CMDR Plares,
After a chat with another commander on this subject I manage to simplify
the two even more:
ROUND LASHING:
You start by tying a clove hitch (or a timber hitch) around BOTH poles, wrap
the rope around the both poles and end with a clove hitch around BOTH poles.
Main purpose is to join two poles together to make a longer pole (ex.
flagpole).
SHEER (SHEAR) LASHING:
You start by tying a clove hitch (or a timber hitch) around ONE of the poles
and then wrap around both of your poles. Then you frap and end by tying a
clove hitch to ONE of the pole (as I mentioned before the RR says it's
supposed to end with a square knot). Main purpose is to line up and join
the two ENDS of poles. This meant to give flexability as apposed to the
stiffness of round lashing. Hence this type of lashing is used for tripode
lashing.
ADV CMDR Jose F. Rodriguez
Outpost 214, Potomac District
New Creation Assembly of God
BTW: Commanders: I've found a picture of a type of round lashing that uses a
wrapping technique similar to shoelaces/braiding that ends with a square
knot, this image also uses the word "wig" to label the pegs used for
tightning the lash. I haven't been able to find any information on this
type of round lashing on the internet.
Does anybody know anything about this type of round lashing?????
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Sent: Saturday, April 16, 2005 8:56 PM
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Subject: RE: [RR] Sheer/Round lashing??
Thanks, helps a lot!
Geno Plares
Jose Rodriguez <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
CMDR Plares,
This is the same thing I've had to deal with when teaching the lashing
merit. Your right, in the Adventures in Camping book they say "Round or
sheer lashing..." as if to imply that they are the same thing. I've
actually had to go online to Boy Scout websites to figure this out. This is
how I understand them:
Round lashiging:
You start by tying a clove hitch round the bottom pole (or the smaller of
the two). I have also read instruction in which you can also do a clove
hitch around both of the sticks together as opposed to just one of them.
Next you wind (parallel) the rope around both six or seven times, and
finished off with two half hitches around both poles. According to the
Royal Ranger Lashing merit guide it says you are to end with a clove hitch.
You can also tighten it by driving a small peg between the poles.
Sheer Lashing:
Sheer lashing (or Shear lashing) seems to start off just like the round
lashing except of course as you mentioned you frap the middle of the two
sticks. As for how you are supposed to end it, according to RR you are
supposed to end it with a square knot. According to the BSA however they
say: "Pass the rope once more between the poles then around one pole and
tuck it under itself to form a half hitch. Pull this tight and make a second
half hitch forming a clove hitch by taking the rope around the same pole and
tucking it under itself." Some other notes and variations on Sheer lashing
is that you can replace the frapping with wedges inserted between the poles,
however if you do this then it makes it no different than the round lashing
in my opinion, so I would ignore this and just teach this as only for round
lashing.
Tripod lashing:
I bring this lashing up because this is a type of lashing that you will find
being mixed up with round and sheer lashing. This lashing is just like
sheer lashing (with frapping) except you are using three sticks.
Figure-of-Eight Lashing:
This type of lashing is just a variation that you can use for round and
sheer lashing and also for tripod lashing. The difference here is that
instead of just wrapping the two (or three for tripod lashing) is that you
wrap the sticks in a figure eight manner (or racking turns).
You can also look at this Boy Scout PDF document that goes into detail
regarding lashing, just keep in mind what I've mentioned before about how
they will sometimes lump certain lashes together or omit some:
http://www.scoutbase.org.uk/library/hqdocs/facts/pdfs/fs315080.pdf
Hope this all helps!
ADV CMDR Jose F. Rodriguez
Outpost 214, Potomac District
New Creation Assembly of God
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Sent: Wednesday, April 13, 2005 1:52 PM
To: Rangers
Subject: [RR] Sheer/Round lashing??
I want to throw this out to you guys.
Round and Sheer lashing...what is the difference? Growing up, we were
always taught that they were one in the same. From what I can find online,
the only difference is that you frap with the sheer lash and you don't with
the round lash. Is that about the only difference? Thanks for any input.
Geno Plares
O.P. #178 NCAL/NEV.
San Jose, CA.
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