Newbie knot tier | How’d I do?

[Pattywhacker]

Picked up 2 sets of 11’ 8mm from @DanO (amazing customer service, as y’all know) and some 5.5 Kevlar for my friction knot on my tether. Here’s what I did.
Figure 8 knot for both my lineman’s and tether with a double overhand as my stopper knot on each end. On my friction, with the Kevlar, I did a poachers knot on each end then a schwabisch hitch.
How does this look?

 

[philsanchez76]

I’m not a knot pro, so they all look good to me. But that loop you tied is actually an overhand on a bite and not a figure 8. Still good for our application, but much harder to get undone if you need to.

 

[bj139]

Picked up 2 sets of 11’ 8mm from @DanO (amazing customer service, as y’all know) and some 5.5 Kevlar for my friction knot on my tether. Here’s what I did.
Figure 8 knot for both my lineman’s and tether with a double overhand as my stopper knot on each end. On my friction, with the Kevlar, I did a poachers knot on each end then a schwabisch hitch.
How does this look?

Hard to tell with the angle on the figure 8. It doesn't quite look like an overhand but a different photo angle would would tell.

 

[j_laucks]

Tying your own life supporting knots is always a little stressful for me.
I like to use animated knots, take my time and work through it and then test at ground-level before climbing on them.
https://www.animatedknots.com/
Good on you for checking with all the knowledgeable folks on here as well.

 

[Pattywhacker]

Tying your own life supporting knots is always a little stressful for me.
I like to use animated knots, take my time and work through it and then test at ground-level before climbing on them.
https://www.animatedknots.com/
Good on you for checking with all the knowledgeable folks on here as well.

That’s exactly where I went this morning to learn and retie the knots.

 

[raisins]

Those are scaffold (2 wrap) not poacher (1 wrap) knots, I believe. Don't change it though, because scaffold knots are better. Even if you make the most common tying error, it will turn a scaffold into a poacher's. If you do the same with a poacher's then it comes undone eventually.

Be sure to test plenty at ground leve.

 

[Pattywhacker]

@bj139 Here are a few more pics of the figure 8 - as @j_laucks mentioned I tied and retied my knots this morning using the animated knots website. They feel strong but there's still a small part of me that's looking for some QA

 

[raisins]

@bj139 Here are a few more pics of the figure 8 - as @j_laucks mentioned I tied and retied my knots this morning using the animated knots website. They feel strong but there's still a small part of me that's looking for some QA

See how the strands cross each other? Try to twist/dress it so that the strands are parallel the whole way. Makes knot stronger, more compact, and down right pretty. Also, there are two directions to tie these. One is easier to untie after being weighted. It determines which strand tightens under load.

 

[bowhuntr09]

Probably just me not trusting myself, but I would have stoppers on every tag end

 

[Still Kicking]

^^^Agree! Stoppers on every knot.

 

[Pattywhacker]

@bowhuntr09 i have stoppers at the end of each tag end. Just not a stopper at the tag end where my figure 8 loop is

 

[bowhuntr09]

@bowhuntr09 i have stoppers at the end of each tag end. Just not a stopper at the tag end where my figure 8 loop is

I was mainly referring to the ends in your poachers knots. Probably not needed but peace of mind for me.