Yeah, videos which start with a summary combine the best of "shorts" and longer form.

First class amateur right there!

check out pipe hitch, and icicle hitch.

Bro from which book can we learn all types of knot

The icicle hitch might be a little bit quicker to tie when you have access to the poles end. But it’s barely anything to talk about.

Can't picture what you mean when you said to follow it with a series of larks head knots. Guess I'll get out some cordage and try to figure it out.

Kellum grip ,works well and doesn't make a bulge on the wire.

@@chronicon5616 Imagine a fishing pole. The pole is your pull-rope, once it's under tension, and the eyelets guide your limp fishing line. By using lark's heads every few inches or feet (depending on the material you're moving), you're picking the thing up farther down in its mass, so the tension load on it is lower, which is good. The cost of that is you will be trying to lift something like a fishing line, but the top flops over. So, you put a series of lark's heads from your main support knot to the end part. Now, your rope is doing the tension, and the top of the object is simply along for the ride. Now, there is a bonus in that the lark's heads should add some clamping force individually, so that takes a lot of the load off of the main knot, and the material being lifted. Note that this video indicated that grip is a factor of how many loops he put into his demonstrated knot. Another example would be lifting several 2x4's of wood with a rope, but there's wind or a narrow passageway that they're being lifted in. Using the knot in the video, if you grip the wood by the end, it will likely slip, or crush the wood grain, or want to go horizontal and spin just to spite you, or even expand out, like an asterisk " * " just before going full calamity. You can put a heavy squeeze knot like the video down near the middle, or the bottom end if you have several pieces of wood, and then put a series of lark's head knots up to the top of the bundle, so that the bundle of wood is being pressed together along its entire length, rather than crushed in one small spot, with lower total grip power.

We have situations where we're not allowed to use tape or anything that could possibly leave residue behind. This is the interest in different knots.

​​@@paulstaney325 And oftentimes kellum is the choice but pulling many diffwrent dia wires needs grip sizes that they don't make or at least I don't always have.

I successfully used a rolling hitch for freeing up a winch rope - but that’s because, under stress (mine that is), I couldn’t remember the icicle hitch!

We used that knot finished with a clove hitch! After we removed the basket if we needed more. We also tied the same knot with chain on occasion for long 15kV runs and line truck for pulling out. I believe you will find it in the Ashley book of knots (1761). I knew a lineman who called a very similar knot the grapevine. After I retired, a buddy of mine told me he always used a prussic. I could immediately see the value there! BTW one can hang a block or come-along on a pole with a prussic or klemheist. Even the klemheist can be found in the Ashley book of knots ((1762)though, not called that).

Aha! everyone is saying icicle hitch, but I was reminded of knots like that...I just never learned them so I wasn't quite sure.

The hitch at 3:35 is a Klemheist. You gotta post a timestamp because there are multiple hitches here.

My thoughts too

@@lorus511 I don’t know about this one. The icicle hitch even holds on tapered objects

I think i would prefer an icicle hitch in the described scenario. I don't know how well that tuck under will hold with inconsistent load (pull, rest, pull, rest)

There is a fundamental difference: with the icicle, under load, the last couple of wraps spread away from the hitch and create a very tight constriction point in one concentrated point. With electrical cables, this could damage the underlying cable. Instead, this "wire pulling" hitch pulls from the top of the wraps, and the constriction is spread across all the wraps - it creates the same amount of friction, but srpead across more of the surface area and much gentler on the underlying cable. This hitch is a variation on something I have seen referred to as "The Stopper Knot" (I know, it's a very confusing name). But if you search for that, you'll find actual on-site workers using this type of hitch to pull large bunches of electrical or optical cables..

Thanks for mentioning, now I know that one too! Could have used either a while ago...

Wonderful! I'll be looking up the ones I don't recognize!

I think it is closer to a klemheist (which he showed off towards the end). They tie the ends together rather than tucking the rope in. Tying it together is obviously safer than just tucking it in if you depend on it to not fall from a tree.

Agreed. The tighter you pull, the tighter it gets. Then to undo it, al you have to do is push it from the other side. (after removing the tape, of course)

Same here. Pull sock for big wire when we use the tugger. Half hitches for smaller stuff when we pull by hand.

The lineman's hitch that he uses here is used for high voltage cable where the half hitches can very easily damage the dielectric. As tension is put on the line, it constricts Evenly over the length of the knot. I do like my half hitches as well. I rarely have the luxury of pulling baskets. I actually like and trust my own wire heads more. The old timers that taught me made their own mares tails, rope or wire.

I'm using it to lift a 2in diameter cable about 20 ft to a wire tray at work. Everything else i tried just slipped off but this knot worked amazingly

The icicle hitch is more of a clove hitch with the bitter end and working end looped through! This knot is a Klemheist and modified Klemheist.

We’ve all been there! Thanks for your support.

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We called 'em mare's tails. You can split the 3 strands of a rope into 6 strands and make one with a rope. And they're surprisingly strong. The lineman's hitch that he shows will keep from damaging the dielectric on high voltage cables.

Ive primarly used this for demoing out old wire when half hitches just arent getting the job done. Another good spot for it is towards the end of a pull you've been using a tugger on and the wire has started sticking out. Wrap this around the set of wires and you can get the extra feet out after the head is out of the conduit.

I'll bet a constrictor knot or a rolling hitch / constrictor knot combo would work (with drawloop of course). I'll have to find some webbing and give it a try. How wide is the webbing usually? I'm thinking 25mm (one inch), but "wide" tells me it might be more like 40mm (an inch and a half is 37mm), or something like that, which would probably be a lot more challenging to deal with.

@@mysss29 40 mm on the bottom edge of the hand for sure, but it could be sewn onto a much thinner one, even 10 mm because it only has to be wide on the bottom. usually they are not really just webbing but a whole sewn triangular "sling" in the nordic walking stuff, but i'm thinking of making my own pole. normally the quick release part is a plastic mechanical construction (have store bought already but i'm curious how to make it with simple hardware)

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