. The agricultural gazette of New South Wales. Agriculture; Agriculture -- Australia New South Wales. 208 AyHculiural Gazette uf [Mar. 2, 1908. (Fig. Ij is the lii'st kuiit i^ty iiinst jnii[>uses ; wliere it is iieressaiy tu juiii two I'opes, it will iK)t jiiinh exrcpt when the rope is very thin. The l>u\vliiic (Fig. ?_') is ii very useful knot indeed, and is (piite safe ; it cannot jinssiijly slip, and for this reason is a suitable knot to use for tethei'iiig. Fig. 5.—Clove hitch. stock. Jf a running loop is required, the running howline (Fig. 3) is a good form, as the loop v\ill
. The agricultural gazette of New South Wales. Agriculture; Agriculture -- Australia New South Wales. 208 AyHculiural Gazette uf [Mar. 2, 1908. (Fig. Ij is the lii'st kuiit i^ty iiinst jnii[>uses ; wliere it is iieressaiy tu juiii two I'opes, it will iK)t jiiinh exrcpt when the rope is very thin. The l>u\vliiic (Fig. ?_') is ii very useful knot indeed, and is (piite safe ; it cannot jinssiijly slip, and for this reason is a suitable knot to use for tethei'iiig. Fig. 5.—Clove hitch. stock. Jf a running loop is required, the running howline (Fig. 3) is a good form, as the loop v\ill not pinch on the rope and give trouble when in use. Tlie plain, herket, or sh^et l)end (Fig. 4), is anotlier useful knot for join- ing two ropes—especially when one end runs up to, and stops at, a puUey- hlock, there is no loose end to feed into the block and jainl) it. The clove hitch (Fig. -5) is also a useful knot for use with poles and guys. It will not slip in eitlxM- dii-ec- tion, and is easily undone. It sometimes happens that there is some building or well-sinking going on on the farm, so it is just as well to know how to make a timber hitch— this is shown in Fig. ('k This knot can be combined with a half-hitch by pass- ing the fall of the rope round the spai', say, 2 feet along its length and back under itself. This makes a good hitch for lowering timber down a shaft or well. This is shown in Fig. 7. It can be made additionally safe Ijy putting in another half hitch another '1 feet along the syiar. Sometimes it is desirable to reduce the length of a rope without undoing the ends; when loading, for instance, the ropes may be reduced in length by. Please note that these images are extracted from scanned page images that may have been digitally enhanced for readability - coloration and appearance of these illustrations may not perfectly resemble the original New South Wales. Dept. of Agriculture. Sydney, C. Potter, Govt. Printer [etc. ]
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