Page 101 - Peter Owen - The Pocket Guide to Essential Knots

TRIPOD LASHING

Tripod lashing joins three poles to one another for use as a tripod.

There are various different forms of tripod lashing, but this version

is particularly useful because it can tied into a frame, transported,

and erected on-site. After use it can be folded flat and reused

elsewhere. It could also, if required, be left as a permanent

structure or part of a permanent structure.

1 Position the three poles side by side and tie a clove hitch (see page 54)

around the left pole at a suitable distance from the top.

POSSIBLE USES?

• Building a triangular garden framework.
• Support for suspending an object.