>Just a rope, tied to two trees. There were two villages, one at each side. At first, people pulled packages across that rope with a pulley and string. I'm try

>Just a rope, tied to two trees. There were two villages, one at each side. At first, people pulled packages across that rope with a pulley and string. I'm trying to visualize this, and it's not making any sense to me. I searched around to see if any such system is commonly used, and the closest I can find is a hauling line, which requires a second length of rope, at least long enough to span the gorge twice, which is hooked to the original rope via a carabiner and anchored at both sides. But there's no pulley involved with that (although if you wanted to over-engineer it, I guess you could use one instead of the carabiner). So is this an actual thing that people do, or am I reading too much into this parable?