knots that'll stay tied using poly rope ?
Jeff wrote:
Courtney Thomas wrote:
Jeff wrote:
For holding down a tarp, I'd throw away the presumably cheap,
slippery polyprop and go to the Home Depot where you can buy a lot of
line that will hold knot and is cheap enough to just chop away in the
Spring.
Understood, but I have 600' of this stuff from Harbor Freight that was
given to me and finally have a use, hopefully, for it :-)
Just need a knot that'll hold.
I did a quick scan of rec.crafts.knots and my newer knot books by
Budworth - they all acknowledge the problem with polyprop but offer no
easy solutions. I've always added several extra hitches, and opened the
lay to tuck a generous tail through. A wrap with electrical tape would
work, and now that I think about it, a cable tie would probably do a
great job of securing a knot.
Jeff,
Great idea on the cable tie. I think I'll use rolling hitches, with
elec. taped whipped ends and cable ties.
Thank you,
Courtney
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