Tying off a secure stringline

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On the first peg just tie a hitch then stretch your line to your second peg and wrap 2 or 3 turns around your peg and pull your lead line up into a small loop under the stetched line then backwards until the loop is at the back of the peg so the tension of the line is holding itself.( the small loop disapears)

To release it take some tension of the line and pull the leader back to the front of the peg.

Easy Peasy

Usually a string line is best put on nails. One end fixed with a clove hitch on one end and at the other end loop the string around your finger and twist it about 3 or 4 times and put the loop over the nail then pull the string tight with your left hand while pulling the loose end with your right hand until the the string is tight like a guitar string and then pull the loose end back towards the nail and then put a half hitch over the nail to stop it going loose.

I usually tie a permanent knot at one end and pass the line through it and loop over the start end, then at at the other end go around the peg once and underneath the 1st pass of the string, then around 2 or 3 times to secure. Much quicker to untie and you can get it very tight and secure.

Make sure it doesnt come lose in your fingers though, I've heard stories where blokes have been cut to the bone by stringlines!

If I've set my own posts, I simply anchor one end of the line with a clove hitch (actually a Rolling Magnus, but it seems no-one else knows what they are... a clove is almost there though :wink:), run out the line and tie t'other end with a quick release knot, for obvious reasons. I then simply pull the line taut, throwing the slack into hitches over the top of the post until it's at the tension I want. Simple, secure and quick to both tie/untie. :thyel:

Not practical if the line's not near the top of the post, though!

Theres a real easy way to do it ,
I could show you how in less than 10 seconds,
But putting it into words would be like writing a novel.

I've got a cold at the moment so I'm not up to doing very much at all,
maybe in aweek or so, If I remember I'll shoot a little video.

I've always wrapped it around a brick....

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Originally Posted by echnidna

Theres a real easy way to do it ,
I could show you how in less than 10 seconds,
But putting it into words would be like writing a novel.

I've got a cold at the moment so I'm not up to doing very much at all,
maybe in aweek or so, If I remember I'll shoot a little video.

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Bob you trying to keep us in suspence? Perhaps you should release the video over a number of weeks.

Stay tuned for more thrilling string line tying....:rolleyes: :)

After attaching at one end I simply take it three or four times around the peg then while pulling the line taught with one hand take up the slack with the other hand then take the line over the other so it pulls on it's self, easy as to release.

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Originally Posted by echnidna

Theres a real easy way to do it ,
I could show you how in less than 10 seconds,
But putting it into words would be like writing a novel.

I've got a cold at the moment so I'm not up to doing very much at all,
maybe in aweek or so, If I remember I'll shoot a little video.

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Double hitch with a twist, wrapped around the nail set in the post, unwrap by going anticlockwise, never fails. :2tsup:

It also needs the vid.

Al :)

<TABLE id=HB_Mail_Container height="100%" cellSpacing=0 cellPadding=0 width="100%" border=0 UNSELECTABLE="on"><TBODY><TR height="100%" UNSELECTABLE="on" width="100%"><TD id=HB_Focus_Element vAlign=top width="100%" background="" height=250 UNSELECTABLE="off">Thanks guys for the responses. Guess that there's no correct way so thougth I'd try them all. All methods suggested (that I could work out from the descritptions) worked much better than my own way. I understood all the methods described except for Bleedin Thumb's and Skew's. Always a little difficult to explain procedures without pictures but thanks again to all that replied.
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Mines the same as DavidL's but he is more eloquent.:D