And what country can preserve its liberties if their rulers are not warned from time to time that their people preserve the spirit of resistance? Let them take arms. The remedy is to set them right as to facts, pardon and pacify them. What signify a few lives lost in a century or two? The tree of liberty must be refreshed from time to time with the blood of patriots and tyrants.
The truckers hitch gives you a 3:1 purchase on the line to cinch down a load. The bowlines value is to carry a heavy load without slipping yet still be easy to untie.
What does the trucker's hitch give me that a bowline doesn't?
ReplyDeleteA nifty song! :o)
ReplyDeleteThe truckers hitch gives you a 3:1 purchase on the line to cinch down a load. The bowlines value is to carry a heavy load without slipping yet still be easy to untie.
ReplyDeleteI just usually tie an overhand slipknot with a loop and cinch the other end through it.
ReplyDeleteBut then I'm a firm believer in the KISS principle.