Many things are mixed chains of rigid and flexible dampening parts, or different ranges of flexibility mixed.
Car frame to shocks, pogo stick, rope vs chain truck pull, pillow on bed etc.
Honestly for me it's just a mental thing, the 'knot tucking into the loop' connection of soft shackles just doesn't seem ideal for something in the air that does a lot of moving around. People use them a lot pulling vehicles, but that is on the ground and worse case it just disconnects, nothing falls through a house. Slackline people use them and that is a life-support item, but they usually tape up the shackles to ensure they can't open when the line is moving around in the wind or whatever.
Very thin line of great improvement to me of from normal to pro lacing status in ALL ropework by the very architecture:
upgrade the 1x arc180 single/simple turn to a 3x arc180 of RT Round Turn around the button i'd try.
Upgrade each half of Girth simple turns to RT's, have more pro level Prussic etc.
Sometimes counter-intuitively might want the quicker , less rope, more forgiveness of nonRT where simple turn is greatest
>>but mostly in real working rope, RT is the greatest geometry
Can try girth capture of button, but seems would be more of an angled pull, at high loading.
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Here this brings us from just depending on the button, to primarily gripping self, and button now less stressed as a secondary stop? Which would be even be more help if not using the 'teflon-ic' friction co-efficiency of dyneema.
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i think 1x arc180 gives a 1D pull across only, never count the 'legs' to the arcs as commanding like an arc does
>>this is a much more 'open' side of not full arc power
2x arc180 gives a 1D grip, as now gives the most evolved rope element of arc180 from either side
>>but can show as a line 1D still, WE(Working End ) does not return to the same position as odd number arcs like 1
3x arc180 as an RT structure is odd number so WE returns to same side as 1x
>>and now a more 2D grip shape like V(connecting dots of the most powerful arc apexes), more arcs just extend the 2D structure not go 3D i think
>> rope is flexible class/does not resist on the cross axis, so hard to get 3D force from it
>> also, in round rope, there is no axial differentiations / all axises match to then not show 3D ,effects by that quantity.
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i always heard that direction was most important,
this seems most true of rope, that only natively resists in the tension direction,
and along it's length w/o the cross axis resistance of rigids.
Round rope maintains this as undifferentiated cross Axises vs. Flat/linear/non round shape of webbing of differentiated cross axises.
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i have above extended rope understandings pared down to 1 theory, that can't break with examples;
and has consistently yielded many answers: only 3 raw rope elements in loaded/working rope.
They are differentiated per their directional geometry of input, output and center apex positions. arc0(simplest linear) and arc180(most evolved) maintain the same power axis, arc90 overcomes reigning power axis to cross axis, making new reigning power axis to subsequent rope parts. All 100% USDA Prime directions of geometry.
From here, views become simple logic i think, this is how i tie, groom, inspect, forensically decipher etc. really anything have ever shown.
A very true pareto/ power law of distribution/ 80:20 rule/law of the vital few/principle of factor sparsity(wiki); (i think of as 'pare to' the essentials)
of "Leveraged L-earning" the fewest pivotal points to leverage out furthest to cover the most ground;
thereby most equitable investment return on input efforts to L-earn.
Then in turn, the principles are universal, far beyond the rope examples.
This raw work we do, is gateway to much greater understandings, like few other get the chance.
Just as Doc Shigo invited to touch trees to know better, we can touch these lessons too, as few other.
Each generation buffers the next from these raw lessons as evolution, but not w/o loss(that they then shake at the buffered generation).
>>us throwbacks go back to raw wood weight, length and rope that was the beginning of all mechanical understandings outside self, as brain developed. rope was first technology outside of self of a series of ordered steps or fail, and could make connections to compound too.
Wife spends whatever was made , truest ongoing gift of treework to me are these things; they are what take forward after money gone, and much further than trees to boot, a way of understanding all around.
