Lorry drivers knot

housetrained

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Sep 21, 2009, 5:33:07 PM9/21/09

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Can you help? Before taut-liners our driver used to throw the rope right
over the load. One side had a loop and was on the trailer hook. The other
side the rope went round the hook and then he tied a knot. Pulling on the
rope to tighten the rope he said that if the load moved the rope would
tighten itself. Then after 12 hours of self-tightening he would just yank
the rope and it would just fall off. Simple. BUT what was the knot he used?
TIA

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MCC

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Sep 21, 2009, 6:19:02 PM9/21/09

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housetrained wrote:
> Can you help? Before taut-liners our driver used to throw the rope right
> over the load. One side had a loop and was on the trailer hook. The other
> side the rope went round the hook and then he tied a knot. Pulling on the
> rope to tighten the rope he said that if the load moved the rope would
> tighten itself. Then after 12 hours of self-tightening he would just yank
> the rope and it would just fall off. Simple. BUT what was the knot he used?
> TIA

Most probably a Trucker's Hitch
http://www.animatedknots.com/truckersrescue/index.php
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Davej

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Sep 21, 2009, 7:42:06 PM9/21/09

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On Sep 21, 3:33 pm, "housetrained" <housetrai...@hotmail.com> wrote:
> Can you help? Before taut-liners our driver used to throw the rope right
> over the load. One side had a loop and was on the trailer hook. The other
> side the rope went round the hook and then he tied a knot. Pulling on the
> rope to tighten the rope he said that if the load moved the rope would
> tighten itself. Then after 12 hours of self-tightening he would just yank
> the rope and it would just fall off. Simple. BUT what was the knot he used?
> TIA

I don't think there is any knot which could cause a rope to "tighten
itself" in a situation like that. How could it? The knot itself will
tighten due to loading but the rope over the load can only loosen. I
agree with the previous poster that the Trucker's Hitch is the most
likely knot to use for that application. It can be finished with a
"slippery loop" so as to untie with a pull.

Topaz

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Oct 27, 2009, 9:16:25 AM10/27/09

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This new discussion on the Trucker's Knot gives me a chance to
relaunch a question of about 2 years ago.
Does anyone know of a variant where the standing part is already
threaded through a closed eye before making the knot ?
(The animation shows the standing part as "free" in frame 1 and the
eye is an open eye.)
Topaz

Davej

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Oct 27, 2009, 7:03:55 PM10/27/09

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On Oct 27, 7:16 am, Topaz <rsimpson...@gmail.com> wrote:
>
> This new discussion on the Trucker's Knot gives me a chance to
> relaunch a question of about 2 years ago.
> Does anyone know of a variant where the standing part is already
> threaded through a closed eye before making the knot ?
> (The animation shows the standing part as "free" in frame 1 and the
> eye is an open eye.)

Threaded how? I don't think you could tie anything as good as a
Truckers hitch on a bight (completely midline).

Darren Samphier

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Dec 1, 2009, 7:40:02 AM12/1/09

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>Threaded how? I don't think you could tie anything as good as a
>Truckers hitch on a bight (completely midline).

When I tie up the trailer I have the rope tied to one side and throw it over
the trailer. I have a bar running down both sides and to tighten with a
truckies hitch and tie it off I never have to reave the end; it is all done
in the bight and tied off with a slipped clove hitch.

Knotman

Davej

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Dec 2, 2009, 2:51:25 PM12/2/09

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I might be inclined to tie a loose trucker's hitch and then throw the
rope over. Then tie the other side on the bight and then return to
tighten the trucker's hitch.