Disaster Rescue - Australian Emergency Manual (Natural Disaster Organization, 183 p.): CHAPTER EIGHT - ANCHORS AND HOLDFASTS: Constructed Holdfasts: Picket Lashings (Figure 8:2)

Disaster Rescue - Australian Emergency Manual (Natural Disaster Organization, 183 p.)

CHAPTER EIGHT - ANCHORS AND HOLDFASTS

Constructed Holdfasts

		Picket Holdfasts
		Picket Lashings (Figure 8:2)
		Buried Holdfasts (Figure 8:3)
		Log and Picket Holdfast (Figure 8:4)

Picket Lashings (Figure 8:2)

8.4 Picket Lashings (Figure 8:2)

The lashing should be started by a Clove Hitch with 12mm rope about 180mm from the head of the front picket. Four turns should be taken around the base of the back picket and the head of the front picket, placing these above the Clove Hitch. Frapping turns should be applied around the lashing, finishing off with a Clove Hitch around the lashing, thus using up whatever spare rope is left. The lashing must be tightened before commencing the frapping turns.

Fig 8:2 Picket holdfast systems