Tumble hitch

Tumble hitch

Names	Tumble hitch, a better Highwayman's hitch, Bank Robbers Knot, Getaway hitch or Quick-release knot
Category	Hitch
Related	Highwayman's hitch, Mooring hitch
Releasing	Non-jamming
Typical use	Quick-release, draw loop hitch
Caveat	potentially unstable

The tumble hitch is a quick-release draw loop knot used for temporarily securing a rope such that it can be released easily and cleanly. The hitch can be untied with a tug of the working end, even when under tension. The tumble hitch can be tied in the middle of a rope, and so the working end does not need to be passed around the anchor when tying or releasing.

The Notable Knot Index recommends the tumble hitch as a more stable hitch than the Highwayman's hitch. It is a similar hitch, but less prone to capsizing because the standing part remains passive and the locking is done by two successive bights of the working part being pushed into the previous bight thus locking it.^[1]

Usually two locking turns (as in the pictures here) suffice for a knot secure enough for most purposes, but more may be added as needed. The way the working part wraps the standing part can also vary to offer higher levels of strength. Several variations of the tumble hitch exist:

No wrapping of the standing part, wrapping only around the post/pole/beam
Crossing over the standing part, then wrapping around the post/pole/beam as in the pictures (better hold)
Wrapping the standing part half a turn, then wrapping around the post/pole/beam (even better hold)
wrapping the standing part a full turn, then wrapping around the post/pole/beam (even better hold than the previous one)
etc..

Tying

Tying sequence for one variant of the tumble hitch:

Place bight 1 over a beam
Cross the working part over the standing part, under beam, up through bight 1
Pass the working part around the hitch, and up through bight 2
Tighten by pulling standing part

External links

tying instructions

References

↑ "The Tumble Hitch". Notable Knot Index. Retrieved 2012-02-25.

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Bends	Adjustable Albright special Ashley's Alpine butterfly Basket weave Beer Blood Carrick Double fisherman's Fisherman's Flemish Grief Halyard Harness Heaving line Hunter's Nail One-sided overhand Racking Sheet Shoelace Shroud Simple Simon under Single carrick Surgeon's Surgeon's loop Triple fisherman's True lover's Water Zeppelin

Binding	Boa Bottle sling Constrictor Corned beef Granny Ground-line hitch Jamming Miller's Packer's Reef Strangle Thief Transom

Climbing	Autoblock Bachmann Beer Bowline on a bight Alpine butterfly Directional figure eight Double bowline Farmer's loop Figure-eight Figure-eight loop Figure-of-nine loop Friction hitch Klemheist Munter hitch Overhand loop Prusik Trident loop Yosemite bowline

Coils & Shanks	Alpine coil Butterfly coil Over/under cable coiling Chain sinnet Sheepshank

Decorative	Carrick mat Chinese button Celtic button Diamond Fiador Friendship Ghiordes & Senneh Matthew Walker Turk's head Wall and crown

Fishing (angling)	Angler's loop Arbor Bimini twist Blood Fisherman's Half blood Improved clinch Knotless Nail Palomar Snell Trilene Triple fisherman's Turle Uni

Hitches	Adjustable grip Anchor bend Axle Bachmann Bale sling Barrel Becket Blackwall Blake's Boom Buntline Cat's paw Clove Cow Distel Double overhand noose Falconer's Farrimond friction Friction hitch Garda Ground-line Half Halter Highpoint Highwayman's Hitching tie Icicle Improved clinch knot Killick Knute Lobster buoy Marlinespike Munter Ossel Pile Pipe Sailor's Snuggle Swing Taut-line Timber

Loop	Angler's Artillery loop Bale sling hitch Bowline Bumper Carrick bend loop Cossack Cowboy bowline Diamond Double bowline Dropper loop Eskimo bowline Fiador Fireman's chair Friendship knot Halter hitch Handcuff Honda Jury mast Overhand Portuguese bowline Rigid double splayed loop in the bight Slippery eight Span Spanish bowline Tom fool's Trident Triple bowline Triple crown Water bowline Yosemite bowline Zeppelin

Running (slip)	Hangman's Running bowline Running highwayman's hitch Tarbuck

Splices & splicing	Eye Fid Marlinspike Rat-tail T Western Union

Stopper	Ashley's stopper Button Double overhand Monkey's fist Overhand Stevedore

Whipping	Common Overhand knot with draw-loop Portuguese Sailmaker's West Country

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Tumble hitch

Tying

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