In (futilely) looking for the origin of the name of the Brummell splice, I ran across this in a thread on
www.treebuzz.com:
"You want to use the standard eye splice techniques for making these. ( I didn't use the Brummell as this piece will hold body weight and therefore we went with the stronger splice)"
I have never used a Brummell splice, but nothing I can remember reading suggested that it might not be sufficiently strong to support someone's (falling, I suppose) body weight. How does it rate for strength?
Best wishes,
Mike