Bull Hitch
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- čas přidán 5. 09. 2024
- The Bull Hitch is commonly used in climbing applications to tie into carabiners. Two distinguishing characteristics of this knot are that it holds tight around the object it is tied to and you can load it from either end of the rope without it slipping.
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There have been a lot of climbers that have commented on this video concerning this knot. Most have stated that they have never seen it, nor would they trust it. I wanted to clarify what benefit this knot has over some other hitch knots and when to use it. This knot is used to tie into rings or carabiners when the rope is configured in an endless loop, or a Prusik Loop. The attribute is that it prevents the rope from sliding around on the ring or carabiner to drastically reduce chaffing the rope. It should only be used in life critical applications when both lines are loaded, as in the Prusik Loop. I hope that clears up any confusion regarding this knot.
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"known as the Piwich knot, the Bull Hitch has perhaps its best utility as a ring hitch on the bight. It starts out with the Cow Hitch that most people know how to tie automatically, but provides a more stable and wiggle-resistant attachment. Although the diagram shows the ring being tucked down in the final step, you could also tuck the ends of the rope upward through the same opening if you have access to the ends of the rope.
The Bull Hitch can be tied onto a post, shown below for reference, but tends to jam or distort when one end is pulled hard, so you'll likely be better off opting for other hitches. This second method of tying starts off with a Cow Hitch in the air with one "ear" larger than the other. The larger ear is rotated 360 degrees about a vertical axis, over and around the smaller ear." Specifically "but tends to jam or distort when one end is pulled hard, so you'll likely be better off opting for other hitches" found here notableknotindex.webs.com/bullhitch.html. Case and point. Also, I'm not a climber, I was a high angle rescue tech who did some highrise window cleaning. Please learn your shit before suggesting people trust your information.
Lol, the liberal is back.
Might be in your best interest to actually use it for yourself instead of parroting someone else’s opinion. But then again, I wouldn’t expect anything different from you.
@@txtoolcrib how much would it piss you off to know that I'm conservative...?
You’re definitely not a conservative, that requires a working brain. Something we have already clearly established you do not possess.
I love knot videos. If I actually practiced knots, I might even remember them.
Practice them then lol 🙄👍
My thoughts exactly Horner
Its better to know a knot and not need it, than it is to need a knot and not know it.
😉 Keep practicing
@@jimmy66603 have and not need than need and not have.
Well said.
It’s like riding a bike. Once you get it and understand how knots work, they become so much easier to tie and work with
Ive never seen or heard of this being used in climbing. I've been climbing for 13 years and have used the girth hitch lots. I would not use this knot specifically for why he says it would be good. Due to the knot not being able to shift (and equalize the load on each strand) you are effectively getting half the strength that you would expect from the system. This not may be good for some things, but I would not use it in climbing because I would prefer to have the greater strength due to equalization from the girth hitch
Hi Michael, I am interest to know what you would be equalising with a girth hitch. I do use them for some things but I wouldn't like to use one for equalising a trad anchor. I wouldn't probably find a use for this bull knot for climbing either, but is fun to know.
@@kyledrake9750 if im putting a soft goods (personal anchors and such) onto my belay loop I girth hitch it. Thats my only real use for it. Thats my only real use that i can think of. but if im using it for that or any other place where i feel would require one, i would rather it be self equalizing. I know that it probably wouldn’t matter, but being about 2x the strength still gives me a better peace of mind
@@kyledrake9750 he's not talking about equalizing across multiple load points (e.g. an anchor). He's just talking about the strands themselves staying equalized as the load shifts around. If they don't equalize & you load just one strand, you lose 50% strength for no reason.
I too have never seen a bull hitch used. I use 3 knots (figure 8, overhand, alpine butterfly) & 2 hitches (girth & clove).
Know plenty more for emergency/rescue, but don't really use em.
@@kevinmcdonough9097 what are you guys climbing with that's heavy enough to be worrying about a rope going to 50% strength? I can't imagine any one bag or sack full of accessories weighing more than 10 lbs or so, which could be reliably fastened with a friggin shoestring. And I would think any line used for climbing has gotta be rated for hundreds of times whatever a couple bieners and some chalk weighs. So, what are you worried about?..
@@SineEyed
It comes down to the fact that anything I’m carrying that happens to get dropped, like a 2 liter bottle of water (or a piton hammer, a hand drill, a small haul bag full of gear, etc), quickly becomes a death missile should anyone be in its path.
It’s well worth being extra careful.
I saw many comments below and many people failed to realize sometimes knots do not have to be life or death. I like this bull hitch because it is symmetrical with an X making it visually pleasing. It is quite strong if we just need to attach something to our backpack carabiner. There are other YT videos on this but nice to hear some other explanation and comparison. Thank you to TX Tool Crib.
This hitch is hard to learn because it doesn’t fall into place itself. No wonder it is not popular. We somehow need to form the “x” ourselves.
This term I've never heard "dress this knot" meaning shaping & snugging so it has it's full functional appearance. Makes sense & proves there is a special language for virtually every field of human endeavor
Indeed. Dressing a knot is an essential part of tying it, not just to give it shape, but it also serves as an inspection (if you can't get it to look like it should, you've done it wrong). Usually dressing involves confirming that the strands aren't crossing where they shouldn't be (although in this one it can be the opposite), and pre-tightening, which keeps the knot in place and, as some would argue, gives it more strength.
Well, that was interesting. I was a climbing guide in Yosemite for 10 years and have been rock and mountain climbing for 30 years. And am an AMGA certified rock guide. This is the first time I've ever seen this hitch and have never heard of or seen it used in rock climbing. Nice hitch though, but nothing a clove hitch can't do....
I don’t know what people’s fascination is with the Clove Hitch, it is notoriously unreliable unless both ends are loaded. This knot however can be loaded from either side without slipping. The same can not be said of the Clove Hitch when it subjected to cycle loading, only static loads. So yes, this knot can do what the Clove Hitch can not.
@@txtoolcrib The clove hitch can be better at times. Neat and compact with no sharp bends. Ends leave in opposite directions. More secure with an extra half hitch. And it looks nice. ;-)
@@txtoolcrib "Unreliable" is relative. It's plenty secure for climbing needs while being quick & easy to verify.
The slippage isn't relevant where it's used climbing. Might mean an inch of lost progress or an inch longer tether. Not falling down the mountain is the goal. If you fix a line you back it up regardless of knot. I fix on butterfly's instead, but only because it's easier to untie after heavy/cyclic loads.
Why climbers love it?
- spectacular track record
- any climbing partner worldwide can instinctively check your clove (underrated feature)
- incredibly easy to tie on a biner, fatigued, with one hand
- can be loaded in any direction on either strand once dressed
- easily adjusted without untying (unloaded)
@@txtoolcrib I'm not even sure if the clove hitch is a true knot, let alone an actual hitch. I tend to think it would be properly classified as a cinch, honestly..
As a climber I've never seen the bull hitch used.
Awesome thing with this knot is tiring junk down in the truck. You can pull tension in 2 different directions and it can be broke loose easily. Have this in the middle of the side bed and just use a truckers hitch on the other ends at the corners. 2 20’ ropes or 30 straps that are either to short or 15’ to long.
Tiring?
@@sparrovski tying, genius..
ひばり結び（カウヒッチ）よりも、明らかにこの結び方の方が、強度があります。面白い結び方を教えてくれてありがとう。（＝This knot is significantly stronger than the cow hitch. Thank you for teaching me how to tie an interesting knot.）（From Tokyo ）
As a climber and rope access person, I've never seen or obviously used this knot... interesting!
Great. Thanks for sharing. In the last example if the structure on which to tie the knot is too big for the bight to go over, and if the standing end of the rope is workable as well, then starting from the cow hitch you could twist the bight and pass the two working ends through the twisted ‘loop’ of the bight.
*edit* Happy new year!
Yes
This vs the anchor hitch, which is superior?
Interesting knot, guessing it's very trade specific in the farming industry. Curious why you wouldn't just use a french prussik or even a regular prussik. Maybe someone who has used this knot here a lot can chime in. From my intuition, the X will create a load point/potential wear point. Love seeing this though!
Interesting knot but thing I would prefer using either a figure of eight or a butterfly. If traversing I always start with figure of eight then work along with butterfly, then as a caver finish with something like a bowline on the bight for the y-hang.
I love knots, they are so beautiful
So if it holds the same as a Girth hitch, wouldn't it be better with a Girth than complicating the steps and increasing the chance of rope friction over this bull hitch?
I'm very noob btw so this is an honest question and not a criticism.
Personally, I would use the girth hitch, but I’m not a recreational climber either.
Yeah it's not actually a climbing knot
Best explanation I’ve heard
Great demonstration, clear explanation.
Thanks
Spanish bowline is just the bull hitch with the bottom part pulled through the loops or am I imagining?
would like to see a video on the cordage you use in your videos.
looks like good quality with great colors.
Interesting, thanks. For loading off one line, I'd rather just tie a clove hitch. It's faster and has other benefits in applications like climbing.
My wife uses the bull hitch to stop me from running away, she used the cow hitch once, but it didn't work, best day of my life
Have her learn the Highwayman's Hitch - she'll love that one..
Can you tie a Bull Hitch to a ring that is attached to something, meaning that you cannot put your loop in the line over the whole ring?
Yes, use the end line method.
What about for a loop like the hitch that you can't go over like you did? There's one more way to tie it if the ends are free.
Great video, simply well explained, thank you for sharing your knowledge God Bless
Great explanation & amazing variations in making
That’s a slick hitch to know. One thing that lots of folks don’t seem to know is that a hitch and a knot are separate things and something is either one or the other. Seeing lots of videos lately where the term hitch and knot are used interchangeably. Never heard of a shackle referred to as a clevis. Sometimes the threaded pin may be called a clevis, but more specifically a clevis pin is found in the terminal ends of a turnbuckle.
It’s a common misconception that a “hitch” and “knot” are separate things. A hitch is a type of knot. A hitch specifically refers to knots used to fasten a rope to an object. So all hitches are knots, but not all knots are hitches.
@@txtoolcrib well fair enough! Good to know.
Whether technically correct or not, shackle and clevis are used interchangeaby by most workers.
@@txtoolcrib I think it's useful to think of them differently when choosing what to tie, as hitches tend to be less secure, but easier to untie.
@@jamese9283 not on sailboats. Those workers use specific language. There are shackles and there are pins, or clevis pins. One without the other does not function as the whole.
Thanks I knew the cow hitch so it's just one step after the other. 😀 Oh and another reason to use the bull hitch instead is its prettier. 😉
Nicely done, thanks.
Wish you had fixed the camera into a position that allowed me to see it without guessing.
Nice hitch
amazingly clear explanation x
I think I noticed a way to make this hitch if the ring is attached to a surface and you can't throw the rope around it...Start off with the Girth hitch, pull out the part of the rope that is going horizontal. Twist that bite 180 degrees and bend it down towards the 2 hanging ends, then feed both rope ends through the loop.. Does that accomplish the same task??
It does, and will work well in shorter ropes or with loops.
Happy New Year Ben! I'm glad to see you again. Cheers!
Happy New Year.
You tied that the hardest way I have ever seen all you got to do is fold the rope and half stick the loop either up from behind or down from the top it doesn't matter either way twist that Loop and stickball throat threw it at the same time done
Not so easy with a long rope.
great presentation, thanks
Cal hitch and regular knot can work just as well right?
Thank you
Thanks god bless
That's a shackle-
I am now almost 70 years old and spent 40 of those years at sea and was in the fire department for 45 years, but I have neither seen nor used the Mickey Mouse knot, write in for something, except for bondage games I need it
Thanks and Happy New Year.
Could you maybe do some interesting paracord videos?
How well does this knot undo after being loaded/pulled very hard day with a maasdaam or even an atv?
Very cool video. Thank you
Nicely done!
Is the cow hitch also called a larks head?
Yes
If you use a term of art like “loaded,” you should explain it.
thank you kind sir
The trouble is I'm stupid and will never remember how to do this when I need it.
You're not stupid! Practice a little here a little there when you can, everyone learns at different rates, you got this! Happy 😊 God Bless
Outstanding explanation.
Bloody great video, subbed!
Any secret method to have both tails the same length ?
Use the bight-through method; put your bight in the middle of the line..
I thought the one on the right was a larks head
Excellent, thanks!
One is not "better" than the other, they serve different purposes.
It's better for unequal loading. Dur.
What climbing application would this work on? I'm thinking anything where a figure 8 knot would be used? Or maybe just in a belay situation?
Definetly not where the figure 8 is used. Maybe when you would grith hitch a personal anchor to your belay loop, but even then I wouldn't as the ability of the girth hitch to self equalize would make it stronger then this bull knot
The video was too close to the knot you were tying and it was difficult to see and differentiate between the working and standing ends....otherwise, top notch description.
Happy New Year Ben and Best Wishes !!
Happy New Year!
She loves me…. She loves me knot…
I’ll stick to my one knot: the square knot.
CZcams, stop listening to my conversations please. Thanks.
Хорошо. Спасибо
Just twist the bend on cow hitch before you feed ends through it. Why complicate?
Just make a video and post it.
Not easy to do that with a long rope.
@@jamese9283 In case of a long rope you are of course right.
You are funny: Why do something easily, if you can do it complicated! Have you ever heard about clove hitch?
Thanks as always. Question: where did you find that practice jig? I would love to have something like that.
I built it.
@@txtoolcrib *sigh* That's what I figured. I have no welder or welding skills. I'll probably fab one out of wood. It's just too handy. Thanks again for the great videos!
I often just use the table leg to practice knots. I'm more often tie rope to vertical objects like trees or posts, so it develops the right kind of muscle memory for me.
I took two small eye hooks and screwed them into the end of my table and put a lag bolt through. You could also use a dowel and just use a small piece of electrical tape at both ends to keep it from sliding.
@@BodomFox I too use table legs, chair backs, or anything else handy, but I use hitches for climbing and other rigging where a horizontal jig would be really handy.
Thanks, I knew there was a better hitch out there.
Useful
very nice!
I call Bull Hitch on this video.
It looks like a bull at 3:51 😱
why 2 ? 3 !
Love it
Shame the knot moves out of frame.
Wonderful ✨😍
Happy new year Ben, brilliant as usual 👍
Happy New Year to you as well.
아.. 형 너무 고맙네. 하나 배우고 가요
Good
Cool
Fuking awesome! 👍
Nice! Very useful. Thanks
I can't seem to tie this knot without my leather jacket on.
It was cold in the shop.
@@txtoolcrib Lol, just kidding with you man. Great video by the way.
Mafia hitmen almost always know _tons_ of useful things to do with rope. Makes sense when you think about it, but it isn't something that gets thunk about a lot..
Hull
you wanna
Didn’t work… rope snapped & ripped the $150 sun sail shade just bought from Ikea… Reported this video, & I’ll be sending screenshots of report directly to CZcams’s email support.
👍
Neat
this is no good for release time
👍😎🇺🇸🦅
This is never used in climbing
Me like
No way am I trusting this hitch. Not only have I never seen it used before, despite being around climbers and being in the rope access and rope rescue industry myself, but any hitch or knot that falls apart on its own is sketchy af. I'm not in a position to test this hitch out right now but I'd love to see someone who can give it a try under extremely safe and redundant conditions respond.
It is used with a Prusik or endless loop when both lines are loaded. It locks the rope fast against the ring or carabiner to prevent chaffing. If you trust the Girth Hitch, then this is just a better version of that knot.
@@txtoolcrib With the exception of if I'm loading both lines, I don't trust girth hitches either, and even then I'd rather use just about anything else. This Bull Hitch is supposed to be able to have all of your load on one of its lines, but like I've said earlier, I wouldn't trust that scenario.
Well I was just clarifying that in climbing applications both lines should be loaded. Why exactly would you not trust a Girth Hitch? I must say, I don’t follow your logic at all. At any rate, this knot will hold with a single line being loaded. Go try it for yourself. By the way, the Clove Hitch, when loaded off a single line can and will slip.
@@txtoolcrib I can confidently say I can't follow your logic either. No kidding a clove hitch will slip if only one line is loaded with enough weight. Why would you assume we are trusting clove hitches with our lives? And why bring up clove hitches at all? The more you talk about ripe work the more it sounds like you don't have a clue what you are talking about.
You seem angry, why exactly I don’t know. I have more experience with climbing than you could ever fathom. Only I don’t do it for fun, I do it for work. Where I am welding, cutting, or assembling components anywhere from 50’ to 500’. So I would chill with the better than thou attitude. I was simply explaining when and where this hitch is viable. But you’ve never seen, or tried it for that matter. So I guess we should all bow down to your authority, is that the idea? You sound like a pompous ass frankly.
Stop calling 2 knots 3 different names. omfg. Bull Hitch. Cow Hitch. Girth Hitch. You're only showing 2 knots. Pick 2 names so you don't confuse people watching. I'm not confused but it's just stupid to use multiple names for a knot in an instructional video.
They are different knots. I don’t choose the names friend.
^5
I think im dislexic, i read thr vid title and read "pull bitch" 😮😅😅😅
You waste time, touching the ropes.