Packer's knot

Knot-details
name=Packer's knot


names= Butcher's knot
type= binding
strength=
origin=
related= Corned beef knot, Siberian hitch
releasing= Jamming
uses= baling, parcel tying, butchery, cooking
caveat= Less secure than the corned beef knot
abok_number= #187, #408,

The Packer's knot is a binding knot which is easily pulled taut and quickly locked in position. It is most often made in small line or string, such as that used for hand baling, parcel tying, and binding roasts. This latter use, and its general form, make it a member of a class of similar knots known as Butcher's knots.Clifford W. Ashley, "The Ashley Book of Knots" (New York: Doubleday, 1944), 36-38.] The knot is commonly taught to guides, scouts, and those in similar organizations as a basic binding knot.Fact|date=August 2008

Tying and variations

A lightly tightened figure-eight knot is formed around the standing part of the line such that both ends emerge from the same point. Pulling on the standing part tightens the binding. After the desired degree of tension is reached, a locking half-hitch is added over the working end and pulled taut.

Even without the locking half-hitch the knot will generally maintain tension while additional tying is accomplished, such as putting a second, perpendicular, wrap on a package.Gordon Perry, "Knots" (North Vancouver, Canada: Quantum Publishing, 2006), 130-131.]

A similar knot made with an overhand knot instead of a figure-eight works almost as well.Des Pawson, "Pocket Guide to Knots & Splices" (Edison, NJ: Chartwell Books, Inc., 2002), 108-109.] Many other variations also exist finishing with this style of locking half-hitch. In fact, Clifford Ashley claimed that there were more knots of this type to be found than any other used for a single purpose.

ee also

* Corned beef knot

References

External links

* [http://www.geocities.com/roo_two/butcherknots.html Diagram of a Packer's knot]