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Originally Posted by Brion Toss
Hi again,
What you have done is to put all the load onto the spliced eye, whereas in the shackle configuration it shares it. That's why the shackle breaks at 120 to 150%, and you can only get, by definition, 100%, assuming that you make all the diamonds correctly, with no slack between them on either leg.
Brion Toss
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But he should be getting 60-75% of line strength (half of what you get in a full shackle) and they should break at the knot. Therefore, his knots are stronger than one would expect with diamond knots. The multiple knots must be adding strength. Perhaps they make the load sharing better.
Allen