How to Tie a Penborthy Knot

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Another great climbers knot or caver's knot is a Penborthy Knot. Now I'm not much of a climber or caver myself, so talk to someone before attempting using these knots. If you see down here on the table, you see that I've got my main line started here. And what I'm going to do, and of course do not use these types of ropes when you are climbing or caving, especially. They are not meant for that. So what I'm going to do, is I'm going to take my smaller line up what would be my main line here. I'm going to take it, I'm going to go over, and I'm going to wrap it a few times. Actually on this one, the minimal of wrap will be six. Three, four, five and six. There you go. I'm going to take my standing in that I have here. And I'm just going to take, and I'm going to twist a little overhand knot into it here, like so. Actually we'll twist this way, will be more prudent. Then we'll take my working end and bring it up under here, and through my line. Basically, we're just going to put a sheet bend in it like so, to secure this. And as it comes down, you can see that this is very tight. This isn't moving. So you want to make sure that you have your line good and tight and in place, before you complete the sheet bend that I just did. There you go. This is a nice knot, and it won't slip on your line. It will pull, but this will hold. and once you ease tension on it, you can slide it back up on your main line as you see necessary.

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