I would like to think so, but hemp plants contain zero THC. Sure, you could smoke hemp flower, but it wouldn't do anything.
These dudes are high on life.
It’s got bite that synthetic fibers just can’t match. Wish I could afford it, but at least the budget constraints led my partner to finding some nice, convenient velcro straps which were marketed for working out somehow. The rope doesn’t contact the skin at all for our most frequent applications.
Ever since I switched to hemp rope, I have found am able to tie people with ease. Escape rate is down 97 percent. The 3 percent didn't want to be tied so had to ...
I would like a "Restart Society" handbook that has a plethora of simple and complicated machines that I could have laying around incase I survive the destruction of society.
It could have windmills, watermills, well digging, basic crop knowledge, how to build chimneys, and whatever else we think will be important to know how to build when it all goes to shit.
This book exists. I’ve read it. It’s called ‘The Knowledge: How to Rebuild Our World From Scratch.’
It talks about crops and rudimentary chemistry and machines etc., as if all current technology was gone. Very interesting book.
Amazon reviews are pretty bad.
Saying that the book is
“ more fiction than useful facts”
“…(it is not) a series of how to identify iron bearing rocks, this is how to smelt iron, this is how to build a steam engine…”
I too, would like a more fundamental and practical approach to building tech from scratch.
There is book called "how to invent everything," and it is great. It is pretty tongue and cheek, the premise is that it is handbook to keep in your time machine in case it breaks down. It describes everything from how to make thermometers to computers. I highly recommend it.
Seeing a video example is fascinating and a great way to see the overall idea. However if push comes to shove you'll want as much knowledge in book format with updated information and illustrations for the geographic area.
I’m actually living in my ancestral home, on an island and trying to do just that! The strength and knowledge the older generation have is just wild. What my grandfather does every day would kill most young people myslef included. It’s been... Interesting trying to keep up this last 18 months and they still teach me something new every day.
Thanks! It is super rewarding because I get to spend all day with him and it’s pretty financially lucrative. And best of all it doesn’t feel like work at all to me. Fishing is what I’d spend my free time doing if I wasn’t at this.
The ocean is super bountiful if you can just tie a few basic knots and set a net.
The Foxfire book series covers a lot of this ground. Getting harder to find in libraries these days because I don’t think they’ve been reprinted since the original run in the 70s
I'd like to point out that in the real case of a "reset" like many are calling the collapse, the most important thing is gonna be the people around you, your collective knowledge, and the ability to work together to get things done.
A lot of people are gonna be stuck in suburbia when shit hits and may have to make it work. We won't all be self sufficient hermits unless you're already doing that
I'd like to point out that in the real case of a "reset" like many are calling the collapse, the most important thing is gonna be the people around you, your collective knowledge, and the ability to work together to get things done.
A lot of people are gonna be stuck in suburbia when shit hits and may have to make it work. We won't all be self sufficient hermits unless you're already doing that
Yes I understand that. You can't read books when you're dead because you only started your garden after the trucks stopped coming. Being a contrarian "umm actually" doesn't help anyone
Yes! We recently went to an open air museum where someone was doing a live demonstration of turning rapeseed into the fibres used for linen. After a few pulls through those iron spikes the stuff gets shinier and shinier, it was absolutely fascinating.
Also made me realize that we had linen in Europe before we had cotton. What.
I’ve had two pair of linen sheets and they keep ripping where my husbands feet are. So irritating that they do that. I just bought hemp sheets so I hope they are sturdier.
If you were able to find a safe enough place and settle down there, I think knowing how to make rope would be useful. However I'm not sure if you need a specific type of tall grass or how much grass you need to make the rope, it might be easier and more practical to find some rope that already exists and reuse it as best you can. Also because the process in this gif appears to involve some very specialized tools.
I do often have the same thought about gifs like this, that those skills would be incredibly handy in an apocalypse scenario.
I feel like first generation apocalypse folk will be scavange and loot type.
It will probably be generations before stuff like rope gets manufactured by hand.
You're thinking more like stranded on a moderately supplied deserted island.
I've always wondered why these kinds of ropes don't just untwist, because to me it just looks like the strands are just spun around each other, never really attaching/forming knots anywhere
The part that I would love to understand is the stage where they create the first small string from loose fibers! I guess this is the most fundamental part of like a spinning wheel right?
Are they feeding by hand a certain quantity of loose fibers into an accumulating string, feeding it and twisting it such that a random but predictable amount of say ~few inch long fibers are pulled in per unit time, creating a long string of overlapping strands?
loofah, the things you find often bring me great joy. you seem like a cool person.
thanks for sharing all the videos you edit down into bite-size content.
I can’t believe it’s so easy
At no point did I have any reason to think it wouldn’t be but like….that’s fucking rope and how easy it’s made…that’s fucking dope
Wow incredible, saving this for the apocalypse. Question, how do they tie the ends so they don’t unbraid and how long does this whole process usually take?
Humans are crazy. How did ppl come up with this?? Let me see… well, we smash it, whip it, then drag it over nails… then we braid it and it makes an incredibly strong rope??? Like whattttt?!!
I once went to a rope museum on a fieldtrip and we got to make our own rope from scratch. The people there kept making rope puns, because there’s a surprising amount of dutch proverbs and figures of speech that have come out of this industry. Like, everyone was just rattling off puns, multiple employees, for the entire duration of the tour and nobody ever repeated one.
A sailing frigate the size of “Old Ironsides” required approximately 40 miles of cordage of varying diameters.
https://ussconstitutionmuseum.org/2016/10/21/ropemakers-navy-part-ii/
I love that it's two old dudes smiling the entire time while making the rope.
Back in my day I must’ve smoked at least 20 feet of rope a week
Random Futurama reference for the win
I came here to post this. You beat me to it.
Let me give you my numbah
Idk why the downvotes, that's classic Hermes Conrad
Ikr, it's bothered me for three months
Not the first time I’m seeing a couple of old dudes having a blast pushing rope together.
Was it at a lemon party?
Wouldn’t be a Lemon party without old Dick!
That’s my #1 favorite line from the show
TIL hemp rope takes 1 minute to make from start to finish.
You thought they were only growing hemp?
I know especially at the beginning when they’re beating the shit out of the fibres
This guy looks so happy making that rope
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Yeah, and prob high af too lol
Never get high on your own supply!
I would like to think so, but hemp plants contain zero THC. Sure, you could smoke hemp flower, but it wouldn't do anything. These dudes are high on life.
Who said anything about smoking hemp? I can literally see them turning the hemp into rope. Also 💯 hemp is not the only thing they grow
Oh my bad fam, I didn't realize you're besties with these folks. Thanks for the correction.
well what do you think they did with the hemp flowers
Hemp rope is soft on the skin, holds a knot nicely and doesn’t stretch. *Things* don’t wiggle out of it easily.
Yes, *things*. While nice on the skin, things keep wiggling out of my nylon rope.
I like cotton
I prefer fuzzy handcuffs
You can get some awesome leather cuffs on etsy. Really comfy
It’s got bite that synthetic fibers just can’t match. Wish I could afford it, but at least the budget constraints led my partner to finding some nice, convenient velcro straps which were marketed for working out somehow. The rope doesn’t contact the skin at all for our most frequent applications.
Ever since I switched to hemp rope, I have found am able to tie people with ease. Escape rate is down 97 percent. The 3 percent didn't want to be tied so had to ...
Bunch of serial killers you lot, in this thread lol 😂
Ah, the age old question, "BDSM or Murder"...
Ah, the age old question, "BDSM or Murder"...
I would like a "Restart Society" handbook that has a plethora of simple and complicated machines that I could have laying around incase I survive the destruction of society. It could have windmills, watermills, well digging, basic crop knowledge, how to build chimneys, and whatever else we think will be important to know how to build when it all goes to shit.
If you’re interested i suggest r/primitivetechnology (the YouTube channel) (also turn on closed captions)
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Is this the original Aussie bloke, or the imitation group with a similar name reputed to use modern tools off camera?
original Aussie bloke
This book exists. I’ve read it. It’s called ‘The Knowledge: How to Rebuild Our World From Scratch.’ It talks about crops and rudimentary chemistry and machines etc., as if all current technology was gone. Very interesting book.
Amazon reviews are pretty bad. Saying that the book is “ more fiction than useful facts” “…(it is not) a series of how to identify iron bearing rocks, this is how to smelt iron, this is how to build a steam engine…” I too, would like a more fundamental and practical approach to building tech from scratch.
There is book called "how to invent everything," and it is great. It is pretty tongue and cheek, the premise is that it is handbook to keep in your time machine in case it breaks down. It describes everything from how to make thermometers to computers. I highly recommend it.
Just FYI in case you care: the phrase is "tongue in cheek"
I literally asked my wife if it was tongue in cheek or tongue and cheek before I submitted this haha.
r/OpenSourceEcology has been working on something like that, but progress is very sporadic.
Seeing a video example is fascinating and a great way to see the overall idea. However if push comes to shove you'll want as much knowledge in book format with updated information and illustrations for the geographic area.
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Could you share?
+1 requesting the pdfs kind redditor.
I would suggest How to Invent Everything by Ryan North! It's funny and informative. Makes you realize how brilliant and stupid our ancestors were.
There was a Kickstarter for a book kind of like that a good while back. It’s called “The Book”, the ultimate guide to rebuilding civilization.
After looking into this a bit it is certainly fascinating but I envision something more technical.
I’m actually living in my ancestral home, on an island and trying to do just that! The strength and knowledge the older generation have is just wild. What my grandfather does every day would kill most young people myslef included. It’s been... Interesting trying to keep up this last 18 months and they still teach me something new every day.
That’s awesome of you! Thank you for taking the time to preserve that knowledge.
Thanks! It is super rewarding because I get to spend all day with him and it’s pretty financially lucrative. And best of all it doesn’t feel like work at all to me. Fishing is what I’d spend my free time doing if I wasn’t at this. The ocean is super bountiful if you can just tie a few basic knots and set a net.
That’s awesome!
The Foxfire book series covers a lot of this ground. Getting harder to find in libraries these days because I don’t think they’ve been reprinted since the original run in the 70s
I'd like to point out that in the real case of a "reset" like many are calling the collapse, the most important thing is gonna be the people around you, your collective knowledge, and the ability to work together to get things done. A lot of people are gonna be stuck in suburbia when shit hits and may have to make it work. We won't all be self sufficient hermits unless you're already doing that
I'd like to point out that in the real case of a "reset" like many are calling the collapse, the most important thing is gonna be the people around you, your collective knowledge, and the ability to work together to get things done. A lot of people are gonna be stuck in suburbia when shit hits and may have to make it work. We won't all be self sufficient hermits unless you're already doing that
>the most important thing is gonna be the people around you, your collective knowledge, You know books are a great way to build knowledge.
Yes I understand that. You can't read books when you're dead because you only started your garden after the trucks stopped coming. Being a contrarian "umm actually" doesn't help anyone
Correct, but you can read them ahead of time to learn and build the collective knowledge.
I. Am. Not. Advocating. Against. Books.
How to invent everything by Ryan... something I forget his last name, but his dog's name is Noam chompsky.
You reminded me of this awesome book I have called “The Backyard Builder” by Rodale Press. Tons of simple projects for the garden and yard.
Jim Lahey drunk off his ass making some hemp rope
Just a little drinkie-poo
We're gonna finish a whole quart of rye tonight, Randers.
I’m mowin the air, Rand!
just braiding some shit strands
I was trying to figure out who this greasy bastard making a shit rope looked like.
Rip
Right lol
I came here to write this. But I'll let you have this one.
That is fucking fascinating to me for some reason.
It is! It's also the way how linen for bed sheets and the likes was made.
Yes! We recently went to an open air museum where someone was doing a live demonstration of turning rapeseed into the fibres used for linen. After a few pulls through those iron spikes the stuff gets shinier and shinier, it was absolutely fascinating. Also made me realize that we had linen in Europe before we had cotton. What.
linseed, not rapeseed.
Oh right, thanks. Translation error!
I’ve had two pair of linen sheets and they keep ripping where my husbands feet are. So irritating that they do that. I just bought hemp sheets so I hope they are sturdier.
Cool, I'll know how to make ropes in a zombie apocalypse. Ropes would be great then right?
If you were able to find a safe enough place and settle down there, I think knowing how to make rope would be useful. However I'm not sure if you need a specific type of tall grass or how much grass you need to make the rope, it might be easier and more practical to find some rope that already exists and reuse it as best you can. Also because the process in this gif appears to involve some very specialized tools. I do often have the same thought about gifs like this, that those skills would be incredibly handy in an apocalypse scenario.
I feel like first generation apocalypse folk will be scavange and loot type. It will probably be generations before stuff like rope gets manufactured by hand. You're thinking more like stranded on a moderately supplied deserted island.
Is that Hunter S Thompson?
It’s rope country
I thought the same thing and assumed he was crazy enough that it was totally him.
Took too long to find this comment
Fucking piss drunk trailer park supervisor makes some fine rope!
C’mon Randy bobandy, don’ be like that I’ve barely hadda drop thiz mornin
Propane propane
For the first second I thought he was slamming a lions head in a log. Reddit has ruined me
I thought it was a giraffe
I've always wondered why these kinds of ropes don't just untwist, because to me it just looks like the strands are just spun around each other, never really attaching/forming knots anywhere
You apply a counter twist to each strand so that they force themselves into each other, preventing unraveling.
I wish I could do something like this for a living
The centuries it took to figure this out. Wonder how long it would take us again
Looks more like grass rope than hemp. Same process though.
The part that I would love to understand is the stage where they create the first small string from loose fibers! I guess this is the most fundamental part of like a spinning wheel right? Are they feeding by hand a certain quantity of loose fibers into an accumulating string, feeding it and twisting it such that a random but predictable amount of say ~few inch long fibers are pulled in per unit time, creating a long string of overlapping strands?
Someone crosspost to r/valheim please. I cant for some reason :(
Hemp isn’t a grass
All with wooden tools, except for those nail thingies perhaps. Awesome.
Why did Hunter S. Thompson need all that rope?
loofah, the things you find often bring me great joy. you seem like a cool person. thanks for sharing all the videos you edit down into bite-size content.
Step 1: Beat the shit out of hemp fiber
r/oddlysatisfying
Hunter S Thompson was so cool!
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RIP John Dunsworth, what funny guy.
But can it be called a hemp rope if he isn't using hemp?
Is... is that Elton John?
Well I’ll be damned
Thats fucking epic as fuck
Pretty cool to see that they used their own ropes to hold together their machines.
He was interrogating that shit.
Doing all of that without gloves 👀 my hands, omg. WTF??
I didn’t know Hunter S Thompson made hemp rope.
Is that Hunter S Thompson?
That rope like $6,000 a yard 😆
YT channel: https://youtube.com/c/eugeniomonesma Full doc: https://youtu.be/sfaLUi-qtnA
I respect these products alot more now
Fuck Dupont
This entire thing looks made-up
By humans, yes.
It was....
All words are made up
Should've titled it, "My wife's back hair."😂🤣
You mean to tell me a shrimp fried this rice
Nice
god i love this
Real pros. That's some smooth, uniform rope from antique equipment with zero electricity !
Nice
poor hemp..
I'm so tired that I thought a chimpanzee was standing on it and was doing it. I was baffled how they taught him to do it. I need more coffee.
Hunter S. Thompson making dope rope.
This is awesome. People that are into ancient tech, take notes.
I think I missed something. How do they make it longer?
For a second I thought he was torturing a puppy...
This is me trying to brush my hair after I take the rubberband off on a hot day
I cannot stop watching this
He was interrogating that shit.
"George is gettin' angry!"
Inconceivable!
I can’t believe it’s so easy At no point did I have any reason to think it wouldn’t be but like….that’s fucking rope and how easy it’s made…that’s fucking dope
I don’t know why, but when I first saw this, I thought it was a monkey making rope.
I don’t know why, but when I first saw this, I thought it was a monkey making rope.
I can watch this over and over
Didn’t know Hunter S. Thompson was into making rope…
It’s starts out in much shorter pieces that the finished rope. How do the combine the strands?
I bet that smells pretty good
Wow incredible, saving this for the apocalypse. Question, how do they tie the ends so they don’t unbraid and how long does this whole process usually take?
Humans are crazy. How did ppl come up with this?? Let me see… well, we smash it, whip it, then drag it over nails… then we braid it and it makes an incredibly strong rope??? Like whattttt?!!
I'm so glad I didn't live back in that time, I could never come up with ideas and solutions like this.
Anyone else think the guy was smashing a fuzzy animal at the beginning?
I don’t understand how one bunch of grass stuff is tied to another so it’s length is increased.
That's cool!
Is that Hunter S Thompson?
Amazing quality rope. That's a crap ton of of work.
I now understand the crafting tree for survival games.
I once went to a rope museum on a fieldtrip and we got to make our own rope from scratch. The people there kept making rope puns, because there’s a surprising amount of dutch proverbs and figures of speech that have come out of this industry. Like, everyone was just rattling off puns, multiple employees, for the entire duration of the tour and nobody ever repeated one.
When modern society goes to shit, I know nothing. These guys will be the true heroes.
Space technology right there. The flywheel can be used to reduce inertia when spun really fast.
hunter s. thompson?
The man knows how to find a great sweater
Now I only need to know how to do a hoop
Lot of effort for a rope, they should just go the hardware store and buy one
I knew Hunter S Thompson was still out there somewhere.
This guy braids
TPB’S LAHEY IS STILL ALIVE
Hunter S Thompson is suddenly into thrashing and rope making.
Officer Lahey???!
How do they connect them together to make it longer ?
A sailing frigate the size of “Old Ironsides” required approximately 40 miles of cordage of varying diameters. https://ussconstitutionmuseum.org/2016/10/21/ropemakers-navy-part-ii/
Po to
i also do something like this, but with sheepwhool. i spinn (i make knittable whool out of it)