(Unless your using screen spline, it’s unparalleled for bundling Scout staves!) Tying the Scaffold Hitch: PRIMARY ROLE Using the Scaffold Hitch to Bundle Poles. Second Role: Many different knots can be used for fastening bundles of sticks or poles together, but when it comes to bundling up of 3 to 4-inch ladder rungs, platform spars, and walkway cross spars, the scaffold hitch provides superior clinching power, which is what is needed to keep the bundles tight. As John Sweet points out in Scout Pioneering, it’s a good idea to cut notches about 4 inches from the ends of the board to give the rope something to bite into. Primary Role: This is a seriously good knot to use in the construction of a pioneering project bosun’s chair ( boatswain’s chair) for a small, straight aerial runway adaptation or a project where a seat is needed to suspend a Scout from a rope swing. The scaffold hitch is a superb knot, and in pioneering easily serves a dual purpose. In Ashley’s Book of Knots, the correct way to tie a Double Sheet Bend is to pass the running end underneath itself twice.Īuthor Scout Pioneering Posted on JJCategories Scout Pioneering Tags Double Sheetbend, joing ropes of different thickness, Pioneering Knots, Sheet Bend, tying 2 ropes together, tying together wet ropes, tying two ropes together 1 Comment on FAVORITE PIONEERING KNOTS: DOUBLE SHEET BEND Favorite Pioneering Knots: Scaffold Hitch NOTE: The bottom three images in the photo montage below show the knot being tied by taking a roundturn around the back of the bight before passing the running end underneath itself. The Double Sheet Bend is most effective when used to tie a small pliable rope to a large stiff rope or to a slippery rope. For that matter, as its name implies, it was used to connect a corner of a sail to a rope by attaching the line (“sheet”) to a bight formed in the sail. The sheet bend’s outstanding claim to fame is how well it holds when tying to ropes together of different sizes. It is most always referred to as one of the most essential knots to learn, and is required to learn before a Scout can become First Class. It’s a very basic joining knot for tying two ropes together, and when a lot of pull is applied, it’s easier to undo than a square knot (Reef Knot). A bad knot is one which slips away when a hard pull comes on it, or which gets jammed so tight that you cannot untie it.Put most simply, the sheet bend is a very useful knot. “The right kind of knot to tie is one that you can be certain will hold under any amount of strain, and which you can always undo easily if you wish to. Very often it may happen that lives depend on a knot being properly tied.”
To tie a knot seems to be a simple thing, and yet there are right and wrong ways of doing it, and Scouts ought to know the right way. “Every Scout should be able to tie a knot. In addition to instructing Scouts, Red Ropers who are interested in an even tougher challenge may attempt the Black Rope Challenge, where the challenger must be able to identify and tie 40 knots and 4 lashings in front of two qualified judges. It is not important to do it faster than another Scout – just under one minute! Click on the image below for the list of 14 knots: Note the Red Rope Challenge is an individual challenge, and not a competition. He will also wear his Red Rope as part of his uniform. Once the Red Rope is earned, the challenger will become an instructor.
Red Ropers will conduct periodic training sessions for those interested at troop meetings and outings. The challenge requires not only knowledge of the 14 knots, but also the technique and skill to quickly transition from one knot to the next. Failure to return the rope when requested will result in a $10 replacement fee. As long as there is continued effort to meet the challenge, the blue rope may be kept.
This rope is to be returned to the troop when the red rope is earned, or when the challenger ceases to work towards the challenge. Scouts and Scouters interested in meeting the challenge may check out a blue training rope from Mr. The challenge is open to all Scouts and Scouters, and may be repeated as many times as it takes to pass, one time per meeting. The test for the challenge is done in front of the troop and judged by an existing Red Roper.
Impossible, you say? Not with the help of the Scouts and Scouters who have already earned their red rope. The Red Rope Challenge is to tie 14 knots in under one minute.
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