Webbing Knotcraft for Single Point Anchors

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The simplest way to rig webbing around a single point anchor, such as a tree, is a single-strand wrap with the tails connected using a rethreaded overhand bend (aka ring bend or water knot). It is always appropriate — except when it is not.

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[hyjenks]

Thanks. I figured it out eventually. 👍

[Uri]

Thanks! Greetings from Monterrey México

[kaniukr]

This is excellent Rich for beginners as you can keep going back and reminding yourself which is the problem with learning on a one-off course (although obviously people should do both). Thanks

[dakotabelliston]

One of my favorite videos. Nice work Rich

[ASNIV_]

Your videos are excellent. Thanks for making them!

[asher]

10:36 excellent method / demonstration

[davidwarren]

Or how about a frost knot tied using doubled webbing? Would provide two rigging points, redundancy, and the overhand would have 6 strands of webbing in it, and so perhaps not as much of a strength reduction as would normally be?

[davidwarren]

I don’t know about with webbing, but loaded overhands in rope like to cinch very tightly. Occasionally I put an old biner into the overhand to facilitate untying it later, but my intuition tells me I wouldn’t want to do that in one of these anchors. Are there any tips you have if it’s the case that one needs to be able to retrieve the webbing? Maybe using a wrap three-pull two variation would minimize the tension on the knot?

[kaniukr]

The re-threaded overhand (around the tree) at 4.36. Do you see any advantage or disadvantage to this compared to the choke where you put an overhand on a bite at one end of the webbing, take the long end of webbing around the tree and pass it through the loop of your knot bite and pull to tighten around the tree?

[brookeskelton]

Is it ever bad to have sinching? When would I use the simple wrap instead of the wrap 2 pull 1?

[Inspironator]

After the wrap3 pull2 method, the rest are inferior and only complicate the number of methods that are possible with no real benefit. Speed is not a benefit if it has a failure mode that the previous examples did not have or if it is weaker. I'd like to know which situations require speed over safety for rappelling?

[pjd]

When securing the carabiner always "screw down" so you don't "screw up"

[mapispecapac]

Hi, can you plese explain why climbers don't use pices of good looking used rope for anchors instead of buying webbing?

[Max-kwpx]

Why do you bother with a quick link for rap-only anchors? I get that webbing gets 'burned' and weakens when you pull 30m of rope over it, but at that point you're already off rappel..