The Signal-to-Noise ratio of this forum has taken a sorry dive of late,
with faster keyboard activity unimpeded by mental preparation or merit
of posting at all.
Now, here we have burned several posts over some unknotty issue of
copyright, whose assertion frankly surprises me --so the image is here
again, and ... ? Why care about that?
And the OP complains about some issue of danger, without the slightest
evidence of that, except if the "danger" is the sullying of some concept
of what a "Zeppelin" knot is (a name given to Rosendahl's bend by some
magazine headline writer, of all things)! That danger is not the sort that
usually concerns or in any way injures people.
The "stolen"/removed/cited image is pretty, with backlit rope nicely
captured, et cetera (from this amateur photographer's eye), BUT
it does little to well present the knot in question --as all the interesting
(and apparently, to one, provocative) goings-one (of the small red
cord with the worn-white rope) happen around the back side of it,
alas. Inkanyezi, flip that thing around --point the white tail away and
let's see the red cord's play!
Having put your own personal body weightedly upon this threatening
structure and survived without injury, I presume that you'll not be
taking action against yourself; the rest of us won't hold our breaths
until someone does, either. Now, maybe in some case involving
high-strength cord with old-fashioned rope such that some similar
(maybe not quite so) large discrepancy in diameters can reasonably
exist with some significant force, we will see ... ? ... failure ?!
That, at least, should be the point XaraX roused us for,
though I fail to see it made in any detailed, compelling way.
But, frankly, in my opinion, such diameter differences don't suggest
ANY "bend", but a line-to-big-stuff hitch of some sort --what I've
considered messenger-line hitches (even if by some rigorous rules
of classification these fall under the *end-2-end* class). Heck, it might
even be how we come to view this very knot structure, with some
kind of eye towards a different mechanics than the latter class should
have?!
--dl*
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