KNOTS

Hawke's Bay Herald-Tribune, Issue 43, 6 March 1937, Page 19

KNOTS

For goodness' sake, you chaps, don't forget how to tie your Tenderfoot kuocs. Also learn up other and more advanced ones; they will come in handy many times. At our summer workmg camp* at Rissington we had to hoist a chap about twenty-five or more feet up a tree. We made sure that, besides being one of the lighter boys, he was one who cotild be trusted to tie the correct knots and to tie them properly, otherwise he would have f allen down the height of the tree and also the twelve foot or so or ciiff on which the tree was standing. He had to unhook himself when up the tree and standing on a branch and thCn join some ropes to pulleys and hook another rope around himSelf before we lowered him io terra firnia once more. Froin what I eee of you chaps trying to tie knots there are not too many I would trust in such an emergeney. The six Tenderfoot knots should NBVER be forgotten from the time you pass your Tenderfoot test; they are too important. You should also ALWAYS know what each oue is used for, otherwise j what is the use of ' knowiug how to tie it. Also learn ftirther and what we generally call "advanced knots." That ehap up Ihe tree used some of them as well as ihe ones you first learn. The i Tehdeffoot knots are s»re in any sueh isition as the one in which he found imself, but he knew that some of the advanced ^ ones would give him more 1 *

1 comfort and also be even more eafe, as Jong as be tied them eorrectly. So he used them. If your life ever relied on your knowledge of knots, how would , you get ou? Would yqn be alive atterwards or would oue of your knots slip and drop you down a cliffi or treeTYou probably " would not get a second chanee to tie them. Never say "can'tt " Never say "dpn't kuowt" Mad out! . In looking througb autograph albums twe often find useful ideas, and that is one I have in an album of mine.