How To Make Cypress Rope | Live Free or Die: DIY

I’ve had this open all night and that
makes a little bit easier to separate I
think most of its ready it’s a good
thing to do on a rainy day I grew up in
the modern world so I still buy a few
things to me it’s just a lot of fun
being able to make things there’s a lot
of satisfaction
this technique here of making rope out
of a fibrous plant material it’s a
really timeless simple technology my
twisters really really tight there’s
basically more friction understanding
friction and gravity and letting those
work together with you it was going to
be technology is really important I
twist it really tight and then reverse
wrap it the other way the tension of
trying to unwrap actually wraps it
tighter
I really like primitive tools well what
you have a rope there’s thousands of
uses for it you just think about it
usually keep the pitch around to use for
whatever you want when I’m getting ready
to gather logs and material for the
cabin I’ll need a rope to drag it
through the water I want to clean up the
Rope a little bit make it pretty you can
simply so let me run it to the flame
and essentially little fibers
now the whole rump is wet so I’m not
worried about the whole rope burning
let’s see how strong it is
looks like it’s crumbling up to Greg
long I should make a lot more rope I
kind of like the looks of this that’s a
good place for it