Knots and Knotty-ness : Can you tie good knots with flat rope?
I’m going to be using it as guy wire for a 25 foot tower. We’re going to be tying this down to rebar stakes in ground. We typically use bowlines to attach to the top of the tower, and clove hitches to tie down to the rebar, with 550lb test parachute cord. We also use the parachute cord for all sorts of other stuff as well. I don’t know how heavy your towers are (or if they have people up on them, etc), how high the winds are, and so on. But please be aware that even appropriate and well-tied knots reduce rope strength by about 50%; less well-tied and less-appropriate knots reduce the breaking strength even more. (Here is another chart of knot strengths; there are many others easily available. These are onl
