Talk:Cow hitch
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cow girth hitch
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The cow hitch refers to a girth hitch with only one leg loaded (i.e., it has a free end). This article should be renamed and edited to that effect. See ABoK and this thread for further details.
- I have expanded the article, attempting to take into account the various names for this type of knotted structure. As per WP:KNOTS#Consolidation of closely related knots and variations I've attempted to cover these closely related variations in a single article. Bale sling hitch still has a separate article, but it would probably make sense to integrate that content here with a merge. Other opinions? --Dfred (talk) 03:48, 3 December 2010 (UTC)
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editimage on German wiki, but copyrighted. kwami (talk) 21:23, 1 July 2008 (UTC)
- Never mind, got one from French wiki. kwami (talk) 05:15, 2 July 2008 (UTC)
Related to square knot?
edit74.109.213.249 (talk) 23:53, 11 December 2015 (UTC) If you tie it around a rope and pull one end of each, it turns into a square knot or thief knot.
Half Hitches vs Single Hitches
editI modified the opening of the article, which described the knot as being made of two opposing half hitches.
Instead, the knot itself is made of two single hitches; the difference (described by the Ashley Book of Knots) being that a half hitch is when a single hitch is made on a rope's standing part. A half hitch makes the structure of an overhand knot, while a single hitch is in of itself a simple turn.
I similarly also modified the page for the Clove hitch, and presented the same reasoning there. 2600:1007:B036:DD24:805D:ECC2:293D:74A3 (talk) 01:00, 22 January 2023 (UTC)