Thanks Alpineer
nice picture. This idea seems most promising to me.
Surely this cannot be --as I have an idea in the hat!

Dan, you have an intersting idea of a two step solution:
tie a binding hitch to the beam,
with a leg loaded hitch tyed to the the binding hitch.
That could be the ticket to minimizing the chafe the best.
It's a little complicated,
I was really hoping for an elegant single hitch solution.
You missed the sense of my qualifying "essentially, ..." :
which was merely to signify the functional aspect of what
I intended as a more-or-less one-step solution. E.g., one
ties an
anchor hitch around nothing and turns the
long tail around the object 'a la Alpineer's wrapping,
but taking the tail through the waiting-for-it hitch, and
maybe tightening at the end a little back'n'forth between
hitch's gripping and holding of binding lines and those
lines themselves to effect the tight binding to the object.
(One could try "slipping" the hitch-around-nothing so
to then run with a bight (= 2 strands vs. 1) to wrap
the object; this also requires one to have a good sizing
of material needed ... .)
(One might wonder if some working of the rockclimber's
old around-the-waist,
bowline on a coil could effect much
the same!? --I'm thinking that it would not tighten so well.)
--dl*
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