I checked for this knot in Ashley, but couldn’t find it. I considered calling it a “Clove hitch loop,” but the title seemed a more accurate description.
The pictured knot was tied on a 1" diameter dowel using tubular tape that I made by pulling the core out of a length of 550 paracord.
The knot is tied as a basic clove hitch using a bighted cord instead of a single strand. I found that adding a third half hitch greatly increases the security of the loop.
Either end of the bight can be used as the working end. I prefer to use the loop of the bight as the standing end and the free ends of the bight as the working end because this allows me to better control the size of the final loop.
The result is a strong, stable, movable loop that can be used as an attachment point or for any similar purpose. The tubular tape allows this knot to be tied on another rope that is at least three times the diameter of the tape.
https://dl.dropbox.com/u/11821935/CloveLoop1.jpg
https://dl.dropbox.com/u/11821935/CloveLoop2.jpg
https://dl.dropbox.com/u/11821935/CloveLoop3.jpg
I came up with this one on my own. If there’s a published history for this knot then I’d very much like to read it.
using tubular tape that I made by pulling the core out of a length of 550 paracord.
That’s a handy way to obtain a flattening material, but do
note that there is a difference in behavior between such
materials and ready-made tubular webbing --and more
so with solid webbing–: the flatness is more enforced,
less easily (or not at all) overcome. (I’ve found some
substantial sheath (of about 1.25" dia rope) used by
some marine folks among discarded materials!)
I found that adding a third half hitch greatly increases the security of the loop.
Yes, that or tying a stopper knot in the tail.
The result is a strong, stable, movable loop that can be used as an attachment point
or for any similar purpose. The tubular tape allows this knot to be tied on another rope
that is at least three times the diameter of the tape.
But if that’s the goal, why not tie a rolling hitch vice the
clove hitch + extra h-h which I think will give better gripping?
At least, that’s what I find with some commercial-fishing binding
cord --hollow, but relatively thicker than a sheath would be–
around nearly equal size polypropylene kernmantle marine
cordage, which is smooth & slick. (I only tested this with
manual pulling, not with a pulley; but the hitch that you
present here didn’t hold well at all.)
FYI, there was another fellow who also looked to a clove h.
start for making a gripping hitch, which he called the
“Fixed Gripper Hitch”; cf. this thread:
http://igkt.net/sm/index.php?topic=1839.msg12495#msg12495
for further discussion of that and related ideas.
Thanks,
–dl*
It’s not meant to be a gripping hitch. The loop allows the load to be applied perpendicular to the dowel, which a rolling hitch can’t do.