Strength of Brummell Splice?

[Mike Maddin]

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