youtu.be/-78wNQxofZ4 For those who are scratching their heads…
john-sussex:
http://youtu.be/-78wNQxofZ4 For those who are scratching their heads…
He’s been taught how to tie and demonstrate tying a dolly knot.
He’s never roped a load, you can tell by his knot and how he releases it.
I was taught it when I worked on a farm as a kid, we used it to rope bales of hay and straw onto our trailers.
I’ve used it ever since, roping n sheeting sheeting loads, until I started on international work. That’s all curtainsiders, tilt boards and straps.
Thats as maybe…however it was only a quick on google plus it gives an idea of how to tie one.
Love it when someone helps and someone else comes along and shoots them down withkut offering anything useful. …shant bother helping again there always is a know all around.
my dad tried showing me and ended up with " get back in the lorry you useless ■■■■ " 
im glad now though cos i would end up showing off with look at what i can do and end up on all the crappy flat loads.
john-sussex:
Thats as maybe…however it was only a quick on google plus it gives an idea of how to tie one.
Love it when someone helps and someone else comes along and shoots them down withkut offering anything useful. …shant bother helping again there always is a know all around.
Eh?
You posted a video, I made a comment on it, that’s how a forum works.
I wasn’t “shooting you down”, or the video. As you say, it gives an idea of how to tie it.
Man up and stop being such a big girls blouse 
Yep, I can tie a dolly knot. …or two …or three …or 104…how many do you want 
Yes stiil do them after 30+ years. They don’t have hooks here in Australia they have rope rails, so you have to break the knot then thread the end of the rope throught the rail and back into the bottom loop. I fitted hooks to my own trailer and got some very strange looks especially when I was out of the dock a good 10 minutes before any one else.
Jeff…
Jelliot:
Yes stiil do them after 30+ years. They don’t have hooks here in Australia they have rope rails, so you have to break the knot then thread the end of the rope throught the rail and back into the bottom loop. I fitted hooks to my own trailer and got some very strange looks especially when I was out of the dock a good 10 minutes before any one else.Jeff…
I learn’t how to do a dolly as you call it but at the age 14yrs could splice a rope
if it snapped.Also if it started to fray at the ends it was called a dogs ■■■■ when you reversed
the splice.The nylon ropes now well just melt the end job done even that is to hard for some !!!
As you mentioned Jeff threading the end through all the time you don’t need to do that either.
When I said at 14yrs old yes you guessed I was taught by my brother who was some years older
than me.I became a trl: lad at the age of 15yrs old-1959.And yes I am the old school.
Take care “jelliot” and all those who were in the good days.
GUESTY44 
markoc:
Same as one of the replies above, my old dad taught me many years back when I’d spent time with him as a kid out on his truck.Does anyone know any other knots used? I can still tie a dolly knot and half hitch which is quite easy but don’t think I can remember some of the other ‘hitches’ he’d use for securing loads.
Hiya “markoc” I remember my brother telling me to loop it as there were no
hooks only rings on some of the pups (drags)
Saved you a lot of time if you could do it still useing the hitch Glad I was there abouts
learned so much more than the dvrs get taught now.
Take care.
GUESTY44
Yea seen that video , not a lot of use to a newbie tho ,