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The Highwayman's Knot has good holding power and can if used correctly hold quite considerable loads. I deleted the note about the knot being too unreliable to have been actually used by Highwaymen. [[User:Ronank|Ronank]] 15:11, 24 August 2006 (UTC) |
The Highwayman's Knot has good holding power and can if used correctly hold quite considerable loads. I deleted the note about the knot being too unreliable to have been actually used by Highwaymen. [[User:Ronank|Ronank]] 15:11, 24 August 2006 (UTC) |
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:In any case, a well-trained horse probably doesn't pull the rope that much? And if leaving the bight big enough, the likelihood of the capsized version of the knot to fail is not that big? Or maybe they really used the "tumble hitch", a more stable variant, apparently (re)invented by Dan Lehman in 2003? [[User:Tobixen|tobixen]] ([[User talk:Tobixen|talk]]) 04:27, 5 March 2010 (UTC) |
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The Highwayman's Knot has good holding power and can if used correctly hold quite considerable loads. I deleted the note about the knot being too unreliable to have been actually used by Highwaymen. Ronank 15:11, 24 August 2006 (UTC)
- In any case, a well-trained horse probably doesn't pull the rope that much? And if leaving the bight big enough, the likelihood of the capsized version of the knot to fail is not that big? Or maybe they really used the "tumble hitch", a more stable variant, apparently (re)invented by Dan Lehman in 2003? tobixen (talk) 04:27, 5 March 2010 (UTC)