Pulley Clothes Line

[allenlondon]

Looking for a pulley clothes line kit that I can give to my builder and ask him to assemble.

Idea is that Mrs A will stand on our raised decking, peg clothes to the line, and ‘pulley’ them down into the garden.

There are US versions on the web, but more difficult locating a UK supplier.

Ideas welcomed.

Ta.

Allen

[chelle7272]

https://www.ebay.co.uk/sch/i.html?_from=R40&_trksid=p2499334.m570.l1313&_nkw=wash+line+pulley&;_sacat=81241

https://www.linepost.co.uk/

[TonyV]

You could source parts required from local builders merchants, but may be better to let your builder supply and fit parts, then no comeback on you if it doesn't work.

[TonyV]

Chelle cannot believe some of those prices !!!

[bednobs]

I wonder whether remap would help you? as they help disabled people rather than dodderers (sorry!) you might have to be the one to say you need it rather than your wife, as I think your leg number problem might sway it https://www.remap.org.uk/can-we-help-you/
they are a charity that makes custom equipment for disabled people. They are made up of mainly retired engineers who love a problem to think about and overcome! I have used them 3 times. The first time they made a custom bit of equipment for me, the second time they recommended something I could buy off the shelf that would overcome the problem and the third time they adapted something I had already

[bednobs]

also when they have been pulleyed into th garden, will someone go and peg them out or will they need to be pegged onto the pulley first and reach the garden drying-ready?

[TonyV]

Bednobs think plan is that washing line extends over decking so it can be wound out and in, someone needs to "eyeball it" to see what excactly is needed.

[TonyV]

Bednobs never new remap existed, sounds like a good group of guys and girls.

[barry1010]

You can use any clothes line with this pulley.
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[allenlondon]

Thanks bednobs (on many levels).

No, pegged then pulleyed. We’ve got the height at the house end (decking is 5 foot off the ground - we walk from living room out onto it) and builder says making the existing fixed pole (down the garden) a few feet taller is no problem.

[bednobs]

Ok I was imagining a bag full of the clothes pulled down the garden then someone going down there. I hope you weren't offended by the reference to dodderyness.

[allenlondon]

Thanks barry but we want a long loop (continuous) like this:
https://www.skylineclotheslines.com/product/pulley-clothesline-kit-8-inch/

which looks the job, but as yet I haven’t been able to find one in the UK.

A

[allenlondon]

Not at all, bednobs. Mrs A has congestive heart failure, which has hit her hard.

I’m okay, but an ill-fitting plastic leg makes me very doddery on uneven ground!

A

[allenlondon]

Ending up with Tony’s suggestion.

Brits use tumble dryers, not washing lines.

The simplest way was to buy two 5” pulley wheels (actually gym equipment), brackets, etc.

A