I'm a little uneasy about including a "simple" hitch. It's a little too gimmicky in that
it requires a special combination of hitching object and rope geometry to even begin to be possible.
Having a hitch that requires a special shoulder is like including a hitch that requires a narrow v-notch on some part of the post.
+1 . Actually, IF the object's allowed (with the special shape),
then a far better (more secure) hitch would be to bring the
end around the object below the SPart (as pictured here)
and then back to tuck under itself --a surer nip than the
one rightly regarded as dubious by Knot4U. (No, Derek,
I surely would NOT expect this hitch to hold much force;
there was a reason for the
*double* blackwall h.--doubts about the single. (YMMV) )
I did have a stubborn jam with your Ossel Hitch you have shown
when used on a small object. But since the discussion is focused on larger objects,
maybe that's not relevant.
It's highly relevant; as I've said elsewhere : the
ossel hitchis only effective qua
ring hitch (and jamming is one
desired quality for it); it will spill on spars & piles.
Btw, as the
gnat h. is --like many of the structures here--
what I call not a "hitch" but "noose hitch" that uses the
marlinespike h. knot, it can be revised so that it in fact
uses an
ossel h. knot --which is something to consider
in either orientation (of "tying away" or "tying towards"
the object (i.e., diff., resp., between
2 half-hitches & buntline,of the
clove noose-hitch)) .
--dl*
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