The Field Guide to Knots
How to Identify, Tie, and Untie Over 80 Essential Knots for Outdoor Pursuits
Published on 22. December 2015
100 pages
978-1-61519-277-9 (ISBN)
Description
A
fasten-ating guide to knots for every adventure, from the author of
Wilderness Survival Skills and
The Camping Bible.
The perfect knot can make any job quicker, easier, and safer-whether you need to build a shelter, tether a horse, rappel down a cliff, or moor a boat. In
The Field Guide to Knots, veteran outdoorsman Bob Holtzman helps you:
- Select and tie the right knot for any task
- Identify and untie existing knots
- Choose and maintain your rope, and more
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English
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New York
United States
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48,07 MB
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978-1-61519-277-9 (9781615192779)
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Bob Holtzman
The Field Guide to Knots
How to Identify, Tie, and Untie Over 80 Essential Knots for Outdoor Pursuits
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Bob Holtzman has been writing about outdoor sports for more than 25 years. A former editor of boating and outdoors books for International Marine and Ragged Mountain Press, he is the author of The Camping Bible, Wilderness Survival Skills, and a series of boating books for children. He is president of Mythic Gear, a company that manufactures drysuits for boating and paddlesports. Holtzman lives in Maine, where he enjoys canoeing, camping, hiking, and writing the blog Indigenous Boats.
Content
- Intro
- Introduction
- Why This Knot Book?
- How to Use This Book
- What Knots Are Included?
- Why So Many Knots?
- General Guidelines for Tying Knots
- Safety
- Part One: Rope and Knot Basics
- Anatomy and Taxonomy
- Working Terms and Basic Shapes
- Types of Knots
- Finishing Knots
- Untying Knots
- Buying Rope
- Rope Construction and Materials
- Natural Versus Synthetic Fibers
- Caring for Rope
- Coiling for Storage
- Alpine Coil
- Fireman's Coil
- Wrapped and Reef-knotted Coil
- Butterfly Coil
- Part Two: Foundation Knots
- 1. Overhand Knot
- 2. Slipped Overhand Knot
- 3. Double Overhand Knot
- 4. Overhand Loop
- 5. Single Hitch
- 6. Half Knot
- 7. Half Hitch
- 8. Slipped Half Hitch
- Part Three: Stopper Knots
- 9. Figure 8 Knot
- 10. Figure 8 Knot-Alternate Method
- 11. Slipped Figure 8 Knot
- 12. Stopper Knot
- 13. Sink Stopper Knot
- 14. Stevedore Knot
- 15. Heaving Line Knot
- 16. Monkey's Fist
- Part Four: Binding Knots
- 17. Square Knot
- 18. Slipped Square Knot
- 19. Granny Knot
- 20. Thief Knot
- 21. Surgeon's Knot
- 22. Surgeon's Knot with Second Tuck
- 23. Strangle Knot
- 24. Miller's Knot
- 25. Packer's Knot
- Part Five: Loop Knots
- 26. Double Overhand Loop
- 27. Figure 8 Loop
- 28. Threaded Figure 8 Loop
- 29. Directional Figure 8 Loop
- 30. Fisherman's Loop
- 31. Double Overhand Sliding Loop
- 32. Angler's Loop
- 33. Bowline
- 34. Bowline with Stopper
- 35. One-handed Bowline
- 36. Dutch Bowline
- 37. Bowline with Two Turns
- 38. Water Bowline
- 39. Portuguese Bowline
- 40. Eskimo Bowline
- 41. Bowline on a Bight
- 42. Spanish Bowline
- 43. Alpine Butterfly
- Part Six: Bends
- 44. Water Knot
- 45. Sheet Bend
- 46. Double Sheet Bend
- 47. Tucked Sheet Bend
- 48. Three-way Sheet Bend
- 49. Flemish Bend
- 50. Double Figure 8 Bend
- 51. Carrick Bend
- 52. Zeppelin Bend
- 53. Hunter's Bend
- 54. Ashley's Bend
- 55. Fisherman's Knot
- 56. Double Fisherman's Knot
- 57. Blood Knot
- Part Seven: Hitches
- 58. Marlinespike Hitch
- 59. Round Turn and Two Half Hitches
- 60. Turn and Two Half Hitches
- 61. Taut Line Hitch
- 62. Buntline Hitch
- 63. Anchor Bend-Version 1
- 64. Anchor Bend-Version 2
- 65. Clove Hitch
- 66. Clove Hitch on a Bight
- 67. Constrictor Knot
- 68. Rolling Hitch
- 69. Timber Hitch
- 70. Cow Hitch Method 1: On a Bight
- 71. Cow Hitch Method 2: In a Sling
- 72. Cow Hitch Method 3: Over the End
- 73. Cow Hitch Method 4: With One Working End
- 74. Pedigree Cow Hitch
- 75. Cow Hitch with a Toggle
- 76. Mooring Hitch
- 77. Highwayman's Hitch
- Part Eight: Lashings and Special-purpose Knots
- 78. Square Lashing
- 79. Diagonal Lashing
- 80. Sheer Lashing
- 81. Pole Lashing
- 82. Slip Knot Trucker's Hitch
- 83. Sheepshank
- 84. Cleat Hitch
- 85. Prusik Knot
- 86. Klemheist Knot
- 87. Italian Hitch
- Part Nine: Whipping and Seizing
- Materials and General Methods
- Common Whipping
- French Whipping
- Flat Seizing
- Glossary
- Resources
- Index
- Credits
