..., and of course the same method could be used to attach to another eye.
Ha, I've played around with many variations on this theme
vis-a-vis joining eyes (which I might think would be common
enough a need!?) with a 3rd
rope --which effects the
toggling, holds secure, but the structure doesn't jam (the
tails of this
soft toggle can be tied off with
stranglesor <your favorite end-2-end knot>, as they lie beyond
any in-line tension upon the toggling body.
With an eye knot making the eye, such eye-2-eye joining
could be anticipated by having a long eye tail which would
do the toggling (so, no 3rd rope).
In the example you show, given adequately ample eye
--for one needs to make a bight and work with it--,
form a bight in one side of the *returning* eye part
and take it into the position of the board --initially--
and then turn around the opposite side of this
"returning" eye part, and up between the "going
out" legs of the eye (which will pinch this side-bight
tip). --seems to do okay in quick play w/small rope.
(I initially tried just tying a
slip knot in the eye
side-bight, but I'm not confident in the stability of
that over time (if not sooner!).)
Such "soft" toggling with a 3rd rope does look to be
a decent way of joining eyes. Is it in fact a task done
much? --and done with perhaps
hard, metal link
(to which the softness of rope would be much preferred)?!
--dl*
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