Scouting Knots and Lashing

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Camp Gadgets Lashing Projects
Troop 413 Jay Kruemcke Version 1.0 10/5/2015
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Square Lashing
Begin with a clove hitch round the upright and
tuck the end in neatly. Pull the clove hitch very
tight, and take the long end over the crossbar,
round the back of the upright, and over the
crossbar again. Follow the same course, being
careful to lay each cord alongside the one before
and to pull tight all the time, until you have
been round each part three times. Then take two
or three frapping turns behind the crossbar and
in front of the upright. Finish off with a clove
hitch, pulled very tight, round the crossbar.
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Diagonal Lashing
i) Start by tying a timber hitch around both
poles and pulling it snug. ii) Make four tight
wraps around the spars, laying each wrap neatly
alongside the timber hitch. iii) Make four more
tight wraps across the first three. iv) Frap it
three or four times and finish it off with a
clove hitch
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Round Lashing

• Used to lash two poles together (constructing a
  flagpole)
• Tie a clove hitch round the bottom pole
• Wind the rope around both six or seven times
• Finish with two half hitches round both poles.
• The lashing can be tightened by driving a small
  wooden peg between the poles

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Tripod Lashing
A Tripod lashing is made by laying three spars
alongside each other, with the center spare
pointing in the opposite direction to that of the
outside spars.  i) Tie a clove hitch around one
outside pole. ii) Loosely wrap the spars five or
six times, then make the frapping on either side
of the center spar. iii) Finish the lashing with
a clove hitch around the outside spar.
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Whipping
Step 1
Step 2
Step 3
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Ladder Hitch
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Simple Gateway
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Free Standing Gateway
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Easy Free Standing Gateway
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Two Flag Gateway
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Covered Gateway
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Lifting Gateway
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Gateway with doorbell
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Tower Gateway
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Troop 16 Gateway
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Swinging Gate
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Covered Gateway with swinging gate
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Two Door Gateway
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Turnstile Gateway
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Lifting Gateway
As the gateway is raised the bars draw together
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Camp Gadgets - Furniture
Table
Table with seats
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Camp Gadgets - Furniture
Table with seats
Chippawa Cooking fire Stand
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Camp Gadgets Summer Camp
Bulletin board holders
Trash bag tripods
Lantern Tripod
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Camp Gadgets Safety
Tool holder
Fire pail holders
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Camp Gadgets - Kitchen
Simple Washbasin
Three compartment sink
Kitchen Workbench
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Towers
Signal Tower
Triangular signal tower
Ten Minute Tower
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Bridges
Monkey Bridge
Friction Bridge
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Tarpaulin Raft
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Fun Gadgets
Chariot
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Strophanger
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Rope Swing
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Catapults
Ballista
Two Man Catapult