KNOTS

KNOTS 

By Sulekha Rani.R , PGT Chemistry,KV NTPC Kayamkulam 

1.  WHIPPING

A piece of rope and a piece of string or chord 12 inches long. Use brightly colored string to decorate your jump rope or on a drawstring bag.

1.     Make a loop with one end of the string and lay the loop along the rope with the ends of the string hanging off the end of the rope.

2.     Hold string in place with your left thumb. With your right hand, wind the long end of the string tightly over the loop and around the rope. The short end will be left hanging.

3.     Wind the string around the rope for at least an inch. Wind firmly and closely but do not overlap. When you have wound far enough, tuck the end you have been winding through the loop. Hold it with your left hand thumb so it does not loosen.

4.     Take the other end and pull slowly. The loop will disappear under the winding. Pull until the loop is halfway under the winding. Trim the ends to make a neat finish.

   

 

 

2. REEF KNOT Take a rope end in each hand. Cross the right hand end over the left hand rope. Bend it back under, then forward and up. The ends will change hands. Cross the end now in your left hand over, back, under and forward of the end now in your right hand. The short ends should lie flat beside the long pieces of rope. Pull tight. Unique a square knot by holding the ropes on both sides of the knot and pushing them toward the center. Or take one end and yank it hard toward the center of the knot. Then you can slip the rope ends apart. Many Girls Scouts say this as they tie this knot: Right over left and left over right Makes the knot neat and tidy and tight! Uses This is used for tying together two ends of a rope. It is also the knot, which should be used for tying triangular bandages. It is a good knot for fastening parcels or the ropes round the rolls of bedding. Dhobis use it for typing up the ends of the their bundles. It is a flat knot, does not slip and is easily untied.

REEF KNOT 

     


                                                      

     

 

3. SHEET BEND

Sailors call some of the ropes used on sails, "sheets". A "bend" is a way of making a loop.

1. Take the little rope or cord in your right hand and the big rope in your left hand. Tie a square knot but do not pull it tight. If you want to experiment, pull it tight and see what happens. Then tie another square knot.
2. Cross the short end of the cord over the long part of the cord and stick the end of it down into loop of the rope.
3. Pull long end of cord and long end of rope to tighten.
   

Uses

This is used for tying together 2 ropes of equal or unequal thickness and for tying a rope a loop or for joining ropes to material such as staff, sails or cloth. The loops should be made in the thick rope. 

  

 

4. CLOVE HITCH 

1. Take one end of rope in your right hand. With left hand hold rest of rope across front of post.
2. Pass end of rope around in back of post.
3. Bring it around to front of post. Cross it over long part, making an X. Hold X with left thumb and forefinger.
4. Pass rope to the right again, wrapping it around post below first turn.
5. Push rope end under X, going from left to right so that it comes out between the two turns around post.
6. Pull short end to the right, long end to the left. As long as there is a steady pull on long end the hitch will not loosen.

Practice tying the knot to the left, then tries tying it up and down on a crossbar.

Untie or loosen it by pushing both ends towards the center.

Uses
Use it to fasten one end of a rope around a post or tree; to put up a clothesline or badminton net; to start lashing. Do not use it to hold a moving object, such as an animal, because the moving will loosen the hitch.

 

                        

5. SHEEP SHANK 

 This is useful to the rope when you do not want a cut it or cannot get at the ends, which are fixed. Therefore when you practice making it, do not use the ends of the rope but make half hitches at any convenient distance away from each ends as shown in the diagram. This is also useful to take the strain of any weak bit or rope. It may be used in the home to shorten an electric lamp cord that is hanging too low and is often used to shorten guy-lines on tents.

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       6.  BOWLINE

1. Lay long end of rope in your left hand with your right hand make a little loop in the rope just where you ant the knot to be. The loop must go over the long part of rope. Hold loop in place with your left hand and let the end hang down in front.
2. With your right hand take short end push it up through the little loop. Now you have another loop. Pull the end until this big loop is the size you want to have when you are finished.
3. Pass this end around behind long part of rope and then down through little loop again.
4. Hold long part of rope with your left hand. Hold short end and right side of the big loop with your right. Pull with both hands to lighten.   

                 

Uses

This knot makes a loop that will not slip and is therefore, very useful for rescue work. It is made at one end of a lifeline and thrown out over the water to a drowning man or it may be fastened round any one who has to be lowered from a height from a burning house or into a well. It can be used as a lead for a collarless dog and is especially used for tying animals. When required for lowering anyone the loop should be used as a seat. It is passed over the head and shoulder and the standing part in front of the body is grasped with both hands (though more difficult).

      






                    7.  FISHERMAN KNOT


        This knot is used for tying two wet or slippery ropes. With running end of each rope tie a over hand knot over the other. Pull the standing parts in opposite directions together.
        













    

       8.  ROUND TURN 2 HALF HITCHES

       

This knot is also used to attach a rope to a pole or a tree, when there is tension at the other end. It is safe no matter what direction the pull comes. So it is suitable for typing up a boat or an animal. Make sure that the same direction, i.e. with the short end going over the standing part first. This knot does not easily jam, since the turn round the pole takes the strain while the hitches are being completed and it is the most useful knot for towing a broken-down car.

        
             

          9. TIMBER HITCH

                  A knot to begin the diagonal lashing - using to move logs, to improvise anchor with a heavy stone for hoisting or dragging cylindrical objects, boards etc. for drawing a bundle of sticks, poles etc.