FIRST CLASS SCOUT

SQUARE LASHING

Use a square lashing to bind together poles that touch and cross each other at an angle between 45 and 90 degrees. Notice that the rope crosses the pole at a right angle. Place the poles in position. Tie a clove hitch around the bottom pole near the crosspiece. Make three tight wrapping turn around both poles. As you form the wrapping turns, lay the rope on the outside of each previous turn as it crosses the top pole, and on the inside of each previous turn as it crosses the bottom pole. Add two tapping turns around the wrapping turns. Finish with a clove hitch around the top pole. Be sure to work the ending clove hitch tight against the lashing.