Editing Packer's knot (section)

==Tying and variations==

A lightly tightened [[figure-eight knot]] is formed around the [[standing part]] of the line such that both ends emerge from the same point.  Pulling on the standing part tightens the binding.  After the desired degree of tension is reached, a locking [[half-hitch]] is added over the working end and pulled taut.

Even without the locking half-hitch the knot will generally maintain tension while additional tying is accomplished, such as putting a second, [[perpendicular]], wrap on a package.<ref name="ashley337">Ashley(1944), p. 337 (# 2083)</ref><ref name="perryknots">Gordon Perry, ''Knots'' (North Vancouver, Canada: Quantum Publishing, 2006), 130-131.</ref>

A similar knot made with an [[overhand knot]] instead of a figure-eight works almost as well.<ref name="pawpock">Des Pawson, ''Pocket Guide to Knots & Splices'' (Edison, NJ: Chartwell Books, Inc., 2002), 108-109.</ref>  Many other variations also exist finishing with this style of locking half-hitch. In fact, [[Clifford Ashley]] claimed that there were more knots of this type to be found than any other used for a single purpose.<ref name="ashley36"/>