Can anybody tell me what this stuff is called?
http://pg.photos.yahoo.com/ph/drjbrennan/detail?.dir=/f202&.dnm=aabascd.jpg&.src=ph
I found it after a delicery of steel fence panels had been unloaded, and this was securing the panels so it must be pretty strong. It is about one inch width, and is made of fibres bonded into a tape.
Any ideas for using it would be welcome!
Hi !
Looks to me an awful lot just like the fiber glass tape used in really heavy duty packaging over here in my continental part of Europe.
Awfully resistant in my experience to shearing, torque and streching. I never succed in “cutting” it by hands ( and never saw anyone succeding, even for heavier “modules” than me)
always needed a shard cutter ( if cutter has dull or blunt edge job will not be done “first cut”)
Hope that help
It looks like the tape we sometimes get around pallets loads. One time I played with that and found that I could easily tear I lenghtwise. The narrrow strips left then were easy to tie with.
Willeke
I guess it is universally used but not named. The lumber yard where I shop delivers huge bundles of lumber strapped with this product (or one that looks like it). It is fiberglass and I am not sure how it is bonded into the tape form. It has cute little wire buckles and the hand tool that tightens the binding on the load then locks the buckle. I couldn’t find any recycle use for it.. maybe a lack of wit on my part.
I have tried a little decorative knotting with it, but I found it hard to work with the tape the whole width.
That is why I tried spliting in lengthwise. And while it worked I did not really use the resulting narrow tape.
Willeke
Hi Willeke
Either you are endowed with SuperWoman strength or it is not exactly the same tape I had in hand with fibers lenghtwise for straining resistance and fibers disposed widthwise preventing all “separation” in ribbon-like strips by hand.
Cheers
I am certainly no superwoman.
The tape I have worked with was very strong lenthwise, but in the width it was just strong enough to stay together, more stickyness than strength.
The photo is not clear enough for me to see which version of the tape it is.
Willeke
parcel reinforcement bands? 
I’ve got a book from Taiwan with craft projects just for this stuff. Lots of plaiting and knotting. Animal figures and those Sepak Raga (Takraw) balls traditionally made in rattan.
G’day, my name is Benno. hope this breaks the ice 
this is my first post here and is directed at “Knot me”
I have a question in regards to you comment:
“I’ve got a book from Taiwan with craft projects just for this stuff. Lots of plaiting and knotting. Animal figures and those Sepak Raga (Takraw) balls traditionally made in rattan.”
specifically in regards to the mention of Sepak Raga (Takraw) balls. I’m having a really hard time finding any information in print or on the web that details their method of construction and was wondering if it was possible for me to request the title of the book and/or the ISBN number, as I need any help I can get with trying to make these little curiosities. ???
my apologies if this post is somewhat brief.
I look forward to hearing from anyone with any helpful comments or wisdom that they may wish to share 
Cheers,
Benno.
I recently moved, so finding the specific book among the many boxes is not something I can give you with any kind of reasonable deadline, but a book specifically on sepak raga is: http://www.amazon.com/Sepak-Sarawak-Museum-occasional-paper/dp/B0006EHZFI/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&s=books&qid=1217009184&sr=8-1 note that the book is 44 pages, so the used copy listed for $39 is pretty steep plus the caning shop has it for $5
http://www.caningshop.com/Merchant2/merchant.mvc?Screen=PROD&Product_Code=04902&Category_Code=
I encountered some stuff early this morning that seems obliquely related to the binding tape with which this topic opened. It was strung between fence posts as a crowd management device (or so it appeared as an event was being set up; perhaps the event coincided with an underground cable installation underway or some such). It read 2500# MULETAPE(R) by NEPTCO. See more information in NEPTCO’s description. It’s meant for measuring runs of conduit and then pulling electrical or communications cables through the conduit. It’s designed to experience low elongation (much like a halyard) and to minimize heating from friction in this application.
Since the stuff is prelubricated, it doesn’t seem a likely candidate for load binding. I do find NEPTCO’s bend (trademarked, no less) for the stuff fascinating, though: The [imprecisely named] MULEKNOTTM (not to be confused with the mule hitch often combined with the Munter hitch . . . obviously). Doth anyone recognize that bend from the general knotting canon? I must confess I don’t at the moment in spite of all its tantalizing scent of familiarity (perhaps I’m thinking of a fishing bend or eye shown me eons ago by an uncle?). I’m curious—although leery of—how it would perform in line of a round cross section. ADDED: Now that I see it’s a fishing line bend, I’m curious how it fares in larger round stuff that I’d be likely to use more frequently. Looks as though I’ve got some more lurking to do.
P.S. The linked PDF in this thread post prompts a confidential memorandum to the word turn(s): thou aren’t the only overloaded term; every human language (and many a mechanized language, too) has numerous such words.
P.P.S. Double-checked when I again passed it. Definitely repurposed as a queuing or barrier system.
P.P.P.S. That was easier than I’d thought it would be. Just Googled fishing line knots. Turns out that MULEKNOTTM is just NEPTCO’s trade name for a blood knot bend tied in MULETAPE(R). However clever the marketing of renaming a fishing bend to suit their brand, it didn’t stop whoever set it up as a crowd barrier from tying a (non-cowboy) bowline in the end.