A basket type rope stranding machine body comprises a basket rotating body, a reduction box and a transmission shaft, wherein the transmission shaft is fixedly connected with the basket rotating body and is in transmission connection with the reduction box, and the transmission shaft and the basket rotating body form a rotating whole. A core pipe which does not rotate along the transmission shaft is further arranged in the transmission shaft and connected with the transmission shaft through a bearing in a rotating mode. One end of the core pipe is fixedly connected with a box body of the reduction box. The core pipe does not rotate along a main machine in the steel wire rope stranding process, a steel wire rope core does the linear motion when passing through the core pipe without bearing additional twisting force, and therefore the phenomenon that the steel wire rope core rubs the wall of the core pipe is avoided; the steel wire rope core is in a natural stranded state, and therefore the stranding quality of a steel wire rope is improved.