Friction hitch

Friction hitch

A friction hitch is a kind of knot used to attach one rope to another in a way that is easily adjusted. These knots are commonly used in Single Rope Technique while climbing to ascend a hanging rope by alternately hanging on one friction hitch and sliding the other up. Friction hitches are also commonly used as ratchets to capture progress on a moving rope, to ensure that it can move one way (commonly up) but not the other. These hitches are a simple and cheap alternative to mechanical ascenders.

List of friction hitches

"Warning: Though useful in other contexts, not all of the friction hitches listed below are suitable for rock climbing."

*Bachmann knot
*Blake's hitch
*Distel hitch
*French prusik sometimes called the autoblock knot
**Machard Tresse
**Valdotain Tresse
*Icicle hitch
*Klemheist knot
*Knut hitch
*Martin hitch
*Prusik or Prussik
*Rolling hitch (or Taut-line hitch)
*Schwabisch hitch
*TK hitch

References

* [http://www.treebuzz.com/pdf/0505_geneology.pdf Son of a Hitch: A Genealogy of Arborists’ Climbing Hitches]

External links

* [http://www.mytreelessons.com/friction%20hitch.htm Climber's Friction Hitch Line up]


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