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[–] Vej@lemm.ee 10 points 1 year ago (2 children)

Quick thing. I am an avid hiker. I know a lot of knots. If there is one knot I had to tell someone to go learn it's the "Trucker's Hitch."

[–] CosmicTurtle@lemmy.world 8 points 1 year ago (2 children)

How the hell are you going to make that statement and not even provide a link?!

[–] Vej@lemm.ee 7 points 1 year ago (1 children)

What you linked will work as a truckers hitch, but that's not a trucker's hitch.

https://www.netknots.com/rope_knots/truckers-hitch

[–] deus@lemmy.world 7 points 1 year ago (2 children)

How come there are two links in this thread and none of them are this one?

[–] milicent_bystandr@lemm.ee 2 points 1 year ago

I should have checked yours before I also posted!

Incidentally, that put me off learning the trucker's hitch until completely unconnected a friend showed me the hitch very simply. Now it's one of my favourite.

I also assumed until half way through the song...That it was going to be a sappy love song about how he doesn't know how to 'tie the knot'
...I was glad to find myself wrong.

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[–] milicent_bystandr@lemm.ee 1 points 1 year ago (1 children)
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[–] I_am_10_squirrels@beehaw.org 4 points 1 year ago (1 children)

What makes the trucker's hitch particularly useful?

[–] Vej@lemm.ee 7 points 1 year ago

It's a slip knot that you can use like a ratchet strap.