Assorted knots you may have forgotten since your cub scout/brownie days: The clove hitch. Use this for your tying rope to rebar. It will should just fine on straight rebar. http://www.netknots.com/html/clove_hitch.html
The bowline. Use it to make a loops at the end of a rope. You can use this instead of a clove hitch if your rebar has an angle, ring, or bend at the top: http://www.netknots.com/html/bowline.html Three knots that will slide along another rope, hold under tension, and let you adjust them. Personally, I use the truckers' hitch for heavy loads (e.g. hexayurt anchor lines), the tautline hitch for medium loads (It keeps the tarps on our shade structure from flapping in the wind), and the cow hitch (aka the larkshead) for light loads (tightening tent lines in normal weather): http://www.netknots.com/html/truckers_hitch.html http://www.netknots.com/html/tautline_hitch.html http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cow_hitch If the webpages don't help, search youtube for more animated knot-tying demos. Don't forget to practice during your next movie night. Scribbling them on a hexayurt wall might not be a bad idea either if you think you'll forget or lose notes during the setup chaos. -Joshua On Mon, Jul 11, 2011 at 12:00 PM, Chasomatic <chasma...@gmail.com> wrote: > I use 2'x1/2" straight rebar. I like to be able to pound it into the > plays without any problems. I would like to use better knots, i'm real > weak there. > > charlie > > On Jul 10, 12:38 pm, Joshua Keroes <jos...@keroes.com> wrote: > > I use 2' 1/2" rebar with a sharp 90° bend and ratchet straps. Each day, I > go > > around the yurt and make sure they're all tight. > > > > I'd use rope and truckers' hitches instead if I didn't have the ratchet > > straps. Personally, I'd put a double hitch on the rebar, go up and over > the > > tape anchor, and back down. This would let me crank down on the truckers' > > hitch - pulling down here is easier than pulling up. > > > > -Joshua > > > > PS candy-caned rebar's a pain in the ass. The problem is that when you > > hammer it in, your force is wasted. The bend absorbs some of the energy > and > > the fact that you're hammering off the main axis wastes the rest. U's may > be > > better but they seem like overkill for this purpose.On Sun, Jul 10, 2011 > at 12:11 PM, Milt Fisher <mfisher...@gmail.com> wrote: > > > I'd like to know what people use to anchor their hexayurts on the > playa. > > > How do you connect from the tape anchors at the roof edge to the rebar > in > > > the playa? Rope? Ratcheting straps? I think I'm going to use > straight > > > 1/2" rebar, rather than candy canes or U's. How would I attach the > anchor > > > lines to the rebar? And how long should the rebar be? > > > > > Thanks. > > > > > -- > > > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google > Groups > > > "hexayurt" group. > > > To post to this group, send email to hexayurt@googlegroups.com. > > > To unsubscribe from this group, send email to > > > hexayurt+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. > > > For more options, visit this group at > > >http://groups.google.com/group/hexayurt?hl=en. > > -- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > "hexayurt" group. > To post to this group, send email to hexayurt@googlegroups.com. > To unsubscribe from this group, send email to > hexayurt+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. > For more options, visit this group at > http://groups.google.com/group/hexayurt?hl=en. > > -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "hexayurt" group. To post to this group, send email to hexayurt@googlegroups.com. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to hexayurt+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/hexayurt?hl=en.
