OT ? about clothes on the line in winter

[Cheyenne Ranger, 48747L]

being a Southern boy I was wondering if you wash your clothes and hang them on the line and they freeze out there . . . then what do you do?

 

can freezing clothes 'dry' on the line?

 

do you have to bring them in to defrost and dry them?

 

always wondered and realized a bunch of cowfolk live in the northern part of our country and would know the answers first hand

 

cheyenne

[Marshal Hangtree]

Hang 'em in front of the fireplace.

[Major E A Sterner #12916]

That's what clothes dryers were invented for...

[Michigan Slim]

Remember my mom using a wringer and hanging them on the line in winter. Dry air works well.  Amish have them out all year too.

[Dead River Den, SASS#915]

Yep hang em by the woodstove, use a  piece of foam insulation for the outhouse seat too, makes it more comfortable

[Crooked River Pete, SASS 43485]

My mother always hung her clothes out in the winter, she said the water froze, then the wind snapped the cloth back and forth breaking the ice off. She said she got her whitest sheets in the winter.

[Edward R S Canby, SASS#59971]

Sublimation is the process by which a solid material turns directly to a gas.  Think of ice cubes slowly shrinking in your freezer compartment.  Through sublimation clothes can slowly dry in freezing weather.

[Dustin Checotah]

1 hour ago, Edward R S Canby, SASS#59971 said:

Sublimation is the process by which a solid material turns directly to a gas.  Think of ice cubes slowly shrinking in your freezer compartment.  Through sublimation clothes can slowly dry in freezing weather.

What he said.

 

[Hardcase Hardin]

Kinda how they make freeze dried coffee, ain't it?

[Sedalia Dave]

I have seen fabric damaged when frozen solid and then bent.  Great grandma hung her's on a line near the stove.

[Doc McCoy, SASS #8381]

12 hours ago, Edward R S Canby, SASS#59971 said:

Sublimation is the process by which a solid material turns directly to a gas.  Think of ice cubes slowly shrinking in your freezer compartment.  Through sublimation clothes can slowly dry in freezing weather.

I never heard it explained that well, but it is (was) well known up here.  Not too many hang them out in winter any more.

[Smoken D]

Hang them indoors, above freezing outside.

[Rye Miles #13621]

14 hours ago, Cheyenne Ranger, 48747L said:

being a Southern boy I was wondering if you wash your clothes and hang them on the line and they freeze out there . . . then what do you do?

 

can freezing clothes 'dry' on the line?

 

do you have to bring them in to defrost and dry them?

 

always wondered and realized a bunch of cowfolk live in the northern part of our country and would know the answers first hand

 

cheyenne

Have you been talking to Alpo???

[Cheyenne Ranger, 48747L]

10 hours ago, Hardcase Hardin said:

Kinda how they make freeze dried coffee, ain't it?

 

they hang coffee on clothes lines?  

[Hardcase Hardin]

12 minutes ago, Cheyenne Ranger, 48747L said:

 

they hang coffee on clothes lines?  

They freeze dry it tho.  Albeit at extremely low temps.

[Dustin Checotah]

4 hours ago, Hardcase Hardin said:

They freeze dry it tho.  Albeit at extremely low temps.

And in a vacuum.

[Alpo]

5 hours ago, Rye Miles #13621 said:

Have you been talking to Alpo???

I asked that question a good five years ago - maybe more.

 

My theory was the water in the clothes turns to ice, you whack 'em with a broom handle, the outer ice flakes of, leaving more water to freeze.

 

I was told that ain't how it works.

[Marshal Dan Troop 70448]

20 hours ago, Michigan Slim said:

Remember my mom using a wringer and hanging them on the line in winter. Dry air works well.  Amish have them out all year too.

Yup, mom hung them out during the winter also. MT

[Null N. Void]

I lived with my grandmother for a couple of years in Buffalo, NY.  She never had a dryer.  Winter or summer, the clothes went on the line on the porch.  They always dried, slower in winter than the summer.  No damage to anything that was put on the line.

[Michigan Slim]

And they are soft with a great smell to them.

[Driftwood Johnson, SASS #38283]

Howdy

 

Yup, sublimation.

 

But I use a dryer.