Clothes Line

This handy little clothes dryer is not energy star rated, yet uses zero kWh of electricity to dry a load of clothes:

My wife is a good soul. She indulges my eccentricity for the most part and goes along with my schemes. Occasionally, I think she is even mildly entertained by them.

Using the clothes line requires a little extra effort. Instead of grabbing the load of wet clothes out of the washer, and pitching them into the dryer located a few feet away, they are put in a basket and schlepped out side to be hung individually on a line using clothes pins. That alone requires a lot of bending and straightening, not to mention subjecting oneself to the sun, wind and whatever insects happen to be in the area. Also, the wild animals, we can not forget the wild animals that lurk in the forest behind our house, ready… waiting…

Then they need to be taken down when they are dry.

But those are the sacrifices that have to be endured.

As for the clothes line itself, I made it out of two eight foot posts made of Black Locust about 45 feet apart and some UV resistant rope strung between them at eye level. It does stretch a little, but by and large keeps the clean clothes from touching the ground.