Installing New Clothesline
I live on the 5th floor of a brownstone. We have a clothesline ladder in the yard but there is no line attached to it. I would love to string up a new line so that I could use it. If we were on a lower floor I think we could climb it to install…
I live on the 5th floor of a brownstone. We have a clothesline ladder in the yard but there is no line attached to it. I would love to string up a new line so that I could use it. If we were on a lower floor I think we could climb it to install the pulley and rope but not at our height. Has anyone installed a new line or have suggestions as to how to do it?
easy, shoot a zip line over with a crossbow. then once it gets dark out put on your ninja outfit and scale the wire to the pole where you can easily thread the new rope through.
crossbow.
Oh, here’s a thought, maybe you could go to your local fire dept and ask one of the fireman, (after work) for a few bucks to climb the pole and connect the clothesline for you.
If nothing else firemen are used to climbing ladders, at great heights so that shouldn’t be a problem for them.
I think it’s a good idea???
*rob*
why is it anytime anyone mentions a clothesline people such as yourself always go right to the “underware aspect” of it, and not wanting to see it…
Other items such as sheets, towels and pants are also dried on it as well.
And as for the tennant’s of the below floors, it doesn’t matter, because the clothes do not block their windows, and besides, that is why these ladders were put in the back yards in the first place. To dry the clothes for free.
I would doubt that anyone really looks at peoples laundry with a fine toth comb anyway…..
Our courtyard has about 16 clotheslines all attatched to our ladder, and no one seems the least bothered, besides, its only clothes, it is nothing terrible……
I am seriously pro clothesline.
Maybe you could float a helium balloon with a light line attached to it. Guide it over the pulley & pull it back down. Trade the light line for a heavier one & pull it back up. Enough jockeying & you might be able to do it. Failing that, hire a Yankees pitcher to toss a line.
Oh, a clothesline, my favorite thing in the world.
Yes, we have a clothesline ladder like that in out courtyard also, as I am on the 4th floor.
I am afraid to climb it, but I got one of the neighborhood boys to do it for 50 bucks. Young boys are not afraid of anything….so that is how I solved the problem.
I just make sure now that as the years go by, when i see the rope looking to fray, i will attatch a new line to the old one by sewing it together, and reeling it thru the pulley, avoiding anyone having to climb the ladder again. Our ladder has probably been here since the year of the flood, but was made to last the test of time.
rob these ladders are usually at the far end of the yard
you could also anchor a bungie cord on your roof and tie it to yourself as you climb up the ladder.. if the ladder falls at least you’ll be safe.
*rob*
I watched one of those things fall like a big tree during a backyard beer party. A guy scrambled up it on a dare. Maybe call a local tree trimming place and see if they know who would climb it if they won’t.