Hi Dan,
Then I am using the wrong term - what term should I be using to describe a load focused onto one leg of the loop, i.e. when the loop gets pinned under another mooring, and then the load angle shifts placing all of the load onto just one leg?
Ring loading is when the eye of the eyeknot is loaded
as though a round sling, and the knot then becomes an
end-2-end joint. (Conceivably, one might have a situation
in which some 3-ends loading occurred, at various proportions.)
I have once thought to give the names
"through loading"
and
"bend loading" to the SPart-side, resp. tail-side isolated
loading that you wish to denote; but I am now sending "bend"
back to its other-than-Ashley meaning of "tying to" and use
"end-2-end" for that sort of joint. Maybe
"tail loading" would work!?
Have you been hit by a derecho then?
Yes, as we were 4 years ago, but with far greater impact & effect,
knocking out power broadly in the D.C. area (and elsewhere,
but local news doesn't seem much concerned about them!)
at a time of record heat --no power, no A/C/, no refrigeration,
and for many of us, no Net (The Final Straw! (egadz, were it
not for cell phones, there would now be countless numbers
of teenage & younger girls lost ... !)). The forecast was there:
storm coming
at 60mph!! I wondered
What's its big hurry?.
Some big oaks toppled, many limbs fell, vehicles were crunched
(nearly 3' dia. oaks exceed vehicle capacities).
weather.gov 3-day history had a cryptic hint --re wind : "W 21 G 70" !
Seems to have dissipated crossing the Delaware, as Cape May
such data is (a) much later than even 40mph pace would
time it for that 100mi +/-, and (b) W 17 G 21 (Force 4?).
Some places (20% and diminishing, in various power company
regions) are yet w/o power, since Friday 22:30ish, and
several 95^F-ish days.
Ah, yes, this impressive fall --the news reports fail to say
that the downed crown crushed a compact car in the
driveway way across the street-- has been making the
headlines; it's a short walk away (and the comical sign
about "... recently lowered" wasn't there, Sat. mid-day)
www.examiner.com/slideshow/derecho-causes-widespread-wind-damage-from-northern-indiana-to-the-mid-atlantic-statesOhio showed the most intense spots on a time-laps radar
image of the derecho's journey.
--dl*
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