ring hitch eye size
The spliced eye for a ring hitch only has to be as big inside as the smallest cross-section of the piece of hardware it attaches to. For a piece of gate hardware it'll be the fat part of the latch, or slightly smaller if you open the latch and thread it through the eye.
So- thread the whole spliced eye through the bail, pull it (and an inch or two of the standing/long part) to the farthest extent of the piece of hardware, open the splice and slide it down/over the piece of hardware toward the bail, snug up the tail. No access to the other end of the line needed.
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