Icicle steak

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Icicle steak
Icicle steak
Type Clamping knot
application Attaching a leash to smooth, cylindrical objects
Ashley No. -
English Icicle hitch
List of nodes

The Eiszapfenstek is a clamping knot . It can be placed around a freely accessible rod at one end; a general variant that can also be used for bars without freely accessible ends can be found under the web links.

It shows its advantages when it is tied around a smooth, cylindrical cross-section and loaded in the longitudinal direction. It can also be used on conical objects. A stopper knot should be attached at the end to prevent the rope from slipping out (to prevent it from slipping through).
The knot was introduced by John Smith at the 1990 annual general meeting of the International Knot Makers Guild .

Production at the end of the rod

  • With the loose end five windings (in the picture from left to right) around the object (tube or rod) ...

  • put the loose end in a loop behind the windings and let it end to the front ...

  • now put the loop over the "end of the rod", which must be freely accessible, ...

  • and finally close all the windings.

  • The finished knot loaded under axial tension.

literature

Geoffrey Budworth: The ultimate encyclopedia of knots & ropework . Hermes House, London 2006, ISBN 1-84309-146-1 (page 104; with colored “step-by-step photographs”).

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