The way it was doing a wash

We have used that crank washer and still have it. Then inherited a washer and dryer. We only used the dryer when we couldn't dry the clothes outside or inside.
Our inside clothes line was about 11 ft high in a semi vaulted ceiling in the mud room that had our wood stove.
Our outside clothes line was long and had a pulley on it. Kinda like this

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Now...we take our laundry to a Laundromat. ( Those are not our clothes. ) :)
 

In the Ford museum you can see old wringer washers with wooden tubs and gasoline engines that were made for folks that did not have electricity.
 
My mother had one. She also used a washboard. I don't remember if that was her version of pre-washing though because it seems like she had both at the same time. :) I hate line dried clothes. They are hard, especially the clothing items...which makes them harder to iron. I live in the city and they'd probably get dirty again anyway if I put them on the line. Our complex has two clothesline areas. I remember when I used to wash my car, next day I'd go out and see the sandy looking dust on it. Although the line wasn't right next to where cars park, I can imagine that same dust would get on my clothes if they hung out there on the parking lot side. No way to judge the other side.
 
When my son was a baby we had no washer so I washed his diapers in the bath tub (back breaking) then his grandmother gave us an old "wringer washer" like that. I loved it, it was fun to use.

Still wondering what those things are on Paco Dennis's clothesline that are not his clothes...
 
For all three of my children,I made 3 dozen diaper for each,of course I had that wringer washer and for those who have used one you would know how those diapers would sometimes roll around those wringers..at which time you would hit the side bar to release the tension…once you took the clothes off the line in the winter time ,you then spread these items on a wooden rack often sitting in the bathtub to finish drying..so you see…this is why I chuckle when my daughter says..I got to do a wash like it was hard labour..lol 😂
 
Now they aren't washing diapers at all but filling the landfills with disposable diapers.

An estimated 20 billion disposable diapers are added to landfills throughout the country each year, introducing pathogens into the environment.

They're going to takeover the planet!
 
Mom had a wringer washer and dried clothes out on the line. We lived next to the railroad tracks and there were still coal -burning locomotives chugging by. When she heard one coming, everyone would drop what they were doing, race outside and grab wet laundry off the line as fast as we could. Otherwise, the laundry would be dirtier by "smuts" and have to be washed again.

I started married life in Turkey and had a maid who washed the clothes in the bathtub. When we bought an old wringer washer, she thought she had died and gone to the Garden of Allah. Clothes were hung on the balcony to dry, which in the dry heat, they did very quickly.
 
palides2021 said:
I remember that old washer when I was little. My hand got stuck in it once, in the part that pulls the clothes through. I avoided it afterwards.
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One of my regular duties when young was to feed the laundry into the wringer rollers from washerside and guide them into laundry basket when came out. If something real thick had to catch it and run thru a 2nd time to get as much water as possible. Don't know if i could do it today without fingers getting pinched, but than i could.
 
My mother also had a wringer washer, and dried clothes on the line. It was an original technology for wind and solar power! :)

We were Catholic. Ma would put out her little metal statue of St. Anthony if it looked like rain. Our neighbor Marie would sometimes poke a little bit of fun at Ma for doing that. . . Until one day, when Marie had her laundry out to dry and rain was threatening. There was a knock on our door; could Marie borrow that "little man" to put outside!
 

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