthetic ropes.

desu even a regular bowline handles sensible cyclic loading just fine in soft, non slippery ropes, especially something like a traditional hemp one.

>>2839873
what do you mean?
this is /out/ he likely saw a mountaineering video,
looked up knits, tied it, shook it for minutes on end and then said "it no work" and proceeded to play minecraft for another 5 hours

>>2839838
most of these have disclaimers like only working with natural fibre rope and not sythetic rope because of the slippery material

>>2839750 (OP)
RAM is not a reliable storage medium.
You should save your knots to some non non-volatile storage like a hard drive.
The knot will then be loaded into your system's RAM when you start recalling how to tie it.

/g/ tourist out

Imho, the round turn and two half hitches is a more important and secure knot than the clove hitch since it works independent of the size or shape of the thing the rope is being hitched to. You can use it to tie rope to a big tree trunk, or a square tube, or whatever. At the same time, there's practically nothing the clove hitch is better at except using less rope and being faster. Prove me wrong.

>>2840146
clove hitch is just the most general purpose, do it all hitch that can be tied super easily anywhere on the rope or around an object. i much prefer the groundline hitch which is tied almost the same way as a clove hitch and can be used in the same ways but is more secure yet easier to untie at the same time. it also doesn't roll and sits well even around irregular shaped objects. only downside is you can't use the two loop method to tie it and when you slip if off the post it cinches into an overhand instead of a straight rope like the clove hitch.

round turn and two half hitches is more of a knot for tying a rope end to an object, like tying a boat or a hammock to a tree, meanwhile clove hitch can be used for making fences, clipping into the rope with a carabiner, tying a bag(ground like hitch is also known as a sack knot), making rope ladders, etc.

it's a useful knot but for that purpose there's also the pile hitch which is super easy and quick to tie and learn and is also an excellent tying hitch that doesn't even need a rope end to tie, although it does need an open post to slip over and can't be tied around an object it can't be slipped over, like a tree or an eyelet. these knots all have their uses and all perform good within them but you can make do with fewer of them and clove hitch has the broadest range of applications.

>>2840146
round turn chads
i use it for everything

>>2839750 (OP)
Memorize bowline 5 times

>>2839801
What useless post. KYS

>>2839750 (OP)
I usually use bowline, alpine loop, clove hitch, double half hitch and reef knot, you can pretty much do whatever you need to do with them and they're all very simple. There are more co.plicated autism knots that can do some stupid hyper specific shit which is great but you could probably get by with a combination of simple knots and a bit of creativity.

I use the two half hitch and taught line hitch to hang my tarp and thats like the only thing I ever need to tie knots for