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    Distel hitch... Ba da ba ba ba (I'm lovin' it)

    Wow, I'd think that this will work if the part reaching to the top, mere-turn, is ensured to be mostly UNloaded, so that the compression coil can in fact compress. "Letsid", eh? As in Let Sid try this, and See Sid Slide! (-; But we should note that the OnRope cases were *cow*-, not clove-...
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    Distel hitch... Ba da ba ba ba (I'm lovin' it)

    Way back in this thread MikoDel vowed, re the Distel hitch, "I'll try tying it upside down... see what happens." Did you in fact try this? I ask, for in the revision of OnRope, the images for their imbalanced-coil Prusik h.s got flipped wrong-side up, and in this orientation the single turn of...
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    New HitchHikerXF

    You mean there's a 2nd 100 ... ?! !! (-; Eh, hopes for improvement could be a cause; then there's the view that knots exist to be discovered, not created. YMMV. Names, though, work in cases of limited number, then it just gets exhausting --reach for a decoder ring! (The other day I...
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    Reading is NOT research

    In which is written "to distinguish fact from fiction and elevate truth above falsehood", which brings to mind one close-reading-in-research fellow of knotting to lament that knots "book authors propagate initial falsehoods sufficiently often to establish them as truths." Establishing what is...
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    Why tie instead of rigging carabiner?

    Wow, I'm reading (wait, that's not research), er, looking at the pictures (I'm better at that), and thinking "Hey, that looks familiar ... !" NB : I regard this as a not-ready-for-prime-time structure. There need to be some practice drops aiming to sus out any untoward behavior --i.p., an...
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    Unprotected splice

    Or, more rope-y/knotty, you could bind the sewn part with mason line or 30#? fishline (something that comes to about the same thickness, i.e.) as a seizing --could be a series of several multiple(-wraps) Strangle knots. Ah, here's a (dark) photo of some end whippings with multi-strangles +...
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    Knot i.d.

    "Knot i.d." = "Knot I Developed" sounds about right to me. Some folks like to name things after their "inventors"; but I'm not sure that extends to "Lignotuber" ? (tho' "LignoLoops" has a sort of ring to it.) One can do the same thing by putting in a bowline w/that bight, btw. (-;
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    Stopper knots and screw links for life support?

    --coupla things to comment on, here. To the OP, though, your idea has merit and has me with a zipper pull tab (w/hole) and part of my belt buckle now entangled in cordage, in crude (don't reach for that belt knot!) approximation to your stopper situation. (-; IMO, you could make a simple OH...
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    Bend radius for rigging

    We should pause this at :: (1) book assertions are often bunk ; (2) these structures haven't been tested (and in a variety of materials --cordage & tied-to object). Re the more-material-to-spread-the-load, with a round turn, this puzzles me in that irrespective of the number of (round) turns...
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    Bend radius for rigging

    Beware the belief of any accuracy in most knots books --including Ashley's. Mostly what is indeed "handed down" is simply what was there to (easily) *hand* down (in contrast to authors having the wit to do real research or even thinking!). Perhaps the most egregious tome of rubbish is Hensel &...
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    Munter hitch for lowering limbs

    The possible rope twisting supposedly is a factor of ANGLE. For abseiling, e.g., keep the rope hanging straight down, not holding it off to one's side. The Munter can be doubled (one good turn deserves another). https://www.animatedknots.com/super-munter-hitch-knot (Not sure about Grog's...
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    Quick Block attachment knot

    If my GooglEye'd translation of Spydey's comment is right, I think he's looking for something more like a Wrap-2-Pull-1 sort of friction-gripping structure against the tree. But this would necessarily lower the block, enlarging the peak impact force of the drop. My concern is how much abrasion...
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    Good deal on 3 strand?

    And re "looks like what Westech is selling" isn't my opinion, if the Westech rope is that (at 23cents per) given here : https://www.westechrigging.com/rope-bluesteel-012.html --which isn't "polydac" but better-deserving of the "polyolefin" moniker in being what I call "Co-Ex(truded)" and of both...
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    Bowline slippage

    Egadz, in my own msg., "we can read ..." :: indeed, none of my 5? tested eye knots showed much unusual slippage, including the quite brief "Quick8" (tail threads through Fig.8 base, and then --to be serious(!)-- I brought it back around to tuck between the two eye legs, at the SPart's u-turn...
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    Bowline slippage

    YMMV but HMPE has seemed to be pretty amazingly slippy with knots. The late Brion Toss shot a couple videos of 5/32" (IIRC) Spectra 12-strand cord tied with a stopped double BWL and one can see the material just feeding out of the knot --the double turn just flowing material from the outgoing...
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    Is there a name for this loop knot? Is it safe for climbing use?

    To contribute some more to this, albeit aged thread ... It's a Grapevine eye knot. A Chouinard catalogue some decades ago showed a similar eye knot, differing in that the SPart was knotted with just an overhand & not a strangle ("STRANGLE", not "half a double..." ! ;) ), supposedly so to have...
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    Rope shelf life

    No, this guy's ineptness reaches new nadirs of not knotting nicely --a near 5kN load--, esp. for even his even calling attention to this and then opining about dressing! This is Prize performance. Beyond errors, way into Make Believe, hence the re-naming "Hensel & Gretel"! But the book's...
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    Rope shelf life

    The Outdoors Knot Book has this capture of some opinion on "old" ropes : Now, I don't know what "held one fall" means, exactly; but at the least it means that it didn't break. (But my point is Did it hold the fall in the required range of peak impact forces? --possibly not, I guess). Anyone...
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    Rope shelf life

    Here's a late reply, and thanks for this video reference. From a knothead, here's my take on what the fellow shows in it re fig.8 eyeknots. Nice to see some actual-factuals, though kinda sad in some aspects, as ... I'm appalled that the test guy asserts that his Fig.8s are tied as well as he...
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    'SWL/WLL'.....am starting to think this isn't a proper approach to rigging-lines (v. "where's the bounce?" :) )

    Not so fast. There's something *smelly* about these figures. Firstly, note that the tensile test is done to an eye-spliced rope; the drop test to a knotted one. Secondly, peak impact force is an attribute determined per rope but the "1,421" is given as though it's something absolute. Playing...

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