Guitar Guy
Enlightened
The Marlinspike Hitch, also called "Marlingspike Hitch".
It seems there is often a need to quickly form a T-handle to help pull on a rope, and to keep it from digging into one's hand. Maybe starting a lawn mower with a missing t-handle, dragging a deer, forming a makeshift handle for a dog leash, pulling a tree while cutting it, and many more situations where there is a need to pull a rope tight.
If you have a flashlight, stick, wrench, or tool nearby, you can have this knot together in about 3 seconds. And when you're done, it easily falls apart, with no jammed up granny knots to untie. If you tie it backwards or pull the wrong direction, it falls apart.
It is also the knot used to form a makeshift ladder if you have two ropes and some sticks for rungs. I've shown this in the pic with the pencils.
Looking online and in books, I've seen about 4 ways to form this knot, and came up with another way on my own after I understood how it works. For me, actually memorizing a knot to the point where I can tie it "in the field" without a book or internet is the most important part of learning a knot.
The method I'm picturing is a quick easy way to form the knot, and is fairly easy to memorize. After I learned it, I got to where I can skip straight to step 5 and form that whole loop in one motion with two fingers of my right hand ... catch the standing end with index finger ... slide the light in from the left, and have the whole thing formed in a few seconds in one motion. Even doing the steps one at a time still only takes a few seconds.
Here are the steps. I hope this helps some folks with their next rope yanking situation. Please post if you are able to put it to use.
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It seems there is often a need to quickly form a T-handle to help pull on a rope, and to keep it from digging into one's hand. Maybe starting a lawn mower with a missing t-handle, dragging a deer, forming a makeshift handle for a dog leash, pulling a tree while cutting it, and many more situations where there is a need to pull a rope tight.
If you have a flashlight, stick, wrench, or tool nearby, you can have this knot together in about 3 seconds. And when you're done, it easily falls apart, with no jammed up granny knots to untie. If you tie it backwards or pull the wrong direction, it falls apart.
It is also the knot used to form a makeshift ladder if you have two ropes and some sticks for rungs. I've shown this in the pic with the pencils.
Looking online and in books, I've seen about 4 ways to form this knot, and came up with another way on my own after I understood how it works. For me, actually memorizing a knot to the point where I can tie it "in the field" without a book or internet is the most important part of learning a knot.
The method I'm picturing is a quick easy way to form the knot, and is fairly easy to memorize. After I learned it, I got to where I can skip straight to step 5 and form that whole loop in one motion with two fingers of my right hand ... catch the standing end with index finger ... slide the light in from the left, and have the whole thing formed in a few seconds in one motion. Even doing the steps one at a time still only takes a few seconds.
Here are the steps. I hope this helps some folks with their next rope yanking situation. Please post if you are able to put it to use.