Yes, it doesn’t weave back into the main line. When you plaid it together, you unwind it as close to half as possible and take each half up into the shape of a loop and wind it back together. Done correctly, the two strands will wrap back around the main strand about three inches. The wire rope made with loops in the ends have a steel crimp cylinder swaged down over the loop point, but it’s only to keep from getting stabbed with the end of the cable. When it’s re wrapped, the loop has the same strength as the main cable because load pulls the wrap tighter against itself. We just wrapped the end joints with duct tape to cover the cable joint. And yes, if you do much of it, you can cancel your membership to the gym. I like working with rope whole lot better now.