Amish clothes line

[BilletHead]

    Product review.

 We were driving down the road and Pat says what Is that coming off that porch. I told her it was a clothes line. Huh yeppers. Told her she needed one. No absolutely not. Well it took me awhile to find the big well pulleys. Kept them hid until I got rope and assembly was done while she was at work. She frowned when she finally seen it. Well it's been used a bunch and she loves it. My Stepford wife using it.  

[Terrierman]

She can barely reach that thing.  She needs an Amish step stool to go with it, so get busy.

[BilletHead]

9 minutes ago, Terrierman said:

She can barely reach that thing.  She needs an Amish step stool to go with it, so get busy.

             I did get it a bit high. Cannot help she is a shorty .

[tjm]

city clothes line, they had those across streets, building to building on every window,  back in the day, you sometimes see them in old movies. We have two running off the back porch to a tree. My city girl wife grew up with them and we have always had them, for the past fifty years,  the last set up I got at Lowes, but Amazon has it all

Need these trolleys to keep the line from sagging under load - clothesline trolley      just hook on after about 1/3- 1/2 half the line is full and then keep on hanging up clothes.

And I find these handy for keeping the rope tight- tensioner

pulley

[BilletHead]

11 minutes ago, tjm said:

city clothes line, they had those across streets, building to building on every window,  back in the day, you sometimes see them in old movies. We have two running off the back porch to a tree. My city girl wife grew up with them and we have always had them, for the past fifty years,  the last set up I got at Lowes, but Amazon has it all

Need these trolleys to keep the line from sagging under load - clothesline trolley      just hook on after about 1/3- 1/2 half the line is full and then keep on hanging up clothes.

And I find these handy for keeping the rope tight- tensioner

pulley

                None of that fancy stuff in our neighborhood.  Simple and efficient.  Made Pat happy.

[tjm]

When we first married, we had a second floor apartment and she wanted a clothes line, so  I dug holes in the back yard, set posts and strung up wire for the country kind of clothesline I'd grown up with, she used it twice before declaring it took too  much walking back and forth and had me arrange a trolley line from our 2nd floor porch to the house next door. It takes long piece of mason line to thread the rope through those pulleys on the upper floors, but I've seen a lot of them on 4th floors and in movies of the big cities they show them up 8 or 10 stories.

After using the thing for a while, I can't understand why every wife doesn't demand one. Set basket on a table and hang away, no bending, no walking, no carrying of the basket, and as the clothes come down they can be folded on the same table, again with no walking. Bucket or bag of clothes pegs stays in the same spot so the pegs don't get lost as often. This reminds me I need to replace the ropes on ours. She's been using the dryer the past couple years, but she still likes to hang stuff out to sun.

[fishinwrench]

If we had that I'd undoubtedly get caught standing naked on the porch reeling in some underwear.   

No worse, I suppose, than the mad dash from the shower to the laundry room when there's unexpected company in the living room.    It never fails...   

 

[fshndoug]

Hey Marty when Pat hangs your undies on the clothesline will the neighbors think they are hers, just asking for the forums sake.

 

[Ham]

6 hours ago, fshndoug said:

Hey Marty when Pat hangs your undies on the clothesline will the neighbors think they are hers, just asking for the forums sake.

 

#shotsfired

[BilletHead]

7 hours ago, fishinwrench said:

If we had that I'd undoubtedly get caught standing naked on the porch reeling in some underwear.   

No worse, I suppose, than the mad dash from the shower to the laundry room when there's unexpected company in the living room.    It never fails...   

 

            I made sure she was dressed before sneaking the shot!