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Summary: Learn tips on how to tie a correct racking bend knot in this free video clip on knot and bend tying.
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Now a Racking Bend is another great bend that you can put two ropes in if you need to pull a piece of rope or whatever. Racking is a term that is used in knot tying that is used as a figure 8 weaving I will show you what I mean here. Right here on the table you can see that I have my larger line and a smaller line here. I am going to take this larger line and I am going to put a little bite in it like so. I am just going to weave it and try to pull these two sides together so there are two independent sides. I am going to take it and wrap it over and then wrap it over again like so. This is the figure 8 weaving that we are talking about. You can do this as many times as is necessary in which to hold these two lines together. I am going to do it one more time here. When I bring it over I am going to pull it to the one side of this loop and then pull it this way and of course you will have to work with it to make sure it stays good and tight, give it a pull and tug and there you go.