All the possible hitches that can be tied when we do not have access to the ends of the rope or of the pole, should not be too many to enumerate exhaustively, I guess.
Then you must guess that is true for
all hitches,
as surely you can tie anything done with ends by using
a bight qua end --and getting the doubled bulk. There
are also ways to work partly *ignoring* one side of the
doubled-rope/bight as much as possible, leaving it slack
until a final tuck or two (e.g., tying a
taut-line noose-hitch
(adjustable eye)).
Perhaps the simplest of them all is a simple double line noose, ...
Each of what you present I would classify as "noose-hitches",
as the
knotting is done not around the object but around
the S.Part of the overall structure --a
clove-hitch noose, an
overhand-hitch noose, and so on.
As for the
timber hitch's reliability, there have been bothersome
anecdotes from arborists about this hitch pulling out in I think
cases of dropping loads onto blocks tied on by it; and the advice
is to make several dogged tucks, maybe to use a stopper knot
(or another hitch, if one's block lanyard is coming up short on
a large diameter --hmmm, that leaves only a
running bowline ?).
Many sources (mis-)present the
timber hitch in most unrealistic
form : they show all the dogging as close wraps --vs. spread-out
twists-- near the turn of the tail; these could easily pull out,
devoid of (sufficient) contact against the object. I don't think
that this was an issue with the arborist anecdotal cases, or at
least not one, where the tyer was at least this savvy of workings.
I still am waiting to see some testing of the
timber hitch with a
roundturn on the S.Part (or two), to see what effect that might
have on strength; it should be a bonus for slack-security, anyway
(staying in place). (This is in
Ashley's BoK, btw.)
Incidentally, Roo's image reminds me of the "Killick/Killeg/K..."
hitch, which is variously shown as a
timber hitch and
half-hitchclose together or spaced broadly, and said to be used for tying
to anchor stones (or towing lumber). The spaced version does
the towing task pretty well & obviously : the
timber hitch anchors
the line, and the
half-hitch *guards* the former from undue load
AND puts a directional, contact point of the line forward on the
object. But for the anchor stone, all that makes sense to me is
that in fact we have one *knot*, and that is a
cow hitch with
its tail dogged for security; in natural-fiber ropes, I think that
this will jam nicely at the collar and make a good lock on the
object; nylon might work well, too, with its water-shrinkage
tightening. And that "K..." name belongs to this >>hitch<<.
--dl*
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