When you break it down, thats what it looks like.

That is what it is -- a modified clove hitch. But you are going to have a messed up time if you need to have tension on the line while you are trying the knot. It is a pretty knot as long as you are just going to show the knot but no practical application for the knot

@@geraldcarr7230 I prefer this one over the clove hitch, its less likely to slip

​@@knotknuta clove hitch can be tied while maintaining pressure. This knot can not so easily because it requires going under the line that has the tension

This grips a lot more tightly. Clamp it down enough and you will have to cut the rope to ever remove it. Clove hitch is better in 95 percent of situations though

Pretty much. Minus the safety.

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Pot Fisherman. Kodiak, Alaska. F.V.- Sea Barb. 17 yes ago though but still the best 3 years of my life.

A clove will roll out or slide under a load unless you tie it off with half hitches. This knot pins the tail under the wraps to help prevent it slipping. Although being a much cleaner knot i would most certainly not trust it under heavy loads.

That is a use I never thought off

Most of the knots seem to come from sailors back a few hundred years. We use coma longs, zip ties and tie down straps

@@knotknut I tend to agree with that. I was just sitting here wondering (imagining) them trying to figure out how to make a certain knot do what they want it to do 😉 . On a creaky, leaky old wooden sailing ship as it rocks back and forth while the waves are crashing over the deck.

I heard that a British surgeon (who sailed) was using this knot in surgeries before he had ever seen any one else use it. So it may have been created by many users after playing around with the clove hitch.

@@philrobson4287 , that could have easily happened. I'm sure surgeons know more knots than I do. Heck a toddler probably knows more than me.

His name was Wendel C. Brimblebrag. He’s the one that invented all knots ever tied.

I like using the constrictor over the clove hitch because when you tension the constrictor hitch it holds very well. I will be posting another video of the constrictor hitch being tied a different way very soon.

Yes, it is. Holds a lot tighter than a clove hitch.

I will do another video building it in your hands, hopefully soon.

With short videos I have only 60 seconds, not enough time to explain uses. A lot of ppl have commented on their uses of this knot. I like to use it in the place of a clove hitch and it works well for tying bundles of pipes together.