xarax you're not telling me anything I didn't already cover in my post.
OK. I am used to tell everybody what he already knows for quite a long time now. Do not read my posts... ( You would nt be the first one, you know...
)
You are the one who used the term Zig Zag for the first time in your first post on the
Trucker s hitch, Ashley had used it, too, so I was trying to use this nomenclature because it is descriptive, and it is understood by anybody, even if he is not a knot tyer. On the contrary,
VersaTackle is relatively recent name given to a particular configuration, when we have the Standing Part passing through the SAME two bights many times... The knot tyer who used this name, although I believe he did not understood the essence of the "opposed bights" locking mechanism (1)(2), felt he should had referred to the
block and tackle mechanism, for good reason. He used the word "tackle" of the name of a 2000-2300 years old simple machine, to describe a recently described knot mechanism, not the other way around.
The point you miss is that I am talking about the general case, about
tight hitches and
binders, in general - I am not talking about sleeping bags, in general, and about
your sleeping bag, in particular !
I am talking about the knots which can serve as very tight hitches, able to withstand a lengthwise pull, or as self-locking binders ( think about the term "self-locking", and compare this feature with the features of the solution you propose ).
Of course, three-four round turns and three-four overhand knots or half hitches, the one after the other, will solve
all your
particular/
special problems - the burden of reading my posts included !
If anyone doesn't get why this equates to a 3x force advantage, brush up on simple machines and Newton's laws.
I would LOVE to return to high school - I had left many opportunities I had nt got when I could, there...
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http://igkt.net/sm/index.php?topic=4906.02.
http://igkt.net/sm/index.php?topic=4906.msg33365#msg33365