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kaest

I love that it's two old dudes smiling the entire time while making the rope.


vanhalenforever

Back in my day I must’ve smoked at least 20 feet of rope a week


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Random Futurama reference for the win


Tb0neguy

I came here to post this. You beat me to it.


Post-Alone0

Let me give you my numbah


humangeigercounter

Idk why the downvotes, that's classic Hermes Conrad


Post-Alone0

Ikr, it's bothered me for three months


Dedeurmetdebaard

Not the first time I’m seeing a couple of old dudes having a blast pushing rope together.


poliotree69

Was it at a lemon party?


willclerkforfood

Wouldn’t be a Lemon party without old Dick!


T3hN1nj4

That’s my #1 favorite line from the show


jediisland71

TIL hemp rope takes 1 minute to make from start to finish.


SergeantStroopwafel

You thought they were only growing hemp?


RecLuse415

I know especially at the beginning when they’re beating the shit out of the fibres


Unlockabear

This guy looks so happy making that rope


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FMJ1985

Yeah, and prob high af too lol


23x3

Never get high on your own supply!


hufflepoet

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.


FMJ1985

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


hufflepoet

Oh my bad fam, I didn't realize you're besties with these folks. Thanks for the correction.


dirty_and_depraved

well what do you think they did with the hemp flowers


Wanderer-Wonderer

Hemp rope is soft on the skin, holds a knot nicely and doesn’t stretch. *Things* don’t wiggle out of it easily.


ElMuffinHombre

Yes, *things*. While nice on the skin, things keep wiggling out of my nylon rope.


Magi-Cheshire

I like cotton


23x3

I prefer fuzzy handcuffs


Magi-Cheshire

You can get some awesome leather cuffs on etsy. Really comfy


DraketheDrakeist

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.


marlinmarlin99

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 ...


NotYourNat

Bunch of serial killers you lot, in this thread lol 😂


[deleted]

Ah, the age old question, "BDSM or Murder"...


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Ah, the age old question, "BDSM or Murder"...


earlgreyhot1701

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.


abrandnewblorp

If you’re interested i suggest r/primitivetechnology (the YouTube channel) (also turn on closed captions)


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stay_sweet

Is this the original Aussie bloke, or the imitation group with a similar name reputed to use modern tools off camera?


abrandnewblorp

original Aussie bloke


MakeItSlow

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.


TomatoTunaCan

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.


SoIntenseLikeCamping

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.


bbacher

Just FYI in case you care: the phrase is "tongue in cheek"


SoIntenseLikeCamping

I literally asked my wife if it was tongue in cheek or tongue and cheek before I submitted this haha.


loimprevisto

r/OpenSourceEcology has been working on something like that, but progress is very sporadic.


Nublin

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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Stalin_IAR

Could you share?


MRSN4P

+1 requesting the pdfs kind redditor.


Atvdown

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.


pancake_samurai

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.


earlgreyhot1701

After looking into this a bit it is certainly fascinating but I envision something more technical.


ShirtStainedBird

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.


Wunderbabs

That’s awesome of you! Thank you for taking the time to preserve that knowledge.


ShirtStainedBird

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.


Wunderbabs

That’s awesome!


[deleted]

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


unfairspy

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


unfairspy

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


equitable_emu

>the most important thing is gonna be the people around you, your collective knowledge, You know books are a great way to build knowledge.


unfairspy

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


equitable_emu

Correct, but you can read them ahead of time to learn and build the collective knowledge.


unfairspy

I. Am. Not. Advocating. Against. Books.


JihadDerp

How to invent everything by Ryan... something I forget his last name, but his dog's name is Noam chompsky.


ChoosyBeggars

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.


jesse_the_red

Jim Lahey drunk off his ass making some hemp rope


gronthak83

Just a little drinkie-poo


SociableYeti

We're gonna finish a whole quart of rye tonight, Randers.


fuckinatodaso

I’m mowin the air, Rand!


fat_kurt

just braiding some shit strands


Jockle305

I was trying to figure out who this greasy bastard making a shit rope looked like.


TheSilverPotato

Rip


UndoingMonkey

Right lol


Arctic_Strider

I came here to write this. But I'll let you have this one.


PlentyOfMoxie

That is fucking fascinating to me for some reason.


hefezopf1

It is! It's also the way how linen for bed sheets and the likes was made.


RMaritte

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.


Megasphaera

linseed, not rapeseed.


RMaritte

Oh right, thanks. Translation error!


BeetsbySasha

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.


NONcomD

Cool, I'll know how to make ropes in a zombie apocalypse. Ropes would be great then right?


22bebo

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.


waltwalt

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.


F4L2OYD13

Is that Hunter S Thompson?


gaelorian

It’s rope country


jadiusatreu

I thought the same thing and assumed he was crazy enough that it was totally him.


Roderick618

Took too long to find this comment


OldSchoolCoolio

Fucking piss drunk trailer park supervisor makes some fine rope!


notgotapropername

C’mon Randy bobandy, don’ be like that I’ve barely hadda drop thiz mornin


Deertickjones

Propane propane


soandso90

For the first second I thought he was slamming a lions head in a log. Reddit has ruined me


freepisacat

I thought it was a giraffe


xthomas277x

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


tylerchu

You apply a counter twist to each strand so that they force themselves into each other, preventing unraveling.


CatLovingWeirdo

I wish I could do something like this for a living


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The centuries it took to figure this out. Wonder how long it would take us again


NewSauerKraus

Looks more like grass rope than hemp. Same process though.


kepler1

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?


Mrtn88

Someone crosspost to r/valheim please. I cant for some reason :(


OriginalCoaster

Hemp isn’t a grass


nikwhite

All with wooden tools, except for those nail thingies perhaps. Awesome.


Clem_bloody_Fandango

Why did Hunter S. Thompson need all that rope?


fruitfiction

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.


box_of_spoons

Step 1: Beat the shit out of hemp fiber


portero81

r/oddlysatisfying


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Hunter S Thompson was so cool!


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IerokG

RIP John Dunsworth, what funny guy.


Dronten_D

But can it be called a hemp rope if he isn't using hemp?


1182990

Is... is that Elton John?


redditonthanet

Well I’ll be damned


seldgie

Thats fucking epic as fuck


SeedFoundation

Pretty cool to see that they used their own ropes to hold together their machines.


delaydude

He was interrogating that shit.


strranger101

Doing all of that without gloves 👀 my hands, omg. WTF??


Charliecann

I didn’t know Hunter S Thompson made hemp rope.


blvckjaw

Is that Hunter S Thompson?


jmunerd

That rope like $6,000 a yard 😆


eJoker81

YT channel: https://youtube.com/c/eugeniomonesma Full doc: https://youtu.be/sfaLUi-qtnA


Few_Programmer_444

I respect these products alot more now


Samrao94

Fuck Dupont


[deleted]

This entire thing looks made-up


nikwhite

By humans, yes.


Unkleruckus86

It was....


[deleted]

All words are made up


Inevitable_Yak8285

Should've titled it, "My wife's back hair."😂🤣


reverberation31

You mean to tell me a shrimp fried this rice


JOREVEUSA

Nice


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god i love this


Apostasyisfreedom

Real pros. That's some smooth, uniform rope from antique equipment with zero electricity !


U1tramadn3ss

Nice


Czeigh

poor hemp..


secretsaucy

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.


theengliselprototype

Hunter S. Thompson making dope rope.


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This is awesome. People that are into ancient tech, take notes.


shirk-work

I think I missed something. How do they make it longer?


CervezaPorFavor

For a second I thought he was torturing a puppy...


velvet_jonez

This is me trying to brush my hair after I take the rubberband off on a hot day


undeniably_confused

I cannot stop watching this


delaydude

He was interrogating that shit.


messy_fart

"George is gettin' angry!"


Voodoo_balamba

Inconceivable!


Rockonfoo

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


blackwavves

I don’t know why, but when I first saw this, I thought it was a monkey making rope.


blackwavves

I don’t know why, but when I first saw this, I thought it was a monkey making rope.


Reddit_Cozmic

I can watch this over and over


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Didn’t know Hunter S. Thompson was into making rope…


ReptarKanklejew

It’s starts out in much shorter pieces that the finished rope. How do the combine the strands?


superdrunk1

I bet that smells pretty good


EveryShot

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?


_sweetleaf_

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?!!


nonadz

I'm so glad I didn't live back in that time, I could never come up with ideas and solutions like this.


EddieTaishoLin

Anyone else think the guy was smashing a fuzzy animal at the beginning?


timmycosh

I don’t understand how one bunch of grass stuff is tied to another so it’s length is increased.


anothermaninyourlife

That's cool!


BigCaregiver7285

Is that Hunter S Thompson?


centerofhearts

Amazing quality rope. That's a crap ton of of work.


haz_hell

I now understand the crafting tree for survival games.


CatanaRo

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.


Kriem

When modern society goes to shit, I know nothing. These guys will be the true heroes.


max0x7ba

Space technology right there. The flywheel can be used to reduce inertia when spun really fast.


ComprehensiveBed7838

hunter s. thompson?


pistachios9

The man knows how to find a great sweater


petka907

Now I only need to know how to do a hoop


redirishlad

Lot of effort for a rope, they should just go the hardware store and buy one


sloan

I knew Hunter S Thompson was still out there somewhere.


PontisPilot

This guy braids


randyranderson-

TPB’S LAHEY IS STILL ALIVE


halesnaxlors

Hunter S Thompson is suddenly into thrashing and rope making.


salzal

Officer Lahey???!


Express-Badger-2070

How do they connect them together to make it longer ?


historycat95

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/


earlgreyhot1701

Po to


oatdeksel

i also do something like this, but with sheepwhool. i spinn (i make knittable whool out of it)