{"id":6487,"date":"2014-07-07T05:00:36","date_gmt":"2014-07-07T10:00:36","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/neanderpundit.com\/?p=6487"},"modified":"2014-07-06T20:01:41","modified_gmt":"2014-07-07T01:01:41","slug":"dragging-crap-up-the-hill","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/neanderpundit.com\/?p=6487","title":{"rendered":"Dragging crap up the hill"},"content":{"rendered":"

To the street, so the town can haul it off: Less fun than one might imagine. But it requires a lot of rope and chain and blood sweat and tears.
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I kept pulling knots too tight to loosen so I put in an eye, and thought this would be a good time to demonstrate how that’s done.<\/p>\n

First you need a hardwood block and a damned sharp knife. Cut the end of the rope off square and sieze the ends of the three strands- I used electrical tape but you can use thread or string or heat shrink or anything you want. With poly rope you can also just melt the end. <\/p>\n

The knife I use was given to me by Jim of Sunk New Dawn<\/a>. I don’t use it for anything else, and I keep it razor sharp.<\/p>\n

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Next, unlay the rope about six full turns<\/p>\n

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Fold the rope over until it gives you an eye the size you want. At the point where the unlayed rope meets the standing part, spread the top two strands<\/p>\n

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Put the bottom two strands of the unlaid rope into the two holes this creates. <\/p>\n

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From this point on it’s pretty easy. You go in the opposite direction of the rope twist, over the adjacent strand and under the next, doing one strand at a time This is the first run tucked through<\/p>\n

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And this is the completed piece. On hemp rope or manila I will put some strain on it and cut the tails off a little proud and beat them down with a rubber mallet, which sort of “peens” them and keeps them from pulling out. <\/p>\n

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\nOn poly rope I often just leave the seizings. <\/p>\n

here’s<\/a> a pretty good video showing it done- the guy has a little different technique than I do but the basics are the same. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

To the street, so the town can haul it off: Less fun than one might imagine. But it requires a lot of rope and chain and blood sweat and tears. I kept pulling knots too tight to loosen so I put in an eye, and thought this would be a good time to demonstrate how […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-6487","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/neanderpundit.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6487"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/neanderpundit.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/neanderpundit.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/neanderpundit.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/neanderpundit.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=6487"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/neanderpundit.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6487\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/neanderpundit.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=6487"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/neanderpundit.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=6487"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/neanderpundit.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=6487"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}