John Thurmond camp chief at Gill well for over 25 years wrote the first everlasting thing to remember about the clove hitch is that it is composed of two half hitches if you make one half hitch and then another half hitch and bring them together you form a clove hitch so two half hitches make a globe and as you like additional packages can be ended every time the rope is carrying around the pole and crosses under itself 1/2 inches for the clove hitch can be tied around an open-ended poem by forming two underhand loops and placing them on top of each other over the poem in the same way a series of half hitches can be easily tied around an open-ended vertical pole when the line is coming from your left half hitches are made by forming the left under handles again placing them over the point on top of one another because they can be tied along any central part of a lot knowing how to simply apply half hitches over to open-ended ole is a very useful skill attaching a ridge line to an upright for a tarp roping off an area or defining a boundary and most definitely when attaching the hand ropes to the aprons of a rope bridge knowing how to easily tie half hitches over an open pole is useful and with practice gaining speed can be fun it can even turn into a race so two half hitches form a clove hitch and a clove hitch is used time and again to start and to finish a variety of lashings you you