Undoing an over tight Clove Hitch?
The weather has been really nice this weekend in North wales so over the weekend I set up a slack line in my back garden to have a play about on!
On Sun I went to take it all down. Problem is I attached one end of the line to a carabiner using a clove hitch, it appears this was a big mistake. The hitch is now totally locked up and I can't undo or move the knot, it's been under tension for about 2 days. In hindsight this was probably not the knot to use here...
Can anyone suggest any good tricks to loosing the knot off? or do I have to cut the thing off?
Seen someone suggest a "Fid". But I obviously don't own one of these? Alternatives?
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How about a pencil? I use a pencil to add a little play into stubborn knots. Don't use a very sharp point, use one that has a rounded point to avoid puncturing the line.
I don't climb so the line I use is nautical in nature. You may want to treat your climbing line more carefully.
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I tried the suggestion by B540Glenn. Unfortunately this resulted in a very broken pencil and not much progress. It did though inspire me!
I figured if I had something pencil shaped but stronger this would probably work. Digging though my tool box I came across a nail set:
I figured this would be perfect. So I set to work forcing the set into the gaps between the ropes:
Place the set into a suitable gap, hammer gently ensuring the set is going between the coils and not though them:
After doing this a couple of times in a couple of places and some gentle levering the knot started to loosen. After a couple of minutes it was loose enough to slip off.
Word of warning, this has done some minor damage to the carabiner and rope. I don't use this rope or biner for climbing so I'm not really bothered but you might want to be wary/more careful than me if you want to keep using these items afterwards for climbing. I mostly use this rope for slacklining.
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