WEll, the enlarged photo shows the surmises to be
wrong :
the bight legs go opposite directions around the skid!I think that the red-tagged hanging end clearly passes up BEFORE
the skid, over its top, then out of sight behind (maybe to u-turn,
but clear enough IN FRONT at first contact and not paired with
the other leg in passing around under & behind). That busts
the conjecture about the tying, and poses questions about how
and how efficiently this actual structure is made!? => Square-1
And at least I was wrong about the finish entailing a round turn:
it is a simple turn/half-hitch. I thus count 8 twin wraps working
back from this point, and at the right end where they reach the
two legs, one must wonder how they go to flow into their respective
*ends*.
FURTHERmore: I find it odd (and had so thought previously, silently)
that the wrapping of a bight-end (long) did not produce more torsion
-- rather, this bight end hangs at not such short length with only the
slightest suggestion of torsion; there are but a few crossings otherwise.
And this seems to be hard-laid rope, too.
I count back from the left end wraps (ignoring the bight's HH finish)
SIX turns around the skid, and the sixth (rotating frontwards->upwards->over...)
seems
to there split over/under (resp.) the red-tagged end!?And re the red-tagged end's passing UNDER just one of the wrapped
strand-pair, I see on the left/top side of this crossing apparently a
quite
torqued open (against lay) pair of rope-strands,
as though this end had been brought under the other part with
much pressure upon it!? -- curiouser & curiouser!!
Also, look at the red-tagged end
immediately below the tail-bightit passes behind: there seems to be a slight bulge of material there
that I can't make be part of the bight or the end, nor could it do
much pressing on the end for that would deflect the end's line
of passage more this is done -- which is very slight at most!?
So, I'm lost on this.
I will continue to assume that whatever tying it is, it is done easily.
But I can't conceive of such a tying to match what I see here.
--dl*
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