treemandan
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Funny, I don't feel as though my ass was handed to me. That's great punky brewster, just great.
oldirty
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sorry but you're wrong. srsly not trying to be rude or prove anything. you either are tying a different knot or didnt load it enough. i used it to tie on multiple limbs till i realized the groundies were having such trouble with it (when loaded too much) so i switched to this:
thats the same knot you should be using on your throwball you hack. lol.
cow hitch i believe.
edit: which if pulled hard enough will have no problems rolling free.
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exactly, this will roll free no matter how much you load it. clove hitch wont.
treemandan
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oldirty
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if you have ever used a throw ball you would know that sometimes she gets stuck in the tree. when this happens sometimes you pull the dogsnot out of the troline and then suddenly she is free and the throwball in on the ground......because the cow hitch couldnt hold onto the ring.
you are not smart if you are rigging wood with this knot.
i tie a standard bowline with the end of the throwline. then i feed the resulting loop through the ring of the throwball and around it, end result is a cow hitch around the ring. this way once you throw the ball and get it back, you can take the ball off easily, make a cow hitch around your rope with the loop and make a few half-hitches around the rope and pull it up
oldirty
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still wouldnt run that knot for rigging purposes. even backed up with 4 half hitches. i dont even use the clove hitch, thats for tying your horse to the fence post.
half hitch to a running bowline for me thanks.
and i'd rather not lock the troline onto the troball either. personally.
half hitch to a running bowline for me thanks.
and i'd rather not lock the troline onto the troball either. personally.
for tying on multiple limbs like i described, i use the cow hitch for the multiples, and running bowline for the last/teminator limb.
as far as the throwball, i like having it secured permanently so that i can do tricks with it like swinging it up to the limb above. not sure about what you're describing exactly but it sounds like if you jiggle it enough it will just come untied. not my preference
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oldirty
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jiggling she fine. its the hard steady pull that'll get it.
what you doing with a troball if you spike it all?
what you doing with a troball if you spike it all?
i dont spike a throw tree if i dont have to. if all i have to do is throw a line any old place, thats what i'll do. if i need it in a very specific place i'll climb up there or if the bigshot wont blast through the vines w/e
tree md
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Great idea OD! Excellent tip!
To tell the truth, I have been tying knots all day, I'm tired and they are kind of running together on me right now. I'll have to just tie the knot I'm talking about tomorrow and make sure it's what I'm seeing in The Dan's pic. I'm pretty sure it's the same knot. I use it now mostly for daisy chaining limbs and terminate with a bowline.
that was my pic foo!
oldirty
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not really a tip. on a few occasions the ball had no intentions of coming out the tree and i have hung and pulled with all i got and then bang. i am on my butt holding the line with the ball at the base of the tree. thats how i discovered that the cowhitch wont hold by itself. lol.
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