Knot tying

[derekleffew]

I'm trying to force everyone I encounter in this industry to learn how to tie a clove hitch and bowline. Edit: Sorry, fixed, just no one check all four!

[soundlight]

I can't select both...what the heck.

I can tie: clove hitch, bowline, square knot, figure eight, carrick bend, two half hitches & tauntline hitch, prussik, timber hitch, trucker's hitch, pipe hitch, sheet bend, sheepshank, and some others, can't remember them all right now

Yah, I'm an Eagle Scout, and was the only person in my troop who knew all of the knots. I always enjoyed knot tying contests and lashing together camp gadgets (my infamous foot-pedal camp sink, trash bag hanger, twine hanger, and integral soap dispenser).

[thelightingmancan]

I know most of those knots, and we will surely teach them in our school's Technical Theatre class next year!

[bobgaggle]

Originally Posted by soundlight

I'm an Eagle Scout, and was the only person in my troop who knew all of the knots.

I still get flak for being a boy scout, but they teach you some crazy useful skills, including knot tying. I always liked being the guy who would know how to do anything with the rope and put all the little tenderfoots (tenderfeet?) in their place. One thing I had to learn on my own though, is splicing. No one in my troop (including the adults) new how to.

But i find the most important knot to know is the noose. I always freak out the people in my department by lynching a dummy we have from the rafters. I guess I have issues or something

[Charc]

Originally Posted by bobgaggle

I still get flak for being a boy scout, but they teach you some crazy useful skills, including knot tying. I always liked being the guy who would know how to do anything with the rope and put all the little tenderfoots (tenderfeet?) in their place. One thing I had to learn on my own though, is splicing. No one in my troop (including the adults) new how to.
But i find the most important knot to know is the noose. I always freak out the people in my department by lynching a dummy we have from the rafters. I guess I have issues or something

I wouldn't recommend that. I recall an article being linked to in a topic where a few stagehands got fired for a similar incident.

[derekleffew]

Originally Posted by bobgaggle

...But i find the most important knot to know is the noose. I always freak out the people in my department by lynching a dummy we have from the rafters. I guess I have issues or something

Please see the "shackle" thread. In my world, clove hitch and bowline are the two most-used knots, other than perhaps the shoe-lace knot.

[soundlight]

Originally Posted by derekleffew

In my world, clove hitch and bowline are the two most-used knots, other than perhaps the shoe-lace knot.

This is true. The clove hitch is also part of a good pipe hitch, along with a reverse loop.

[What Rigger?]

I've got all of the above, plus a decent eye-splice, back splice, alpine butterfly, inline figure 8, bridled figure 8 (aka bunny ears) and the monkey's fist for knockin' fools out and keepin' it gangsta.

[Van]

Originally Posted by soundlight

********I can tie: clove hitch, bowline, square knot, figure eight, carrick bend, two half hitches & tauntline hitch, prussik, timber hitch, trucker's hitch, pipe hitch, sheet bend, sheepshank, and some others, can't remember them all right now*************************

Oh Yeah ?!? Can you tie a genuine Tennessee Wad Hitch?
Seems to be a real popular knot now days. It kinda reminds me of the scene in the movie " A Chorus Line" when Kirk Douglas Jr. says " You, In the yellow, Have you taken Ballet?" ... " No, I haven't"... "Then Don't Dance!!!"
If you can't reliably tie a clove hitch AND Bowline And Truckers Hitch, you have no bussiness calling yourself a stagehand. You could get away with being in any number of disciplines in the theatre without knowing these, but not a stagehand.

Originally Posted by bobgaggle

*****But i find the most important knot to know is the noose. I always freak out the people in my department by lynching a dummy we have from the rafters. I guess I have issues or something

Just a bye-the-bye the are laws on the books of several of these here United States, that make it illegal to tie a working "Hangmans Noose" unless it is to be employed in a state sanctioned execution.
Question of the day item, How many loops <wraps> are incorporated into a "real" Hangmans noose.

[deadlygopher]

Originally Posted by Van

Just a bye-the-bye the are laws on the books of several of these here United States, that make it illegal to tie a working "Hangmans Noose" unless it is to be employed in a state sanctioned execution.

Any idea if Oregon is one of those states?