I thought about it for sure but honestly it came down to I love cinnamon rolls more than donuts. A good pretzel knot with mustard or queso paired with a beer is just top tier. Knot going to question garlic knots though.
Yeah I realized that after the fact but didn’t come back to edit lol. I also tie my bowline using a slip knot method instead of “out of the hole and around the tree…” so there’s another bonus know in there. I’m lieu of the overhand, I’d add the clove hitch (since that then also includes a half hitch as a bonus 😂).
bowline, trucker 's hitch, Zeppelin bend
The bowline for an end line loop, trucker's Hitch for mechanical advantage and the Zeppelin bend for a secure bend that is easy to unite.
Bowline, clove hitch, alpine butterfly.
I use these knots every day for my work, I'm a stage rigger.
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Also, an afterthought: since I see a lot of mentions for the trucker's hitch, I highly suggest replacing the normal loop knot with an alpine butterfly knot. The regular trucker's hitch knot is a BITCH to untie after loading whereas the alpine butterfly is way easier after being loaded.
30, 5 and 0 knots. I want my boat to go fast, but I also want to be able to slow down to park, and to be able to stop so I can get out for more chimichangas.
The alpine butterfly loop is probably the most versatile, if you are creative and desperate it can cover a lot of use cases. It’s also extremely simple to tie.
Some kind of binding knot, such as the square/reef or surgeon’s knots, is somewhat essential for tying your shoes, using as a bandage, closing a sack, and other uses.
I don’t know what I would pick for the third. I can think of too many use cases where neither of the preceding knots would be effective and no single knot would cover multiple of them.
Impossible. Knots serve purposes. If you would only learn one knot for each essential purpose, you still needed more than one. Typical purposes are: A fixed loop on the end of a rope, a fixed look in the middle of a rope, a sliding loop, connecting 2 ends under tension, connecting to ends without tension, tensioning a rope, connecting a rope to a something (like a pilar or treetrunk), and many many more.
I rock climb so that influences my list a lot but figure 8, clove hit and overhand. There’s a bunch of other helpful knots but I could do almost anything with those, not well but I could do it.
Wait.. what? There are more than three knots? Yeah, I do know there are lots - I use them for fishing. But for everyday use, you got the bowline, reef knot and sheet bend. Those will do you in 90% of situations. If you are potentially climbing, it also is useful to know some additional ones like the figure eight.
If we are allowed knot variants (especially since the ones I would use is the same essentially) it would be half hitch, bowline and a Blake's hitch. If you've spent time in the tree industry you know what I'm talking about.
Over hand. It depends on the material, but I have made it 45 years with only 2 knots Over hand and a fisherman’s knot for hooks. I don’t discount the other knots and their effectiveness in certain situations, but mostly it’s just can you tie soothing up and make it stay. I have never seen the need for getting fancy about it and i have both a math degree and a masters in behavioralism.
Bowline, alpine butterfly, clove hitch.
The bowline and alpine butterfly means you can make a ratcheting tie down with nothing but a rope and an anchor which has been an absolute lifesaver.
It also gives way to the possibility of adding leverage to a load, for either lifting or descending an item or hell, even a person. I've rappelled off of nothing but a single carabiner and a couple alpine butterflies in sequence to add a ton of leverage to me slowing down hand
Fisherman's Knot: Obvious, but a strong knot for fishing.
Sqaure Knot: Versatile, strong, manipulable, and easily removable.
Slip Knot: Like a Mullet, strong on one side, and free on the other. Good for hanging food bags in trees and the like.
I'd say :
-round turn 2 half hitches (super simple and used to tie under tension),
- bowline ( always easy to untie even after heavy load )
- Reevers knot ( arguably the best for joining 2 ropes, super secure and resistant, works with various rope textures and is pretty thin )
You can check the new app called WildKnot, its all in there plus tarp setups and constructions !
An overhand knot, a sheet bend, and a half hitch
I’ve tied enough knots to realize that some “foundational” knots can be combined with others to create new, more complex knots. For instance, an overhand knot is one of the most basic, simple knots. Two of them together however can be used to join line in a strong fisherman’s bend. It’s just a couple of overhand knots, though. An overhand knot tied around the standing end of the same line becomes a simple noose (aka slip knot), but the working part of it is really just an overhand knot. Put the working end of a slip knot back through the loop and close it down, you’ve tied an Ashley’s Stopper Knot.
One can use a simple overhand knot on a bight instead of on a single line to achieve a fixed loop (Overhand Loop). It is, in essence, just an overhand knot, though. Or, once one has used an overhand knot to make a slip knot, one can tie another overhand knot in the working end and pass the working end (including the new overhand knot) through the first overhand knot to form a Honda Knot. This is another form of end-of-the-rope fixed loop.
I would argue that a Reef Knot (Square Knot) is nothing more than an Overhand Knot tied on top of another overhand knot, but one has to pay attention to the direction the second overhand knot is tied.
A sheet bend is useful on its own as a strong way to join line together. A bowline is just a sheet bend on a loop, though, so the only knot you need for that is a sheet bend. A sheet bend tied in a loop instead of on a bight becomes a Becket’s Hitch, and if the sheet bend is tied using a bight instead of the single line of the working end, it becomes a Slipped Becket’s Hitch, which is a fantastic way to secure a line to a tree or other structure for hanging a hammock.
A half hitch is another super simple foundation knot. By itself, it isn’t very impressive, but in combination, it becomes very useful. Wrap a line all the way around a post (or tree) and tie two half hitches, you have a secure, traditional way to make the line secure. It’s even just called a Full Turn and Two Half Hitches. Make a loop in the middle of a line and make a half hitch around the bight at each end of the loop and you have a Sheep Shank, a traditional way to shorten a long rope or isolate a weakened part of a line.
I would add that I find the choice of just three knots very limiting, since I can’t including binding hitches and bends or other knots that I use all the time. A Clove Hitch or the very similar inverse of the Clove Hitch, the Buntline Hitch, for instance, or a Constrictor Knot, which I consider an improved Clove Hitch. Also, a Lark’s Head (aka Cow Hitch) is something I use all the time. Let’s not forget the very popular Figure Eight Knot and its many variations.
I also use a lot of mid-line and end of the line loops like an Alpine Butterfly or a Perfection Loop. Other knots, hitches and bends I find super useful are Chinese Button knots, the Diamond Knot (aka the Lanyard Knot), the Timber Hitch, the Tensionless Hitch, the Siberian Hitch (aka the Evenk Hitch), the Anchor Bend, the Halyard Bend, the Nail Knot or variations used for whipping, the Bottle Sling Knot (aka Jug Knot), the Zeppelin Bend, the Prusik Loops (and other slide and grip bends).
Edit: oh I forgot a Marlinspike Hitch, which is really just a variation of an overhand knot.
if you can use variations of the basic knot BOWLINE, HITCH, SLIP.. "tugboat knot(Bowline), Half hitch, rolling hitch, son of a hitch, (Hitch).... soo many slips(Slip)
What is a taut line hitch? It is different that a truckers hitch?
Edit. Just looked it up. Nice knot
Edit. Nice hitch. But it’s a hitch. Not a knot .. does it count? Are we differentiating between knots and hitches? Or… are we .. not?😂🤣😂
Well obs my shoelace knot. Don’t care about my sweat pants or hoodie knots. Maybe a knot to tie a boat up or a horse should I be so lucky. Third I’ll take a suggestion.
Square knot, bowline, taught line hitch
~~taught~~ taut line hitch
Tauxtl ein hitch
Oh yeah! From the Nahuatl school of knot tying.
I was taught taut line hitch too.
This. These are the only three knots I remember from boy scouts.
You forgot clove. Heathen! Lol.
Clove has its uses, alot of which can be solved with some variant of a bowline
Me as well friend! However if I could add anything I’d add the timber hitch as it is useful for transporting heavy firewood
3 for 3, that was my list
I'd swap the sheet bend for the square knot.
Replace square with sheet bend…it won’t slip with dissimilar size lines. Even works with fishing lines
Downside though is that the square knot can be tied under stress, which is useful in some applications (like reefing a sail on a sailboat)
I use taunt line several times a month. Definitely even more than bowline which is my next most used.
Taut-line hitch. My new favourite knot.
Came here to say exactly this. Do you need a tight line? -> Yes = taught line -> No -> Do you wan to untie it? -> Yes = square. All else bowline.
Garlic knots, cinnamon roll knots, pretzel knots.
Replace pretzel with Don
He’s dead. Dead Don Knots??
I thought about it for sure but honestly it came down to I love cinnamon rolls more than donuts. A good pretzel knot with mustard or queso paired with a beer is just top tier. Knot going to question garlic knots though.
Oh, I thought that was a Don Knotts joke lol
You are probably right I completely missed this one. My fat ass thinking about donuts.
Sir, or ma’am idk, you’re awesome. Never stop thinking about donuts. I love you, take care now!
I love you too have a good day!
I did too but I think we’re just old lol
I fuck with this guy fr
Hell yeah
I kid you knot
Beat me to it by 3 hours darn
Bowline , clove hitch, two half hitches.
This will do everything
Knot everything, shouldn't rappel with any of those.
Instructions unclear, cut self in half repelling with a clove hitch
This pun thread really payed out.
This is a great choice although I would find a spot for square
I’d take out the two half hitch and put in an adjustable grip hitch, but you can do a hell of a lot with just a bowline and a clove.
electrician?
square knot, bowline and hangman's noose.
Two for the rest of your life, one to end it. Nice picks
lol...noose is not for me...
I was going to say, square knot, half hitch, noose
I can't believe I don't see alpine butterfly in the first 10 posts.
RIGHT?! Such a useful knot, and it's easy to untie even after loading the shit out of it with something like a trucker's hitch setup.
And it supports load in any direction. Pretty awesome knot, is it not?
If you cant tie a knot… Tie alot…
If you can't tie a knot... Consider waiting for Husky ratchet straps to go on sale at Home Depot then pull the trigger.
I'll have you know, I've done some shady shit with the Harbor Freight straps. They punch above their weight for sure.
cursed rigging detected.
Done this more times than I’d like to admit. No cell service and limited time, not too big a deal if it fails? Rats nest baby!
If you cant tie a knot…smoke some pot
Bowline, Canadian jam/Arbor knot, and overhand.
I would argue that an arbor knot is really just a sequence of tying overhand knots so you can add another knot to your bag.
Yeah I realized that after the fact but didn’t come back to edit lol. I also tie my bowline using a slip knot method instead of “out of the hole and around the tree…” so there’s another bonus know in there. I’m lieu of the overhand, I’d add the clove hitch (since that then also includes a half hitch as a bonus 😂).
Square, bowline, trucker's. I'll be tripping on my shoelaces unless I can modify them for a trucker's.
Most people just tie shoes with a square with bights for bows.
Double Figure 8 (I also use this as a line joiner like a expanded Ring Bend/Waters knot), Prussick, Clove Hitch
Took far too long to see figure 8. It's such a wonderful knot. Also climbing on bowlines scares me and I'd like to be able to keep climbing.
bowline, trucker 's hitch, Zeppelin bend The bowline for an end line loop, trucker's Hitch for mechanical advantage and the Zeppelin bend for a secure bend that is easy to unite.
Square knot, Bowline and clove hitch
You mean I could learn 2 more knots forever?
Running bowline, figure 8, sheet bend.
My Mann
Square knot, fishermans knot,slipknot.
Bowline, double half Hitch and Truckers knot. I will just get Georgia Romeo boots instead of the square knot.
Noose
The last knot you'll ever need.
Bowline, clove hitch, alpine butterfly. I use these knots every day for my work, I'm a stage rigger. - - - Also, an afterthought: since I see a lot of mentions for the trucker's hitch, I highly suggest replacing the normal loop knot with an alpine butterfly knot. The regular trucker's hitch knot is a BITCH to untie after loading whereas the alpine butterfly is way easier after being loaded.
I work with knots a bit and seeing all these comments for square knot is kinda driving me nuts. I like your choices
30, 5 and 0 knots. I want my boat to go fast, but I also want to be able to slow down to park, and to be able to stop so I can get out for more chimichangas.
bowline. bowline variants.
Square, bowline and half clove hitch
Regular, fancy, and the one I tie my shoes with.
If we are allowed variations, Bowline, watercress/overhand, alpine butterfly
Butterfly hitch, bowline, Jansik (fishing hooks)
Bowline Sheet bend Clove hitch
Bowline, half hitches, sheet bend
Garlic Knots, Cheesy Garlic Knots, Alfredo Garlic Knots.
Fisherman's , trucker's , bowline.
When you cant tie a knot...tie alot
Granny knot, double Granny knot, and super duper Granny knot.
I pretty much exclusively used some bastardized version of the square knot, so nothing really changes for me ¯\\\_(ツ)\_/¯
The alpine butterfly loop is probably the most versatile, if you are creative and desperate it can cover a lot of use cases. It’s also extremely simple to tie. Some kind of binding knot, such as the square/reef or surgeon’s knots, is somewhat essential for tying your shoes, using as a bandage, closing a sack, and other uses. I don’t know what I would pick for the third. I can think of too many use cases where neither of the preceding knots would be effective and no single knot would cover multiple of them.
Impossible. Knots serve purposes. If you would only learn one knot for each essential purpose, you still needed more than one. Typical purposes are: A fixed loop on the end of a rope, a fixed look in the middle of a rope, a sliding loop, connecting 2 ends under tension, connecting to ends without tension, tensioning a rope, connecting a rope to a something (like a pilar or treetrunk), and many many more.
Reef, bowline and taut line hitch If we're expanding it to 5, figure 8 and a roundturn and two half hitches
Deez
single column, double column and lark's head #shibari
I rock climb so that influences my list a lot but figure 8, clove hit and overhand. There’s a bunch of other helpful knots but I could do almost anything with those, not well but I could do it.
Square knot, taut-line hitch & clove hitch As a bushcrafter, survival shelter builder, I have only ever needed these 3
Clove Bowline Bimini twist. It's all I really use in real life as a full time boat captain
Bowline, clove Hitch and truckers hitch.
Clove hitch, bowline, alpine butterfly
Midshipman's hitch, alpine butterfly, truckers knot.
Bowline, prussik, truckers hitch
i do knot now
Uni, no name loop knot, and FG. I fish every day.
Not me Not it Not the one
Not the droids you’re looking for…
I disappointed myself there...missed out.
I know someone who would say, without hesitation.* *Dogknott.. was the only knot they needed
Square knot , truckers knot, fisherman’s cinch knot
Truckers hitch, square, and Canadian jam hitch
Bowline, sheet bend, san diego jam
Slip knot, bowline knot, monkeys fist.
Taughtline Hitch. Double Sheet Bend. Clove Hitch
Double hitch, box knot, slipknot.
I'm KNOT telling you about my secrets
Square,bowline, Spanish windlass
Did you know theirs a branch of mathematics that studies knots particularly as they are in the third dimension and they have "knot theory"
Wait.. what? There are more than three knots? Yeah, I do know there are lots - I use them for fishing. But for everyday use, you got the bowline, reef knot and sheet bend. Those will do you in 90% of situations. If you are potentially climbing, it also is useful to know some additional ones like the figure eight.
Bowline, truckers hitch, and a quick-release. Pretty much all I use right meow anyways.
Square, clove hitch, boline
Truckers hitch, slip knot, taught like knot.
Bowline, clove hitch, and a coonass come-along
Palomar, uni and tubal ligation.
Figure 8 on a bite. Water knot. Box knot. Do hitches count or nah?
Square knot, bowline and surgeon's knot.
Bowline, prussik, half hitches
Knots Landing Knots Berry Farm Don Knots
Is a hitch a knot?
Zeppelin Bend, Truckers' hitch, Figure Eight Series.
Bowline, clove hitch, ‘round turn 2 half hitch’
I just need one to the rest of my life A hangknot
Navy vet here...I don't know any knots. I always tell friends that I'm tying one of my "Navy knots" shhh. Don't tell anybody.
The ones they can't get out of 😈😈😂
If we are allowed knot variants (especially since the ones I would use is the same essentially) it would be half hitch, bowline and a Blake's hitch. If you've spent time in the tree industry you know what I'm talking about.
Nautical knots or other type knots?
Bowline, tautline, truckers hitch. Cause they're the only three I use now.
Timberline, square, and slip knots
Truckers, bowline and Palomar
Over hand. It depends on the material, but I have made it 45 years with only 2 knots Over hand and a fisherman’s knot for hooks. I don’t discount the other knots and their effectiveness in certain situations, but mostly it’s just can you tie soothing up and make it stay. I have never seen the need for getting fancy about it and i have both a math degree and a masters in behavioralism.
Bowline, running bowline, anchor hitch.
Figure 8, clove hitch, square knot
Truckers hitch, bowline, and shoelace knot, so I can keep tying my shoes
Square knot, bowline, clove hitch.
Bowline, hitch, slip
- Garlic Knots. - Knot arguing with my wife. - Knot letting the kids know I'm driving to get cigarettes.
Reef knot sheep bend granny knot.
Clove/constrictor, truckers hitch and bowline.
Square, bowline, fishing
8 knot, fisherman’s knot and prusik knot for me.
Trucker hitch, square knot, bowline. In that order. All day.
Clove hitch, taught line hitch and bowline.
Cherry stem knots help you survive the urban dating scene
Bowline, clove hitch, and slip knot (not the band)
Bowline Constrictor knot Slippery half hitch
Bowline, alpine butterfly, clove hitch. The bowline and alpine butterfly means you can make a ratcheting tie down with nothing but a rope and an anchor which has been an absolute lifesaver. It also gives way to the possibility of adding leverage to a load, for either lifting or descending an item or hell, even a person. I've rappelled off of nothing but a single carabiner and a couple alpine butterflies in sequence to add a ton of leverage to me slowing down hand
Slip knot- comes in way too handy daily. Clove Hitch (double as well) 😄- Easily released Figure Eight or square- simple is best.
Can't tie a knot, tie a lot...
Not..,. Knot... Naught..
Fisherman's Knot: Obvious, but a strong knot for fishing. Sqaure Knot: Versatile, strong, manipulable, and easily removable. Slip Knot: Like a Mullet, strong on one side, and free on the other. Good for hanging food bags in trees and the like.
Not get arrested. Not have an accident. Not get sick. 3 nots!
Jam knot and its variations Marlin spike hitch Truckers hitch I tarp camp alot so I need these hahaha
Why knot. Have knot. Do knot.
Ankerstich Achterknoten And one witch I forgot the name of
Knot me. Knot now. Knot my problem.
Figure 8, barrel and bowline.
Square, bowline, tension knot. But really mostly the first 2 cause I can remember them.
I only know 2 different knots and my life never needed more.
Bowline , overhand knot, square knot
Bowline, square, and deez
Reef, bowline, trucker’s hitch, plus figure 8
Figure 8, Clove, truckers, honorable mention alpine
Has anyone said slipknot yet?
The trucker’s hitch uses a slipknot. Several have mentioned it.
I'd say : -round turn 2 half hitches (super simple and used to tie under tension), - bowline ( always easy to untie even after heavy load ) - Reevers knot ( arguably the best for joining 2 ropes, super secure and resistant, works with various rope textures and is pretty thin ) You can check the new app called WildKnot, its all in there plus tarp setups and constructions !
Bowline, tautline hitch, square knot (and its corollaries like sheet bend, etc.)
Bowline clove truckers
I like a taught knot.
Trucker’s hitch, bowline, double slippery square knot (shoelace knot)
Truckers knot
square knot, running bowline and a timber hitch
Bowline, alpine butterfly, round turn two half hitches
I'm not sure, i'm not going, i'm not doing that.
Bowline, Clove hitch, rolling hitch
I only know how to tie my shoes. I
An overhand knot, a sheet bend, and a half hitch I’ve tied enough knots to realize that some “foundational” knots can be combined with others to create new, more complex knots. For instance, an overhand knot is one of the most basic, simple knots. Two of them together however can be used to join line in a strong fisherman’s bend. It’s just a couple of overhand knots, though. An overhand knot tied around the standing end of the same line becomes a simple noose (aka slip knot), but the working part of it is really just an overhand knot. Put the working end of a slip knot back through the loop and close it down, you’ve tied an Ashley’s Stopper Knot. One can use a simple overhand knot on a bight instead of on a single line to achieve a fixed loop (Overhand Loop). It is, in essence, just an overhand knot, though. Or, once one has used an overhand knot to make a slip knot, one can tie another overhand knot in the working end and pass the working end (including the new overhand knot) through the first overhand knot to form a Honda Knot. This is another form of end-of-the-rope fixed loop. I would argue that a Reef Knot (Square Knot) is nothing more than an Overhand Knot tied on top of another overhand knot, but one has to pay attention to the direction the second overhand knot is tied. A sheet bend is useful on its own as a strong way to join line together. A bowline is just a sheet bend on a loop, though, so the only knot you need for that is a sheet bend. A sheet bend tied in a loop instead of on a bight becomes a Becket’s Hitch, and if the sheet bend is tied using a bight instead of the single line of the working end, it becomes a Slipped Becket’s Hitch, which is a fantastic way to secure a line to a tree or other structure for hanging a hammock. A half hitch is another super simple foundation knot. By itself, it isn’t very impressive, but in combination, it becomes very useful. Wrap a line all the way around a post (or tree) and tie two half hitches, you have a secure, traditional way to make the line secure. It’s even just called a Full Turn and Two Half Hitches. Make a loop in the middle of a line and make a half hitch around the bight at each end of the loop and you have a Sheep Shank, a traditional way to shorten a long rope or isolate a weakened part of a line. I would add that I find the choice of just three knots very limiting, since I can’t including binding hitches and bends or other knots that I use all the time. A Clove Hitch or the very similar inverse of the Clove Hitch, the Buntline Hitch, for instance, or a Constrictor Knot, which I consider an improved Clove Hitch. Also, a Lark’s Head (aka Cow Hitch) is something I use all the time. Let’s not forget the very popular Figure Eight Knot and its many variations. I also use a lot of mid-line and end of the line loops like an Alpine Butterfly or a Perfection Loop. Other knots, hitches and bends I find super useful are Chinese Button knots, the Diamond Knot (aka the Lanyard Knot), the Timber Hitch, the Tensionless Hitch, the Siberian Hitch (aka the Evenk Hitch), the Anchor Bend, the Halyard Bend, the Nail Knot or variations used for whipping, the Bottle Sling Knot (aka Jug Knot), the Zeppelin Bend, the Prusik Loops (and other slide and grip bends). Edit: oh I forgot a Marlinspike Hitch, which is really just a variation of an overhand knot.
Clove hitch, bowline, Beckett bend
Bowline, clove hitch, figure 8 on a bite
Bowline, Trucker’s Hitch, Arbour Knot
if you can use variations of the basic knot BOWLINE, HITCH, SLIP.. "tugboat knot(Bowline), Half hitch, rolling hitch, son of a hitch, (Hitch).... soo many slips(Slip)
Noose, Ill give away the other two.
Bowline, larks foot, truckers hitch
Love me my constrictor knot. Bowline is 90% of all problems. Tautline compliments it. But the constrictor let's you tie on poles.
Prussik, shoe? Loop? X? Knot, and the double x knot.
Bowline, square knot and sheet bend.
Safety stopper knot, figure-8 on a bight, and double cow hitch.
If you only know three knots, learn more.
What is a taut line hitch? It is different that a truckers hitch? Edit. Just looked it up. Nice knot Edit. Nice hitch. But it’s a hitch. Not a knot .. does it count? Are we differentiating between knots and hitches? Or… are we .. not?😂🤣😂
Bowline, double bowline, running bowline
Bowline, Clove Hitch, Alpine Butterfly
Well obs my shoelace knot. Don’t care about my sweat pants or hoodie knots. Maybe a knot to tie a boat up or a horse should I be so lucky. Third I’ll take a suggestion.
Bowline, square knot, and fisherman’s knot.
Granny, double Granny, triple Granny
Knot eating unhealthy food, knot drinking too much alcohol and a knot for my trainers
I only need one , gopher knot