Main Page | See live article | Alphabetical index Pioneering is the craft of creating structures using rough wooded spars and rope. Spars are joined by lashings and knots. The basic knots used in pioneering are: Square Knot Two Half Hitches Taut-Line Hitch Timber Hitch Clove Hitch Bowline Sheepshank Sheet Bend The basic lashings used are: Square Lashing, used to join two poles at a right angle Diagonal Lashing, used to join two poles at an angle other than right Round Lashing, used to join two parallel poles Pioneering is often connected to scouting. This article is a stub. You can help Wikipedia by fixing it. This article is from Wikipedia. All text is available under the terms of the GNU Free Documentation License.