Old Crafts and Trades
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-stacks and so on but when a stronger rope is needed for carrying purposes such as carrying corn sheaves to the stack (and if no suitable hemp rope is to be had) people can very quickly convert a single ply hay or straw rope into one quite sufficient for their purpose. This is done by making carefully a single rope about seven or eight yards long then rolling up the rope for about four yards the single rope being held at one end by the person who twisted it. The other person now proceeds to double the rope which he does by taking hold of the single rope tightly