Problem with ropes.posnode.. or alternative?

[Darkfire]

If you find no other solution, I can recommend cheating a little. Create an entity (you can't disable static objects) consisting only of a rope texture, and than make it appear when player spins the wheel. It's a very desperate way- player mustn't see the rope when it appears, and it will be weird if he stops in the middle of turning the crank and it wouldn't lengthen the rope when they look at it.