Quite often when your camping etc you need to know how to tie a couple of knots,here's a link to a great site that clearly illustrates how to tie those knots...
http://www.animatedknots.com/indexscout ... p&Website=
Tieing the knot
Re: Tieing the knot
did anyone look at the sheep shank knot they say should never be used because it fails under loads with modern rope
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Re: Tieing the knot
did anyone look at the sheep shank knot they say should never be used because it fails under loads with modern rope
That's when you should tie a Portugese (sp?) Sheep Shank. You probably won't find that one in your knot tieing book. I learned it from a guy who ran the launch service (small outrigger)from the tanker I worked on to the docks in Bahrain.
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