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PARACORD GANG GANG (lemmy.ml)
submitted 11 months ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]
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[–] taco_ballerina 26 points 11 months ago (1 children)

I will not tolerate this vile and odious slander. Ratchet straps are far superior in most applications.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 11 months ago

Only if you have a truck

[–] [email protected] 9 points 11 months ago

amused hemp ship's rope noises

[–] [email protected] 8 points 11 months ago (1 children)

How is Paracord better for cable management?

[–] [email protected] 2 points 11 months ago* (last edited 11 months ago) (1 children)

Doesn't abrade cable like zip ties, can reuse unlike most zip ties. Especially with fatter coils like outdoor extension cord or air compressor hose, it makes sense to have a length of paracord on the end to keep it neat and hang it. Plus you can use the paracord sleeve as a jacket for smaller cables. The real star of cable management are hook and loop wraps tbh.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 11 months ago

For context I work on trash trucks and salt trucks. What are you doing that's making zip ties cut into wires? I need to make sure that the wire harness that runs along the body above and next to the drive shaft that will spin everything the trucks run over. If the harness is loose the cable will get caught in the debris.

If you're working in a server room with lots of wires I can see the utility of those fabric fasteners. I don't get the luxury of the wires only moving when I touch them.

[–] [email protected] 8 points 11 months ago (1 children)

Quick thing. I am an avid hiker. I know a lot of knots. If there is one knot I had to tell someone to go learn it's the "Trucker's Hitch."

[–] CosmicTurtle 8 points 11 months ago (2 children)

How the hell are you going to make that statement and not even provide a link?!

[–] [email protected] 7 points 11 months ago (1 children)

What you linked will work as a truckers hitch, but that's not a trucker's hitch.

https://www.netknots.com/rope_knots/truckers-hitch

[–] deus 7 points 11 months ago (2 children)

How come there are two links in this thread and none of them are this one?

[–] [email protected] 2 points 11 months ago

I should have checked yours before I also posted!

Incidentally, that put me off learning the trucker's hitch until completely unconnected a friend showed me the hitch very simply. Now it's one of my favourite.

I also assumed until half way through the song...That it was going to be a sappy love song about how he doesn't know how to 'tie the knot'
...I was glad to find myself wrong.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 11 months ago

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[–] [email protected] 1 points 11 months ago (1 children)

Like this link?

[–] [email protected] 1 points 11 months ago

Here is an alternative Piped link(s):

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[–] [email protected] 1 points 11 months ago

550 cord is a lifesaver.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 11 months ago (1 children)

550 stretches. Use amsteel.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 11 months ago* (last edited 11 months ago)

Maybe if I've got a racing sailboat and have so much money I can't abide the weight of steel standing rigging.