Talk:Highwayman's hitch

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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)[reply]

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)[reply]

The hitch is easy to make with reins, and was commonly used for hitching horses. Whether it was actually used by highwaymen is unknown to me. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 94.170.107.247 (talk) 23:25, 19 September 2010 (UTC)[reply]

According to an eBook I found about camping, highwaymen did use it. SwimFellow (talk) 23:57, 23 January 2011 (UTC)[reply]

Removed whimsical sentence[edit]

I removed this sentence, referring to the use by higwaymen:

However, this whimsical notion is unlikely considering the instability of the hitch.

Not only is it pov, but wording like 'whimsical notion' is rather un-encyclopedic. DirkvdM (talk) 14:16, 21 February 2012 (UTC)[reply]

Used to be more than a stub. Vandalism?[edit]

Looking at the history, apparently this article used to be more than the mere stub it is now. I don't have the time now to look through the whole history, but it seems that someone who hates this knot is waging an edit war, removing info. Feels like vandalism to me. DirkvdM (talk) 14:19, 21 February 2012 (UTC)[reply]

Thanks for pointing this out. I have restored some of that text, added refs, and removed the stub tag. --Dfred (talk) 21:22, 25 February 2012 (UTC)[reply]

Capsizing no problem[edit]

Capsizing is not necessarily a problem. There are plenty knots that are supposed to capsize. In my experience, if the bight is long enough, it holds just fine (as tobixen also pointed out). And because of the many turns it has a good grip on the pole. Better than the timber hitch, for example, and much easier to tie and especially untie. I'm falling in love with this knot. But that's pov. :) As is the claim that it is unsafe, so that needs sourcing or should be removed. DirkvdM (talk) 14:29, 21 February 2012 (UTC)[reply]