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Yup. It's a quick and dirty way to pull dramatically more than you can in a straight line pull. By tensioning a line and then pulling sideways on it, you use the angle factor leveraging your force on the line. Example: little bitty spar to pull over, not big enough pull to take the time to get...

You should have shown him how to actually use rope by finding something to take a turn on and sweating the line, or even rigging up a quick z rig. And yes equipment is handy for pulling on stuff