New Amish Clothes Lines~loving my husband!
09-01-2011, 06:59 AM
#102
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Join Date: Jan 2011
Location: Pennsylvania
Posts: 732
LOVE it! I had 3 loads of clothes on the line yesterday, and my darn post on one side started pulling out of the ground. :( I always told him I want an amish clothesline. Can't wait to show him yours. Do you find it sags at all when it's loaded?
09-01-2011, 09:13 AM
#104
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Join Date: Aug 2011
Location: East TN
Posts: 63
From experience in having a pulley clothesline (Amish-style) in Vermont and now here, they will sag; but you can just undo them and make the line tighter; and also buy some spacers that fit between the 2 lines to keep them together. They are wonderful; and you can hang your clothes from right outside your backdoor instead of having to go into the back yard. BUT if it's real windy, you have to watch for things that will end up wrapping around both lines making it hard to untwist them. And in Vermont the other end of mine was way up on a tree. so several times I'd end up having to go out there (usually in the snow) and pull stuff off the line. But I liked mine well enough then that I bought a pulley and spacers before I came here so I'd be able to have another one.
09-04-2011, 05:20 PM
#106
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Join Date: Nov 2010
Location: Port Charlotte, Fl
Posts: 2,569
Reminds me of the ones we had when I was a kid and also married with the 3 kids on the third floor. When I hung sheets out and it was windy they wrapped around the line and you couldn't get them off you had to keep turning them over and over until you got them all untristed and it would be freezing cold and the kids PJ's would stand up and the kids would laugh I would have to stand them behind the gas stove to unfreeze. Now my clothesline is on the first floor and in Fl. and you hand them out and it starts to rain. Can't win. Sue
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