Pipe hitch

{{Short description|Type of knot}}

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{{Infobox knot

| name = Pipe hitch

| names = Well-pipe hitch {{Citation|last=Ashley|first=Clifford W.|title=The Ashley Book of Knots|orig-year=1944|year=1993|publisher=Doubleday|location=New York|isbn=0-385-04025-3 | page=82}}

| image = Pipe hitch2.jpg

| caption = A pipe hitch, finished with a cow hitch

| type = hitch

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| related = rolling hitch, klemheist knot, Tensionless hitch, Taut-line hitch

| releasing = non-jamming

| uses = securing a pipe or pole

| caveat = The direction of the pulling force should be away from the wrapped coils.

| abok_number = 504, 2047

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A pipe hitch is a hitch-type knot used to secure smooth cylindrical objects,{{cite web|url=http://www.bsatroop542.org/Knots_PipeHitch.htm|title=Pipe Hitch|publisher=Boy Scouts of America Troup 542 - Gresham Oregon|access-date=4 December 2012|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20080512224047/http://www.bsatroop542.org/Knots_PipeHitch.htm|archive-date=12 May 2008|url-status=dead}} such as pipes, poles, beams, or spars. According to The Ashley Book of Knots, a pipe hitch is "used to lower a pipe or hoist one" and as "another method of tying to a rectangular timber."Ashley (1944), p.332.