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When the splice is pulling length ways it gets the throat will get narrower. This holds the internals of the splice tighter, like a Chinese finger trap.

As others have said. Have the eye through the bight of the timber hitch and connect the bins into that (if you must use it). As it is, the the down leg of the climb line is loaded it will pull the eye splice apart, potentially loosening it at the throat.