{"id":718,"date":"2021-11-01T17:05:27","date_gmt":"2021-11-01T21:05:27","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.irrelevant-tech.com\/?p=718"},"modified":"2021-11-20T02:12:02","modified_gmt":"2021-11-20T07:12:02","slug":"locking-loop-knot","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.irrelevant-tech.com\/index.php\/2021\/11\/01\/locking-loop-knot\/","title":{"rendered":"Locking Loop Knot"},"content":{"rendered":"

A particularly good knot for tying down tarpaulins is the slipped locking loop.\u00a0 This is an adjustable self-locking loop knot that is easily untied, even when frozen in winter.\u00a0 It is described on page 137 of John Shaw’s Directory of Knots.<\/p>\n

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Tie a stopper knot (either\u00a0 Ashley’s or a quad stopper<\/a>) in one end of a rope and pass it through a tarp grommet.\u00a0 Take the other end through or around the tie down point forming a loop.\u00a0 Pull on the working end to make the rope taught.\u00a0 Form the main loop and slip loop, as shown above, near the tie down point.\u00a0 Snug up the knot enough that it will just barely slide on the standing end.\u00a0\u00a0 While pulling on the working end to tighten the rope to the tarp, slide the knot away from the tie down until it snugs hard against the working end.\u00a0 The main loop will pull the standing end around the slip loop and lock the knot in place.\u00a0 Load tension from the tarp end will lock it tighter.<\/p>\n

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To remove the tie simply pull out the\u00a0 slip loop and the knot will fall apart.\u00a0 This feature is very useful for applications like covering car windows in the winter where freezing rain and snow-melt-freezes will completely lock up ordinary knots making them impossible to untie.<\/p>\n

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A particularly good knot for tying down tarpaulins is the slipped locking loop.\u00a0 This is an adjustable self-locking loop knot that is easily untied, even when frozen in winter.\u00a0 It is described on page 137 of John Shaw’s Directory of Knots. Tie a stopper knot (either\u00a0 Ashley’s or a quad stopper) in one end of … Continue reading “Locking Loop Knot”<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[24],"tags":[92],"class_list":["post-718","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-knots","tag-loop-knot"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.irrelevant-tech.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/718","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.irrelevant-tech.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.irrelevant-tech.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.irrelevant-tech.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.irrelevant-tech.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=718"}],"version-history":[{"count":8,"href":"https:\/\/www.irrelevant-tech.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/718\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":773,"href":"https:\/\/www.irrelevant-tech.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/718\/revisions\/773"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.irrelevant-tech.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=718"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.irrelevant-tech.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=718"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.irrelevant-tech.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=718"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}