Knut as an open hitch?

[jimmyh]

The Knut hitch holds when either end is pulled on. One side jams terribly, and forms the "adjustable grip hitch" when tied in a loop.

Loading other side (the one with a half hitch) seems to make a pretty good climbing hitch. The half hitch grips the other side as well, so it performs like a closed hitch.

The only difference between loading on the half hitch side as an open hitch and loading on both sides as a closed hitch is that the half hitch takes more tension and bends the climbing rope a bit, which ends up squeezing it even tighter. This takes some load off the top coil, but also binds the half hitch a bit more than normal.

All in all, my limited testing suggests that it would work well as an open hitch and bind less than blake's hitch. Anyone tried this before?

 

[smokey01]

The Knut hitch holds when either end is pulled on. One side jams terribly, and forms the "adjustable grip hitch" when tied in a loop.
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You can MAKE all kinds of things work. I have never used the Blakes hitch with anything other than a same diameter climbing line and have not used the Knut or that family of hitches with anything other than the suggested 20% or so diameter smaller cord but that does not suggest that there are not many similarities. For example, if you can tie a Blakes hitch you certainly can tie the Michoacàn but I would probably not use it in the one leg configuration you are speaking of.
If your Blakes hitch is binding you may try the B53 configuration or added wraps if you are using the standard Blakes before throwing the baby out with the bathwater.

 

[jimmyh]

Make's sense.

I guess there's no real need for more open hitches - if you're using the end of your climbing rope, you want a blake's for gripping on same diameter line and if you're going split tail anyway, might as well go closed.

It was more of a curiosity for me, since I'm liking SRT and closed hitches anyway.