Ideal Rope Making Machine
Pat Dec  1, 1908
E.O. Berg Manufacturing,   Madison, Minnesota

Note that  the Rope Tool  Pictured with the Ideal  Rope Machine below,
appears  to be a rope tool "wrench" in the photo appears to be
one that originally accompanied the "Thomas" Machine
a 1901 patent  by Orson Bucklin

My  Ideal Rope Machine is  8 -5/8 Inches Wide  by 4-5/16 Inches Tall
The iron casting  for the hook/ crank arm is length of the crank-arm is 2-7/8 long,
( 2-1/4 inches  center to center) The wood body of this machine is made of Oak

The photo below courtesy of Bill Richardson shows  Berg's original
The Ideal Rope Tool, similar but with   a  pointy end.

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Note on the  back side (not shown on this machine)
there is often a metal wear strip
so that the metal hooks do not pull against and wear out
the wood frame of the machine  as the  cranking of
rope strands pulls on the hooks of the machine

Click here to view Page 1 of Ideal/Berg Rope Booklet
Click here to view Page 2 of Ideal/Berg Rope Booklet
Click here to view Page 3 of Ideal/Berg Rope Booklet
Click here to view Page 4 of Ideal/Berg Rope Booklet

Photos of Ideal/ Berg Rope Booklet thanks to John Flory
RopeMaker of New Jersey.

Styles of Rope "wrench - tools"

Similar antique Rope machine

 For other ideas on rope
machines look at the following links
The Meyer Rope Machine
The Johnson Rope Machine

My Rope Index Page

Berg Rope 1908 Machine
Hawkeye (New Era 1911)  Rope Machine
New Era 1911  Rope Machine
Meyer  1924 Rope Machine
Sherwood Rope Machine  1913
Thomas 1901 Rope Machine
Click here to view  Wonder Rope Maker
Ideal/Berg Rope Booklet
Rope Booklet  23 Pages:  Sherwood Improved Hand Rope
and Wire Cabling Machine  Pat 1913
Rope Making  NEW ERA  14 page Booklet Pat 1911
8 pages of Instructions for New Era Rope Machine
On to styles of Rope Makers

John Roper's Web Page.  Good Rope Information and Links
Guild of Knot Tyers
 Norwegian Rope making Web Page