1424 



The Cornell Reading-Courses 



not turn. The scaffold hitch fills this need. It is made in the 

 following manner: 



By the cowboy's method or the circus method form a clove hitch of 



Fig. 87] 



Fig. 88 



Scaffold hitch 



Fig. 89 



ample size so that when placed over the end of the scaffold plaiik it will 

 hang loosely below it, as in Fig. 87. Draw to the left the rope in the left 

 hand in Fig. 87, and to the right the rope in the right hand in the same 

 figure, thus gaining the position shown in Fig. 88. Turn the plank over, 

 draw the ropes up above it, join the short end to the long rope by an over- 

 hand bowline (Fig. 138), pull the bowline tight, at the same time adjusting 

 the length of the two ropes so that they hold the plank level, and the hitch 

 is finished as shown in Fig. 89. Attach a second rope to the other end of 

 the plank in the same way and the scaffold is ready. 



Miller's knot. — This knot is especially adapted to tying up grain and 

 flour sacks ; it is also useful in place of a clove hitch in fastening a rope 

 to an object whose ends cannot be reached, such as a post in a bam. Take 



a tound turn 

 about the 

 neck of the 

 sack or the 

 fixcdobject, 

 crossing the 

 ropes in doing 

 so, as shown 

 in Fig. 90. 



Raise the main rope just above the crossing, pass the free end under, as 

 in Fig. 91, and draw up tightly (Fig. 92). This hitch may be loosened by 



'T , 





Fig. 90 



Fig. 91 



Miller s knot 



Fig. 92 



