Search...
Home Subscribe
Pie
Home Subscribe
Recent topics Flagged topics Hot topics Best topics
Search...
Search within meaningless drivel Search permies
Advanced search Google search
Register / Login
Eco-friendly wood stoves Master Gardener Program Online appropriate technology course video permaculture bootcamp woman working on barrel Green Living Book
  • Post Reply Bookmark Topic Watch Topic
  • New Topic
permaculture forums growies critters building homesteading energy monies kitchen purity ungarbage community wilderness fiber arts art permaculture artisans regional education skip experiences global resources cider press projects digital market permies.com pie forums private forums all forums
Free heat movie permaculture bootcamp woman working on barrel skip the mortgage Full online Permaculture Design course and Appropriate Technology Course video Green Living Book
this forum made possible by our volunteer staff, including ...
master stewards:
  • Carla Burke
  • Nancy Reading
  • r ransom
  • John F Dean
  • paul wheaton
  • Jay Angler
stewards:
  • Timothy Norton
  • Pearl Sutton
  • Tereza Okava
master gardeners:
  • Christopher Weeks
  • M Ljin
gardeners:
  • Jeremy VanGelder
  • Matt McSpadden
  • thomas rubino

Looking for Ways to Replace a Clothes Line

 
Anne Miller
steward
Posts: 18592
Location: USDA Zone 8a
4710
I like...
dog hunting food preservation cooking bee greening the desert
posted 6 years ago
  • Likes 2
  • Mark post as helpful
  • send pies
    Number of slices to send:
    Optional 'thank-you' note:
    Send
  • Quote
  • Report post to moderator
I guess the wind took out my clothes line.  I really don't want to use the dryer.  Any ideas?  I have thought about hangers in trees, like this:




I saw this though there is probably not enough pvc laying around to use:




I know I can can hang them in the shower though I like the smell of fresh air dried clothes.




I know I can just go buy clothes line on Amazon though I like to see what I am buying.  Any suggestions?

Invasive plants are Earth's way of insisting we notice her medicines. Stephen Herrod Buhner
Everyone learns what works by learning what doesn't work. Stephen Herrod Buhner

 
Mike Haasl
steward
Posts: 16099
Location: Northern WI (zone 4)
5213
9
I like...
hunting trees books food preservation solar woodworking
posted 6 years ago
  • Likes 2
  • Mark post as helpful
  • send pies
    Number of slices to send:
    Optional 'thank-you' note:
    Send
  • Quote
  • Report post to moderator
Can you just buy some clothes line at the store and tie it between two trees?  

I make a Maple Syrup instructional movie! Check it out HERE
SKIP books, get 'em while they're hot!!! Skills to Inherit Property
See me in a movie building a massive wood staircase:Low Tech Lab Movie

 
Anne Miller
steward
Posts: 18592
Location: USDA Zone 8a
4710
I like...
dog hunting food preservation cooking bee greening the desert
posted 6 years ago
  • Likes 1
  • Mark post as helpful
  • send pies
    Number of slices to send:
    Optional 'thank-you' note:
    Send
  • Quote
  • Report post to moderator
We are self quarantine and have not been anywhere since March 6. No symptoms and don't want to take a chance on possible contamination.

The clothes line went from a cedar tree to the house.  What happened is that the line rubbed on the tree and broke in the middle.

Invasive plants are Earth's way of insisting we notice her medicines. Stephen Herrod Buhner
Everyone learns what works by learning what doesn't work. Stephen Herrod Buhner

 
Michael Cox
pollinator
Posts: 3939
Location: Kent, UK - Zone 8
744
I like...
books composting toilet bee rocket stoves wood heat homestead
posted 6 years ago
  • Likes 1
  • Mark post as helpful
  • send pies
    Number of slices to send:
    Optional 'thank-you' note:
    Send
  • Quote
  • Report post to moderator
Online order?

When the package arrives don’t touch it for a few days to let any surface contamination die off.

Or just wash your hands with soap when done?

Moderator, Treatment Free Beekeepers group on Facebook.
https://www.facebook.com/groups/treatmentfreebeekeepers/

 
John F Dean
master steward
Posts: 8393
Location: southern Illinois, USA
3309
I like...
goat cat dog chicken composting toilet food preservation pig solar wood heat homestead composting
posted 6 years ago
  • Likes 2
  • Mark post as helpful
  • send pies
    Number of slices to send:
    Optional 'thank-you' note:
    Send
  • Quote
  • Report post to moderator
Tie the two frayed ends together?

I learn from the mistakes of others who take my advice.

 
Burra Maluca
out to pasture
Posts: 13131
Location: Portugal
4224
I like...
goat dog duck forest garden books wofati bee solar rocket stoves greening the desert
posted 6 years ago
  • Likes 4
  • Mark post as helpful
  • send pies
    Number of slices to send:
    Optional 'thank-you' note:
    Send
  • Quote
  • Report post to moderator
I like to drape clothes over lavender or rosemary bushes.

How permies.com works
What is a Mother Tree ?

 
Catie George
gardener
Posts: 947
Location: Ontario - Zone 6a or 4b, depending on the day
654
I like...
dog foraging trees tiny house books bike bee
posted 6 years ago
  • Likes 1
  • Mark post as helpful
  • send pies
    Number of slices to send:
    Optional 'thank-you' note:
    Send
  • Quote
  • Report post to moderator
I like to put tension rods in my windows and hang clothes on hangars from the tension rods. If you have curtain rods already, that would work. I find they get musty smelling indoors unless you hang them in sunlight. I have also been known to use the backs of chairs. You can dry socks and other small items by clothespinning them to a hangar.
 
Skandi Rogers
pollinator
Posts: 2339
Location: Denmark 57N
601
I like...
fungi foraging trees cooking food preservation
posted 6 years ago
  • Likes 3
  • Mark post as helpful
  • send pies
    Number of slices to send:
    Optional 'thank-you' note:
    Send
  • Quote
  • Report post to moderator
Fences work as well just make sure you wash the fence down first.

washing.jpg
[Thumbnail for washing.jpg]
 
Ruth Meyers
pollinator
Posts: 302
Location: West Virginny and Kentuck
112
I like...
forest garden books building ungarbage
posted 6 years ago
  • Likes 2
  • Mark post as helpful
  • send pies
    Number of slices to send:
    Optional 'thank-you' note:
    Send
  • Quote
  • Report post to moderator
And do invest in these handy tensioners:



It becomes so easy to hook and unhook the line for safe storage and to adjust the tension while in use.

Greetings from Brambly Ridge

 
Rebecca Norman
gardener
Posts: 2571
Location: Ladakh, Indian Himalayas at 10,500 feet, zone 5
906
I like...
trees food preservation solar greening the desert
posted 6 years ago
  • Likes 3
  • Mark post as helpful
  • send pies
    Number of slices to send:
    Optional 'thank-you' note:
    Send
  • Quote
  • Report post to moderator
My neighbours put chain link fence around their land, which is uninhabited, and we have found it makes a great clothes line. I like to pin things right to the side of it so they aren't folded, and dry really quickly.

Works at a residential alternative high school in the Himalayas SECMOL.org . "Back home" is Cape Cod, E Coast USA.

 
F Agricola
Posts: 664
Location: Australia, New South Wales. Köppen: Cfa (Humid Subtropical), USDA: 10/11
2
I like...
transportation hugelkultur cat forest garden fish trees urban chicken cooking woodworking homestead
posted 6 years ago
  • Likes 1
  • Mark post as helpful
  • send pies
    Number of slices to send:
    Optional 'thank-you' note:
    Send
  • Quote
  • Report post to moderator
We used two typical types of clothes lines:

1. the quintessential 'Hills Hoist': generations of kids got into big trouble swinging on these. Most people have them if their backyard is big enough. Also, throwing a tarp over it means clothes can still be dried in wet weather. Some entrepreneur also manufactured a fitted tarp so it could be used as a sun-umbrella or shelter tables of food during parties!

2. the lean-to design: two sturdy posts placed in the ground as far apart as you like. A timber cross-member bolted to each post so it can tilt. Then string two or four lengths of wire between the cross-members and pull tight. Clothes are then pegged to the wires - a large stick or pole can be used to hold one side of the wire higher than the other e.g. for large items such as sheets and towels. (The photo shows a fixed cross-member version, which isn't as good.)

3. a creative Permie version.
Hills-Hoist.jpg
[Thumbnail for Hills-Hoist.jpg]
Lean-to-Version.jpg
[Thumbnail for Lean-to-Version.jpg]
Permie-Version.jpg
[Thumbnail for Permie-Version.jpg]

'Every time I learn something new, it pushes some old stuff out of my brain.'

 
Tereza Okava
steward & manure connoisseur
Posts: 4975
Location: South of Capricorn
2954
I like...
dog rabbit urban cooking writing homestead ungarbage
posted 6 years ago
  • Likes 2
  • Mark post as helpful
  • send pies
    Number of slices to send:
    Optional 'thank-you' note:
    Send
  • Quote
  • Report post to moderator
I would get whatever is left of your line and tie it to whatever you have around (maybe drive a post if you need to).
That lacking, when I was in college I washed my clothes in the sink and dried them on the fire escape on hangers. didn't win any awards for brilliance, to this day I've never owned a dryer and know that was probably not the easiest way to do it, but it worked just fine for 4 years, even in the winter.
Here people often hang their laundry on a wire fence or on whatever is stable (and clean) enough to permit.
I keep some old rope around to put up extra clotheslines when I wash bedding, for example. Any old rope or even wire will do just fine.

(I love the image of the tree drying the clothes, but I imagine your clothes might end up blown clean to Arizona....)
 
Anne Miller
steward
Posts: 18592
Location: USDA Zone 8a
4710
I like...
dog hunting food preservation cooking bee greening the desert
posted 6 years ago
  • Mark post as helpful
  • send pies
    Number of slices to send:
    Optional 'thank-you' note:
    Send
  • Quote
  • Report post to moderator
Thanks everyone for your wonderful responses!  

There was enough line to be able to tie it together though this is probably something temporary.  I wrapped a piece of old tshirt where it rubbed.

I ran across this thread today and really liked this idea from Tereza:



https://permies.com/t/131212/Clothesline-Hut-making-life-easier

Invasive plants are Earth's way of insisting we notice her medicines. Stephen Herrod Buhner
Everyone learns what works by learning what doesn't work. Stephen Herrod Buhner

 
The human mind is a dangerous plaything. This tiny ad is pretty safe:
montana community seeking 20 people who are gardeners or want to be gardeners
https://permies.com/t/359868/montana-community-seeking-people-gardeners
reply
reply
    Bookmark Topic Watch Topic
  • New Topic
Boost this thread!
Similar Threads
More...