Don’t Kill Yourself Climbing The Potentially Lethal Scaffold Knot

Knot tying video. Safety tips on a common climbing knot for industrial rope access, tree workers, arborists, rope rescue workers and rock climbers. I came across an industrial rope access safety bulletin which highlighted two cases in which a barrel knot had been incorrectly tied around a carabiner. More about this knot: The scaffold knot is knot is knot number 409 in the Ashley Book of Knots (ABoK). It goes under various names such as the barrel knot, double fisherman’s knot, grapevine knot and poachers