Talk:Clove hitch

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I suggest that a link to the Ground-line hitch be added. It is considered to be more secure and is just as easy to tie. The only downside, AFAIK, it that it is not not well known. I believe I used to have a link to it in the "related knots" section but it looks like someone removed it. Nascheme 03:01, 7 January 2007 (UTC)
 * Good idea. I added this to the related knots and also expanded the Ground-line hitch and Miller's knot articles. --Dfred 05:35, 23 January 2007 (UTC)

Use in rock climbing
I've removed the mention of the Clove Hitch in rock climbing. John Long's "How to Rock Climb" describes use of the clove hitch to tie the climber to a multi-nut anchor, where some slippage of the knot may be useful to equalize strain on the nuts. But this is a rather specialized use, and even Long recommends using a double figure eight instead in most cases. The previous text which stated that the clove hitch is useful for tying into climbing anchors is incomplete at best and recklessly misleading at worst, given the knot's tendency to slip under load. -- Oliver Crow (talk) 23:38, 19 April 2010 (UTC)

Where is your information coming from that a clove hitch will slip under load? Please verify or remove this non-sense. It will not slip under load if it is fully tightened, and this has been proven many times. The rope will break at the knot, before the knot will slip as long as the knot is fully tightened. (most knots will creep until fully tightened.) and why no mention of its use in rock climbing? From personal experience, I can assure you that many, if not all of the climbers I climb with and know use the clove hitch in multiple applications.

Clove Hitch's primary purpose?
There is no mention of the Clove Hitch's main function- to pull a cylinder on end (ie. to drag a log through the woods). 138.32.32.166 (talk) 02:39, 3 July 2011 (UTC)

Most essential
Changed "most essential" to "most important". Something is either essential or not. --118.90.25.55 (talk) 05:12, 5 January 2012 (UTC)
 * Is this what the source says though?   A rbitrarily 0    ( talk ) 15:45, 5 January 2012 (UTC)

Half hitches vs Single Hitches
I modified the opening of the article to change the line, "A clove hitch is two successive half hitches tied around an object".

A half hitch is actually a single hitch tied around a rope's standing part; so while a clove hitch made on a rope's standing part makes the knot two half hitches, a clove hitch itself is two single hitches.

2600:1007:B036:DD24:805D:ECC2:293D:74A3 (talk) 00:39, 21 January 2023 (UTC)


 * I have also now modified the page of Cow hitch for the same reasoning, after noticing it using the same previous terminology today. 2600:1007:B036:DD24:805D:ECC2:293D:74A3 (talk) 01:02, 22 January 2023 (UTC)