You definitely should use this to make either a steel wool rope, or a big fuse. I think that by wrapping one of your paper fuses with hemp or cotton, you'd make one of those big cartoony fuses you can see in shows
Just made one for myself, works like a charm once you do some fine tuning. The fun thing about this design is its material simplicity, it's just wood, bolts and washers. If you own basic tools you can do this. If you don't have access to all those materials easily, just use something comparable. I could not find any washers bigger than my wheels, so i made my own wood washers instead, it's not as pretty but it works. Thanks Grant, i would have loved more projects like this from you.
a few weeks ago I said The King of Random isn't random anymore - that it has changed from a truly creative channel about DIY and discovering things into "Silicone cast everything and then put in into vacuum" channel I happily stand corrected
I don't know how I came upon these videos but I really like them there awesome and I'm so new to his videos I don't remember his name but he seemed like a really cool, nice guy,that apparantly has died even though I don't know him I feel a sadness for his loss he had a presence that very few of us have that you connected with him immediately and that's not common I've only known one person in my life that was that way and he passed away and I still think of how when he entered a room everyone's attention moved forward him like magnetism, I came to comment and thank him for his videos not aware he has died. And I hope those who knew and loved him might get some happiness knowing how much he has given us ,R.I.P
Hello Grant, Great Project. I have an idea that came to me as I was watching the video. If you manage to put electrical cable in the middle of the rope before you twist it and it stays in the core, you would be able to make very nice and stylish power cord with different materials, colors and use in projects like reading or standing lamps and chandeliers.
Pavel Dimov he can drill a hole at that semi-spheric wooden ball and the cable will be passed through there.. as a result it will be inside that rope as u said.. awesome idea dude👍
I've spun hair (I make yarn on a spinning wheel, which is very similar to rope making) and it is terrible. It is too slick for friction to hold a single together under any load, and plying only makes it marginally stronger. I ended up andean-plying it for maximum strength, and it still weak, and very itchy. Not worth the time or hair.
Never knew about this dude until now this all his videos just started randomly getting recommended to me but I appreciate him and see he was well loved. Sorry to hear he's gone.
We made rope in scouts, too. We used UV resistant polypropylene baling twine, quad stranded about 100 foot long. For our tension we attached the rope winder to a solid post and connected the other end to a picnic table with formed metal legs that would slide across the ground. After making three small ropes, we wound those together using the same method. We ended up with a forty foot long rope with a little over 1/2 inch diameter. I have been wanting to make an improved rope winder using the planetary gear set from an automatic transmission. Wish me luck.
just had an idea... if u have a cable running down the centre and the rope wrapping around it.. then u could make custom "braided" wire/cable for cool electrics projects
South Main Auto Repair I don't know if you have ever seen the old style rope yards, that make use to make rope for shops, they basically use an identical system. Just on a much bigger ratio. Iirc they has horses powering them, and kids being used as spacers/guides. But all in all its the same idea.
@@StephenButlerOne I've actually seen a guy with a very similar setup but using a handcrank, and it was outside, with the anchorpoints dug into the ground and using an iron weight in place of a water bottle. At a small, local renaissance faire. That was pretty cool.
Nah, binding needs a bit more but that 20 ft rope should be sufficient. To strangle them, however, the length showed in most of the video is indeed perfect.
.R.I.P. you where so inspiring to me and I wood smile every time I saw you made a new video but you are in a better place called heaven and the new gang are doing a great job .R.I.P.
Here's a suggestion I thought you might like: try making a length of rope from a plastic bottle and see how much weight it can take. There's tons of videos on TH-cam about making rope from a plastic bottle, so take the finished product from one of those and slap it on your rope making machine there. I'd be interested to see what happens myself
Hi, grant, could you try adding a hole and putting a charging cable in the middle of the string. I feel that this would not only make for a cool design for your cable in customization but would also add structural support for those of us whose wires consistently are ripping and exposing the wires inside.
Man, thanks to his dad's passion with the intricate way ropes are made and other things he learned with him he can now go on his own and do stuff like this...amazing!
I live in a city that was once famous for its shipbuilding. To complement that industry there was a ropeworks. It's long-defunct but I have been in the ropewalk. It's the part of the complex where the rope was actually made. The twisting was done on a bogey that ran on rails hence the extraordinary length of the building. Of course, the finished rope was about six inches in diameter as it was intended to keep ships securely berthed while in port. The ropewalk ended its life as a firearms range.
See how thick you can make the rope before it A) Breaks either the rope or the machine or B) Until you cannot physically make any more. Also maybe see what else can be used to make rope such as Toilet Paper and *Insert more examples here)
Thank you so much for this!!! I make handmade horse halters and I needed a way to make my own lead ropes. This is how I do it! I even made a 25' one by stretching this across my barn. That was awesome.
It could have been worse. At least Grant mentioned some improvements he made to the rope-making apparatus instead of just having a 10-minute video of him spinning hooks.
do you know how much work goes into 1 10 minute episode? Just be grateful its interesting again, not more gummy vacuum nitrogen stuff. Personally I enjoyed it, really inventive
Kind of curious if there is a way to make the rope wrap up on a roll and then have then have the smaller strands feed in where the hooks are... You could make longer rope with smaller space... Just have to keep tension on the eye hook strands. That's the part I haven't figured out yet. Hmm do it grant!
They just seem to short and with just dragging it out a 100 feet it would need somebody down the line to make sure it doesn't mess up. But if you make it 6 feet long and have it wrap up like I said then it still only need one person.
@@noahschuler6388 I watched the other video. It's missing the parts Kurt Cleaver mentions. Unless this is a 3 video series. If so, I only saw the first one and this one. The middle one has escaped my notice. >.>
Lastly I want to see the rubber ropes. Please man... Do it, that'd be fun You can then add hooks to both ends of the rubber rope and now you have something useful
Standard 18G copper wire would work fine. The problem is metal doesn't act like these fibers, and twisting them this much will give them a lot of internal tension that will make them very brittle. Technically you can fix that by a process known as annealing, but that involves heating them quite a bit and then letting them cool very slowly, so it's a very slow and tedious process.
Well I mean if he's willing to do it. It would be cool to see how it works and it could also be cool for other people to see ho it works. Thanks for the reply
Lets bind it together with myy idea of using 3D printed materials instead of wood and stuff, just to scale this up to another level and use materials like dental floss like you said, this could be sick!
To do this, he would need to create a way to spool the rope as it gets tightened, instead of using a counter weight. That way the spacer in the middle doesnt have to move much.
There are machines that can do that, but they're quite a bit more complex. the three hooks are attached to individual spools, and instead of letting tension twist the rope, the whole hook assembly spins around. The upside is you can make ropes of indefinite length if you splice the spools.
Awesome vid. Upon reading the comments, I surmised you're not alive anymore. Bummer. Your enthusiastic approach to this project most likely mimicked your lifestyle- I'm sure in yours you lived it to it's fullest. Rest in Peace.
I used to actually work at a rope making company. We used polypropylene strands, and made ropes from the size you made, up to actual tow ropes and even large boat ropes that were up to three inches in diameter. All of our rope machines were hand made, and used different methods of pulling or keeping the poly tight while turning the rope. Probably the most fun to make, yet hard to tie was lariats, because when you rue the actual eye of the rope that the free end goes through to be able to make a loop, is so tight. You thread the individual strands through the standing rope, the twisted part, after putting a leather sleeve on it, then force the strands apart, while pushing the free end through each strand. Really complex, and you have to do it right or it won’t work right. When tying of the ends of regular poly rope, you have to take the ends to make them straight to tie. Doing so when you first learn to tie, you get blisters between your fingers, that soon break and ooze. Even wearing gloves, they wear out fast, because they can’t be too bulky otherwise you can work with the ends to tie it. I bought golf gloves because they are fingerless, and thick enough to use for about a week before they are are ate up and you have to get another pair.
What is the science behind why the rope doesnt just unwind after you cut it off even with the tape why doesn't it come undone and couldn't you just twist it back to its original form by hand?
It is true that you can just rewind the rope back but its a pain and not as strong. The science behind of why the rope doesn't want to unwind is because the twine has past its elasticity point and has gone to its plasticity form. Also, the friction of each strand also contributes a great factor in why the rope doesn't unwind, which explains why the rope is never the same if it get rewound.
It will only unravel easily on it's own just after you made it (hence the tape), but if it's worked and used over time it will seemingly hold itself together if the binds are cut. Yeah you can still easily undo it from the ends by hand, but it won't fall apart the whole way through.
I never thought it went that interesting when I first watched your rope-making device. Thanks for that inexpensive DIY model of rope-making device of yours.
instead of binding it off, you tie more fiber to the spinning end, and latch what was at the spinning end to the weighted end. It will create a rough patch, but its the easiest way to do it, as tying to have longer strands at the begining will result in tangling if the machine is not large enough
Would be interesting to see this contraption with a way to make longer ropes without having to stretch the rope out its entire length. In the long run, that's not a viable option. For example, if you want 25 metres of rope, you shouldn't need a straight venue 25 metres long. I know it's possible, because obviously the factories don't have 150 metre stretches of machinery, but they manufacture those sizes of rope. Maybe if the strands didn't go straight back to the carbine hook, but instead came off to the side, with another counter-weight holding it up? When the slider reaches the three hooks, you move the counter-weight at the end of the rope and let more of the strands through, move the slider back and continue from there. If I had the materials at home, I would've whipped something like that together, just to try it.
additionally you can make the rope system vertical instead. Make your self a wooden post to secure the system in your backyard, attach the system 25ft going up. When you are done, detach the system
erq: That's what I was trying to say, but you used a lot fewer words :) Kayle: Don't know about the laws in the US, but here in the UK, you kinda can't stick a pole 25 metres in the air like that. Also, 25 metres, not feet :) 25 metres is a little over 80 feet. Henry: Where's the fun in that? Also, as Grant has pointed out several times through these videos, it takes 3-4 people to handtwist rope, and it takes a lot longer, and the result doesn't always come out the best.
Excellent video of an ancient technology. Rope-making has been around for centuries, so of course you will find videos here on YT on hand-made (and non-electric) equipment and similar process. There are still rope-making runs hundreds of feet long in Europe, and they are still used today for making rope, often for boats. Great video.
Rest In Peace King Thompson. I have enjoyed you on youtube for years.
I can't believe you're gone 😥 thoughts are with your family and friends.
Rest in peace 🙏🏻
rest in peace
WAIT WTF HES DEAD WTFFFF!!!!
@@lucasmichalopoulos6216 sadly yes 😥
@@A.genai7 x
lol
"It's only a fail if you give up and go home", that was the precise moment I thought that this video deserves a like at minimum
Wish he never went on that paragliding trip.
Sad
Yup
😭😭😭😭
😢😭
sooo he passed while providing? that friggin sucks!!!!!
You really inspired me.
I hope you're glowing in Heaven.
Glowing, Growing, and Teaching! R.I.P
Take your religious views somewhere else
@@adamputz6043 Take your nihilistic views somewhere else
ᚨᛚᚲᛟᚢᛖᚲᛋ no u
@@adamputz6043 no u
this was my favorite video, i thought the process was so cool. the world misses you
Who else watches these videos for the fun of it 😂 knowing we will never attempt to make any of this stuff
Donald Malabi I might make it
harol romero if you have the tools go ahead 💯✌🏿 it looks hard
Ok
Luigi22Brian I know right
yep
Rest in peace THE KING OF RANDOM you are in my memory
white boy wayne it says a person is dead when that are forgotten not when that leave this world
Grant: "Smells like memories"
Soldier 76: "Smells like victory"
You definitely should use this to make either a steel wool rope, or a big fuse. I think that by wrapping one of your paper fuses with hemp or cotton, you'd make one of those big cartoony fuses you can see in shows
I'd like to see this!
maybe use it to make back powder fuses
yea make your own steelwire
or use it to make vape coils
thats what im gonna do cept im making mine from plexliglass
Mmmmm....Heeeeemmmmpppp.
Just made one for myself, works like a charm once you do some fine tuning. The fun thing about this design is its material simplicity, it's just wood, bolts and washers. If you own basic tools you can do this. If you don't have access to all those materials easily, just use something comparable. I could not find any washers bigger than my wheels, so i made my own wood washers instead, it's not as pretty but it works.
Thanks Grant, i would have loved more projects like this from you.
Thank you so much for staying with the viewers as close as possible with details
You should start a project of making a tree house and use your homemade rope. I've always wanted to build a tree house for myself
bobZILLA He should
I'm just waiting for the day when grant finally accepts the fact that he IS a professional
Hypo0024 why is Is capitalized
windycitycrew21 Emphasis
Dog dafuq?
a few weeks ago I said The King of Random isn't random anymore - that it has changed from a truly creative channel about DIY and discovering things into "Silicone cast everything and then put in into vacuum" channel
I happily stand corrected
Audie Liem wait so you think he's random again?
Audie Liem don t trust edited comments
Hi Lol rope making machine is definitely not what I expected.
Audie Liem did you really think that would be permanent?
Audie Liem he gets his ideas from viewers (which are pretty not original)
I too recall making rope as a Boy Scout - thanks for the pleasant blast from the past my friend
Hi dude what a exiciting video you r uploading day by day it's wonderful how you get too much ideas
safwaan shaikh.
who are u
back up again
Thanks grand thomson
I don't know how I came upon these videos but I really like them there awesome and I'm so new to his videos I don't remember his name but he seemed like a really cool, nice guy,that apparantly has died even though I don't know him I feel a sadness for his loss he had a presence that very few of us have that you connected with him immediately and that's not common I've only known one person in my life that was that way and he passed away and I still think of how when he entered a room everyone's attention moved forward him like magnetism, I came to comment and thank him for his videos not aware he has died. And I hope those who knew and loved him might get some happiness knowing how much he has given us ,R.I.P
To be honest, this was great, but wow! There's so much work to this. You really have to be a handyman to come up with functions like this.
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And patience
True
or anything else
Oh great look who it is -_-
I really miss this man❤️😔
Hello Grant, Great Project. I have an idea that came to me as I was watching the video. If you manage to put electrical cable in the middle of the rope before you twist it and it stays in the core, you would be able to make very nice and stylish power cord with different materials, colors and use in projects like reading or standing lamps and chandeliers.
Pavel Dimov he can drill a hole at that semi-spheric wooden ball and the cable will be passed through there.. as a result it will be inside that rope as u said.. awesome idea dude👍
Pavel Dimov I was thinking something like this but instead making paracord or something else with a high stretch value.
I've spun hair (I make yarn on a spinning wheel, which is very similar to rope making) and it is terrible. It is too slick for friction to hold a single together under any load, and plying only makes it marginally stronger. I ended up andean-plying it for maximum strength, and it still weak, and very itchy. Not worth the time or hair.
You accomplished so much in such a short time. Much respect, and thanks you.
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Never knew about this dude until now this all his videos just started randomly getting recommended to me but I appreciate him and see he was well loved. Sorry to hear he's gone.
We made rope in scouts, too. We used UV resistant polypropylene baling twine, quad stranded about 100 foot long. For our tension we attached the rope winder to a solid post and connected the other end to a picnic table with formed metal legs that would slide across the ground. After making three small ropes, we wound those together using the same method. We ended up with a forty foot long rope with a little over 1/2 inch diameter. I have been wanting to make an improved rope winder using the planetary gear set from an automatic transmission. Wish me luck.
I wish you are my teacher, for my mechanical course. I learn a lot from your videos. The videos are thoughtful. Thanks
just had an idea... if u have a cable running down the centre and the rope wrapping around it.. then u could make custom "braided" wire/cable for cool electrics projects
Cool seeing the simple machine put to use :)
South Main Auto Repair I don't know if you have ever seen the old style rope yards, that make use to make rope for shops, they basically use an identical system. Just on a much bigger ratio.
Iirc they has horses powering them, and kids being used as spacers/guides. But all in all its the same idea.
@@StephenButlerOne I've actually seen a guy with a very similar setup but using a handcrank, and it was outside, with the anchorpoints dug into the ground and using an iron weight in place of a water bottle. At a small, local renaissance faire.
That was pretty cool.
What a cool guy...
he will be missed ...
You should try to make a rope with fishing line!
Cool idea!
Elias Henstad that is what I was thinking
And floss and various types of wire!
Elias Henstad I just commented the same thing! It would be so strong and I have been thinking about this all day.
The length is perfect to bind and strangle your enemies.
Nah, binding needs a bit more but that 20 ft rope should be sufficient. To strangle them, however, the length showed in most of the video is indeed perfect.
yeah, but I'm not sure if the rope is strong enough to hang the body and claim it was suicide.
Nosebush juuuust kiiiiiiil!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
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SeLf_MaDe I'm just here to make bdsm ropes...
Brilliant and simple. very innovative. Thank you.
.R.I.P. you where so inspiring to me and I wood smile every time I saw you made a new video but you are in a better place called heaven and the new gang are doing a great job .R.I.P.
Long live the King.
The lion king is the best
Hope you were referencing that
Here's a suggestion I thought you might like: try making a length of rope from a plastic bottle and see how much weight it can take. There's tons of videos on TH-cam about making rope from a plastic bottle, so take the finished product from one of those and slap it on your rope making machine there. I'd be interested to see what happens myself
starbuck1983 sorry dude he already made rope from bottles
Hi, grant, could you try adding a hole and putting a charging cable in the middle of the string. I feel that this would not only make for a cool design for your cable in customization but would also add structural support for those of us whose wires consistently are ripping and exposing the wires inside.
just use 3 power cables to get a super powerful cable
hayden hishmeh Agreed.
you can do that, just cut a hole through the middle of the shuttle. That's how braided USB cables are made (though they use a braid and not a twist)
Twisting would probably damage the wires, which are only meant to handle force applied in specific directions.
Man, thanks to his dad's passion with the intricate way ropes are made and other things he learned with him he can now go on his own and do stuff like this...amazing!
"Does that not look like a professional piece of cordage?" is my new favorite saying.
I would love to see rope made from the wires inside Cat5/6 cable.
YES
Greg Nelson cat 7 will do well
I wonder if a electric wires can be powered
I live in a city that was once famous for its shipbuilding. To complement that industry there was a ropeworks. It's long-defunct but I have been in the ropewalk. It's the part of the complex where the rope was actually made. The twisting was done on a bogey that ran on rails hence the extraordinary length of the building. Of course, the finished rope was about six inches in diameter as it was intended to keep ships securely berthed while in port. The ropewalk ended its life as a firearms range.
Rest in peace. I love your videos and I learned a lot from you. Hopefully your videos will remain online
amazing rope maker
that's the case
See how thick you can make the rope before it A) Breaks either the rope or the machine or B) Until you cannot physically make any more.
Also maybe see what else can be used to make rope such as Toilet Paper and *Insert more examples here)
DeathByAutoscroll I think he'd have to make the slits larger in the wood thingy to fit the thicker and thicker pieces of rope
I really like your name :D
it can be bizzare, what will be the machine's mileage?
The mythbusters made rope from toilet paper to simulate a prison escape
Grant Thompson - "The King of Random" try doing a tug a war contest between 2 pickups!
MATT B That's what I was thinking
Long live the king
Thank you so much for this!!! I make handmade horse halters and I needed a way to make my own lead ropes. This is how I do it! I even made a 25' one by stretching this across my barn. That was awesome.
Do a series on making rope with random stuff
you should use super long elastic bands to make a rope with and test out the tension
We need you now more than ever Brother. Rest well. You are missed.
HOW IS THIS A 3-PART SERIES????
F*ck That's Delicious for dat £££
It could have been worse. At least Grant mentioned some improvements he made to the rope-making apparatus instead of just having a 10-minute video of him spinning hooks.
did you miss the episodes from the last two days where he was making the rope making machine?
do you know how much work goes into 1 10 minute episode? Just be grateful its interesting again, not more gummy vacuum nitrogen stuff. Personally I enjoyed it, really inventive
carpii XD
But will it turn metal wire into rope?
Dusk Shλde woah there ADHD much
Cool you a cool person king of randome
I think tie wire is not loose enough to make a rope without just braiding it with your hands
Back in the eary 1900s New Era rope machines were used to make wire ropes. Or Cables,,,,
Rustaholic777 thanks Wikipedia
Who else enjoys watching these but never makes them?
That looks profesh pRoFeShAnOl!
Today on the king of random, Grant fails to cut a glass buttplug in half.
Austin Gaddy that's not glass buttplug😂😂
OMG WUT
you need a diamond saw for that
That's exactly what I thought when I saw it. Of course, with all his toys, the a butt plug the size of a maltese turd defeated him... Roflmas 🤣!!!
A butt plug should have a base wider than the widest insertable point if you want to avoid uncomfortable questions at the emergency room.
Put some sort of wire like an aux cord in the middle and use it to sleeve the cable
My earbuds are made like that. They last a lot longer than normal.
TunnelDragon44 That's pretty mad. do you reckon its worth doing in the long run?
Really clever and great DIY skills in both videos, loved watching. Great content.
Wow! This is the most useful project! Make rope using rope...
Kind of curious if there is a way to make the rope wrap up on a roll and then have then have the smaller strands feed in where the hooks are... You could make longer rope with smaller space... Just have to keep tension on the eye hook strands. That's the part I haven't figured out yet. Hmm do it grant!
MindlessDude You could probably look at different boating cleats or knitter's tension techniques for ideas for keeping the tension. Love your idea
They just seem to short and with just dragging it out a 100 feet it would need somebody down the line to make sure it doesn't mess up. But if you make it 6 feet long and have it wrap up like I said then it still only need one person.
Loved by Grant Thompson - "The King of Random"
How do you think they do it in a factory...
Erik Olson that's exactly what I was thinking of when I had the idea. My brain is constantly thinking of ways to improve stuff like this.
you should make three stranded paracord
that would be cool, or klevar string that would be cool too:3
Yes plz do make rope with 3 strands that you made already
This is what TH-cam should be...... Great build Sir! The grandkids and I are going to give it a whirl.
Did I miss something? He showed in detail how to make the first part but the next thing I know he has a weight, swivel hooks, and a board that moves.
I know right.
Watch his other video where he shows how to make the rope making machine
@@noahschuler6388 I watched the other video. It's missing the parts Kurt Cleaver mentions. Unless this is a 3 video series. If so, I only saw the first one and this one. The middle one has escaped my notice. >.>
Usagi Boy it’s called “The Final Additions: Make Rope Make Itself”
@@XwaYdesu It is 3 videos, yes
Do it with copper wire!
Lightly rub wax onto fibre-y strings to tame loose strands... results are AMAZING.
any youtuber but him he was so brave and such a nice caring guy he changed my life
Lastly I want to see the rubber ropes. Please man... Do it, that'd be fun
You can then add hooks to both ends of the rubber rope and now you have something useful
You can use the same to tie some stuff on the back of a bicycle or a 2 wheeler and even on cars For example, your Liquid Nitrogen flask..
Divyanshu Nayak ı think he tried and failed
Divyanshu Nayak It wouldn't bind together
Hay King of random you should use a cooper wire. Or metal wire of some sort.
If u get a thick enough wire it will be fine
Troll thank for the kind reply
You could also use steel wire like 12 G wire
Standard 18G copper wire would work fine. The problem is metal doesn't act like these fibers, and twisting them this much will give them a lot of internal tension that will make them very brittle. Technically you can fix that by a process known as annealing, but that involves heating them quite a bit and then letting them cool very slowly, so it's a very slow and tedious process.
Well I mean if he's willing to do it. It would be cool to see how it works and it could also be cool for other people to see ho it works. Thanks for the reply
You should try doing that with dental floss and see if it will work
Lets bind it together with myy idea of using 3D printed materials instead of wood and stuff, just to scale this up to another level and use materials like dental floss like you said, this could be sick!
Yeah I was about to comment that
it works
you have made a big difference to our world
You should combine 3 of the ropes you made to make indestructible random rope
Now make a compound bow, with the rope
king of random. is there a way you can make a contraption that can wind rope continuously from a large roll of rope instead of cutting off pieces?
I hope there is a better way than just making the rope making machine longer.
To do this, he would need to create a way to spool the rope as it gets tightened, instead of using a counter weight. That way the spacer in the middle doesnt have to move much.
Check out "homemade visco fuse machine". My guess it would share a similar principal/method.
Rudolf Hess thank you
There are machines that can do that, but they're quite a bit more complex.
the three hooks are attached to individual spools, and instead of letting tension twist the rope, the whole hook assembly spins around. The upside is you can make ropes of indefinite length if you splice the spools.
Awesome vid. Upon reading the comments, I surmised you're not alive anymore. Bummer. Your enthusiastic approach to this project most likely mimicked your lifestyle- I'm sure in yours you lived it to it's fullest. Rest in Peace.
Two thoughts: 1) use plastic grocery bags 2) one-man braided rope machine
Or strands of carpet, like when you pull a loose end and get a big long thread of it. Would be pretty free, too.
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Triple threaded fuse!?
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...."cotton, twine, twisted mason line......" its poetry!
I used to actually work at a rope making company. We used polypropylene strands, and made ropes from the size you made, up to actual tow ropes and even large boat ropes that were up to three inches in diameter. All of our rope machines were hand made, and used different methods of pulling or keeping the poly tight while turning the rope. Probably the most fun to make, yet hard to tie was lariats, because when you rue the actual eye of the rope that the free end goes through to be able to make a loop, is so tight. You thread the individual strands through the standing rope, the twisted part, after putting a leather sleeve on it, then force the strands apart, while pushing the free end through each strand. Really complex, and you have to do it right or it won’t work right. When tying of the ends of regular poly rope, you have to take the ends to make them straight to tie. Doing so when you first learn to tie, you get blisters between your fingers, that soon break and ooze. Even wearing gloves, they wear out fast, because they can’t be too bulky otherwise you can work with the ends to tie it. I bought golf gloves because they are fingerless, and thick enough to use for about a week before they are are ate up and you have to get another pair.
Try fishing line!!
What is the science behind why the rope doesnt just unwind after you cut it off even with the tape why doesn't it come undone and couldn't you just twist it back to its original form by hand?
It is true that you can just rewind the rope back but its a pain and not as strong. The science behind of why the rope doesn't want to unwind is because the twine has past its elasticity point and has gone to its plasticity form. Also, the friction of each strand also contributes a great factor in why the rope doesn't unwind, which explains why the rope is never the same if it get rewound.
tony salvadori thank you haha that makes sense
Zach 58 yah mate no prob.if you need me to clarify on anything let me know and Ill see what I can do.
It will if you remove the end constrains. Friction and tension on the rope makes constrained, hence the effect.
It will only unravel easily on it's own just after you made it (hence the tape), but if it's worked and used over time it will seemingly hold itself together if the binds are cut. Yeah you can still easily undo it from the ends by hand, but it won't fall apart the whole way through.
why would have to buy things when this channel is here!!
I like the Mardi Gras colored rope. Sure miss this guy! He was the KING of random!
Yes now I can make a noose with homemade rope jkjkjk
Iwblues Lmao
Iwblues jk? Why? A noose is a really cool looking and useful knot
lol
DIY rope-making machine: PRICELESS.
Rope-making machine from China: $1000.
You should combine all of those strings together.
I never thought it went that interesting when I first watched your rope-making device. Thanks for that inexpensive DIY model of rope-making device of yours.
is there any way to make longer rope without a bigger table?
Watch his Sosa bottle rope video. He makes it very long
Yes.
instead of binding it off, you tie more fiber to the spinning end, and latch what was at the spinning end to the weighted end. It will create a rough patch, but its the easiest way to do it, as tying to have longer strands at the begining will result in tangling if the machine is not large enough
Would be interesting to see this contraption with a way to make longer ropes without having to stretch the rope out its entire length. In the long run, that's not a viable option. For example, if you want 25 metres of rope, you shouldn't need a straight venue 25 metres long.
I know it's possible, because obviously the factories don't have 150 metre stretches of machinery, but they manufacture those sizes of rope.
Maybe if the strands didn't go straight back to the carbine hook, but instead came off to the side, with another counter-weight holding it up? When the slider reaches the three hooks, you move the counter-weight at the end of the rope and let more of the strands through, move the slider back and continue from there.
If I had the materials at home, I would've whipped something like that together, just to try it.
All you really need is a portable pulley system and adjust it every couple of meters
additionally you can make the rope system vertical instead. Make your self a wooden post to secure the system in your backyard, attach the system 25ft going up. When you are done, detach the system
it is possible to hand twist rope as well. you can make it as long as you want that way.
erq: That's what I was trying to say, but you used a lot fewer words :)
Kayle: Don't know about the laws in the US, but here in the UK, you kinda can't stick a pole 25 metres in the air like that. Also, 25 metres, not feet :) 25 metres is a little over 80 feet.
Henry: Where's the fun in that? Also, as Grant has pointed out several times through these videos, it takes 3-4 people to handtwist rope, and it takes a lot longer, and the result doesn't always come out the best.
Nothing stopping us in canada to stick a 25 metre pole in our back yard : /
you should make a gummy rope to create a makeshift twizzler
you make me think frit strings, then get a
Antt1389 True
Antt1389 dude that should be dope
i think it would snap under the tension. if you want that just hand wrap it. it will stick together.
every time I watch his videos I feel inspired and saddned
Try fishing line!!!!
aye, i wonder what the twist would do. i know braided line is pretty decent.
The next 5 videos on this channel :Gummy Rope
Chocolate Rope
Rope in Silicone
Rope in Liquid Nitrogen
Rope in Vacuum Chamber
you should make a giant rope by putting the smaller rope that you made into the machine
instead of just string itself
Excellent video of an ancient technology. Rope-making has been around for centuries, so of course you will find videos here on YT on hand-made (and non-electric) equipment and similar process. There are still rope-making runs hundreds of feet long in Europe, and they are still used today for making rope, often for boats. Great video.
"You can even use human hair."
Me: "Dafuq?"
try making more than 4 strands like 6 or 7? it will be a huge rope! that wuld be cool
I guess you missed the part in this video where he did 12...
Marshall Gatten did he even do 12?
Yes. He put four strands on each of three hooks. Three times four is twelve.
Marshall Gatten i mean 6-7 on each hook...
Rest in peace
I don't know how I got on to this video but glad I did. How cool.
wait what if you get that rope and make 3 of them and then do it again with those 3 ropes so it makes 1 rope
HuskyPvP it would get stronger and thicker
HuskyPvP the power tool wont have enough power to twist the rope...
Copy alert
why copy?
For the fishermen out there, can he do it with fishing line, if so how would it do against fish?
It would become rather thick and hard to reel in.
I thought that to but I'm not talking about something thick just something slightly stronger than braided line.
alaska nice I am a fisherman and I wonder the same thing
that would be fun to spool lol
alaska nice lol make braid
make a rope with a coconut shell make it with a rope making machine.