The student will demonstrate a basic understanding of rope and rope hardware and software; tying of basic knots, and the use of various rope accessories to construct mechanical advantage systems ...

Lineman Guide (Boise, Idaho) provides charts, pictures and how-to’s for transformers, rigging, knots, rope capacities and more. Conductor formulas, general formulas, calculators for rigging-sling ...

The 'Surrey Six' is a collection of ways to tie rope that, for most people, are the only six knots you'll ever need. Agnes Stamp tries her hand at tying them, and looks in to the lore of knot tying.

Thomas Jefferson once said "When you reach the end of your rope, tie a knot in it and hang on." But what if you don't know how to tie a good knot? Not to worry. For his latest Sunday School lesson, ...

High-wire artist Philippe Petit’s rigging explained in Why Knot?, his new book on the art of knot tying. When Philippe Petit stepped out on a high-wire illegally strung between the twin towers of the ...