When it comes to making rope, there's no school like the old school. I love that, despite the advances made in the areas of fabrication and industrial automation, there are still products made using methods that haven't changed in a century. Some things, as this video from How it's Made illustrates, are better off without updates.
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4:40 pm Mon
Dec 10, 2018
Traditional industrial-scale rope-making is all kinds of neat
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