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I think part of Ken is rubbing off on you, Dave.

We're reversing the names, while at the same time talking about the same knots. No one is really wrong. It's one of the most common misunderstandings in the trade. "What's the name of this knot?" You will not get the same answer from everyone. And even the books on knots contradict each...

Lost in terminology again!

Brian, it's a bowline finish to trap the bitter end and takes the same amount, or less time to tie as two half hitches. When tying off the end with half hitches the side of the clove the hitches are tied on doesn't come tight until the main line pulls all the slack out. But since you only...

The clove is made with two marls. So it's not surprising it rolls out if the end is not fixed well enough. I've had it happen too. Just tying the end off using a single loose half hitch is not good enough. When the load (a heavy one) lays into the line you can watch the works untie itself...

Butch, the overhand and half hitch are tied the same. Brendon, that be a marl all right. Although some people precede with a clove,, when negative blocking.

Because of their subtle difference's and similarities alike marls and hitches are often confused. The terminology is the main culprit here. Because in different geographic regions people call marls "hitches" or half hitches. Marls by them selves can only hold in one direction and will roll...

The same technique that Butch illustrated was used on some of the dead limbs we took out of the Tree House. Brian Noyes and Mark Chisholm marled a 3/8" yellow tenex line about 20 feet long around the limbs a dozen or so times. Much to my surprise not a single limb broke. I was kind of...