Prepper's Guide to Knots
The 100 Most Useful Tying Techniques for Surviving any Disaster
1st Edition
Published on 10. February 2022
196 pages
978-1-61243-630-2 (ISBN)
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When your life, home, and property are hanging by a thread, these are the knots too strong to break-from the author of
Prepper's Survival Medicine Handbook.
When catastrophe strikes and modern technologies fail, ropework skills will become as essential for survival as they were for centuries past. The variety of knots taught in this book are guaranteed to hold against even the toughest forces, ensuring that an emergency doesn't turn into a disaster. With knots that are practical, easy to tie, easy to remember, and useful in critical situations, you'll learn how to...
- Create sturdy shelter with a HARNESS BEND
- Preserve sacks of grain with a BAG KNOT
- Move fallen trees with a BOWLINE
- Transport injured persons with a MUNTER HITCH
- Secure your home against intruders with a ZEPPELIN BEND
- Hang rations above floodwater with a SCAFFOLD KNOT
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Scott Finazzo has been a professional firefighter for seventeen years and is currently serving as a Lieutenant for the Overland Park (KS) Fire Department. He has been writing in various capacities for much of his life. With years of experience both preparing for and responding to disasters, he has developed a keen interest in survival. Scott maintains an intrinsic connection to travel and adventure. His self-reliance skills have been honed by undertaking ventures such as exploring the Rocky Mountains and several excursions into islands of the Caribbean.Scott co-authored The Prepper's Workbook, which quickly became a national best seller,with Scott B. Williams and followed it up with the narrative of his kayak adventure through the Virgin Islands with two friends in self built sea kayaks titled Why Do All the Locals Think We're Crazy?. In the summer of 2015 Scott continued on the topic of public safety with the release of his third book The Neighborhood Emergency Response Handbook.Most recently Scott releasedPrepper's Survival Medicine and Prepper's Guide to Knots.He has a Bachelor's Degree in Management and Human Relations and two Associate's Degrees. He currently lives in Lenexa, Kansas until he can relocate somewhere under a palm tree.Follow Scott at scottfinazzo.com.
Content
- Intro
- Title Page
- Copyright
- Contents
- INTRODUCTION
- MATERIALS USED IN ROPES
- CARE AND CLEANING
- TERMS
- BASIC KNOTS
- Overhand Knot
- Double Overhand Knot
- Triple Overhand Knot
- Overhand Knot with a Drawloop
- Two Strand Overhand Knot
- Half Hitch
- Two Half Hitches
- Overhand Loop
- Double Overhand Loop
- Scaffold Knot
- Multiple Scaffold Knot
- Oysterman's Stopper Knot
- Stevedore's Knot
- Figure Eight Stopper Knot
- Heaving Line Knot
- Monkey's Fist
- BENDS
- Sheet Bend
- Flemish Bend
- Double Figure of Eight Bend
- Fisherman's Knot
- Double Fisherman's Knot
- Zeppelin Bend
- Adjustable Bend
- Harness Bend
- Double Harness Bend with Parallel Ends
- Surgeon's Knot
- Hunter's Bend
- Strop Bend
- Vice Versa
- Simple Simon Over
- Simple Simon Under
- Simple Simon Double
- Bowline Bend
- Twin Bowline Bend
- Shake Hands
- Alpine Butterfly Bend
- Blood Knot
- Double Grinner Knot
- BINDING KNOTS
- Granny Knot
- Square Knot
- Thief Knot
- Constrictor Knot
- Double Constrictor Knot
- Transom Knot
- Bag Knot
- Packer's Knot
- Boa Knot
- Bottle Sling Knot
- Asher's Equalizer
- Marline Hitch
- Clove Hitch
- Clove Hitch with a Working End
- Figure of Eight Hitch
- Pedigree Cow Hitch
- Cow Hitch Variant
- Buntline Hitch
- Ground Line Hitch
- Anchor Bend
- Anchor Bend Variant
- Cat's Paw
- Highwayman's Hitch
- Rolling Hitch
- Halter Hitch
- Pile Hitch
- Double Pile Hitch
- Vibration-Proof Hitch
- Snuggle Hitch
- Boom Hitch
- Lighterman's Hitch
- Bale Sling Hitch
- Ring Hitch
- Knute Hitch
- LOOPS
- Bowline
- Double Bowline
- Water Bowline
- Angler's Loop
- Figure of Eight Loop
- Figure of Eight Follow Through
- Double Figure of Eight Loop
- Triple Figure of Eight Loop
- Directional Figure of Eight
- Farmer's Loop
- Blood Loop Dropper Knot
- Bowstring Knot
- Alpine Butterfly
- Artillery Loop
- Adjustable Loop
- Water Knot
- Arbor Knot
- Tom Fool's Knot
- Handcuff Knot
- Fireman's Chair Knot
- Hangman's Noose
- Munter Hitch
- Double Munter Hitch
- Prusik
- COILS
- Alpine Coil
- Figure of Eight Coil
- Fireman's Coil
- Daisy Chain
- ACKNOWLEDGMENTS
- ABOUT THE AUTHOR
