MAKING ROPE
Mystic Seaport - Mystic CT - In the long building below, they are making rope. The piece of machinery you see is called a truck that pulls the rope down the building
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The way this piece of machinery works twists the rope evenly so all the strands are equally strong. Before, when people did the twisting, the middle stands were weaker.
Labels: Machinery, Mystic Seaport
posted by Bill @ 9:57 PM
2 Comments:
Very interesting. Last summer I was on a bike tour in Boston that took me to a rope walk building in Charlestown! Now I know what rope walk means. The building is about a half-mile long, or something like that.
Great photos! Found you at That's My Answer.
Have a great day!
Bob
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