In recent years, my dad Peter has taken up a keen interest of tying knots, learning new knots and even tried his hand at inventing his own interpretation of existing knots.
There is a common thinking that there exists some set
of
**knots** --specifically shaped tangles of cordage--
from which one might select one or another for a ropey
task; and this thinking has worked okay in most cases.
Beyond this, though, one might look over the sort of
formal knots set and see in them ways to make cordage
do things --such as lock & hold, grip something against
sliding along it, and so on. Taking this latter view, one
might be said to know *knotting*, and what results from
one's efforts at any particular time could lie outside of
the set of "known" knots --and be perfectly suited to
the ropey task!
A few years ago, at a sailing trade fair in Bremen
he proudly showed people his first "own invention" as he would like to believe.
The aptly named "Meyer Stek" :-)
And why is that knot not brought here for inspections?
Most I find on-line --very little-- is this:
http://www.socialcurrywurst.de/2019/07/meyer-stek/and this hides some important part of the slipped hitch.
Taking the more obvious/fewer-crossings interpretation
of this image, I get a knot that does NOT hold, but just
spins around the object to spill --of course a bad result.
Putting in a tuck behind what we can see here,
I have a sort of simple
overhand hitch but with the
tail tucking up
through a nipping turn/loop in the spine
of the
overhand --and this looks good (so far : tying
with my swimming trunk's draw string around a library
small pencil --decently, 2 B sure : nothing dropped!
.
He likes to think that he gave birth to this new knot but obviously it's not that simply at all.
... he really invented his knot ...
Oh, but not far from that joy should be that he figured
out the knot on his own, irrespective of what anyonElse
has done. (Against this, though, is a charge that he
did little research of knots!)
Markus, what you describe --yes, I'm a big advocate
that language CAN work (while knowing how it can
mislead and fail to work, too; but one can ask for
more words, 2 B Sure!)--
is --and you can check this on-line readily--
the highwayman's hitch. Beyond looking for this
(dubious) knot's "history" --I surmise it it much invention,
as so much of popular knotting is--, you might also look
at Roo's page for a better version of the same thing.
(The problem with the former is that full force is put
upon the toggling slip-bight, and the latter puts the
force on what I call the "frame" through which this
slip-bight is held, and so it's less strongly pressed upon.
cf.
https://notableknotindex.webs.com/tumblehitch.htmlBest Regards from Germany
Markus
Cheers,
--dl*
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ps : Just took an editorial swipe at good ol' Wikipedia,
whose presentation of what Roo's page entitles "Tumble Hitch"
somehow deviated from the subject hitch!
{{Infobox knot
| name = Tumble hitch
| names = a better [[Highwayman's hitch]], Bank Robbers Knot, Getaway hitch or Quick-release knot
| image = G?venliceEskiyaBagi4.JPG
| caption =
| type = hitch
| type2 =
| strength =
| origin =
| related = [[Highwayman's hitch]], Mooring hitch
| releasing = Non-jamming
| uses = Quick-release, draw loop hitch
| caveat = potentially unstable
| abok_number =
| conway_notation =
| ab_notation =
}}
The '''tumble hitch''' is a "slip-free", quick-release hitch [[knot]] used
for temporarily securing a [[rope]] such that it can be released easily
to be completely free of the hitched-to object (instead of still being
wrapped around it). The hitch might be able to be untied with a tug
of the working end, even when under tension; but the workings depend
upon materials and forces; note that in some cases, "under tension"
will amount to simply being tied and the line itself giving significant
tension by weight. The tumble hitch is tied in the bight.
Usually two locking turns (as in the pictures here) suffice for a knot
secure enough for most purposes, but another could be added for
further stability. The general knotting principles evident in this and
the well-published "highwayman's hitch" can be implemented in a
variety of ways. This knot was designed specifically to avoid the
problem of the highwayman's hitch of putting the full force of loading
upon the locking toggle ("slip") bight, which esp. in soft cordage can
collapse that and pull it though the bight "frame" it had locked against!
Hence,The Notable Knot Index recommends the tumble hitch
as a more stable hitch than the [[highwayman's hitch]].
<ref>{{Cite web|publisher=Notable Knot Index|url=http://notableknotindex.webs.com/tumblehitch.html|title=The Tumble Hitch|accessdate=2012-02-25}}</ref>
==Tying==
Tying sequence for one variant of the tumble hitch.
Why isn't the specific, titled knot shown?
A problem with this presented variant is that it puts in a nipping turn --like in a sheepshank-- which can hold the line hitched to the object even after the slip-bight/toggle has been pulled out!! Then, one must hope some vigorous shaking of the line will spill this nipping loop --potentially a difficult task.
<gallery>
File:G?venliceEskiyaBagi1.JPG|Place bight 1 over a beam
File:G?venliceEskiyaBagi2.JPG|Cross a bight near the working part over the standing part, under beam, up through bight 1
File:G?venliceEskiyaBagi3.JPG|Pass the working part below and around the standing part and a bight up through bight 2
File:G?venliceEskiyaBagi4.JPG|Tighten by pulling standing part and last bight
</gallery>
==See also==
*[[list of knots]]
==References==
{{Reflist}}
== External links ==
* [http://www.animatedknots.com/tumble/ tying instructions]
{{Knots}}
{{DEFAULTSORT:Tumble Hitch}}
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