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Dream clothes line?

 
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For the minute lets ignore cost and describe your dream clothes line.

1.  Over grass so anything dropped isn't landing on dirt or in weeds.  2nd choice here would be over concrete or rock patio.
2.  Some sort of raised clean area to set baskets on etc beside one end.  This lesson learned because the current clothes line has a cistern lid beside it.  Picnic table maybe.
3.  Built solidly enough for posts not to keep from drifting in with loads over time.  Thinking 2 posts with a pipe or concrete beam buried just under the grass as a fulcrum and a cable to handle tension buried deep so the posts can't move
4.  Standard T shaped post structures with 3 to 5 clothes support wires.
5.  Stainless wires so no staining from the wires
6.  Location.  Out the most visible location, close to a door, and ideally in a wind sheltered location from strongest prevailing wind

Then if over grass with enough room would like to turn it into a volley ball, badminton area, ect.
This would require 3 addition features.
7.  Ability to rotate the T and wires to vertical so the net could be hung over them.  Might be nice to be able to hit an able between for sun drying trays.  Over center cam maybe to release the tension while moving and lock again.
8.  Ability to adjust the height of T to cover needed heights.
9.  Distance great enough to allow full net length between the posts
 
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Clothesline material - uv resistant-coated, stranded brass. Best stuff I've ever used - doesn't rust, fray, or stretch - no stretching means it doesn't need poles to raise the middle. I Just wish it could be closer to the door. Then again, I wish my laundry room was closer to the door, too. Instead, it's centrally located, in the house. So, I have to haul my heavy, wet laundry quite a ways. So, when it's really heavy, I only carry it to the door, then plop it into the wagon, and pull that, instead. Then, the wagon serves as my something to set the laundry on, while I hand & remove the wash from the line.

My next clothesline related purchase will be the coated stainless steel clothes pins.
 
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I think I might have this!    Clothes line is a "Hills Hoist" rotary clothes line - looks like the internal skeleton of a big square tent: -  
https://hillshome.com.au/collections/hills-hoist-clotheslines.    Mine can be removed from the ground,   it is height adjustable by means of a winder,  and rotates freely in the breeze, but can be lowered to a fixed position for the pegging out operation.  
I have mine a fair way from the laundry (the only complaint) but my washing machine spins really fast, so the damp items aren't too heavy and in summer the clothes are dry before I get the last items in the basket onto the lines.   When it's really windy, pegging out the sheets is like trying to hoist a spinnaker!
 
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i've got a great setup with pulleys, i just wish the rope lasted longer.
we had a coated metal line for a while, but the coating could not resist our sun here-- cracked and then the line rusted. le sigh.
it's easier for me to just buy a cheapie (synthetic) line every few years, so that's what we do.
Inside (under my back porch roof) I also have a pulley system, that one has lasted 10+ years since sun never hits it.
 
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I used to have a pulley airer at my last place and I'd love to have one here too.

What I really, really want is a little extension to the house that doubles as an outside kitchen and a place to start seeds and cuttings, with a roof, a low wall and a good bug-screen filling in the gaps. Then a clothes airer on a pulley so that it doesn't matter if it starts to rain, and it doesn't matter if the sun is so strong that it will damage the clothes, I can just hang stuff out when I feel like it and fetch it in when it's ready. And it's out of the way and not cluttering the place up.
 
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Jill Dyer wrote:I think I might have this!    Clothes line is a "Hills Hoist" rotary clothes line - looks like the internal skeleton of a big square tent: -  
https://hillshome.com.au/collections/hills-hoist-clotheslines.    Mine can be removed from the ground,   it is height adjustable by means of a winder,  and rotates freely in the breeze, but can be lowered to a fixed position for the pegging out operation.  
I have mine a fair way from the laundry (the only complaint) but my washing machine spins really fast, so the damp items aren't too heavy and in summer the clothes are dry before I get the last items in the basket onto the lines.   When it's really windy, pegging out the sheets is like trying to hoist a spinnaker!



How does it handle big stuff in 60 and 70 mph winds?  Looks like it would break the post in our winds.
 
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