upside down/reverse double bowline tie in...
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Like most my bad climbing habits, I picked up using the double bowline tie in at a climbing gym about a year ago. Since, it's been my go-to tie in and I've trusted my life it countless times... |
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Would you be so kind as to take and post a picture of the knot you use? That would be most helpful. |
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When I use a bowline tie in I use this one |
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The bowline has more variations than I can count. About half the folks I climb with use a bowline, myself included, and none of them look the same. |
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With no pictures I can't tell for certain (so double check and be safe) BUT it just sounds like you're tying it FACING the other way. I do the exact same thing you're describing and have for 15 years. I find tying it this way is slightly easier (rope tends to "sit" where I need it as it's being tied) |
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H...why? |
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As an another layer of protection with the bowline, you should really feed the end back up through the 'around the tree' and then put in your stopper in above the knot rather then on the loop. It's probably just personal pref but doubling it back only adds more protection and allows you to tie a smaller loop around your harness. |
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....or just tie a figure 8t |
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CaptainMo wrote:As an another layer of protection with the bowline, you should really feed the end back up through the 'around the tree' and then put in your stopper in above the knot rather then on the loop. It's probably just personal pref but doubling it back only adds more protection and allows you to tie a smaller loop around your harness.I'm not a fan of the Yosemite Finish because I think it adds more chances to screw things up vs a debatable if ANY improvement in security. Per the old ST thread, there doesn't seem to be anything WRONG with a properly tied Yosemite Bowline but, again, it always seems to make it more complicated ST Thread on Yos Finish Bowline |
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mattm wrote: I'm not a fan of the Yosemite Finish because I think it adds more chances to screw things up vs a debatable if ANY improvement in security.Less likelyhood of the knot loosening would be the huge improvement, imo. In the image pictured above if the stopper knot slides up towards the knot the loop would loosen and the knot could invert on itself. Given that the stopper is in the loop tied to your harness you could easily (having climbed a lot) see how the movement of the loop in the harness could push the stopper towards the knot actually forcing the loop looser. So I would actually differ and say there's a huge improvement. If finishing the knot back through that one loop is too difficult for you, you shouldn't be tieing in with that knot, not foregoing tieing it the safest way possible. If we could get someone to tie both and pull test that would be cool... any takers wanna help us settle this one? EDIT: The link you provided on ST isn't even showing a proper double bowline and the dude isn't even doing the yosemite finish properly so it's irrelevant to this... people in that thread even point out he's not tying it correctly to begin with... why even provide the link? EDIT 2: I see now.. the yosemite bowline appears to be different from a double bowline with a yos finish. I always use a double with yos finish. I wouldnt use the yos bowline. dbowline |
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CaptainMo wrote: Less likelyhood of the knot loosening would be the huge improvement, imo. In the image pictured above if the stopper knot slides up towards the knot the loop would loosen and the knot could invert on itself. Given that the stopper is in the loop tied to your harness you could easily (having climbed a lot) see how the movement of the loop in the harness could push the stopper towards the knot actually forcing the loop looser. So I would actually differ and say there's a huge improvement. If finishing the knot back through that one loop is too difficult for you, you shouldn't be tieing in with that knot, not foregoing tieing it the safest way possible. If we could get someone to tie both and pull test that would be cool... any takers wanna help us settle this one? EDIT: The link you provided on ST isn't even showing a proper double bowline and the dude isn't even doing the yosemite finish properly so it's irrelevant to this... people in that thread even point out he's not tying it correctly to begin with... why even provide the link?I tie my finish knot nice and close to the main knot so a non-issue. It was left with a bit more space for clarity. The Yosemite Finish can be "loosened" by harness movement in a similar way, it just occurs on the other side of the loop. We're probably both just guessing which is more likely. The full thread contains good discussion on alternate methods of the bowline (including the rethreaded which I use all the time as well). It's certainly not too difficult to do, it's something I have chosen not to do. If evidence were provided that the Yosemite Finished Doouble Bowline was actually MORE secure than a Double Bowline finished as pictured above then I'd certainly go back to tying it that way. EDIT2 - Changed Images to avoid more confusion: That dbowline pic is not how I do the DBowline w/ Yos Finish. When I do it, I do it like below Start Finish |
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mattm wrote: I tie my finish knot nice and close to the main knot so a non-issue. It was left with a bit more space for clarity. The Yosemite Finish can be "loosened" by harness movement in a similar way, it just occurs on the other side of the loop. We're probably both just guessing which is more likely. The full thread contains good discussion on alternate methods of the bowline (including the rethreaded which I use all the time as well). It's certainly not too difficult to do, it's something I have chosen not to do. If evidence were provided that the Yosemite Finished Doouble Bowline was actually MORE secure than a Double Bowline finished as pictured above then I'd certainly go back to tying it that way. EDIT: That dbowline pic is not how I do the DBowline w/ Yos Finish. When I do it, I do it like below (with two loops for the double part)totally... the above you showed is what I use except i don't go around and then finish, I just finish.. wondering who can do the pull test? |
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CaptainMo wrote: totally... so who can do the pull test? One point of clarification, I don't consider the above to be a double bowline.. a double bowline is when you start with a double bite, the above only has a single bite to start. The rethread makes it 'look' like a double but it isn't... that's a bowline with a yos finish. What I posted was a double bowline with a follow through (not tech a yos finish).Fixed pictures for clarity. Jim T did pull testing for the questionable video and posted his results lower in the ST thread. What pulls tests are you wanting? Ring Loaded and Inline for DblBow w/ Yos vs Double Bowline with Finish inside on loop? They'll probably pull the same if I were to guess... All this playing with it makes me want to try it again (Hell, if rgold uses it it can't be bad...) |
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everybody and their doggay has their own personal bowline finish |
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Played around a little.. Seems the yos finish to the double bowline makes it easier to untie after cinching/weighting the knot rather than making it any safer.. Easy to thumb the loop similar to releasing a kleimheist. |
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Dana Bartlett wrote: No one is arguing. Jesus.read up, people are already starting to "argue" on the finishes ... many other "bowline" threads get into arguments about what is "safe" just wait on this one ;) |
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mattm wrote: Fixed pictures for clarity. Jim T did pull testing for the questionable video and posted his results lower in the ST thread. What pulls tests are you wanting? Ring Loaded and Inline for DblBow w/ Yos vs Double Bowline with Finish inside on loop? They'll probably pull the same if I were to guess... All this playing with it makes me want to try it again (Hell, if rgold uses it it can't be bad...)I think it'd be iteresting to see if there was a diff with the double bowline with the follow through (either way) vs a bowline with no follow though (but a stopper). I know they fail at the bite from watching some other videos so it might be 0 diff... but I question about the possibility of an inversion without a follow though. Bear - conversation, points, counter points, no arguing (u have to useall caps to argue). |
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The Phoenix wrote:u have to useall caps to argu.so not tru |
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On the issue of strength, all knots (any std climbing knot)are essentially equal as far as the climber is concerned since even a fall factor 2 is not going to generate enough force to break a decent rope (one that you should be climbing on) at the tie-in point....if the rope is going to break, it'll part on an edge or at the pro, not your harness....so all flavors of bowline or figure 8 for that matter are 6 in one half, 1/2 dozen in the other....so pull tests be damned. |
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No one should EVER tie in while mountaineering/climbing using a bowline the only safe knot for tying in is a retraced figure eight. |