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missusprim
True Blue Farmgirl
400 Posts
Karen
Fostoria
Ohio
USA
400 Posts |
 Posted - Jun 17 2011 : 5:12:22 PM
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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
http://farmchicatheart.blogspot.com/
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missusprim
True Blue Farmgirl
400 Posts
Karen
Fostoria
Ohio
USA
400 Posts |
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pnickols
True Blue Farmgirl
808 Posts
Patricia
Parma
Ohio
808 Posts |
Posted - Jun 17 2011 : 6:26:30 PM
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| 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 |
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ranchmama
True Blue Farmgirl
360 Posts
Elise
Rosebud
MT
USA
360 Posts |
Posted - Jun 18 2011 : 05:16:37 AM
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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
http://ATeddyForKeeps.org
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sissarge
True Blue Farmgirl
502 Posts
Linda
Montgomery
Texas
USA
502 Posts |
Posted - Jun 18 2011 : 12:56:15 PM
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| 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 |
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camiesmommy
True Blue Farmgirl
113 Posts
Anne Jeannette
Stagecoach
NV
USA
113 Posts |
Posted - Jun 23 2011 : 7:55:00 PM
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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?
Work is love made visable... Kahlil Gibran |
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CMac
True Blue Farmgirl
1074 Posts
Connie
Ashland City
TN
USA
1074 Posts |
Posted - Jun 24 2011 : 07:38:11 AM
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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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Tall Holly
True Blue Farmgirl
2305 Posts
Holly
Worcester
Vermont
USA
2305 Posts |
Posted - Jun 24 2011 : 12:58:17 PM
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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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Primginger
Farmgirl in Training
26 Posts
Melissa
Wescosville
pa
USA
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Posted - Jun 28 2011 : 06:36:27 AM
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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!
Enjoying my little Homestead
www.heirloomhomestead.com
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nabrown42
True Blue Farmgirl
409 Posts
Nancy
Caneyville
KY
USA
409 Posts |
Posted - Jun 28 2011 : 8:55:14 PM
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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." |
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