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DOUBLE- AND MULTIPLE-LOOP KNOTS

neck of the knot. See the right diagram. Two bights from the neck

of the single loop are then grasped (third diagram) and pulled down '0 8~

through the DOUBLE Loop. Draw up evenly to form the knot pic-

tured in the center.

1086. MULTIPLE PARALLEL Loops in the bight. Double your rope

and with the looped end make a right round tum, then lay the loop

on top of the upper end of the coil with the standing part under-

neath. Pull the bight of the standing part up through the structure,

and give it one complete left-hand twist or tum; after which draw

all four loops down through the doubled bight from the standing

part, and work the knot taut. Another tum will add two more loops

to the knot.

If, instead of placing the single end loop on the top of the coil

(left diagram) and drawing the twisted standing part up through

it, the single loop is merely coiled down to the right side as shown in

the right-hand illustration, five instead of four loops will then be made

and the knot will be quite as symmetrical and as satisfactory in every

way.

1087. The SPANISH BoWLINE is a well-known DOUBLE FORKED

Loop. It is presumably a sailor's knot and possibly an old one, but

I have not succeeded in finding any early reference to it. It is gen- I 0 to

erally tied in hand, but may perhaps be more easily tied on a table

while learning.

Middle a rope and hold aloft with both hands, dro ping a single

loop down and away from you. Holding the tops 0 the two up- 1081

standing loops that are formed, twist each one of these a half tum

toward the center as in the second diagram. Without further twist-

ing pass the left 100 through the upper compartment of the right

loop to assume the oml of the fourth diagram (the third or center

diagram being the finished knot).

Raise and reeve each of the two lower bi hts back through the

bight that is immediately above it and draw al snug.

The knot is employed in sending or lowering a man from aloft.

One leg is thrust through each loop, and, if an unconscious man is

to be lowered, a hitch is added around the chest and under the arm-

pits. It may also be used in slinging a ladder for a staging. But as the

material from one loop may be drawn into the other loop, the knot

must be firmly drawn up.

1088. A SHEEPSHANK KNOT with HALF HITCHES drawn together loe,

will serve the purpose of slinging a flat ladder as well as the last knot.

But it has the same fault-that the material from one loop may be

drawn into the other loop, so that if tied loosely the ladder might tilt

sidewise.

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