If you can't tie a knot.....

jon f mn · Feb 9, 2014

Tie a lot. This is a pic my favorite youngest son sent me of the safety rope that someone tied off on a safety rope for a tower climb. He climbs towers for a living and was hundreds of feet in the air with this knot as his safety rope.

rrlund · Feb 9, 2014

Did he make Eagle Scout? lol

classicxl · Feb 9, 2014

Looks like a chinese puzzle

Janicholson · Feb 9, 2014

Looks like a backlash on a deep lake reel. Jim

Mark - IN. · Feb 9, 2014

By first appearance, it looks like "Where do I begin to start untying this thing?", but as luck would probably have it, one quick jerk and it would probably spring apart, tying nothing.

"That's odd. I should have only dropped 10', but I'm still going and picking up speed".

Mark

MarkB_MI · Feb 9, 2014

Apparently safety lines aren't used on some of the tallest towers.
Climbing a 1768 foot tall tower

charlie n · Feb 9, 2014

I can't believe with todays safety standards and available equipment they would use a knot to secure a safety line.I think I'd refuse to go 400 feet in the air and know that I'm relying on somebody knowing how to tie a knot.This will probably get puffed but that's just stupid.

MarkB_MI · Feb 9, 2014

Charlie, mountain climbers, spelunkers and sailors trust their lives to knots every day. How else would you fasten a rope line to something? Sure, you can splice it, but that's usually impractical. It only takes a couple of seconds to tie a bowline, and that's a knot to which you can trust your life.

BAnNC · Feb 9, 2014

Wouldn't matter. I'd be dead before I ever hit the ground.

Kenneth R Ohnstad · Feb 9, 2014

I was watching 'Leave it to Beaver'. He said his uncle was going to teach him how to tie a 'monkey fist' knot.
I looked it up on the internet and now I know how to do it.
It is a cool knot.
beau regards
k

Ted in NE-OH · Feb 9, 2014

I hope they get paid very, very well.

I guess if you have the take a leak you would pee your pants. Don"t drink a cup of coffee before you go up.

howdy1960 · Feb 9, 2014

I don't climb but my nephew does, I'm gonna save this and show it to him. He helped build a cell tower the base jumpers have been known to jump from. He said it is about 1800ft high

farmer boy · Feb 10, 2014

Makes me want to throw up just watching that. Can't imagine what would possess a person to want to do that.

ss55 · Feb 10, 2014

At a quarter of a mile or more above the ground, I don't think many people will notice.

Dr. Walt · Feb 10, 2014

Nope . . . .BUZZARD !

LOL!

fightfire · Feb 11, 2014

Have used that phrase numerous times teaching high angle rescue...for laughes. Figure 8 on a bight, or better yet, a tensionless hitch safest bet. Figure 8 retains about 85% of the ropes strength and the tensionless is nearly 100%. Bowline about 75% and must be tied absolutely correct or it can "flip" and pull through easily.
That being said...tower rescues give me the "heebie jeebies", those guys have "cojones".

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