Larry,
It's not always possible to do this elegantly. Especially if you must
thread the rope through small eyelets that don't allow you to double over
the rope. On my trailer I use to cart rubbish to the tip I welded bars
along the length of each side. This allows me to clove hitch to one side
and throw the rope over the load. If I want to go back over the load again
the space between the bars and the trailer are big enough to pass the coil
of rope. Once I'm ready to tie my truckies knot I don't have to use the end
of the rope at all. I pass a loop in the bight under the bar and bring this
up over the standing part of the rope on the load. I grab the standing part
and bring this through the loop, creating another loop that then goes into a
round turn in the standing part further up. I tighten down and tie off with
a slipped clove hitch. In twenty years of carting loads in the trailer not
one load has ever come loose.

Darren
Australia

"Larry Travis" wrote in message
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Hey Roo and all,

I have a question regarding tying a load down in a truck. Let me ask it
by
illustrating the situation. I had to transport a gas grill in a small
pickup and had my trusty rope on hand and was going to tie it down with a
truckers hitch by securing one end of the rope to the eyelet on the side
of
the truck, running the rope over the grill, and then through the eyelet of
the other side of the truck (by eyelet, I just mean the holes provided on
either side of the truck bed meant for tying rope to). I would then
tighten
the rope by threading the free (running) end back through a loop in the
standing part and cinching it to tighten. The problem was that this was a
50' rope and so it gets quite clumsy threading the running end through the
eyelet of the truck and then the standing loop. Of course, once its
cinched
down, its nearly impossible to tie the rope off with my half hitches when
I
have a handful of 20 feet of extra rope to deal with.

My question: how to you elegantly manage a running end that is way longer
then you really need? I thought doubling up the rope with a bight could
work but the eyelet of the truck is to small to accomodate a doubled up
rope.

Thanks,
LT