Please explain this cryptic instruction on soloing related knots
I am trying to decipher a text from this page on rope solo leading:
The other way you can tie in is to create a higher tie in point between your harness and chest harness, meaning you have less chance of taking a head first fall.
So far so good. But now:
To do this take a length of full strength cord (I used dyneema, but a bit of skinny rope will do) and create an fig8 knot on a bite through your chest harness (you need to be able to unthread your chest harness from the bite at the end, so don’t tie it through any close loops), leaving a long tail from one side of the knot. Now take the tail and pass it through your sit harness and back up, rethreading it through the fig8 knot. Now you have a fig8 with two bites on each side, joining sit and waist harness. Now take the tail - which is coming out of the top side of the fig8, and create a small bite by threading it back through the fig8. You now have a fig8 with 3 bites. The location of the fig8 and this last loop (this is where you’ll clip your Silent Partner, needs to be around your belly button, so as to avoid the Silent Partner smashing you in the face.
There's no picture on the site and I am really having an hard time understanding that.
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It may help to take a bit of cord and work through the instructions in order. After trying it out here, I would describe the finished product as follows:
- You have a massively-rethreaded figure-8; instead of two side-by-side strands forming the 8, it will have four.
- This massive knot will have two loops coming out of one end. The other end will have one loop and the tails.
- When each loop is tensioned (by chest harness, sit harness, and Silent Partner), the structure will be Y-shaped, with the knot at the branch of the Y.
To me it seems the finished product is similar to a small rescue spider. For a simpler version I would be tempted to take a sling, fold it in two, and tie a figure-8 using all the strands.
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