For those who want to know everything about knots and splices, here's a
series of tests done by Evans Starzinger with help from the rope companies
and other interested people:
http://forums.sailinganarchy.com/index.php?/topic/154025-ropeknotsplice-load-testing/
Fascinating stuff, but there are
cnc-list.com> wrote:
Subject: Re: Stus-List Halyard knots (was: Masthead sheaves C 37+)
To: "cnc-list@cnc-list.com" <cnc-list@cnc-list.com>
Cc: "Marek Dziedzic" <dziedzi...@hotmail.com>
Date: Friday, February 2, 2018, 6:33 AM
Can’t
Here's a good article with a wee bowline
mentioned, from the professor himself, Mr. Brion Toss.
http://www.briontoss.com/education/archive/miscsept02.htm
Also, beware of the difference between a
reduction of strength by X5 vs.retention of
strength... no big deal if it's 50% but a value
of 60%
Can’t speak for the confined space rescuers, but the climbers switched from the
bowline to the figure eight, mainly, because the bowline CAN untie by itself
under certain situations.
Generally, the bowline is frowned upon in the life safety situations.
However, when I was learning to climb (a
