Stopper knots and screw links for life support?

I would add that I use a small piece of 3/8" air compressor hose on the pin of the shackle... shove it through the eye of the rope then assemble the shackle to the rope, passing the pin through the piece of hose. The length of the piece of hose is the inside width of the shackle between the pin holes. Use Loktite blue on the pin threads. This gives a greater bend radius for the eye of the rope, and the result isn't all floppy-loosey-goosey.
 
Overhand is a bad stopper (left most)

Extra time through ( middle knot) is a good stopper, depending on the cordage.

Three passes through the hole (right side) is a good stopper, depending on the cordage.
The OH is a great, *only* stopper, if one is trying to set one snug to something (as I often do, concluding a whipping) --though it is difficult, at least in fiddly stuff, to get is real close. Which benefit doesn't deny shortcomings elsewhere.

"Extra time through" :: strictly speaking, I think you're describing a knot I've just been playing around with (hmmm, Ashley's #511 (which is ~= #577, albeit different dressings)), where one DOES take the tail an "extra time through";
but are you showing in fact the Strangle knot ("half a dbl. fish") ?! --which knot can be transformed into your third,
less one turn. And this third/rightmost-imaged knot is what we could call a "Stevedore&-a-bump"/"Fig.11; *cascade* the wraps to be from away-from-loop towards it, and you'll be wrapping around TWO strands, more happily taken by firm rope not liking a 1-diameter turn. --something done for making a heaving line knot, IIRC.
(The "Stevedore" is often presented in knots books as something once (still?) used by . . . stevedores; but Cyrus L. Day's Art of Knotting & Splicing, which is a decent work, claims no-such-thing and that it was just a knot promoted by the Stevedore rope company. --either or which explanation informs us of no reason Why...?! My surmise is that the added turns --which hardly increase any meaningful bulk-- are to give surer grip on the S.Part so that it's nip of the tucked-out tail holds.)

*kN*
 
I have that petzl rescue pulley and I must say it is super efficient and so smooth....I think last I looked petzl rated it as one of their most efficient pulleys just a little bit shy of 100% and that bend radius helps too.
I'd prefer the pinto tho. So many uses for it in so many applications. Much lighter.
Winchman is just putting the pulley on a base tie. I think it used to be more popular some years ago. I do this now and then for rigging and it can be a nice system for certain situations.
 

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