Page 166 - Maria Constantino "The Knot Handbook"
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Bring the working end
     4  around its own  standing
     part once  more.




        Make  a second  tuck with
     5  the working end, working
     it  through  between itself and
     the standing part. Pull  on  the
     standing part to  tighten  the
     newly formed  noose.






























                                            To  convert  the ti111ber hitch
                                            into  a killick hitch, simply
                                            make a half-hitch 11e11r the
                                            end ef the  object to  be
                                            hauled.

                          This is the  basic   This extra  lialf-hitch acts as
                          timber hitch.     a stabiliser 1111d  stops the
                                            load fron1  s1vayi11g aro1111d
                                            while i1  is being hauled.
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