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Good question.... but my goal is to get as much strength as possible out of the 1/2 3-strand rope. The Bowline reduces strength to 60% of original. And I believe the WWL (1/5 breaking strength) is 1000# So I figured by using 3 (e.g.) wraps or so, I could make a relatively strong(er) poor man's...

Thanks again ALL for sharing your time, talent, knowledge, and experience with me. All this info is helping me refine and understand things much more clearly. Since I tend to gravitate toward the planning, organizing, thinking, theorizing about work more than the actual work itself -- I am...

Thanks again for all the comments and ideas.... just went back and re-read (still need more time to study TreeSpyder's posts... but I did find the discussion from 2009 about the Clock Hitch). So the bowline loop becomes the eye of the "sling" so to speak? ... i.e. home-made sling? But with...

Thanks all for the good ideas to digest. TreeSpyder, I really want to understand what you are saying and I plan to read your post through slowly and carefully tomorrow. (and the rest of the replys again tomorrow) ..... you mentioned the Clock Hitch... after I posted the question I was...

Hello All. Is this a safe and legitimate way to tie an anchor to the base of a tree for horizontal rigging/pulling? The standard method seems to be to use an eye type sling, but I don't have one and I wanted to be able to tie a good anchor using just rope. Is this a safe, legitimate way of...