1. Job Performance Requirement 15-10
Tying a Figure Eight
on a Bight

2. is going to be placed over or around.
A Start by forming a bight. The size of the bight needs to be relative to the object the finished loop
is going to be placed over or around.
JPR 15-10A

3. and the end of the working part are hanging out of
B Grab both ropes so that the bight is hanging down from one side of your hand while the standing part
and the end of the working part are hanging out of
the opposite side of your hand. Basically you are forming a second bight of doubled ropes.
JPR 15-10B

4. C Hold this bight out in front of you by the apex
so that both sides (four parts of the same
rope) of the bight are hanging parallel.
JPR 15-10C

5. D Take the first bight and wrap it around
the standing part from front to rear.
JPR 15-10D

6. E After the bight comes around the standing
part, you will have formed an eye. Now take
the bight through the eye from rear to front.
JPR 15-10E

7. F You have now formed an easy, reliable loop that will not slip
F You have now formed an easy, reliable loop that will not slip. Do not forget to dress and set your knot and apply a safety with the end of the working end.
JPR 15-10F