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Learning how to tie a few knots is probably one of the best ways to invest your time. other forms of lashing: sheer lashing, floor lashing, the Japanese lashing, the Norwegian lashing and the Filipino lashing.I needed a collection of knots that was like a Swiss-Army knife. Here are other knots I am considering for the page: So pulling on the rope feels as though I am lifting a bag half the weight! To make up for that 'magic', the heavy bag only goes up half the distance that I pull. Ignoring friction, this is the same energy as that required to lift a bag half the weight (10-liter or 2.5 gallon) by four inches. You will see that because it divides in two on the sides of the bag, the four inches divide into two times two inches, and the bag only goes up by two inches.) The energy I spent pulling down four inches resulted in lifting this 20-liter (5-gallon) bag by two inches. By how much will the bag go up? Only two inches. Now why does this work? On the second picture, imagine that the hand pulls the rope down four inches. In that case, I would have made the small loop even smaller in order not to lose too much height. If I had a carabiner, I could have attached it to the small loop, and reduced friction by threading the rope through the carabiner instead of the loop. In the second picture, you can see that I have taken the second end of the rope down to the object to be lifted (a solar shower), then back up, through the loop, and down again to pull. Immediately below that, I have made a small loop (an Alpine butterfly). In the first picture, I have hung one end of the rope to a high point.

In the bush, I use that for tasks such as lifting a solar shower. It's possible to make a simple pulley with rope. Even if we understand the mechanics, there is still something magical about the universe 'letting us' use its laws this way. I still find it amazing that through an ingenious routing of rope, we are able to lift objects that would be too heavy for us otherwise. Place the '6' on top of the '9'(second picture) and follow the diagram. On the '9', make sure that the tail of the 9 crosses underneath the rope, unlike on the '6'. On the first picture, see how the two ropes form a '69' or a 'b' and a 'q'. It also turns out to be very easy to learn with the so-called '69' or 'b & q' method. That it is-it comes loose much more easily than the double sheet bend, let alone the Alpine butterfly bend or the double fisherman's knot. The bend is known to be extremely reliable (you can entrust your airship to one of them!) and easy to untie. I just had to learn the Zeppelin bend in honor of these majestic airships from another era. Apparently, Charles Rosendahl, an American skipper of rigid airships (who happened to be traveling on the Hindenburg on the day it burned) insisted that the Zeppelins only be moored using what is now known as the Zeppelin bend.

The beauty of the black-and-white footage blew me away. 'dirigibles' or 'Zeppelins', as they are commonly known in honor of Count Ferdinand von Zeppelin, who pioneered the design of these ships, and of his company (the Luftschiffbau Zeppelin GmbH), which manufactured its most famous models. The doco retraced the history of rigid airships, a.k.a. This all changed when I watched a documentary about the Hindenburg, an 803-foot long lighter-than-air airship that burst into flames in 1937. For a long time I resisted learning it because I thought I knew enough bends, such as the double sheet bend on this site's main knot page.

This method of tying two ropes together ('bend') appears in most recent knot books (but not in Ashley) under the names of 'Zeppelin' or 'Rosendahl' bend.

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