Thank you so much for sharing this life hack! I nearly broke my fingers yesterday trying to get tension on my washing line - with your advise it was a brezze today! Most appreciated!
Simple and elegant. Thank you! Do you have another video for joining two rope ends to make a loop? I'm setting up a loop with pulleys for my bird feeders, but I don't know how to join the two ends elegantly.
If you have a three strand rope you can join the two ends with a (so called) long splice (there are videos on youtube on how to do it). It is a great idea for a video, because the long splice is a quite difficult thing to learn. The other option would be to find a very non-bulky knot to join the two end, but I at the moment I don't have a good candidate.
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Thanks for the video. I used it to successfully pull a fence post into proper position ... now, is there a trick to loosening this knot or is cutting the rope the only way?
If you untie the other side of the rope (the one we never see in the video), it would remove the tension. Then untie the safety knot (the extra half hitch at the end, assuming you tied it). Now you should be able to pull on the tail and the line will slide out of the figure eight. Then untie the figure eight.
PS - for the scenario you mention (pulling out / adjusting a fence post), look up the icicle hitch, pipe hitch, or sailor's gripping hitch. They're all somewhat similar and will all work best to pull out a rod stuck in the ground. They can be untied effortlessly.
Um, once you tightened it so far that the knot reaches the ring, it looks like you can't tighten it any more even if the rope starts to stretch over time, or due to weight of clothes etc. So, um, can you show us how easy it is to loosen that knot so you can do a new one that eliminates the slack?
@ISmellLikeBeefandCheese I believe you. I am just wondering what you do a month later when the rope has s-t-r-e-t-c-h-e-d due to the weight of a lot of wet clothes on the line... I use the taut line hitch for my washing lines exactly for that reason - so I can retighten over time. PS If you put one at each end, it saves a bit of walking if its a long line.
