@Dahlia and
@majorcatfish , you made me look up the Berkeley Braid Knot.
It looks like it incorporates a series of quick release knots, then secured.
When I used to fill up my trucks to get hay, I would use long synthetic ropes and work them through the hay, then through the holes on the lips of the bed, then attach row 2 to row 1, row 3 to row 2, then, in my newer truck, row 4 to row 3.
Hay man would laugh at my efforts, seeing this as busy work. I made a lot of quick release knots so that none of the excess rope was hanging down, then do several overhand knots. time to unload I could un knot the ends, then simply pull and all the rest loosened up.
Now, my hay man drives my hay to ME and I see all of the hay/straw tied off, 4 rows, each secured to the next row down and bales tied to each other.
I started tying down the hay bc I made some trips of hay in the past, where I have had bales fall off.
For several years I drove to get my hay, unloaded/stacked all of it, until DH made me stop a few years ago.
I consider myself blessed than my loft can hold the 400 bales of hay and 50+ bales of straw. Many horse owners don't have a place to store. When you buy hay during the winter you pay a higher price.
On one such hay run, where I lost bales, I drove back and found that somebody else had picked up the bales that I lost and they were nowhere to be found. It was a dry year. The loss was MY fault.
Such is my momentary interest in knots, similar to my interest is learning all of the constellations I can see at night from my back yard.
