Electricians Knot - The Best No Slip Wire Pulling Knot 

That’s cool thanks for showing , I like to use an Icicle or marlin spike hitch with some half hitched to the end of the wire for smaller lines and smaller wires,

Thank you.. I've been looking for this video to pop up

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Great mechanic you are Mel, for sure.

Good stuff really like the tricks and tips awesome!!!

my man! appreciate this!

Definitely doing this at work. We usually just strip back the tip of the wires about a ft back and undo the strands cut a few off and making a head off that with the rope attached and duct tape. Works fairly good when pulling with the tugger.

you are so close, I started watching the video and thought you had it, but you don't. In a hard pull where your tugger is almost blowing up type pull and your knot will still dig in and damage conductors. I'm a retired electrician, I've never come across anyone else who's known this, I call it a fist knot. This knot is so easy, it starts just like you did the 4 or more looping around the conductors leaving a few feet of spare, you simply take the spare end and bring it back up the the rope just above your loops outside of the conductors and looped rope, do a couple half hitches and your done. I've done hard 500 kcmls with this. the harder you pull the more the hangmans noose function tightens w/o any part of the rope digging in. The other use of this is where you are pulling into a panel, the tugger frame only let's you get so much to where the cables will be damaged by the pulley. You take approx 10' of spare rope, tie the knot like I said and then you "chug" it up a couple feet, then push the fist knot back down the conductors and repeat till you got enough. I worked in W. Wa. in rainy conditions, this knot didn't slip. I should do a video not sure my decription communicates well.

After the 5 or so wraps when you come back across the coils you can close with a half hitch, clove hitch or something similar. One thing to keep in mind is to always keep at least some tension on that knot in the pulling direction, as the knot is made to before loose once tension is released.

Can I ask when we'll see some kellem knots and half hitch/full hitch combos?

That fill though

Hi Mel, There is a video on RU-vid that looks similar. He calls it the Iron Fist. I love knots.

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It is called "Icicle Hitch".

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Is that knot for cable tray or conduit pulling? I would be worried it wouldn’t fit through my conduit.

It's a form of the icicle hitch

a big knot if the conduit is bare minimum per the NEC.

what if you didn;t have a bundle, you could not go through the wires

Well that ain’t going to work, conductors are already at 75% fill and that knot looks bigger than the pipe.