Who has 'em. What kind, material, line type?

Ours are 2" heavy wall. Drilled 3' down poured a footing with rebar sticking up.
Set posts filled to top with concrete.

My EX-BIL looked at the posts and proclaimed them "5yr posts, 10 if you are lucky".
Been there since our 18 year old was wearing diapers. Need new paint though.

Four 33', plastic coated, steel wire lines.
Length was chosen by what "looks right" for the yard.
Sucks when you buy new line.
Modern dam hardware doesn't carry spools. You buy packages. 25 or 50 foot lengths.
So I buy 50' throw away 15'.

Only replaced 2 though.

DO NOT DRIVE A SUBARU WAGON UNDER THE CLOTHSLINE,
WITH THE TAILGATE UP!

One pole is a little off plumb.
DO NOT CONTINUE BACKING SAID SUBARU WHEN A KID BLOCKS YOUR MIRROR!

We are the poor Rednecks in a nice area. Many wives have commented that they
wish they had a line. Their husbands won't allow it in the "lawn".

My wife loves it. She can wash clothes continuously until they are all done.
It's simple to sort them and fold them, so that everything is ready to go to
its owners dresser.

Also have 3 lines in the basement.
About 15 feet, cotton line.
On 2x10's screwed to the floor joists and supported so they don't twist the joists.

Still use ours. Original with the house built in '56.

We cal it a 'solar clothes dryer'.

My wife wants ours pulled out.

Glad it isn't my wife. She won't complain as she has to ask to help with hanging out the wash. I have done most of it for 27 years or more. It leaves her with more energy for Saturday. An ulterior motive, eh? YMMV but I have over 49 years and 11 months of marriage in. It is working. Be Well, RZ.

I took mine down.

It was only being used for butchering rabbits. And we ate all the bunnies eventually.

We have one. Similar set up. A bit heavier poles. Concreted in. Only two lines about 12' each. Turnbuckles to tighten as poly coated cable stretches.

Shorter three setup in basement on string. Use the basement all year long. Summer time the bedding and such goes on the line. Won't be without them.

1/8 stainless cable, lasts forever

We use ours all the time. I use it hanging up all kinds of stuff to hose them off and then drying. Floor mats, tents, tarps, etc.

In the summer, it is actually quicker than the electric clothes dryer. Can't imagine not having one.

Only negative is mowing the grass around it.

My brother's horse, Lightning, used to use the clothesline to wipe me off when he got tired of me.

We've used them before but there is to much pollen in the air to use now. Guess the pollen didn't bother us before.

Wife's gone for a couple of weeks, so I pulled ours up with a tractor. She never used it, so how long will it be before she misses it.

House lady says she makes too much money and works too damn hard with stupid groids all day not to be able to have the luxury of tossin clothes in an electric dryer.

Ok womern, if you say so.

shiftless groids would suck the life out of me too.

Wayyy faster than a dryer.

Ours holds 3+ loads of clothes.
By the time you fill it, the first load is dry.
You just avoid doing jeans first if conditions aren't great.
Some stuff is already dry by the time you get a load hung.

Now, the down side.
Lines are full, pretty much eberytjing is dry.
Someone looks a the black sky,
"ITS GONNA RAIN!"

All hands on deck, knees and elbows.
Clothes, clothespins and hands flying!

Kinda fun actu ally.
Especially when you start getting a few of those huge raindrops.
The ones that scare the frogs!

Used to have a Dalmatian dog that would rip the clothes off the line and strew em all over the yard.

Ornery sombitch


No one here wants to haul all that chit up and down stairs and out to the yard and then have birds shît on the clothes.

😃

TN is a nice state. You all have a bunch of plusses.
But you got something we don't have much of.


From WIKKI,
Last census.

The racial makeup of the county was 98.0% White, 0.5% Black or African American, 0.2% Native American, 0.2% Asian, 0.0% Pacific Islander, 0.3% from other races, and 0.8% from two or more races. 0.9% of the population were Hispanic or Latino of any race.


And at these numbers, issues with hometowners are no big deal.

However, our proximity to big cities, Pittsburgh, Baltimore, DC, less than 150 miles. Filthydelphia, 200. And the roads connecting them running through here? We get imports, travellers, and traffickers. I can think of 5 murders, and 1 very serious attempted execution, in the last 5 years.
In a country if 50k.
And all have one thing in common.
Even if they weren't locals!

We use a rotary. The line is starting to mess up though.


Use it all summer and fall long.

Keeps our house from getting too hot from running the dryer.

One that rotates, or the Amish one on a pulley.

98% white

Man that must be nice


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Montgomery Co Tn

The racial makeup of the county was 73.17% White
19.18% Black or African American,

Slummy,

Really not at all racist. But I'm a realist.
Saying it's nice? I wouldn't care if there were more blacks.
But the realist knows there would be even more trouble.

So, yeah!


Funny story.
Town of Mann's Choice. (Our address growing up, 5 miles from town.)
Maybe 100 people, bar, store. Post office and hardware followed midern trends and moved to the edge of town. Suburbs😁!


Anyway, a slumlord😉 bought a few homes, rents them out. Section 8.
A black family moved in. The only one for several miles.
Their house is 80 yards from the store.

And one day.....
The store gets robbed.
By a Black Ute.

Wanna guess who the racial profiling cops questioned?
First thing after talking to the store owner?

Dirt rotten POS cops.

They done went and solved that crime,
within 5 minutes of starting the investigation!

I have a clothesline. The posts have been in the ground as long as I can remember. I like to use it a lot. Every time I hang stuff out, I tell the girlfriend that I'm using my solar powered clothes dryer to help Joe Biden save the planet from global warming. She just shakes her head and says a bad word.

Dale

I had one in our old house and now our new house for 16 years. The wife wont go out there and use it. I dry almost all my clothes on the line. My T shirts and flannel shirts are dry in 1/2 hour most sunny breezy days. Jeans take about 4 hours. I even put out my jeans in winter time and amazing they dry pretty good , even last year when it was 16 below F. If I take them out when the jeans are warm, the jeans are almost dry in an hour or so. I dont know why, but the liberals in the city have ordinances against clothes lines. They want wind power and demand the wind mills are way out in the country where i live, but refuse to have them along Lake Michigan , cause it's unsightly.

When I was a kid my mom used a ringer washer and hung the clothes out on the line. Some fond memories. (for me lol)

Wife tried the lines for a couple years off and on but with reliable power, and cottonwood and other shidt in the air the drier made more sense.

Schit kickers.

Grandmother still had one of those when I was a kid. Remember having to help her.

When we lived with grandparents, I pumped many a washtub of water for the ringer washer and then you had to pump a tub for the rinse water. After 2-3 loads, you emptied the washer, put the rinse water in the washer, and pumped more rinse water. Pump long slow strokes to keep the water clear.

i ripped mine down by driving the truck under it last fall. wife just commented today she wants it back up.

Got one. Nothing like the fresh air. No need for dryer sheets or softener.

Close lines are against the law here.
What they can't see won't hurt them.

Why would a clothesline be against the law? HOA?

We don't have one in town.


Out at the farm the uprights are railroad rail, been there years before I was born. Still straight and in use during the warm months.

Good question.
I doubt if they have a good answer.
I suspect that it has something to do with the communist UN Agenda 21 as in 2021.
It's a city ordinance. The other cities have the same thing on their books I'm told.
They want a complete control of the tiny minutia of everybody's lives down to how much water is used in a shower to whether you can air dry your very own clothes outside.
Example, An old girlfriend's property was zoned into city limits, probably 4 miles away. I constructed a line that would be hidden as much as possible when in use and retracted back into the tool shed when not used.

PS:. I use a very heavy gauge solid aluminum wire.
It gets wiped down with a vinegar soaked rag before every use to get rid of any potential mites. Rarely does a bird land on it. Thats all the maintenance it requires and should outlast me.

Can't. Laundry won't dry in incessant rain and the howling winds will blow it away.

Well, that's why shirts have sleeves and pants have legs. Just tie a good knot and run them up the flag pole!