All very useful knots.ForgeCorvus wrote: ↑Mon May 23, 2022 6:29 pmA good selection of knots to learnjansman wrote: ↑Mon May 23, 2022 4:51 pmHere’s the knot I use everyday at work, many hundreds of times on a bad day Its useful as a civvy too. It’s called a butchers knot. Look it up on YouTube; my original link didn’t isolate from my own history there. I am a butcher,not Bill Gates!Yorkshire Andy wrote: ↑Sun May 22, 2022 9:06 pm
The transport hitch is THE knot to learn from lashing a load to a trailer or Ute bed or tensioning a guy rope without the plastic toggle it's a good knot to learn
Reef
Bowline
Transport hitch (trucker's hitch, carter's hitch, trucker's/carter's dolly.... There are more names)
Butcher's knot (thanks Jansman, I hadn't thought about that one)
Clove Hitch (there are two ways to tie this, you should learn both)
Sheet bend
Figure 8 ( has several different uses as stopper knot, fixed loop and tackle hitch to name a few)
A word on the reef knot. This is probably the best known knot for joining two ropes, but it is NOT a true bend (a bend is a knot for joining two ropes). It is easy to undo, but can come undone too easily! It's good for non-critical situations.
Sheet Bend as you mentioned is another useful knot. Better than a reef knot, but can still loosen easily if not under load. Used for ropes of unequal diameter (or equal).
https://www.101knots.com/sheet-bend.html
More secure, and an easy knot to learn, is the Alpine Butterfly Bend.
https://www.netknots.com/rope_knots/alp ... erfly-bend
Easy to undo but unlikely to come undone when not under load. This is my favourite of these four. Ropes need to be roughly equal diameter.
Even more secure, to the point of being a pain to undo, is the Double Fisherman's Knot.
https://www.netknots.com/rope_knots/double-fishermans