Article: 4 essential survival knots everyone should know

I have tied down more stuff back when I camped a lifetime ago, with a Taut-line Hitch.

I tie stuff down in back of the truck with the same knot.

It is a knot for all seasons.
 
Used a bowline on a bight and a figure 8 on a bight to take down the last part of a tree last week. Rope and knot work can be pretty handy. Between learning it in college, 2 summers working at a scout camp, and 6 years in a wilderness program I've retained some of the skills. We used to build structures in the wilderness program that were largely held together with ropes. We would set the posts into the ground. The horizontal poles, rafters, and tarp roofs were all tied on. Every few years we would go back and replace the rope.
 
fieldgrade said:
I have tied down more stuff back when I camped a lifetime ago, with a Taut-line Hitch.

I tie stuff down in back of the truck with the same knot.

It is a knot for all seasons.
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You have mentioned that before. Do you know about a Midshipman's Hitch? Unlike a tautline hitch, it cannot be slid up and down the standing part. It is a stopper knot version of a tautline hitch that tightens the lashing as you add turns. It allows you to seize a lashing and tighten it, as though you used a truckers hitch.
 
I also think the figure 8 on a bite is less useful than a figure 8 follow through because the on a bite version requires a carabiner or a second knot to be able to attach it to anything.
 
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