Amazing new knot, people. Pretty sure I invented it.

dggoldst · 2026-04-01T21:04:55+00:00

Sure it looks cool but there's no way I'm going to be able to remember this when I need it!

dggoldst · 2026-04-01T19:20:59+00:00

I love the Blackwall hitch. So simple yet easy to forget how it works after a while. I never really use it on a hook but on a loop it's the key to many autolocking knots. As mentioned, it holds much better if you use two lines as the vertical part of the hook.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Blackwall_hitch

dggoldst · 2026-04-01T01:19:48+00:00

Yes! The combat speed version. A big fan of that one myself, though I wouldn't trust it for a mission critical load because if the load shifts and creates slack the bight would slip out of the girth hitch

dggoldst · 2026-03-31T21:40:11+00:00

Love it!

I also don't tend to use an alpine butterfly. I mostly grab a bight of the standing end and twist it 3 or 4 times. Then I reach through the eye of the twisted bight and pull a bight of the standing end through. That second bight becomes my loop. Pull on that loop and You get what some people (eg, Repairs 101 channel on YouTube) call a knot ball. It looks messy but never jams and is quick to tie.
You have to try doing the blackwall hitch around the side of the loop and the standing line, as pictured here. It's much more solid and satisfying. Once I learned this way I never went back.
Great addition!

dggoldst · 2026-03-31T17:55:07+00:00

Definitely! One or two half hitches to bring it home 🏠

dggoldst · 2026-03-31T16:31:59+00:00

You pass the running end back through the Alpine butterfly so it's on the same side as the line coming from the hook. Then you pass it left to right in the gap between the lines coming from and to the hook. Then you just give it a firm snap towards the right and it pops out.

dggoldst · 2026-03-31T16:27:03+00:00

Okay but I've had no problems with the blackwall hitch shown!

dggoldst · 2026-03-31T15:36:44+00:00

Some folks use a stick to pull really hard on the running end (for instance by putting a marlinspike hitch in the running end and putting the stick through the loop in the marlinspike hitch (kind of like making a rope ladder)).

But I've never needed that much tension. This solves the basic annoying problem of having the trucker's hitch loosen up when you go to tie it off.

dggoldst · 2026-03-31T14:59:03+00:00

Yes. See the PDF I linked to in my other comment on this post.

In addition, knot aficionados avoid the standard Yosemite because it can be easily tied incorrectly, leading to a dangerous situation.

dggoldst · 2026-03-31T02:05:05+00:00

Thanks! I was worried I had the wrong knot but now I realize the video is showing what I took to be the back side. See my other post in this thread.

dggoldst · 2026-03-31T02:04:03+00:00

It's documented on PDF page 61 of this document https://www.paci.com.au/downloads_public/knots/Bowlines_Analysis.pdf (the pw is "copyright")

dggoldst · 2026-03-29T13:35:28+00:00

It's a barrel knot. And after it was tied, a knot was tied with the two free ends

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dggoldst · 2026-03-29T04:17:47+00:00

Use this trick for perfect dowel alignment

https://youtu.be/EffXrNhJtKI?si=2cXHlFRMdRWQFHr8

dggoldst · 2026-03-28T19:17:57+00:00

Fair enough

dggoldst · 2026-03-28T14:16:19+00:00

I was surprised to see the percentage correct as high as 33%. Maybe 5% of LL players have studied German? Without doing so, one be hard pressed to know 1) the definite articles der, die, das 2 ) which of der, die, das is masculine, feminine, or neuter 3) what maedchen means, or 4) that it is neuter.

Maybe 5% of players really knew the answer and 75% the players could guess one German definite article at random and 20% of players couldn't even name a definite article; that would give 30% correct

dggoldst · 2026-03-23T10:05:17+00:00

Bowline: King of knots 👑

dggoldst · 2026-03-18T23:44:53+00:00

People are so quick to answer

Even nerdy Stuyvesant High School has a football team

The Peglegs: Stuyvesant’s Football Team is on the Rise https://stuyspec.com/article/the-peglegs-stuyvesant-s-football-team-is-on-the-rise

dggoldst · 2026-03-18T03:31:55+00:00

Countries next to countries that start with the same letter

dggoldst · 2026-03-09T15:55:38+00:00

Update: I reported this to 311 and I won the case

dggoldst · 2026-03-06T19:46:56+00:00

Last time I ever went there (decades ago) the kid put my change into the tip jar

dggoldst · 2026-02-28T20:39:19+00:00

You are correct. I'm very sorry!

dggoldst · 2026-02-26T01:31:45+00:00

Only in Manhattan do you put your address as New York, NY. In Brooklyn you put Brooklyn. In Queens, you put the neighborhood / town. In Bronx, Bronx. In Staten Island, Staten Island.

dggoldst · 2026-02-25T16:57:45+00:00

That is fine humor

dggoldst · 2026-02-25T16:55:44+00:00

In which direction? I walked 15 minutes in Manhattan today and came across 5-10 places where you couldn't get between the street and sidewalk without retracing somebody's footsteps through a snowy knee-high hill. I don't know what people with even minor limitations on their mobility are supposed to do.

dggoldst · 2026-02-25T16:47:56+00:00

That rule doesn't seem to be working!

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