Over the course of my life I have learned how to tie a lot of different knots. One knot that I didn't know is this little jewel. If you are familiar with the clove hitch, then this one will be a breeze to tie.
Nice presentation. I really like the way you photographed the procedure. One big advantage of the Clove Hitch is that it can be tied on the bight and slipped over the end of a pole - a very useful trick - easy and fast.
There are many excellent uses of the clove hitch in critical applications such as when combined with a bowline to build an inline anchor point. The far anchor point would of course be the bowline and the near anchor would be a clove hitch. The beauty of the clove hitch is that when tying the two anchors we would prefer to apply some load between the far anchor and near anchor so that they combine to be as close to one anchor as we can get them and in line with the direction of load. The clove hitch allows us the tie that knot first and then after tying the bowline we can load the far anchor onto the near anchor by adjusting the clove hitch. Any way there are several more critical uses for the clove hitch such as a rescue rappel where the person being rescued is secured to the extended belay carabiner via a clove hitch which is then tied to the rescuer via a rerouted figure 8.
very nice mods to a clove, which I never feel good about as I am often working with slippery cold line on shiny chrome loops. the bright green cord is easy to follow too ;-)
I accidentally finished the last partial wrap on the left side of the standing end instead of the right side and it seems to stay together much better when moving the hitch side to side. I wonder if there is a distinguishing name from the snuggle hitch? Both great hitches either way, thanks 👍🏼
The clove hitch is really good for fenders, the weight is fairly constant (down). The advantage is you can easily adjust the height. We use the clove hitch on Sunfish upper spars for the halyard and I think the snuggle hitch is much better. The hitch won't slide on the upper spar.
How about a single knot at the end of the working end as a safeguard against unforeseen slippage of the cordage and the demise of the reliability of the knot, whether a Clove Hitch, a Snuggle Hitch, or a Bar Hitch?
I always prefere the constrictor knot over the clove hitch. Unfortunately, german firefighters learn to tie and use the clove hitch primarily. Although it's easy to wiggle it free.
