Marlinespike hitch

The marlin spike shock is a node to which you can connect a rod to a rope. The name of the node has its origin in the marlin spike, with whom he is most often used.

Application

With the marlin spike can be tightened as a thin line, for example in Rigging or Kleeden. Two handles can be fixed with a Webeleinenstek to a thick or rough hawser to pull this out of hand a heavy burden. If the pulling end suspended from a tree branch, a rope ladder can be built.

Rope ladder

Tie

With the rope one eye is established and the pulling rope to the end of a loop is pulled through the eye. Finish is the marlin spike shock.

Pulling the end ...

Pull through a loop

Finished

Modifications

• Instead of the Marl Spiekers a ladder rung used, it is called a rope ladder nodes.
• The loop is drawn around a package, called the package node.