Or, do you know how to make a hangman's knot?

Types of rope
Knots
Proper use & care
easy splicing
rope link

-- rb (rb@yahoo.com), August 02, 1999

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Vigilante justice - post y2k? Would we see a return of the hanging rope? Lynching was still practiced in the south and west a hundred years ago. In Ft Smith, Ark. Hanging Judge Parker was in business and down Pecos, Tex. way Judge Roy Bean was also hard at work.

I remember a movie, The Ox-Bow Incident, (early 40's) in which vigilantes hung the wrong people. Would we see a return to the "old west" instant punishment if there was a break down in law and order?

I remember part of my boy scout work was learning to tie lots of practical knots. We had a board with about 20 different examples of the various knots. I don't think the hangman's knot was one of them.

-- red (Okie-redneck@webtv.net), August 02, 1999.

Very dramatic.

How about for clothesline (yawn)?

-- Sara Nealy (keithn@aloha.net), August 03, 1999.

clothesline....a GREAT use for rope...I was going to use duct tape for my clothes drying.
could rope be used to tie up sleeping women?
just kidding..

-- red (okie-redneck@webtv.net), August 03, 1999.

My use of rope will be limited to hanging myself if i could no longer deal with the stress.

I know it's a coward out but there aren't going to be strinks around to talk to after y2k.

-- jd1999@jahoopa.com (jd1999@jahoopa.com), August 15, 1999.