Knotorious
That Guy With The Face
I've been stuck in bed for almost two weeks now trying to recover from a surgery and so I have an uncomfortable amount of free time. I also inherently and innately love using rope. There's something unbelievably tactile-friendly about rope and learning/tying knots has yet to get old.
Anyways, these two factors led me to play around with my eye to eye prusiks and my split tail. After much finagling, I eventually landed upon a prototype which I tinkered with until I achieved a greatly improved, finished product…
The Trinity Hitch
(Suggestions for a better name are welcomed)
To be clear, I have not been able to test this hitch out with my own, full body weight because I just had surgery. So, please, if you choose to use it, start low and slow.
The hitch has three distinct areas which work together to produce the nip necessary to be functional (hence the name). Because of this, the amount of wraps for each of the three segments can be counted as x:x:x, where 'x' represents the number of wraps. The hitch begins like a Schwabisch would until the top leg drops down and around and over itself like with a Distel hitch.
I uploaded a few pictures. The most basic form of the Trinity hitch is shown in image "Trinity 2:1:1," where the hitch has 2 upper wraps, 1 middle wrap and 1 lower wrap. My terminology for describing how rope moves relative to itself and other ropes is not exactly the best, so I hope anyone interested in trying it is able to replicate it from my photos.
Also, attached are photos of a 2:1:2 and a 3:2:2 variant. In the latter, I used my split tail (imagine it's a hitch cord), but this hitch is meant to be for eye to eye prusiks only. In the final picture, I show all three hitches talked about thus far, which grow in complexity as they go up.
One part about this hitch that some might find undesirable is how the legs of the hitch are of different lengths. However, aside from being somewhat aesthetically displeasing, there's no indication that this hurts performance. I made the 2:1:1 using a 30" RIT hitch cord, the 2:1:2 using a 32" RIT hitch cord and, for any additional wraps, a longer cord may be required. The rope being hitched to is an 11.8mm Drenaline.
I am under the impression that this hitch has not been done before, but I'm continuing to search through the internet to see if I'm wrong. If anyone has seen this somewhere else, let me know. I'm willing to accept that it might be horrible as a hitch . I'm optimistic, though. Since I'm currently laid up, I cannot test this hitch myself. If anyone out there wants to help me do some testing on it, let me know. Hopefully, I'll be able to do so myself in another two weeks.
Either way, I think it's pretty good looking as far as hitches go, regardless of how it performs. The opposing, Distel-like middle and lower segments seem to make a difference. Also, how the top segment is effectively a Schwabisch should instill some level of confidence to the operator.
Suggestions and criticisms are always welcomed. This might be a complete waste of time or it might be an epic success…or maybe somewhere in between.Regardless, I'm having fun. Thanks for reading.
Anyways, these two factors led me to play around with my eye to eye prusiks and my split tail. After much finagling, I eventually landed upon a prototype which I tinkered with until I achieved a greatly improved, finished product…
The Trinity Hitch
(Suggestions for a better name are welcomed)
To be clear, I have not been able to test this hitch out with my own, full body weight because I just had surgery. So, please, if you choose to use it, start low and slow.
The hitch has three distinct areas which work together to produce the nip necessary to be functional (hence the name). Because of this, the amount of wraps for each of the three segments can be counted as x:x:x, where 'x' represents the number of wraps. The hitch begins like a Schwabisch would until the top leg drops down and around and over itself like with a Distel hitch.
I uploaded a few pictures. The most basic form of the Trinity hitch is shown in image "Trinity 2:1:1," where the hitch has 2 upper wraps, 1 middle wrap and 1 lower wrap. My terminology for describing how rope moves relative to itself and other ropes is not exactly the best, so I hope anyone interested in trying it is able to replicate it from my photos.
Also, attached are photos of a 2:1:2 and a 3:2:2 variant. In the latter, I used my split tail (imagine it's a hitch cord), but this hitch is meant to be for eye to eye prusiks only. In the final picture, I show all three hitches talked about thus far, which grow in complexity as they go up.
One part about this hitch that some might find undesirable is how the legs of the hitch are of different lengths. However, aside from being somewhat aesthetically displeasing, there's no indication that this hurts performance. I made the 2:1:1 using a 30" RIT hitch cord, the 2:1:2 using a 32" RIT hitch cord and, for any additional wraps, a longer cord may be required. The rope being hitched to is an 11.8mm Drenaline.
I am under the impression that this hitch has not been done before, but I'm continuing to search through the internet to see if I'm wrong. If anyone has seen this somewhere else, let me know. I'm willing to accept that it might be horrible as a hitch . I'm optimistic, though. Since I'm currently laid up, I cannot test this hitch myself. If anyone out there wants to help me do some testing on it, let me know. Hopefully, I'll be able to do so myself in another two weeks.
Either way, I think it's pretty good looking as far as hitches go, regardless of how it performs. The opposing, Distel-like middle and lower segments seem to make a difference. Also, how the top segment is effectively a Schwabisch should instill some level of confidence to the operator.
Suggestions and criticisms are always welcomed. This might be a complete waste of time or it might be an epic success…or maybe somewhere in between.Regardless, I'm having fun. Thanks for reading.