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It's a solution, but it isn't an answer to the question first posed.

Very nice, Nick, but also a derail. :D

Sean, I also have come to that conclusion, at least what you can cover yourself. A crane came to a job once and when I checked out the wedge socket that holds the whole hook shabang to the cable, I saw that the bolt and nut that are part of the fastening system was so loose that I could spin it...

I bought a large elongated and pretty heavy rounded edge steel ring yesterday to hang on the hook, manufactured here but not made with climbing in mind, so some roughness in the inner edge needed to be filed and buffed up. SWL like four tons. Sold in the hardware store in the rigging section...

Stephen, do you ever tie an anchor hitch by looping the line through the first turns, then looping it through again? I saw the knot tied that way with the claim of added security. I haven't tried it. I find a half hitch for security is pretty pointless, it seems to quickly fall out. I guess...

Things get a little hectic sometimes, lots of movement in an abbreviated period of time, I guess you can say an advantage that results from a crew that well knows their jobs. So, I was mainly looking for a knot that I didn't have to retie. I know the figure 8 is not a knot favored by tree...

What's that Jack? It looks painful.

Two half hitches?

Great, I was completely unfamiliar with that way to make a bowling more secure. :)

It's a straight ride down, sometimes a bit of lateral movement when cabling off. I don't think of cross loading as a concern, basically. I do happen to have a locking snap with a closed eye, but didn't consider it for this application. If I practice up a bit, perhaps tying and untying wouldn't...

Thanks, that occurred to me as well. Figure 8 is a hell of a secure knot, but it is a harder one to untie after loading.

Some crane jobs can be very rapid succession work, up to tie off the cable, then quickly ride my hitch on down, pull out my climbing line through the ring in the hook, and quickly back up again to do the same in another tree. Our crew works quite fast when knocking them down. I need to use my...