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Looking for ideas - what can this be used for?

 
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Dear all - I'm living in a place where people give away a lot of things, and quite often they give these (pic) away, used originally to press clothes. Any ideas what I could do with one?

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cast iron mangle
 
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Wow! That's gorgeous!  Off the top of my head, make pasta?

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Print making???

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I think that is a great collectors item.  Maybe sell the to folks here in the US who would collect items like that.

Everything I thought about using it for was discarded due to the finish on the wood.  Maybe that could be sanded of and a food grade oil used instead.

It looks very much like the wringer off an old time washing machine.

Wikipedia says it is called a Mangle:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mangle_(machine)

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They were quite common when I was a kid in Wales, to squeeze water out of washed clothes so they wouldn't take so long to dry. Which is important in a country where it rains so often!

I used to play with them and run blades of grass through them, adjusting them to squeeze the pretty green juice out.

I had to stop when I got scolded because the owner ran her best white sheets through and got green stripes all over them. Oooops...

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Print making as Jill suggested. Burra's grass story makes me think of dyeing material by pressing flowers and a shirt between the rollers . I've seen where folks place flowers on a shirt and whack 'em with a mallet to create beautiful shirts. I press many kinds of patterns with a rolling mill when making jewelry. My mom was fanatical about ironing sheets and talked about a using a klesrulle so might just be a Norwegian thing.
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I guess it's too nice to crush biochar.
 
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It looks like the rollers can be set further apart. Searches a bit...

Oooh! Leigh did a write up on Mr Pea Sheller. A friend has used Lehman's rollers as a fresh cowpea sheller.

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If I had one I would try crushing nettle stalks prior to stripping the fibre skins off. I think it might be just the thing!

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Nancy Reading wrote:If I had one I would try crushing nettle stalks prior to stripping the fibre skins off. I think it might be just the thing!

Tell me more:-) I'm planning to create a big nettle patch, as I eat a lot of them in spring. But I also want to make my own clothes, and they sometimes give a away weaves as well, the big ones.. And pianos, lots of things.. My house is made from these things..
 
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Douglas Alpenstock wrote:I guess it's too nice to crush biochar.

Well - here people throw new clothes. They buy a number to small, and then they throw it in the garbage. It's just the way it is here. I like the biochar idea. My only problem really is that I don't have help from anyone to carry this - it a very degenerated society, and of course it is not getting better.. I can't explain how things work here, it has to be experienced. Like life on anther planet.
 
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Hi Øystein, I'm still experimenting, but nettle is supposed to make a great fabric - like linen, but from a perennial multifunctional plant (and local weed!) Try this thread about fibre extraction and this general one. It seems to be one of those forgotten ancestral skills that we are enjoying reinventing. I was using a rolling pin to crush the stems before stripping the fibres. A mangle would be much less effort and quicker.

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