She was wearing her classic Faye hat, a jaunty outsize caboose-style cap crocheted from almost rope-size wool yarn.
Because of the ropes' great size, they cannot be grasped directly; players attached smaller side-ropes to the main rope to act as handles and fray its ends to provide additional hand-holds.
Measure 6 inches (15.24 cm) more of secondary rope than the size of the eye, and slip the lid through that rope at that measurement.
In addition to the twisted structures, ropes in the size range of 1-in. to 5-in.
On the other side of a partition are caged chickens and other fowl, squawking noisily, and all kinds of sea creatures -- iced squid, crabs tied with red ropes, clams the size of silver dollars with ridged shells, carp swimming in basins and tiger prawns that look as ferocious as their namesakes, all overseen by a raucous corps of vendors in rubber boots.
There was a guy over a speaker-system giving commentary and starting up the games, but there was no evidence that my dad's friends' table talk was really real, until I spotted some guys walking by with a chip-clip attached to a string of rope, a COSTCO sized jar of mayonnaise, and a huge bag of schnieders $1 wieners. .
A thick filament or wire is stiffer than a fine one of the same material; its use results in a stiffer rope for a given size.
The family has a roping arena, roughly the size of a football field, where the Pascoe children, three of them, practiced heading and heeling — bringing a steer to the ground by roping its head and its hind legs — for hours at a time.
He knows his ring geography: that is, he and is hard to pin in corners or along the ropes because of his size and strength, frustrating a lot of opponents Weakness He doesn't throw enough punches due to his natural caution, a legacy of his amateur days.
Where the neighbouring Athapaskan tribes, who had crossed the strait on snowshoes, had dozens of terms for the condition of ice and snow, Eyak vocabulary was rich with particular words for black abalone, red abalone, ribbon weed and tubular kelp, drag nets and dipping nets and different sizes of rope.
In order to get twisted ropes with a longer size and higher quality, both plastic tubes can be compressed along their axis to improve the density of resultant fibers.
