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DearMildred
True Blue Farmgirl
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Amanda
Tulsa
OK
USA
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 Posted - May 09 2008 : 10:45:01 PM
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I **LOVE** the umbrella stand idea - what a smart guy! I wonder if that would withstand Oklahoma wind?
I'm seriously considering building my own wooden clothesline posts. The Vermont Country Store website sells the ones pictured below, and they're gorgeous but I'm a) somewhat broke and b) impatient! My Dad and I made shutters for my house out of fence pickets and they look adorable, but that's about the extent of my carpentry so far.
Has anybody attempted this?
I also found blue, yellow, and pink clothesline online, it's actually not priced too bad. My house is blue so I might just splurge on pastel blue clothesline if I can pull the wooden post project off!
This my very first post. :D
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catscharm74
True Blue Farmgirl
4687 Posts
Heather
Texas
USA
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Posted - May 10 2008 : 06:09:59 AM
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Hi Amanda and welcome!!!! I would love to have a colored clothesline, how cool would that be???
Heather
Yee-Haw, I am a cowgirl!!!
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Marcy
True Blue Farmgirl
2701 Posts
Marcy
Tiverton
Rhode Island
USA
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Posted - May 10 2008 : 06:11:56 AM
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Oh, wow. What a great idea. If it ever stops raining here, gonna to the clothesline thing myself. Thanks for all of the great suggestions.
Farmgirl #170
It's never too late to be what you might have been.
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handyam
True Blue Farmgirl
394 Posts
Ada Mae
Greensburg
KY.
USA
394 Posts |
Posted - May 10 2008 : 6:26:10 PM
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If you have a welding shop in your area, they possibly could make you some metal posts. You would need to put them in concrete so that they would be secure. I have had mine for almost 38 years now. They need a coat of paint from time to time. I use the plastic coated wire for the lines. They last a long time as well.
www.adasadorableaprons.blogspot.com
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kissmekate
True Blue Farmgirl
890 Posts
Kate
Delano
Minnesota
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Posted - May 10 2008 : 10:34:31 PM
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Mine came with my house, and I didn't always use them. I do have to restring them this year as the cotton ones droop too far down to be worth while.
I switched from the plastic pins to wood ones. The plastic ones just break too easy.
I haven't been able to use mine as much as I would like. The rain stops for a day or so here and there, but are usually work days. Just one weekend day that I don't already have booked up with something would be nice to get all caught up.
I love mine, because of the smell and environmental reasons, but also it makes it easier to catch up on laundry.
Don't miss out on a blessing, just because it isn't packaged the way you expected. ~MaryJo Copeland |
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Brew Crew
True Blue Farmgirl
676 Posts
Molly
Arizona
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Posted - May 11 2008 : 05:13:10 AM
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Along the lines of colored clothesline, I saw a camo print clothesline online somewhere. I just might get it. ;)
Funny Farm ramblings http://happydalehobby.blogspot.com/ |
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farmgirl blessings
True Blue Farmgirl
777 Posts
Lea
TN
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DearMildred
True Blue Farmgirl
223 Posts
Amanda
Tulsa
OK
USA
223 Posts |
Posted - May 11 2008 : 6:56:17 PM
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Go Lea! Hey, if you've got the trees, use 'em.
This is a link to the colored clothesline: http://tinyurl.com/6443wn
It takes you to an online store with a really long name, so tinyurl.com is easier
(No camo though! That's hilarious, must be for hunters?)
I think I am going to attempt to build a wooden clothesline soon - it looks like it can't be too hard. Two 4x4s and some hooks, and a few 4x2s for cross-braces. Probably not the technical term! |
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Feythe
Farmgirl in Training
32 Posts
Jana
Decatur
GA
USA
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Posted - May 11 2008 : 7:23:21 PM
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http://www.clotheslineshop.com
This web site (ClotheslineShop)has a system I'm interested in which is the pulley-type clothesline. I'd like to be able to stand on my kitchen porch, pin on a garment, reel out the line, pin on the next and so on using clothesline and pulleys. These remind me of pictures of clotheslines strong way up high between apartment buildings in decades past.
Today was a full day of high, blustery winds here in Atlanta --- too bad my towels weren't out on a line! 
Farmgirl Sister #67
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DearMildred
True Blue Farmgirl
223 Posts
Amanda
Tulsa
OK
USA
223 Posts |
Posted - May 12 2008 : 6:32:19 PM
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Ooops! I lied earlier, it's not the Vermont Country Store that makes the pretty wooden clotheslines, it's the Vermont Clothesline Company. http://www.smartdrying.com/
They sell the post style and the umbrella style. The umbrella one looks really nice too.
Anyway still determined to build mine this weekend. I'm ordering the blue clothesline too. :D
~Amanda in OK~
Tomorrow is a new day; begin it well and serenely and with too high a spirit to be encumbered by your old nonsense. -Emerson |
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Bfriday
True Blue Farmgirl
125 Posts
Jessica
Miles
TX
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Posted - May 12 2008 : 6:51:14 PM
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We asked around and found someone with big T metal poles in their backyard that they didn't want or use. You might ask around, I know 2 families off the top of my head that have nice metal poles in their backyards that they don't even use! Plain crazy I know!! We just put some in our yard yesterday! The local mom & pop hardware store had clothesline wire and sturdy clothes pins!
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