A popular harness in mountaineering is the Black Diamond 'Alpine Bod';
this harness design does not have a separate belay loop. The rope must be tied
through both the waist and leg loop bridge segment.
Nice to deal with some specifics.
Also, I do not recommend a knot structure that is a noose/strangle/hitch form.
This would induce a cinching action at the moment of impact in a free-fall arrest.
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Any knot structure that suddenly cinches tight at the moment of impact creates additional risk to the user.
The sudden jerk induces cinching, which in turn creates friction/rubbing.
Btw, how would a set-clinched hitch affect one's movement
in such a harness? --i.e., in having the leg-loop/-connector
drawn up snug to the waist loop?! This isn't asked in terms
of safety so directly but of comfort, workability/usability?
I had thought of having a *compound* tie-in in which a hitch
is a base --as a last-man-standing safeguard-- and its *ends*
are joined in an eyeknot : should the latter knot somehow
come untied, there would at least be the base hitch to hold.
But I found one use of the
clove hitch to not hold, but in
a form/setting (looseness) possibly present in spanning the
two tie-in points, to just spill !! --oops, let's not use this!
But then I came to wonder the question/issue above,
about having one's tie-in force those two connecting parts
together, and how that might impede movement.
So, I shifted from the idea of
hitch-into-eyeknot tactic
to
eyeknot-into-eyeknot (getting structures much like
the
mirrored bowline), which is fertile with solutions.
--dl*
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