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What I learned from you: “I am thankful for my washer and dryer”. You guys rock, keep making videos.
Thank you :)
This is why we have aprons and work overalls. They really minimize the amount of laundry produced .
I grew up in the rural Midwest using a ringer washer. This was in the 80s and 90s. We had several clothes lines, and laundry day was insane. In the winter, we had a gas dryer. But we never used it in Spring, Summer or Fall. We used the ringer washer versus a regular one because our well would run dry. It was a very old dug well. Don't even get me started on all the ironing. LOL Mom now has a HE washer and loves it because you can wash clothes in a small amount of water without all the heavy work.
I did that the first 3 yrs in Alaska. This year I have a mini washer. I love it.
I didn't read all the comments so I apologize if this has been suggested, but if you hang your clothes on a clothes hanger then suspend the hangers from the clothes line, you can fit more items. I do that on my clothes line, separating each hanger with a clothes pin. It really does free up a lot more space. I love watching y'all!
Reminded me off my mom doing laundry back in the day. She had an electric Maytag washing machine and it was a knuckle eater at times. She also hung the clothes on lines in the basement. There were 8 of us kids & it was non stop plus her job out side the home. Bless her little heart over & over again. 👍👍💖💖😊
I remember my gramma doing laundry this was for a while when I was really young. About 50 years ago.
Reminds me of when(in the 70's,) I used to wash clothes in our bathtub in Paris(didn't eat pigeons like Hemmingway.) Now, at our farm, though equiped with washer and dryer, we still hang clothes out in summer and dry 90% of it all, hanging around the kitchen-dinningroom wood stove. Old habits just don't change...Great stuff...rr Normandy, Fra.
Get an oscillitating fan for them hanging clothes, it will cut your drying time down tremindouslly, we had one on our fist washing machine back in the 60s. it was elecric, though we had a crank one like yours first. Good luck n God bless, Mike in Tx.
There is nothing wrong about working hard as long as you are working smart.
A piece of sheet metal , shaped like the letter "c or a U " , set it over the 2 tube ends that meet below the roller. So water falls in one tub or the other but not between them :)
Decades ago, one great way to wash clothes without a machine was to put the clothes plus water and detergent into a big milk can (or polymer equivalent), and put it (or attach it to) one's vehicle. The bumpier the ride, the better the wash. The first half of the round trip might be the wash cycle, and the back half the first (or even final) rinse. Also, if one wants to use pedal or foot power, use it to move the plunger/agitator-not the water. On dry-cold days, hanging your clothes indoors adds humidity to the air, which vastly improves air's ability to hold and transfer heat (dry air, after all, is an insulator). One way to boost the effectiveness of a heat source in dry-cold weather is and was to place a bucket or kettle of water near the heat source. One can keep tabs on the water level by putting a few pine needles or bits of orange peel into the water. When the water runs out, your nose will receive aromatic notice. If you feel too much humidity is accumulating near the roof, a plastic or metal pipe with its upper end cut at an angle can hug the wall from roof to lower story, where it can branch, with one end aiming outdoors, and the other, in. A small, very low-voltage muffin fan can either send the moist air out, or circulate less moist air at the ground floor level.
To do the washing, get one of those blue tubs with a lid. Fit some baffles on the inside. Half fill with water, detergent and washing. Put the lid on and then roll the tub around the yard for half an hour. Washing done!
Once again, as an on grid city gal, it’s amazing the ways you have engineered your life. I’m sure it takes a lot of thinking through. Have to say I enjoy your humor and great filmmaking skills.
Susanne Galligan, thank you! Hearing that means a lot to us, I can't say we think everything through as much as we just go for it! :)
I like the choisemaking here! Old school definitely was the way to go for you guys at this moment.
I love the lights! That's beautiful!
this is a real pioneer woman
Good choice. My Granny did our laundry using a wringer, a wash-pot over a fire, a clothes stick (agitation) and me for hauling water. Those were the days. Stay strong:)
I’ve never seen anyone excited for laundry day till I saw this video lol
...but then, I realized laundry is a part of life. Why not enjoy like you guys do lol
Yup, did that as teen in Mexico. Used a stone scrub board, a bar of soap, cold rain water collected in a rusty 55 gallon barrel. Then we used the wringer to get the excess water out of the cloths. And hung until dry. It rained daily..... drying was difficult.
The wringer looks like it is fairly well made and you have a good setup. Better by far than a wash tub and scrub board. More tubs and you can have them soak while working with others. Even overnight for really tough items.
Great idea for letting them soak overnight, we found the longer they soaked the cleaner the clothes was!
This is how we did laundry when I was a kid back is the 60s in northern Minnesota. And yes, mom did hang clothes in the below zero cold too, cept for deep winter.
I grew up driving by riverbanks with people hand washing their clothes in the river and drying over the bushes - you are still pretty high tech.
Freeze-drying is a valid drying method in the winter.
I live in a dry cabin, but I have a washer/dryer and a dishwasher. I use a sump pump in a big trash can to pump water into the soap drawer of my front loader. I have washed everything in cold water for years. I use dish soap to pretreat anything greasy. I do one wash and one rinse per good sized load. It uses less than ten gallons per load and it’s possible to use the rinse water from one load as the wash water for the next if you are really trying to conserve water. A front loader doesn’t take up much space and if you are able to set up a dryer, it stacks on top and takes no extra floor space. I have city electric and my house already had 2 220W outlets. A gas dryer is an option, but I believe they need to be vented.
Love you jumping out of the clothes!
One way (an ustralian country tip) is to use your rinse water as the wash water for the next load, and start with the least soiled.
We used those sort of washing machines when I was a little boy back in the 1960's. They worked really well but I seem to remember the drain tray was slightly longer and curved to give more control of the water that was wrung out. Thank you for the trip down memory lane. Cheers.
I think doing laundry your way works fine. It worked in the old days and it works now.
My mom has been looking for a wringer for years for the cottage. Good to know we might be able to get one off Amazon! We have a little off grid summer cabin in the bush back home. We have a system of washing our laundry, which works really well for us. We use big paint buckets with lids (like those Home Depot ones with a handle) and cut a hole in the top so that you can put the handle of a small toilet plunger through. Add your laundry, water and soap to the bucket, then the plunger handle through the top! Seal and plunge to your heart's content. We also use a washing board for socks and undies. The buckets are nice because they have a handle and we can carry the water around (as we only have a hand pump). A wringer would really be the cherry on top for efficiently wringing out all that water before hanging it up to dry.
love the lights behind the couch!!
Did this in the past using an old Maytag wringer washer. Carried water from our spring and hung in the house as well as freeze dried them outside in the winter. Works well.
Great place to enjoy nature. Once you get the clothes wet with the detergent and mixed up a bit, let them soak for 20-30 minutes. The enzymes work on the dirt also. Yes the humidity helps a lot in the house with drying clothes. Outdoor winter drying can be done but it takes a couple days. The 1st day they freeze and overnight and the next day they freeze dry. By the 3 day at the longest they will be completely dry. I dry outside so I don't have the clothes and towels hanging all over.
w8lftr, thank you! Great advice, we tried drying one thing outside only for a few hours just to kinda experiment but I had no idea about the process you described, good to know for the future. And yes, we have found letting the clothes soak makes a big difference :)
This would fun and entertaining exactly once lol ...... then I would be seeking out a laundromat and making that a monthly date night :)
Exactly! They have those HUGE ones that hold several lbs. of clothes. My arm would fall off doing it that way. 😫
Demo very good. I grew up with a wringer washer. My mom would use one washer to wash and one to rinse. It was a MAYTAG but electric. She found that the wringer clothes were a bit too wet so she got an Easy Spin MAYTAG washer. We re used the water. Whites first, then light color then finally darks. She had running water only cold we had to heat water for hot. Clothes were hung to dry in the basement in winter and on out side close line. Close will freeze first then they dry. Amazing how it happens. The wringer you have is like the one we used at the State Park to wring out our swim suits after swimming in the lake. You are a very ambitious lady. Washing clothes was an all day affair. 💕. NonnaGrace
NonnaGrace, thank you! We did consider it an all day affair! For now we really seem to be enjoying it :)
Wow so much has changed in a year and a half
I remember this system being used on the farm in the sixties. Then we got electricity. And my brother who was two at the time stuck his hand in the ringer. Went right up to his shoulder. Lucky someone was there to release it.
My grandmother had an electric open top washer with a wringer attached. It would “dance” around the pump house and terrified me. 🤣
This brought back some really good memories! We used to put the wringer washer outside in the summer. I honestly loved doing the laundry! In the winter we cheated and took laundry to the laundromat in Palmer, it was during the 70s so a bit cheaper!
Great idea, we are planning to eventually have a room for the laundry process but for now setting up inside will have to do (although I can't wait to dry the clothes outside). I am just financially stubborn, but understand the cost of a laundromat is well worth it to some :)
Very impressed with your clothes hanging skills😁 We have a wringer just like yours and used it for a year until we moved into our cabin from our travel trailer (Arctic Fox👍😁) It does take a long ass time to hand-wash. Yikes‼️But, it works pretty well for sure. Since we have 48 volt solar system in our cabin, we can now run a full-size washer, which cut down our laundry time tremendously.
I admire your teamwork, strength, courage and persistence. I wonder, does going back to a harder way of living help you appreciate more the smaller things in life? I feel like it would, I'm so tempted to try. Anyways, always great videos, thx guys.
Sometimes when my laundry line gets full, I use plastic hangers. I can put 5-6 socks on there with pins, but only take up the space of one sock. Other obvious applications too.
Make Rand, I agree with you. I usually hang all my clothes on hangars, then hang 'em on the clothes line outside. Doesn't take as much space on your line & when clothes are dry, you just hang 'em in the closet = done with laundry! I live in Phoenix, AZ, year round everything dries pretty quick & I save 'cuz not using the dryer (it's there for emergencies.) Currently, using maytag washer - it doesn't use as much energy as dryer. Just need to setup grey water to drain into my citrus trees. Good luck with your setup, it looks really efficient!
You're a great team.
This contraption is very useful !!! If all our washing machines broke ,,, we would not know what to do ! Thanks for sharing !
Popping out of the clothes was smart, funny too. Where all reality, there's been people hide in people's closet, under their beds and everything else. Where someone has broke in, then about to be found out, where burrowing under clothes I haven't heard of, but sure it's been done.
Mangles always needed clothes to be folded , and buttons to be folded inside.Unfolded clothes just press in extra wrinkles! If it is that easy to turn then maybe you are not screwing it down enough. For towels etc make it as hard as you can!
Whew I would hate to go back to that. I remember those days of feeding the wringer washer. Loved it because your could get several washings out of the same water. Clothes actually came out cleaner then, I think. We had a pulley system out the dinning room window that went to a tree and back. Hung all of our clothes out for years.
Q.) Why do Alaskans wash their clothes in Tide?
A.) Too cold out tide!
You guys rock!
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I loved the snow covered evergreens as you were driving.
Okay call me ol' fashion but I am still partial to the rippled scrub board. But the ringer is cool. Also, back in the day,( never thought I'd be old enough to use that line) we would boil the clothes and sheets and hang them out to dry. Yeah, you're in Alaska but you do have a greenhouse.
Wringers were invented in the 1800s so they're pretty old fashioned
Believe it or not, but you can also use a small amount of Dawn dish soap to wash your clothes to help remove the body oils from your clothing... Semper Fi!!!
Charles Guerra that's a great tip we have some rags to wash and will give it a try thank you!
😃omg u guys look like babies!!!! I love this video!!! I cracked up when Arielle put on the frozen sweater lol 😂 I didn’t know ur home had stairs! That’s so awesome. 😊 good stuff man
We had no washer and dryer when we first moved to our little farmstead. I had a washboard , my tub and a wringer from an old wringer washer that I recycled. Just a suggestion. Use a Fels-naptha bar for removing stains and use a old fifty gallon drum cut in half and build a fire under it for whites ,ass some fels naptha shavings and some laundry detergent and BOOM - your whites will never be white. I always threw a few pieces of burnt wood in also and it helped to "bleach" the whites with a little touch of lye.
turtlehair72 thank you :)
OMG, this reminds me of when I was a kid, living in PA in the late 70s... we had one of those old fashioned ones and a favorite memory of mine was daring my brother to put his fingers into the automated rollers! He of course did & even though he was elbow deep into the rollers, I couldn't run to tell my mom & help him. I was laughing HYSTERICALLY at the sight of him yelling, with his 9 or 10 year old arm, being crunched in there!!!! We laughed about it many years later, but it was probably not a good idea at the time! LOL I lost him a few years ago at the age of 47, so thank you for letting me remember the "good 'ol times" !! Hugs, from Mesa, AZ
Very cool guys! Definitely taking a step back into the old ways. We recently invested in a single unit washer/dryer. It's also ventless and uses a condenser to dry the clothes. It's about 3 feet tall and 2 foot by 2 foot footprint. It's *super* energy efficient. A full load is close to 3 hours from start to finish. Might be a little early for you guys with the small solar setup, but something to consider in the future if you want to go that route. It's made by Haier. Hopefully we get a little review up soon on the unit. Very cool twinkly lights!!
This is similar to what we looked into, Eric wanted to go this route but I was stubborn and wanted to do it the hard way! Definitely something to look into for the future, thanks! That would probably help us do smaller loads more frequently too :)
Wilderstead I have the same unit. I'm just using it as a washer and hanging the clothes to dry. The other nice thing is it just requires a regular electric plug.
Those old twin tubs are the best as you can use the rinse water from one load for the next wash load and they don’t seem to pull heaps of power I remember my mum having one of those early electric mashing with a ringer over the top she was always paranoid that I would get my fingers caught in the wringer if I helped which of corse I wanted to help all the time
I have washed clothes on an old wringer washer lots of time. It is a slow process but it works.
My Momma had an electric ringer washer when I grew up. That thing rung the clothes out almost dry. It brings joy to me seeing the frozen coat, I remember hanging the clothes on the line and they would freeze instantly but amazingly they'd be dry. Just had to bring them in to defrost, haha! Glad this works out for ya.
Sojourner, we would have loved one of these, we couldn't find any in the area and the ones we found online couldn't be shipped here.
@@SimpleLivingAlaska Oh phooey, that stinks they wouldn't ship it. I imagine they'd be hard to find today, I never thought to even look.
just what my mother used back in the 40s and very early 50s.
Mom had an early washing machine with the wringer like you have attached. When I was 3, in Denver, I was fascinated with the rollers---one going one way and the other the opposite---and stuck my thumb in between them. I am 75 now and still carry the scar on my left thumb from that lesson. Never saw my mom move so fast in my life! She hit the release, checked my thumb, and gave me a wooden spoon cure!
KlazyY, ouch! I believe your talking about the electric washer wringers. I could only imagine, ours can pinch us if we are spinning too fast.
Yup, it was back in '46 and there was electricity in Denver back in those ancient times, lol. Did a number on me, for sure!@@SimpleLivingAlaska
Wow. I haven't seen or used a wringer since the 70's. You guys are too young to have experienced that. Now all you are missing is the old fashioned washboard with the ridges. 😄
Love this video 👍
very nice,,gotta do laundry ! I have no problem with skipping the trip and the exspensive costs ! stay home,,comfy,,clean n freash ! Free !
Hahahaha I scared the cats, so funny Ariel
CUTE FISH, made me giggle...
I use a mini washer in my house after my washing machine died. I love it!!! Nice way to do small loads and save water!!
My wife, daughter and I enjoyed this. It was a series of wow moments. Thanks.
Here's a link for Lehmans' catalog. Amish living things. Propane freezers and such, lights, lamps, etc.
A tips, keep a piece of wax paper between the rollers kn your wringer, eventually they can stick together and it rips pieces of the roller.
Also check out Lehmans for their version of a james washer for laundry.
My great grandmother had a Maytag wringer washer. I remember feeding the clothes through the wringer. This brought back memories.
Even the old wringer washer had issues with jeans and other thick items. Once you get a system going I'm sure everything will get worked out. Your doing great.
Great video thanks again
You guys are not afraid of working that's for sure! maybe you down to the river with some dynamite if it's not expensive to clear a little ice and bash the laundry on a rock, could be fun too. Respect from Scotland
Awesome guys. We always hang to dry. Best method. Raised 3 kids on cloth diapers that way. Did have and still do electric wash machine but always have a wringer for backup. Rock on! Keep the momentum up.
I am sitting here smiling. My mother had a washing machine that had the wringer on it. I remember, so clearly, here washing clothes on the back porch.
This method is probably so much easier on your clothes than mechanical washing machines.
I love you two, great spirits both of you. Laundry setup seems like it should work for you. Like you said getting used to it ,etc.. you will figure it out soon enough.
Great video buys, The little washers work really good to😊 I live in a 28 foot 2014 trail light it fits in my bathtub perfect. I need to get a set up like you guys got for backup.
Hello Guys! Where I live in FL sometimes the clothes my kids and I use have to be washed by hand (I'm a single parent) and wringing it by hand tortures me sometimes. This seems like a viable option for me. Thank You for making this video.
Not always we have to be in the countryside to enjoy low tech options.
That nice that worked together
You need to tighten the tensioner on the wringer. It should be harder to get thick things thru and they should come out drier than that
I enjoy watching all your programs all these things I learnt grown up with my mother and grandmother I'll be definitely watching your programs I really enjoy it I live in New Zealand🤗
I grew up using a wringer washer so this brought back memories especially getting my fingers stuck in the wringer as a kid. We had an antique washer plunger on the farm like the new one that you have and we also had a wash board. We had an electric spinner to get most of the water out after the wringer and then it was out to the line so the clothes could dry, winter or summer. We also had a hand pump antique wringer washer with an agitator in the middle of the metal tub at our lake cabin. Good job on doing all that laundry and thank you triggering all those memories for me. You are true inspirations!
Use a wash board or find a big rock to use to get stains out. Boiling the clothes in hot water will loosen the dirt.
We have a similar situation in australia but most rural areas have what is called rob which stand for road side mail an at the end of your road or the nearest main road inter section has a small pull off area for the mail service to pull up along side a selection of mail boxes some people get really inventive with what they use as a mail box they ar not generally locked so if you are expecting something costly or valuable you would arrange for the post office to hold it for you to pick up one of the most common mail boxes are made out of old fashioned galvanised milk cherns which with the decline of small dairies became common un use sight on farms
My grandma had a roller to ring the water out of the clothes, similar to yours. She used a scrubbing washboard to get the dirt out of the clothes which she washed in her big sink on the back porch. PS. I’m glad you don’t have an electric roller! I once worked with a lady who got her arm caught in one & the roller went all the way to her upper arm before the roller could be stopped. She had a terrible deformity on her arm because of that. Simple is best! PPS. Have you seen the little plastic washer that you can use for small things like delicates? You just use water from your sink & a little soap. When done, it collapses flat for easy storage. I’m really enjoying your videos! So much better than watching the news! Simple Living Alaska is great for lowering my blood pressure & living vicariously through you & your wonderful adventures!
Been there,done it!
You know, if you're near salt water, make a container, then pull it behind your boat. It needs enough weight to hold it down, but saltwater will clean the clothes. Even making whites white again. Clean salt water.
When I was a boy in the 50s I used to help my grandmother use a wringer, electric, then hang the clothes out side. Good memories.
Your laundry reminds me washing with hot soapy water in round zinc 'balia' cyllindric vessel of diam.abt.1 yard with 2white drums' hand drying device. Now that your solar batteries can supply DC12V current, there's a safety method of make the soapy solution running around the tank. You need a small abt.100W 12VDC submersible pump only!
Great video.
Try to dry your clothes outside in the winter you would love it it's smells so fresh and dry very well special if it's really cold
Did anyone else fully expect her to say they hang their clothes to dry on those antlers? 😄🦌
I have the mini washer and a dryer and live almost off grid and they are very cost efficient and I love them , they also get clothes really clean .
We call the plunger a "posser" which we would use in a dolly tub. My mother used one when I was little.
I wouldn't worry about the wet clothes. The humidity it adds to the house has to be pleasant.
As many times as I have watched this I've never caught the sunglasses on the deer! Cute!
Love the popping out of the laundry. Haha! I was wondering about the clothes still being wet enough to drip while hanging. Even so, I really like the idea of a manual system to conserve water and not use additional electricity. I did a few loads last summer in a tub outside and then tried wringing the clothes out by twisting them in my hands. That tended to stretch some of the clothes in weird ways so a device like yours would be a better solution. That must have been cold as all get out putting on that frozen coat. LOL!.
The clothes DID drip, not a tremendous amount but enough to make it feel like we were living in the PNW again. We have been surviving with 20% humidity (at best) with the woodstove going and we got all the way up to a whopping 47% during those two days, it was a relief to have some real moisture in the air. The clothes that hung on a string did have a less than ideal line once dried but they were fine after a quick shake. Definitely some more troubleshooting for us :)
Hang the clothes on hangers!
@@SimpleLivingAlaska Keep a kettle or pot of water on the wood stove during the winter to up your humidity. We always set a pot of water on forced air heater vents during the winter with the same purpose.
Tips: Grab a spray bottle of water and put your favorite detergent or soap in it to use to spray on stains and pretreat the laundry. Hold up a wet shirt with buttons and give it a shake. Now fold the left part of the shirt behind it and then to the right side. It will look like you are folding it as if to put it away if it was dried. Now run that wet shirt through the rollers. By folding the two sides in back, you will get more water out and the buttons will be on top of the shirt FLAT going through the rollers that way they do not get broken. People would just grab a shirt and throw it up into the roller and buttons would break. My grandmother used to not only do laundry but she was a seamstress and fixed hundreds of shirts for people. She was always amazed that someone, male or female, didn't know how to sew a button back on. Also remember to go around and shake and reposition your laundry as it is drying. Without the air to blow it around outside, they will dry stiff and take odd shapes while just hanging over a rack or rail. Pre-treating area's like the inside of the collars, under the armpits , dirty socks, etc. allows the more concentrated detergent to penetrate those stains so when they are thrown in the laundry, they come out a lot cleaner then not treating them.
I have an old Maytag wringer washer and I luuuuuv it. But yes, hard to source and difficult finding parts. Doing laundry outside on a cooler sunny day is nice.
I absolutely despise laundromats. As many have stated before, this makes me appreciate my beautiful big washer and dryer. In your situation, i would have invested in the portable washing machine. My mother in law lives in a tiny apartment and i got her one. They work wonderfully well, you can reuse the water if you wish but they spin the clothes almost completely dry. Your choice works though and even though the wringer was a little pricey , over time it will pay for itself .