Farmer's Loop

This knot is very useful when you want to make a loop in a rope. It is easy to untie. The farmer's loop is used much in the same way as the trucker's hitch is used. It can help tighten a load on a truck. The Farmer's loop is tied in the bight, that is, without the ends.

Tying a Farmer's Loop

Another set of diagrams

This is one of the simplest knots I know how to make. It's much easier to do than to figure out.

Follows these steps to make a Farmer's loop

• Make 3 loops on your hand.
• Take the middle loop and bring it to the left.
• Take the new middle loop and bring it to the right
• Take the new middle loop and bring it to the left
• Take the new middle loop and bring it to the right. This is your final loop.
• Tighten the knot.
• That's all.
• You can make it -left, right, left, right- as above OR you can make it -right, left, right, left,- No real difference.

The loop is quite easy to get apart when you are finished using it.

I'm writing some articles about materials used in rope-making and made a Conparison of Rope materials used in boats.

I also have a page on rope-making with links to some good videos.

Some of my Knot Pages

• The Anchor Bend Knot
• Bowline, The Must Know Knot
• Bowline on a bight, how to tie a bowline if you don't have the ends.
• Cleat Hitch It's surprising how many people can't tie this knot properly
• Constrictor Knots make it a point of being difficult to untie. It's their job!
• Highwayman's Hitch makes it a point of being easy to untie, good for a quick hitch at the dock or where you need to get it undone fast
• Reef Knots are used to reef sails, otherwise they are very unreliable.
• Rolling Hitch A useful knot that can be tied on another line to pull some slack so you can untie a knot or untangle a winch line.
• Sheet Bend joins 2 ropes together
• The Stopper Knot stops a knot from running out of a cleat
• Truckers Hitch helps tighten a rope around a canoe on a car or on a trailer.
• Farmer's Loop Similar to the Trucker's hitch, easy to tie.
• Round Turn and two half hitches a must know knot
• The Fireman's coil keeps coiled rope from tangling
• Buntline Hitch, a very old knot that has found a new life with modern slippery rope