Talk:Cow hitch

cow girth hitch
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 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)

image
image 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?
74.109.213.249 (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
I 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)