12-14-2008, 05:22 AM
There isn't a male gender requirement for making a clothes line. Nor do you need specific posts. Find some light line (preferably from a garage sale - ours came from a "free" box at a horse farm garage sale) and tie one end to a handy tree. If you thread a bit of old garden hose on it, the rope won't bite into the tree bark as badly. Or screw in a big eye hook and tie the rope to that. Then tie or fasten the other end of the rope to the house or another tree and you have a clothes line.
If you have no handy trees, then two of those big wooden fence posts from Del's would work nicely. Dig a hole several feet deep, put the fence post in it and pour quickcrete around the base to hold it in place. Attach a cross piece of part of a wooden fence post or a chunk of four by four or whatever else you can find that is heavy enough to the fence post and then screw in more eye hooks to tie the line to. It would probably be easier to put the cross pieces on before putting the poles in the holes and adding cement. Put the crosspiece on the side of the pole away from the clothes when you set the pole in the hole.
If your house is up off the ground, then you may have enough room to string clothes lines under your house. That has the added benefit of keeping the laundry dry in the rain. Ours are under the house but I strung them right across the middle of the work space. I'm going to restring them with some pulleys so I will be able to stand at the washer and then clip the clothes onto the line and then pull the line to shift the clothes further away. Kinda like they had in those old Chicago and New York City tenement housing pictures where they do the laundry out the window.
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Kurt Wilson
If you have no handy trees, then two of those big wooden fence posts from Del's would work nicely. Dig a hole several feet deep, put the fence post in it and pour quickcrete around the base to hold it in place. Attach a cross piece of part of a wooden fence post or a chunk of four by four or whatever else you can find that is heavy enough to the fence post and then screw in more eye hooks to tie the line to. It would probably be easier to put the cross pieces on before putting the poles in the holes and adding cement. Put the crosspiece on the side of the pole away from the clothes when you set the pole in the hole.
If your house is up off the ground, then you may have enough room to string clothes lines under your house. That has the added benefit of keeping the laundry dry in the rain. Ours are under the house but I strung them right across the middle of the work space. I'm going to restring them with some pulleys so I will be able to stand at the washer and then clip the clothes onto the line and then pull the line to shift the clothes further away. Kinda like they had in those old Chicago and New York City tenement housing pictures where they do the laundry out the window.
Kurt Wilson
Kurt Wilson