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73 BALE SLING 74 BARREL SLING
The Bale Sling uses a long Bowline The Barrel Sling is a lifting knot
(20) to form a Cow Hitch or Lark’s for awkwardly shaped items. Stand
Head (37) around a barrel, jug, water the object on the lifting line some
carrier, kit bag or whatever is to be distance from its end and tie an
lifted. Overhand Knot (1) over the top of the
object (a jug in this photo). Spread
the parts of the Overhand Knot out
and settle them around the upper
part of the jug, then join the working
end to the standing part above the
jug using a Bowline (20). Settle the
knot and lift.
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