Pulley equipped clothesline allows easy access to outdoor
clotheslines without ever having to step off a back porch.
This becomes a rather significant advantage
for those who don’t want to tramp through and track in wet grass and mud from
an early morning dew. Even more so for
those who totally depend on outdoor clothes drying year round even with deep
snow on the ground.
The concept of a pulley driven clothesline concept is not
new. Pulley mounted clotheslines were
widely used between multi story apartment buildings long before automatic clothes
dryers were available.
The operator can stand in one place preferably at the back
door to the laundry room and completely load and unload a clothes line.
The Amish have taken the pulley concept a bit farther. Having large families and multiple wash loads
the Amish have built a heavy duty pulley system to extend a clothesline up to
150’ away from the house.
The outbound pulley can be mounted high up on a building or
post to allow the clothes to be well elevated up off the ground out of reach
and conflict of other activities and animals in the yard.
There’s even an optional elevator pulley system to raise the
operator pulley so that it also lifts the clothesline up and out of the way on
the house end.
Cottage Craft Works.com is a unique back-to-basics general
store providing hard to find old fashioned products used before electricity was
widely made available.
Many of the
products are handpicked from deep within the Amish communities from all across
the US where they are still being made just like they were at the turn of the
Century.
