Stop cutting rope

Stop cutting rope

I don undestand

stop wearing leather

He made a video about how no-one in the past would ever cut rope because he made some at a reenactment event and cherishes it as a previous artefact.

Disregard of course that an actual professional rope maker would have miles of the stuff and would probably be utterly sick of the sight of it.

Not everyone is a professional rope maker user. Disliking Lindy is fine but if you step back for a second you'd know hes right about rope being hard to manufacture the further back in history you go. The reason tying and untying knots is even a practice is evidence that people weren't keen on cutting rope.

Sailors on extended sea voyages and armies moving long distances also didn't have access to the materials or tools to make more rope and so they needed to preserve the rope they had.

And the professional rope maker made tons of the stuff and sold it for traded it to other people. His entire argument centres around his own reluctance to cut up his souvenir, rather than any historical basis.

Stop being retarded for a second and answer this question:

Do you think people were more prone to untie the knot than to cut the rope?

The raw materials used to make rope need to be collected and processed, this alone could take months spinning wheels weren't common in most of the world and only began to spread around 1200 AD. Older processing methods were done by hand, you would need to pull and twist raw material in your hand to make thread, this is why not only rope but even clothing took concentrated effort for a long period of time to produce.

Making rope is essentially repeating this process multiple times with the processed material, making rope that is strong and durable could take a seriously long amount of time, this is why it was expensive and not something a single person could make lots of quickly. It is only after looms and the industrial revolution that making rope and clothing was an easier to produce especially for the average person.

>His entire argument centres around his own reluctance to cut up his souvenir, rather than any historical basis.
Of course not, it was a cutesy passing point.

Stop being a vegan fuck.

I forgot to add. Imagine twisting each individual thread of that rope by hand, then braiding it with dozens of others to make a single rope, then braiding it again with another rope of the same construction. The longer you want the rope to be the longer this process will take, you're kidding yourself if you think rope is an item even a professional rope maker could easily produce and have lots to spare.

And it was litterally someone's job to do nothing but that. Why would anyone else give a shit after they bought it, at least any more than any other commodity (a foot of rope is not compatible to a door)?

He repeated points out that HE made this rope (with help) and litteral ends by saying it's very precious to him before going off on a tangent about units of measurement.

>braiding

That's not how rope is made. Even Lindys own video should show you that.

Stop insulting His expertise.

Start cutting rope

Do nothing to the rope

Rope doesn't exist

>Everyone would gladly destroy their own property rather than taking ten seconds to tie a knot because it would be easy for some individuals to make more of it

You mean like how no-one ever cuts open packing tape instead of carefully peeling it off and storing it for later use? After all it had to go through many processes before it was a finished product and someone had to sit and make it.

That is exactly how rope is made. Fibers are twisted together to make twine and dozens of such strands are braided together to make a single larger rope. The stronger your want the rope the more layers of braiding you need.

And it was a process that could take weeks if not months of work especially for someone working alone. It requires an assembly line to produce quickly which would only increase the cost of its production. No one pays for something expensive and treats it poorly, saying "Why would anyone else give a shit after they bought it?" is like saying people don't care for their phone after buying it, I assure you that is not the case.

By comparing a foot of rope (a useless amount for just about anything) to a door you're only proving my point, a foot of rope equaling the cost of a door would mean for the cost of an average door you can buy several feet of rope, which means rope is more expensive than a door.

Exactly, rope is twisted, not braided.

What makes you think just one guy ran an entire rope works entirely by himself?

>no-one buys something expensive and treats it poorly
>what us conspicuous consumption?

It was Lindy himself who compared a length if rope with a door by the way.

Exactly, rope is twisted, not braided.

What makes you think just one guy ran an entire rope works entirely by himself?

>no-one buys something expensive and treats it poorly
>what is conspicuous consumption?

It was Lindy himself who compared a length if rope with a door by the way.

Packing tape is cheap, easy to produce and is designed for a single use. These are not comparable situations. I would also like to point out that even today for numerous trades cutting rope isn't common.

No, the raw material is twisted in to a string, the dozens of strings are braided with other string. It would be easier if you googled the process but you are still wrong. The braiding is the easiest part, it is the twisting of whatever raw material you're using that takes time without a spinning wheel.

Depending on the period and a persons location it wouldn't be economical to have a rope works of dozens of people, it is likely it was a family affair taken on in the winter months in the same way making thread and clothing was done. You would only find larger rope works in population centers that saw a need for so much rope.

I don't watch Lindy, but a foot of rope isn't going to get you very far, even the length of a door is not that much depending on what you are tying down.

>don't watch lindy
>just jumping to his defence randomly

Ok?

You can start by watching his video on medieval rope making then.

do you cut your shoelaces every time you take your shoes off?

sure you can buy more laces but stockpiling extra shoelaces is a wastte of time, energy, and money when you can just untie them.

I am defending his position on the cost of rope because he is probably correct. Rope was difficult to produce and thus likely expensive to buy. It could take the average family months of work to produce a single rope and so its doubtful they would cut it up on a whim.

It is similar to how people were often buried in only a shawl or even naked because clothing for most of our history was difficult to make. Typically only wealthy people were buried with their clothing.

Stop shitposting on Veeky Forums lindy and release the dna results

No :^)

Lindy dindu nuffin wrong