Tim Queeney

Wow.

It's also called a tugboat bowline.

It's great.

It's a very useful knot to make at the last minute if you need to make a bowline or a loop at the end of a rope.

You can actually make it very quickly and then you can throw it around a bollard or something if you're on a tugboat and maybe save the boat.

I don't know.

But yeah, that's a fun one to show off.

I don't know if I can do it here in this closed space.

I do need a bit of space.

Oh, sure, absolutely.

That's for throwing a throwing line.

okay let's see if this works i usually need even more space than this but okay let's uh let's see if we can get this to work oh no try one more time oh well that's it right there you go even though i i tied my microphone cord it's through my microphone too much

Yeah, there was a German engineer in the Hearts Mountains, in the mining region of the Hearts Mountains, this fellow named William Albert.

And he noticed, realized, and knew that a lot of the rope that they were using to haul materials up through mines, up through the shafts of mines, was corroding and breaking the natural fiber rope.

And they would also use chains.

The problem with the chain is that when one link corrodes and breaks, the entire chain fails and the material falls.

Right.

But he thought, what if I actually used iron and I used lengths of iron and I twisted it together just like as if it was hemp into multi-stranded rope?

And he did that and it worked spectacularly.

And one of the...