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| walkinwalkoutcattle |
Posted - Jun 09 2011 : 09:21:50 AM
I'd love to see pictures of peoples clotheslines. I'm going to put mine up soon, and I'd love to have some tips/examples! I think I'm going to use high tinsel, as we've got tons of it from fencing, and I think I'm going to nail a basket with holes in the bottom for the pins to one of the posts...
Farmgirl #2879 :)
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| nabrown42 |
Posted - Jun 28 2011 : 8:55:14 PM
I found a complete catalog from Lehman Brothers and they do have cloth and steel clotheslines, and all necessary accessories. I love their goods and try to stop at their store whenever I'm in OH.
"I've wept in the night for the shortness of sight that to someone's needs I've been blind; but I've yet to feel a twinge of regret for being a little too kind." |
| Primginger |
Posted - Jun 28 2011 : 06:36:27 AM
I have the pully and the stuff needed but I need to find what to attach the other end too....lol..quote:
Originally posted by homsteddinmom
mine is a pully system. I love it! i dont know how to post pics or i would.
Homesteading Mom in East Texas. Raising chickens, Rabbits and goats here on my farm!
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| Tall Holly |
Posted - Jun 24 2011 : 12:58:17 PM
Some man in new Hampshire started a right to dry program and Lyman Orton of the vermont Country Store promotes the right to dry. If you google right to dry many web sites come up. http://www.laundrylist.org/
Holly
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| CMac |
Posted - Jun 24 2011 : 07:38:11 AM
Boy can I relate to feeling like my house is my jail. We have lived in this house for the last 18 mos while our farmhouse is being built. ( Took so long cause it is all paid for as we went!) Anyway, this house is in the city on the main road out front. Lovely home but OMG the people! A 2 story apartment building on the left. 3 story apartments behind. A frat house just behind and to the right. Another pretty house on the right that is a business. We can't leave anything outside because of theft even though we are fenced with locking gates and a dog! The crime rate (violent crime) is sky rocketing. There was a murder 1 block behind us on Sunday night. I looked up the registered sex offender map and felt like closing all my curtains. I get the creeps when I work in the yard. I can just feel people's eyes on me. When I work out front I am always conscious about bending over. LOL No granny bloomers facing the road! I lived in the country on the farm for 8 years before we started building so this really feels like a prison.
On a brighter note it looks like we will be moving back around the middle of July! I can't wait to do the garden tour in my PJs with my first cup of coffee in the morning. If I need to scratch my--- I can with no one watching! Anyone pulling up the drive to the house will be someone I know and want to see. I told my sweetie that I'll dance around the fire pit naked next full moon! He said that won't be necessary...
Connie
"I have three chairs in my house: one for solitude, two for friendship, three for company."
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| camiesmommy |
Posted - Jun 23 2011 : 7:55:00 PM
I live just outside of Carson City NV and the wind is terrible. It broke to different umbrella lines, so now we have a homemade one. Nothing fancy, but it works great. I have a bag for my pins and move it along as I hang my clothes. It is my intention to make a clothes pin apron. I found the pattern in a college book from my mother in law. Have never hung my clothes out in the winter. Does it really dry with snow on the ground?
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| sissarge |
Posted - Jun 18 2011 : 12:56:15 PM
I Want one! I am jealous! I use to use a clothesline all the time about 20 years ago, and its been on my mind lately, and then I find this forum, and its makes me really want one. I have a small retractable one, that I hang my pillows on, once a week when I change my sheets, and let them air out, but its small. Wait till hubby hears, this! Wow another project to do! Thanks for all the information on which ones, and how you like them. Farmgirls are the greatest! Farmgirl #946 Linda |
| ranchmama |
Posted - Jun 18 2011 : 05:16:37 AM
Thanks for the info, but I think we found our problem. The pole my brother tamped in wasn't tamped enough so the pole moved which caused the wires to sag and the supporting wire to be lose. We retamped the one pole and my husband tightend the eye bolts and its good and tight now.
Now I just need some sun and no more rain, I can do laundry again!
Elise
Every Child Deserves Our Love &
A Bear of Their Own
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| pnickols |
Posted - Jun 17 2011 : 6:26:30 PM
have been reading someof these. one thing I missed when we had to move into an apartment was my clothesline. I love hanging my stuff on the line, it connects me to my mother who always hung laundry out. I love the smell of fresh dried sheets. I don't hang my undies out either, our suburb wouldn't like that I'm sure, but I was so happy to hang out my first load of sheets here in our new house last week. notto mention the energy saved and wear and tear of the clothes |
| missusprim |
Posted - Jun 17 2011 : 5:13:49 PM
Dang......here's the link:
http://hardware.hardwarestore.com/73-434-turnbuckles-galv/eye-with-turnbuckle-651660.aspx
Farmgirl Sister #2984
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| missusprim |
Posted - Jun 17 2011 : 5:12:22 PM
Brandee, I have always had success with these:
You can put one on both ends of your wire, giving you yet more tightening room. They last forever, as does wire. So, if I were you I'd have wire on my clothesline for several reasons:
1. It lasts much longer than rope.
2. You can easily wipe off the lines with a damp cloth.
3. Wire doesn't stretch as rope does.
4. You can use the non spring type clothes pins on them and I find that they stay on better than the clip kind. (But make sure the clothes pins you get will fit on the gauge of wire you chose with room to spare for your clothes.)
Hope this helps! I had a heck of a time remembering the name of the hardware.
Farmgirl Sister #2984
"Animals are such agreeable friends - they ask no questions, they pass no criticisms." George Eliot
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| homsteddinmom |
Posted - Jun 17 2011 : 12:28:56 PM
Either way the rope will stretch and sag too. What we did when we had wire was the same as what you did but wehn we got to the end of the bolt we had to undo the wire and pull it tight again. Same with the rope we have it tied in one spot and we have to undo it and retighten it every so often/
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| ranchmama |
Posted - Jun 17 2011 : 10:49:51 AM
I have this question... which is better wire or rope? And one pther thing, how do you keep the wire/rope tight?
We put eye bolts on the ends, and strung 14 gauge wire between, my husband just pulled it tight and wraped it around the wire. Now it sags. Would it be better to use 1 wire and just string it back and forth- would it keep it tighter?
His thinking is to tighten the wire with the eye bolts, just keep tightening them, but we are out of bolt, know what I mean? He's made me one before and used smooth wire like for a fence, but that was too thick for the clothes and pins. It was easier to stretch, he just used fence stretchers, but I don't think we can with this thinner wire.
So if you can figure out my rambling thoughts, help me with my problem! lol
Thanks!
Elise
Every Child Deserves Our Love &
A Bear of Their Own
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| nabrown42 |
Posted - Jun 17 2011 : 04:27:21 AM
Sue,
Nice to hear from someone across the pond. I have a dear friend in England and she feels the same way about tumble dryers as you do...use them if you have to but other than that, a line and pegs is the way to go. People are normally very nice and level headed in Indiana but this small pocket of control and insanity is not the norm.
"I've wept in the night for the shortness of sight that to someone's needs I've been blind; but I've yet to feel a twinge of regret for being a little too kind." |
| sue5901 |
Posted - Jun 17 2011 : 12:29:11 AM
Karen
It is interesting the way there are such different views in the world - over here using a dryer (we call it a tumble dryer) is very much considered second best to line drying. Whilst we all own one and use them when the weather is bad and line drying difficult it is considered a sign of real lazyness to use one all the time.
They are also considered more unhygienic as they are damp and warm and therefore will encourage bacteria (no idea if this is true or not), and there is a real belief here that they wear out your clothes quicker(personally I agree with this 100%). And strangely poor people are more forgiven for using them as they may have small or no gardens.
I am aware of people here who don't peg their underwear out though - but use the dryer or dry them indoors - for the same reasons. Personally I can't see anyone being interested in my underwear!!
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| MagnoliaWhisper |
Posted - Jun 16 2011 : 11:49:16 PM
oh my a porch swing, what a spooky sounding neighborhood. ICK! Would feel like the stepford wives movie or something. Did you check the board council for batteries and circuit boards? lol
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| woolgirl |
Posted - Jun 16 2011 : 6:16:38 PM
I am wondering if anybody has used the retractable clotheslines?
Liz
Farmgirl #1947 |
| missusprim |
Posted - Jun 16 2011 : 6:05:14 PM
BTW, when I hang out my undies I hang them from the crotch rather than top side seams so it's nobody can really tell what they are - and they do get dry as anything else would. I do DH's the same way. This way I don't have to worry so much about what I hang up and where. But when I lived in town I did use some discretion and hung my 'goodies' on the back line.....
Farmgirl Sister #2984
"Animals are such agreeable friends - they ask no questions, they pass no criticisms." George Eliot
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| missusprim |
Posted - Jun 16 2011 : 2:15:47 PM
Oh, Nancy! I'd be counting the DAYS until I could get the heck outta Dodge. I just can't imagine how it will be for you when you move. Difference between night and day, or heaven and h*ll. You'll WANT to be outside!
I felt this way at our old house and was so glad to have gotten away from it. It's no fun to live in an area where your home is your jail. Where the only place on the entire property that you enjoy is being INSIDE.
Anyway, I digress. Whether it's an umbrella line, nice looking t-posts or a simple rope strung between two trees........more power to people who are bringing back the simplicity of hanging your laundry outside and getting back to nature.
FarmDream, you did a great job on your clothesline. Other than your dark hair, you look so much like Mary Jane! Enjoy!
Farmgirl Sister #2984
"Animals are such agreeable friends - they ask no questions, they pass no criticisms." George Eliot
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| nabrown42 |
Posted - Jun 16 2011 : 09:08:24 AM
People don't sit on their front porches because doing so is discouraged. One family was fined because they put a porch swing up...God forbid! People don't know their neighbor's name and you can feel the chill as soon as you turn onto its streets, at least that's how I feel. You never see block parties or outside barbeques...it's a dead-zone. I'd rather be alone with my hubby in the country than alone with several homes within shouting distance. It's just unnatural.
"I've wept in the night for the shortness of sight that to someone's needs I've been blind; but I've yet to feel a twinge of regret for being a little too kind." |
| FarmDream |
Posted - Jun 16 2011 : 08:12:13 AM
Wow Nancy! Basically they don't want any sign of human existence.
As for hanging unmentionables (underwear), on the umbrella I hang them on the smaller inside lines. Then when I hang the shirts, pants and towels, the underwear isn't visible.
Congrats Tanya! You're gonna love it. Mine is a Sunline 1600.
Today DD5 came outside and "helped" me hang clothes. They weren't hung very straight but it's o.k. because I don't want to discourage her from wanting to do it.
~FarmDream is Farmgirl Sister #3069
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| nabrown42 |
Posted - Jun 16 2011 : 05:20:22 AM
In our addition (Midwest speak for sub-division), we can't have a veggie garden if it can be seen from the street, no chain link fences, no vinyl siding, no visable garbage cans except on pick-up day, no travel trailers in driveway for longer than 3 days, no cats or dogs outside unless on a leash and with the owner, no remodeling on exterior of home without permission and approval of architecture board as well as no building can be added or removed without permission...you get the picture. I REALLY won't miss this place!
"I've wept in the night for the shortness of sight that to someone's needs I've been blind; but I've yet to feel a twinge of regret for being a little too kind." |
| missusprim |
Posted - Jun 15 2011 : 6:37:05 PM
Sue, people may be afraid of someone hanging their undergarments (gasp!) for all the world to see - which may be a factor (hm....FEAR factor? LOL) in certain areas. Which leads me to wonder (if I were inclined to do some web search) why having a clothesline is frowned upon in parts of the world. When and where did this mentality start? Possibly with the invention of the dryer? That if you still hung your laundry out it was because you were too poor to afford a dryer - hence - you were considered 'poor?' Honestly, who would fault someone who wants to save energy and money by line drying their clothes?
I mean really, I'd rather not see Big Bubba's tighty whities blowing in the wind, or Big Bertha's bras acting as small sails straining the lines - but it would take all of a few seconds of my brain space that would end with a "Cool, this woman/man hangs out their clothes!).
I used to live in an area where there were several restrictions. One being that we couldn't have a chain link fence in the front yard. Or trees planted too close to the road. Or toys in the front yard left out overnight. Etc. etc. etc. BUT, I installed a clothesline and not a word was said. How 'bout them apples?
Also, it'd be interesting to see a map of the U.S. to see which states have the most clotheslines in use. What research I have done recently indicate that clotheslines are coming back. Yeah!
Tanya, take a pic of your beauty when you get it in the ground. Bet you're excited to give it a spin!
Farmgirl Sister #2984
"Animals are such agreeable friends - they ask no questions, they pass no criticisms." George Eliot
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| Turtlemoon |
Posted - Jun 15 2011 : 2:33:02 PM
I went and bought one this morning, the sunbeam 1600 upright umbrella! Tomorrow will be sinking it into the ground, would today but have a bunch of ladies lined up for pedicures this afternoon/evening. Sure they don't want me playing with their feet with dirt under the nails! :)
Raggedy Ann stuck in a Barbie Doll World
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| walkinwalkoutcattle |
Posted - Jun 15 2011 : 2:02:05 PM
I was just looking at an old broken lead from my BMD and thought about what a good clothesline that would make. LOL. Great minds!!! I'm loving the pictures! Keep them coming!
Farmgirl #2879 :)
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| Turtlemoon |
Posted - Jun 14 2011 : 4:22:24 PM
so many retractable ones have such varying reviews... may i ask those who use one where they purchased theirs? pros / cons? thanks!
Raggedy Ann stuck in a Barbie Doll World
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