Look at how this fellow makes rope :)

[Toddy]

I know, it's a youtube video, but if you watch about the minute mark onwards, the man who is operating the coir ropemaking machine is setting things up, and he makes cordage by hand from the loose fibres. It's just the same way we make grass ropes from a pile of scythed green stuff.

cheers,
Toddy

 

[Macaroon]

Very cool machine, that; can you imagine the conniptions the H&S bods would have if they saw that in action over here though?

 

[Toddy]

Oh yes. Conniptions and bans and safeguards and everything else they were concerned about.

H&S makes our workforce a lot safer, and leads to healthier old age, but sometimes it really does muck things up for ease of use or for simple manufacturing.

M

 

[Fadcode]

Always amazes me how dedicated these workers are, no short cuts, obviously a boring job, yet they always seem happy at the outcome,and show a sort of dedication when carrying out the task.

 

[MrEd]

That’s excellent,

 

[petrochemicals]

Amazing the way it just spings into rope by magic. A great machine though, better than having to have a 100m space to run the ropes in, making the 3ply as you make the singles.

 

[Robson Valley]

He made something with a thousand uses from a simple pile of raw fiber.
Has be a large measure of creative satisfaction in that.
I would like to see the magical part that was under cover. The fiber divider?

Just a little more creative and you can hang the H&S "necktie display model" over a branch of a nearby tree

 

[Billy-o]

Love that. From the tensioner to the way the monofil works as an encourager, the whole thing is like an instrument