trailblazer75
Well-Known Member
Not to get into a debate, if each connection is holding roughly half then that would greatly decrease the chance of failure. Of course that assumes knots are tied correctly and checked often. So i would argue that it is a great benefit to have the double connection on a hitch like that. In addition, those hitches I listed are so much easier to work with in the majority of the applications we use over the actual prusik knot which tends to lock up tight as a drum.
No you’re totally right. But say a guy tied one scaffold hitch to hook to his carabiner correctly and one incorrectly, he’s gonna fall. Meaning it would only take one strand of the 2 ended hitch breaking to induce a fall. So say on side of the hitch is slightly longer because the hitch isn’t dressed, and a static fall somehow causes the hitch cord to break, one strand will break before the other and no amount of ends will keep that from happening.
I realize this is all far fetched. I’m just attempting to state the fact that regardless of it being doubled, it only takes one end breaking to cause a fall, thus not doubling the breaking strength.
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