


Start the second set of wrapping turns by going past and around the vertical pole.NOTE] Going around the pole the rope allows the direction of the rope to be changed without crossing the first set of wrapping diagonally.If the wrapping turns are allowed to cross, the increased friction between the strands of the rope will make it difficult to tighten the wrapping turns. Take 3 to 4 wrapping turns keep the wrapping turns parallel pull each wrapping turn tight.Start the wrapping turns on the opposite diagonal to the timber hitch, by pulling the rope tight so that the poles contact each other.Tie a timber hitch diagonally around both poles.These additional forces, if strong enough, can place unnecessary strain on other lashing within the structure causing the structure to twist and fail. If a square lashing were used to bind poles that do not touch, the beginning clove hitch would pull the cross pole toward the clove hitch causing unnecessary bowing of the cross pole and could also produce a force that would act along the length of the pole to which the clove hitch is tied. The timber hitch allows the poles to be drawn together without changing the relative positions of the poles. Finish your lashing with another Clove Hitch.When you have finished weaving the lashing, then “FRAP” it by wrapping the rope between the poles (in front of the back stick and in back of the front stick), pulling tightly.Repeat this three or four times, keeping the rope tight.Tighten snugly, then bring the rope behind the vertical bar and up the right front side of the horizontal bar.To do this, run the rope over the horizontal bar, around behind the vertical bar, then back over the face of the horizontal bar on the left.Weave the rope under and over the crossed sticks alternately.Make a clove hitch on the vertical stick or dowel near the point where the two sticks cross.Start by crossing the two sticks or dowels at perpendicular or 90 degree angles.Used to fasten two spars or poles together.

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A Boy Scout foil cooks his patrol's lunch on a Double Tripod Chippewa Kitchen.
