Monday I fixed my clothesline. I last repaired the clothesline the end of May and beginning of June in 2011. (https://tallpinesranch.blogspot.com/2011/07/clothesline.html)
I didn't realize it at the time but the wooden posts seen below had not been treated. Even though I had poured concrete around the posts, that did not keep one post from rotting. I believe water soaked down into the concrete surrounding part of the post. Last week as I was taking laundry off the clothesline I brushed against one post and discovered the post was only being held upright by the clothesline and also the wire attached to the building.
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| 2011 |
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| Old post and railroad tie for new post |
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| Old post being held up. |
So I removed the post, dug out the concrete around the rotting post in the ground, and installed a railroad tie as a new post. Since I have now a railroad tie as a post I didn't put new concrete around the tie to hold it in place.
I hadn't planned on completing the fix on Monday but since I was on a roll I kept going. But I made a mistake. I attached the clothesline ropes before I attached the post to the building. Because the post was now a railroad tie and not a round post I had to modify the attachment wire so that is why I waited. By the time I modified the wire the clothesline ropes had pulled the tie in a little bit. I tried using the tractor to push against the tie to hold it upright but the pressure from the tie rolled the tractor back slightly when I took the tractor out of gear. I eventually got the attachment wire kind of snug to hold the tie in place. Not perfect, but good enough.
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