Summary: A sheep bend knot can connect a small diameter rope to one with a larger diameter. Learn how to tie sheep bend knots for connecting rope in this free knot tying video from an Eagle Scout.
John Stewart is an Eagle Scout with the Boy Scouts of America and has instructed boy scouts on climbing, outdoor skills, pioneering, wilderness survival and kayaking for the past nine...read more
"Hi, this is John Stewart and this is how to tie a sheep bend. A sheep bend is used to connect a smaller diameter rope to a larger diameter rope. This is going to come in handy in case you have two really short pieces of rope and their very different in size. This way you can connect them to where you can reach between the two points that you're trying to tie together. So sheep bend is very easy to tie and like I said you're going to have a larger diameter rope compared to a smaller diameter rope. Very simple to do. Take and put a bite just a U in your larger diameter rope. Put that facing you. You want to talk your smaller diameter rope. Come up through the bottom of the loop. You then want to go around the backside of it. OK, come all the way around and then you want to go underneath the smaller diameter line that you came up through earlier. Go underneath that and then pull them tight. Get that seated down there low and then they're going to pull together and it's going to have a tight connection and that's how you tie a sheep bend."
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