Farmer's loop

Farmer's loop
Names Farmer's loop, Wireman's knot[1]
Category Loop
Related Alpine butterfly knot, Artillery loop, Span loop
Releasing Non-jamming
Typical use Climbing, agriculture
ABoK #1054, #2565

The farmer's loop is a knot which forms a fixed loop.[2] As a midline loop knot made with a bight, it is related to several other similar knots, including the alpine butterfly knot and artillery loop.

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History

Cornell University professor Howard W. Riley published this knot in an agricultural extension pamphlet devoted to farming knots in 1912.[2] He was shown the knot by a farmer at the 1910 Genesee County Fair in Bativia, New York. Riley noted that he had never seen the knot described in any reference book.[3]

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References

  1. ^ Department of the Army (2002), Field Manual No. 3-97.61 Military Mountaineering, Washington, D.C: United States Government, p. 4.16, http://www.globalsecurity.org/military/library/policy/army/fm/3-97-61/ch4.htm#par16 
  2. ^ a b Ashley, Clifford W. (1944), The Ashley Book of Knots, New York: Doubleday, p. 191 
  3. ^ Riley, Howard W. (January 1912). "Knots, Hitches, and Splices". The Cornell Reading-Courses. Rural Engineering Series No. 1 (Ithaca, NY: New York State College of Agriculture at Cornell University) 1 (8): 1438. http://books.google.com/books?id=bNNKAAAAMAAJ&pg=PA1438#v=onepage. Retrieved 2011-11-08.  As collected in Documents of the Assembly of the State of New York, 136th Session, 1913, Vol. 19, No. 29, Part 5.

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