Pipe hitch ground, or to hoist a pipe or beam. The pipe hitch is started by wrapping four or more coils around a pipe or pole. It is normally finished by tying the working end around the standing part with a clove hitch, and less commonly with a cow hitch or a buntline hitch. The pipe hitch can also be finished by crossing the coils and the standing part and tying the working end in one or two half-hitches around the pipe – wrapping in the same direction as the original coils but on the opposite side of the standing part, described
Becket hitch Becket hitch A becket hitch, including the double becket or figure-of-eight becket hitch, is any hitch that is made on an eye loop, i.e. on a becket. A becket hitch has the same structure as the sheet bend, which joins, or "bends", the ends of two ropes together. The becket hitch, in contrast, fixes a rope to a closed eye or hook. In this instance, a "becket" means the eye or hook of a pulley block, an eye in the end of a rope, or a rope handle on a sailors sea chest. For greater security, an additional round turn