Rope twisting tools

Plus, it's fun making rope as it was made in the early s. Our rope making machine makes 3- or 4-strand rope. Comes with wooden tool and swivel pulley assembly for use as followed you supply ballast. Handmade in the USA. Hand-Picked Products. Dann Sep 9, This is the machine that I almost always have along with me in the car. I clamp it to a bench and start making rope and soon there is a line of kids wanting to make their own rope.

I bought these tools to use at Pioneer Day. Mounted it to a heavy saw horse. Hung the pulley from a hook in a 4x4 posted in the ground. Some of the more common are:. Another idea posted in Metal Arts Forum The adjustable length twisting jig is a very useful tool for making double reversed twists in various sized bars.

It will allow you to make virtually perfect twists every time, if you have the bar evenly heated when its placed into the wrench jaws. I like to use an old "Ford wrench" to make my double handled twisting wrenches out of. Using a double handled wrench will allow you to apply an even force to the bar and not cause it to be bent out of alignment during the twisting process. Be sure you use the right kind of welding rod when welding the high carbon steel wrench heads to the jig, or the welds will break off the first time you use the jig.

I use "UTP" for all such welds, expensive, but worth every penny. Also, because your hands rotate under the hot iron during twisting, the hot scale that falls off will land on your hand and wrist. Beginners usually find this uncomfortable, but you will soon get used to it, and it causes no damage. Moose Forge. Contact Me. Twisting Tools and Twists. Manual Twisting Machine. Lantern Twisting Machine. Automatic Twisting Machine.

The dangling weight helps make that happen. I'm using the break rotors to weigh down benches. You'll want to make this simple tool for two reasons. One, it keeps the strands separate while your twisting. Otherwise the fibers will get caught up with the others and begin to tangle. It also prevent the rope from rotating before it's ready. Keep rotating the jig until the strands begin to twist together.

I used a clockwise motion. Guide the rope together as you move along. When the entire length is done, whip the end and cut it free. You can see in the last two pictures how much the rope shortened from all the twisting. My guess is about 10" for this 10' piece of rope.

Tip 2 years ago. After puting the yarns on the hooks one has to determine how to twistthe yarns into strands. Hold one yarn in two fingers close to one of the three-hooks. Slowly turn the hooks, when the twist tightens it is wrong. The other way round will open up the twist of a yarn, that is the direction for twisting the three hooks for making a tree strand rope. This always works, also with a geard rope making machine. This is a remarkable 'ible'. I want to try this just to get 'a feel'for how things were done in earlier times.

How did people work out these methods hundreds or thousands of years ago? Love this whole posting. It simply says, look to the wire hanger. We throw so many away! I would love to try the rope making. Nicely done. The history of rope is facinating when you discover the essential role it played in history. Very few peeps nowadays appreciate just how important rope was in the evolution of society and the progress of mankind; continues to be today, come to that.

Try to imagine a world with no strings attached Reply 8 years ago on Introduction. Velcro rules and the nation is just a little but less self-sufficient! LOL And yes - "excellent job" to the fellow who posted the instructable.

This method of rope making is primarily for natural fiber ropes. The fibers of one strand "bite" into the other strands, holding the rope together quite effectively.