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Chit Chat / Summer Holiday Fun (long post)
« by Mrs Glenys Chew on October 03, 2007, 10:47:15 PM »...... to offer to help them properly. - Made a rope-swing for our only tree, using its only loadbearing ............ , and replaced with rope which had formed the rope-swing of my own childhood. I think it?s made of four ............ ?s video of the baby pulling a bus, a ropeswing at Tim?s school, which no-one seems to know who ............ . I remember my disappointment with my own rope-swing, when it almost cut through the arm of the tree ............ the combined childhoods of the estate. The swing was finished with a figure-of-eight knot at the ............ for any slippage, and then again actually swinging enthusiastically to make sure of the minimal ............ , and how could I do that if I didn?t have first swing on it myself, I ask you? Anyway ? it?s proving ............ plaiting with the redundant washing line from the swing, but there was too much for me to manipulate in ......
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Knotting Concepts & Explorations / Re: What defines a Bowline? - structure, characteristics, topology
« by knot rigger on March 29, 2017, 04:28:20 AM »...... ://tinyurl.com/lrujzxs) tied around a sizable tree branch to suspend a child's swing. Assuming sufficient ............ between the tree bark and round turn, when the swing pendulums, a leg of the eye will slack. Given ............ " definition paradigm proposed, when the child swings the knot will transform from Sheet Bend, to ......
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Chit Chat / Re: Newb question: solid core rope
« by James Petersen on August 14, 2013, 05:59:22 AM »...... 's noose (though very sloppy). The rope over the branch and down was then basically a big circle and it ............ a couple over and cinching them around the branch so that it bends more below the wood, rather than ............ over it, as the swing moves. ... This was my experience with making ............ swing in a tree: http://igkt.net/sm/index.php?topic= ............ #msg26316 . I used 1/2' laid nylon line. The swing is still there and the branch is still healthy, ............ the bottom of the rope to attach the (pre-strung) swing to it. ... So, if I understand correctly, you ............ to tie off to the branch with short lines -- which have loops in the ............ end -- and then attach the swing (and its long line/lines) to this loop? I wish I ............ done that. Part of the reason the swing is still there is that it was a major operation ............ thinking, there are many ways of attaching the "swing lines" to the "branch lines", incuding hitches to ............ loops in the branch lines that I think you have mentioned, and bends ( ......
...... question, I've recently put up a rope type swing for my son. It consists of two ropes, one on each ............ bench style seat. Regarding the loop/hitch to the branch, on one rope I took a round turn and made a ............ . IMO, the very best solution for the rope to the branch scenario is by tying off with a Bull Hitch and ......
...... side then it depends on how you are fixing to a branch. Assuming you will fix each end of the rope to ............ branch then simply thread the rope through the each of ............ be self adjusting BUT the fixing points on the branch need to be at close to the same height or the ......
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Knotting Concepts & Explorations / Re: physics of a riding turn
« by KC on January 08, 2021, 12:26:04 PM »...... End! >>it squares forces to this position with branches of an X to either side as Constrictor and Bag ............ Sailor's.. Lesson #465 notes: "To make fast a swing: The accompanying hitch is recommended, as it ............ than completes across to sawing motion or rocking/swing >>The crossing shows at top region slanted to ............ side of SPart, this would make it at top at swing away to SPart side, the most critical leveraged ......
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Knotting Concepts & Explorations / Re: Sailing in modern times.
« by KC on December 17, 2019, 01:59:35 PM »...... with force so much so ABoK says won't saw thru branch in usage as child's swing, just rocks from this ......
...... practical applications. Pictured below is a tree swing. It appears running loops used at the top. The ............ tying this likely did not have access to the branch. In other words, the person probably had to ............ the rope up and over the branch somehow. 1. Is that the hitch you would have ............ What would you use if you had access directly to branch where the hitch is tied (e.g., with a tall ladder ......
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Practical Knots / Re: low-risk climbing ideas, rope harness etc.
« by Lelandbug on April 01, 2008, 02:51:24 AM »...... it won't be hard to lower myself down. With the swingset, it would be easy enough to reach the top, ............ , then drop the rope and climb down the repaired swing. However, I don't know how I would get down if ............ a tree. It would be easy to tie the rope to a branch, but how would I get it down? Unless I anchored ......
...... and my tie I'm going to attempt to hang a rope swing from a tree limb for my kids. I purchased a throw ............ question then becomes how do I go about tying the swing rope to the brach which is high up in the tree? ............ Good day tb582. Firstly, what type of swing? A tire? A plank? Or just a knot/loop on the end ............ sized rope to hold both ends once it is over the branch? If so, then if you'd like a single line from ............ , unknotted, into the eye and pull the loop to the branch. It will be self tightening. Make sure the rope ............ initially over the branch where you want it. Then tie the tire, etc. to ......
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Knotting Concepts & Explorations / Load release on a bight?
« by Thoreon on March 31, 2015, 04:58:35 PM »...... head* Anyway, I've been playing around with rope swings. Hang someone (in a harness!) from a high branch, ......
...... same fate as this child, as he rigged up a rope swing on his 6-foot high climbing frame, the summer ............ for bullying a child by hanging him from a rope swing. I can't remember if the other child survived, ............ fee for the Guild or national Guild branch, and a personal fee including travel expenses for ............ , such as my son's school which has a rope swing (reportedly fixed up by the children themselves, ............ with other local knotters (we have no local branch here, as such) so that I can have my skills ......
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Knotting Concepts & Explorations / Re: When a slip is knot
« by DerekSmith on February 21, 2016, 08:25:48 PM »...... BS rope. But I needed to ensure the bough would swing back across the fence and not crash down into the ............ bough as I could safely get it, to support the branches as they swung back. This lighter rope was ............ over a high branch and then taken down and fastened around a stought ............ the rope and ensure the bough would start to swing away from the neighbours garden as soon as the ............ was to release the truckers hitch and lower the branches, then lower the bough using a friction plate. ............ I was - knot jammed solid and 500lb of timber swinging gently in the breeze on a rope that was way ............ . I finished up bracing the the branches with a ladder to take a large proportion of the ............ rope, then remove the ladder prop and lowered the branches to the ground. Two lessons learned - 1. Don't ............ the weight of twiggy branches, and 2. use a couple of turns around the ......
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Practical Knots / Re: What would be an appropriate knot for tying off a rope swing?
« by SS369 on January 14, 2011, 01:02:45 AM »...... for clarity: Is the branch reachable or will you have to heave the rope over? ............ Do you intend for it to be a one rope swing? ......
...... information on how to not "choke" the tree branch. I have seen the damage to a tree from a wire ............ grow. If you tie a knot that will throttle the branch, it could kill the branch, and have you looking ............ a new place to hang your swing from. Worst case, it will cause the branch to ............ other high stress event, like when Dad goes for a swing. ......
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Chit Chat / Re: Weetos Cereal boxes (probably UK only)
« by DerekSmith on April 05, 2007, 08:04:19 PM »...... you don't have access to an end (and I guess the branch as replete with twigs?) Seriously though, if the ............ of the bough - wrapping and unwrapping as the swing swings. If the cf is low, then the knot rotates ............ be in line with the swing and the cord 'pivots' out of the crotch of the ......
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New Knot Investigations / Re: True Adjustable Loop Knot or TALK for short
« by roo on March 30, 2015, 03:02:26 PM »...... So, for relative object rotation, imagine a line swinging around a post or branch. As the surface digs ......
...... . It was necessary to loft the smaller line over a branch in order to attach a heavy rope to be drawn over ............ to then climb. The technique I used was to swing the weight between my feet (front to back,etc.) ......
...... chain, but if you intend to use it for hanging a swing on a tree branch, you may easily exceed the ......
...... strong enough to hold me (225lbs). I made a swing before using the same rope but it was only a ............ rope thrown over a branch and it held me fine. It lasted 2 years but I ............ . I am now trying to build a better more secure swing. ......
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Practical Knots / Re: Aligned Double Loops
« by James Petersen on January 31, 2013, 08:08:36 PM »...... have used ABOK 465 both to suspend children's swings from trees and to tie hammocks. In my experience ............ swings and hammocks, the damage to the bark of the tree/ ............ when a loose loop is used and then slips when the swing or hammock swings back and forth, chafing ( ............ simply threw a single line over a large maple branch about 25 feet off the ground to make a tire swing ............ his children. The swing was simply a bight thrown over the limb with both ............ secured to a tire. The swing was there a couple of years and then removed. The ............ later. At approximately the same time, I made a swing for my children in a large maple tree outside our ............ to the limb with this hitch (ABOK 465). That swing is still there and still fully functional, ............ the branch has grown completely around the hitches where ............ of the picture in ABOK.) It is easily tied on a branch, limb, or horizontal spar, but can be somewhat ......
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