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Robert Macintyre:
Hi, I am hoping someone here can help me "remember" a knot I once knew. I learned it in the Boyscouts several years ago. We used it to tie our sleeping bags to our packs or to cinch down other gear. It seems like there was a simple overhand on one side of the rope and then a loop further down, you put the one end through the other and cinch it down. It wouldn't slip yet was easy to release. Any ideas out there?

roo:

--- Quote ---Hi, I am hoping someone here can help me "remember" a knot I once knew. I learned it in the Boyscouts several years ago. We used it to tie our sleeping bags to our packs or to cinch down other gear. It seems like there was a simple overhand on one side of the rope and then a loop further down, you put the one end through the other and cinch it down. It wouldn't slip yet was easy to release. Any ideas out there?
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Hmm.  That's a little fuzzy.  I take it you haven't been able to reproduce it yourself.  Do you think you could spot it if you saw it?  Here are some possibilties:

http://notableknotindex.webs.com/butcherknots.html

http://notableknotindex.webs.com/Versatackle.html

Let us know if you have an "ah-ha" moment. :)

Willeke:
Robert,
Your discription reminded me of a knot I have learned to tie at a job I used to have. I put some drawings at http://new.photos.yahoo.com/willeke_igkt/album/576460762346828951/photo/294928803708005127/1

You tie a loop in one end of your rope, place the rope around what you want to tie, pull the other end trough the loop and tie down with a slipped half hitch.
I do not know the name, I have never looked it up but it is a known knot. If this has the right ring for you, tell me and I look up the name too.

Willeke

Knot Head:
Hi all,
Robert that sounds a lot like a Truckers Hitch to me. I could be wrong. But, it sounds an awful lot like a Truckers Hitch.

Knot Head...

Robert Macintyre:
So far no luck :(  I remember that we used the knot to tie up our sleeping bags. After you roll up the bag we would put the rope around it and make a knot on one side of it and slipped the other end through it and then cinch it down and the knot would hold. Kinda like a compression strap, yet with small rope. Once you wanted to release the knot you just pulled it the other way and it would release. The knot was still there, just slacked so you could get the bag out of it.  I remember being amazed that it worked the way it did. I never saw anything like that. You know, being 14 and all, I had seen everything by then! ;)
Thanks for your help so far

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