A length of rope is useful for all kinds of situations: tying hay bales down on a trailer, tying down loads in the back of your truck, you name it. But there are times when you don’t want to have any doubts as to whether a rope is strong for the job at hand. In those situations, Pa Mac uses his favorite farm tool—the steel cable (or wire rope as it’s sometimes called)—one of the strongest and hardest materials to cut or break.
Now a steel cable with hooks is an easy thing to assemble, but the beauty of it is that you can customize it with your choice of a variety of different and useful hook fixtures and/or loops on each end. The materials needed to make one are a length of steel cable, the type of hooks you want on each end, and some U-bolt clamps (or wire rope clips as they’re called) to put everything together. Pa Mac talks about the assembly, versatility, and uses of the wire rope (or steel cable) on the small farm or homestead.
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