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Agree on merging. One article would be easier to develop encylopedicly, right now it isn't. The more indepth articles are, the better.
Radagast8302:42, 20 October 2006 (UTC)reply
Agree on merging some. The
Square lashing and
Diagonal lashing articles are comparatively far along and efforts might be better spent improving them rather than merging. However those other three are definitely not up to any reasonble standard... Eventually, though, most of these lashings should have seperate articles as they are quite distinct in form and usage. --
Dfred05:02, 7 November 2006 (UTC)reply
My first thought was, of course, merge them, but after viewing each of the articles about the distinct types of lashing knots I no longer think so. It would be best to keep the specific lashing knots pages distinct from the main Lashing knot page with links there to each and all of them. The articles are shaping up well for young entries (and will no doubt improve) and the inclusion of photographs for each distinct lashing knot is extremely useful.
Athaenara23:14, 18 October 2006 (UTC)reply
What buildins are constructed with lashing? Were is lashing routinly used in constuction. I read that in some Asian countries it is used to make bamboo scaffolding on skyskrapers.
My point is that the structures section needs work, as well as more history on the use of rope in construction.--
BKnoss01:48, 9 March 2007 (UTC)reply
"Lashing *Knot*"?
I ended up here by a circuitous route after failing to find an article called Lashing. Now, I come from the
sailing rather than scouting side of things these days (though I was once a cub and briefly a scout) but I've never heard a lashing referred to as a "lashing knot". A lashing is a lashing; a "lashing knot" if it's anything at all is a knot used to make fast the end(s) of the line.
Perhaps this was intended something more along the lines of "Lashing (knot)", as that suffix has been used on a number of articles to associate them with the knotting rather than some other usage. However, that convention has problems since the non-parenthetical "knot" ends so many articles it becomes confusing. I've proposed on
WP:KNOTS that "(knot component)" be used as an article suffix for the parts of a knot (loop, bight, etc.). Your comments here cause me to think that "(ropework)" would also be a good standard suffix for knot/rope-related articles which are not specific knots.
In the introduction it says " then start do a timber hitch". In the description of square lashing it says "begin with a clove hitch ". The picture next to square lashing seems to clearly show a timber hitch.
If you look closely you can see it is a clove hitch with the running end having been wound around the standing end. I do have to admit that is probably the ugliest and worst tied square lashing I've ever seen. Even my new Scouts don't tie them that badly. -- YiS, Jediwannabe19:01, 14 February 2009 (UTC)reply