[ BROUGHT HERE FROM THE "Prusik Loops" THREAD WHERE WE'RE "OT" :-]
My educated guess is that there are fishing knots that can be tied in rope that are stronger than the Strangle Noose and the Butterfly Loop. To be clear, by "strength", I mean the propensity to resist rope breakage. I have no hard data, but who does? If I had to put my money on strongest hitch, I'd put my money one of the fishing knots if they're up for consideration. The Berkley Braid versus the Strangle Noose, that's not even fair. Do we even have to run a test for which is stronger?
"Educated" --how so?
...by analyzing test results from Knot Wars and drawing reasonable conclusions. I hate to burst your bubble, but this is not quantum mechanics. How are you educated on the issue of strength for these knots?
1) An analysis of available test reports should move one
to question more than quote them --YMMV, but as noted
previously, they tend to leave a lot of relevant factors
UNstated.
2) The difference between materials --fine fish line and rope--
is huge, and one should suspect at best only some small
corresponding match of behavior in knots.
3) re #2, the forces that are brought to
setting the knots
for testing --in terms of relative-to-material-strength %--
differ greatly : angling knots are typically set to a significant
% of line strength, rope knots not.
My examination, as best I could do from pausing the videos,
of the Knot Wars testing showed those knots to be what
I'd call "**spar** hitches" --not **ring** ring hitches,
which is what I'd presumed !? I.e., the materials there
were considerably smaller in diameter than the tied-to
metal for the tests. (Thus, one changes what one looks
at, in the knot --more at how the hitch-part SPart is
received, than where it *goes* ("hitch-part SPart"
distinguishes from "noose" SPart : the line runs directly
to turn back around the hitched object, and then
hitches to itself, so to speak --the *knotting*
comes of line upon line, with only a turn on the object).
And the similarity between the
Berkley Braid &
strangle nooseis that they both u-turn, reach back far on their line,
and then overwrap back towards the object;
and they differ in that the
BB does this with twinned
line around twin, and then just tucks the end out by
the object vs. running it up through the wraps.
But, because of the use of twin line, the
BB will still
be turning around 2 diameters, as does the other.
(Frankly, I'd think that the
BB would be suspect in thin
lines ("spar" vs. "ring" hitching), given the simple tuck
beside the object only!?)
--dl*
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