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Description

Pioneering skills over zoom

Rope making
3 knots
Clove hitch
Square lashing

Resources

about 2 metres of toilet paper
about 1 metre of string/twine/wool
2 sticks to tie together (wooden spoons would do)
Device with internet connection

Instructions

To meet badge requirements:
- Make a display of your knots and label them
- Ask an adult to send in a photo of your display

Team Leader Challenge
- Practice the knots, clove hitch, and square lashing, and pick at least one to teach someone else


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oYzUR8_D9uw

The plan
- Rope making
- 3 knots
- Clove hitch
- Square lashing


Instructions
Making rope
Be careful not to break the paper apart.

Fold the toilet paper lengthwise to find the middle and make sure it’s not a perforation line, if it is move along a bit
Put your hands either side of the middle point about 2 inches (~ 5cm) apart
Twist the paper:
Right hand top towards you
Left hand top away from you
Make a loop so the piece from your right hand is on top

Take the loop in the finger and thumb of your left hand

Twist the paper that is closest to you towards you for about an inch (~ 3cm)

Flip the paper you have been twisting over the other piece so they switch places and you’re wrapping them around each other

Repeat steps 6 and 7 (twist and flip) until you’re near the end of the paper. What you’re doing is twisting the strands one way while twisting them together the other way.
Put a knot in the end to stop it undoing.


Knots
You’ll see references to the ‘working end’ in these instructions, this is the end you’re making do the work to tie the knot.


Reef
This is on your membership badge (round purple one on the front of your uniform), and is often used to finish off bandages as it lays flat. Also known as a square knot.

Right over left and under
Left over right
Right rought the back and through the middle
Pull tight

http://missmay.global2.vic.edu.au/files/2015/07/How-to-tie-a-reef-knot1-118bg9c.jpg


Figure 8
This is a stopper knot and if often used in climbing.
Make a loop with the working end under the rope
Take the working end over rope (if you lay it flat it is in the shape of an 8)
Go up through the original loop you made in step 1
Pull tight

https://en.wikibooks.org/wiki/Adventist_Youth_Honors_Answer_Book/Recreation/Knot_Tying


Sheetbend
Used to tie 2 pieces of rope of different sizes together. Also used to attach the flag to the flag pole down the Hut.

You’ll need 2 pieces of rope for this.
Make a loop in one piece of rope and hold it (use the thickest piece of rope if they are different sizes)
Bring the end of the other piece of rope up through the loop
Go round the back of the loop, close to your hand
You’re going to go under the same piece of rope
Lay the working end on top of the first loop (step 1) and tuck it under itself
Make sure your first loop (step 1) is under your working end. If you go straight down the first loop you’ll make a different knot
Pull the knot tight

http://www.scoutmasterbucky.com/Scoutmaster-Bucky-Merit-Badges-Pioneering-ClassPrep.htm


Clove hitch
This looks a bit like a motorway bridge when finished correctly.

You’ll need a stick for this; hold it so it’s going sideways.

You’ll see references to the ‘working end’ again in these instructions, this is the end you’re making do the work to tie the hitch.

There are 2 ways of doing this hitch:
Way 1:
This is useful if you need to do the hitch in the middle of a piece of rope to attach it to something.

Right hand over left to make a loop and hold this in your left hand
Use your right hand to make a loop going the same way (look at how the ropes cross each other)
Put the second loop behind the first and put over a pole/stick
Pull tight

Way 2:
This is the more common way of doing the hitch.

Lay the working end over the stick with the end away from you
Bring it underneath
Take the working end over the stick again to make a cross on top
Bring it underneath and tuck it under the top of the cross along side the other bit (step 1)
Pull tight
You might need to pinch the sides together to get a neat hitch


Square lashing
This is the most common lashing.

You’ll need 2 sticks for this.

Tie a clove hitch on one stick
Place the second stick at a right angle over the hitched stick
Feed the rope over the upper stick then under the lower, going all the way round 3 times. If you’re having trouble, look down from above and look at the 4 spaces the sticks make. You’re taking the rope up and down through those spaces
The next step is called frapping. Go round the last stick in your lashing so you are reversing direction
Again, it’s essentially over and under, going between the sticks and around your lashings, so everything is pulled together and tight. Go around about 3 times.
Do another clove hitch and pull tight to finish.

In the diagram they have shown the loose end of the rope, left after the first clove hitch, being wrapped around the working end before starting the lashing; this makes the lashing tidier but is not absolutely necessary. The diagram also doesn’t show a clove hitch at the end, so it’s not very secure and is likely to become loose quickly (not good if you’re using large, and very heavy pioneering poles!).

http://www.scoutmasterbucky.com/Scoutmaster-Bucky-Merit-Badges-Pioneering-ClassPrep.htm

Tags

• knots
• online
• pioneering

Badge Links

• Pioneer - Hitch
• Pioneer - Lashing
• Pioneer - Make rope
• Pioneer - Three knots
• Team Leader - Teach