Figure 4 knott

[Thegoatman22]

Any one have some advice on how to tie a nice tight figure four knott in ht, every time I try I get a crappy loose knott.

[West Fork Fence]

I had to do a search to find a figure 4 knot, and I think it is what we call a reef knot?  Are you tying under tension, or just making a splice?  I find a figure 8 knot easier to tie under tension than a reef knot.  To get a reef knot good and tight, I like to tie the square knot bit first, and put some tension in it before I wrap the tails.  

[Thegoatman22]

Do you have any vids of it?

 

[West Fork Fence]

8 hours ago, Thegoatman22 said:

Do you have any vids of it?

 

Nothing edited yet, but I can send you a quick video by phone or email, if you like. 

[Thegoatman22]

Sure nmason22@gmail.com

[Thegoatman22]

Looking at YouTube it is the figure 8 knot that I can't seem to get right. I have been using mostly the speed knot for my braces and joining ht lines. For splicing fences I have been mostly wrapping to make like a barrel knot, and doing the termination knot to tie off to the post.

[tepapa]

You can only really tie a figure 8 in loose wire which will tighten as you tension the wire.  To join wire under tension with a figure 8 its probably better doing a Tex brown (look up in the strainrite bids) which a variant of the figure 8.

[Thegoatman22]

I have watched that one, I guess I need to practice it. It's kind of a confusing one

2 hours ago, tepapa said:

You can only really tie a figure 8 in loose wire which will tighten as you tension the wire.  To join wire under tension with a figure 8 its probably better doing a Tex brown (look up in the strainrite bids) which a variant of the figure 8.