Washing clothes in the TEOTWAWKI scenario

How A Foot-Powered Washing Machine Could Change Lives

Here's an idea?

fj

 

It is not that hard to hand wash.

 

Well if you have kids then washing takes a lot of time. If just washing for yourself hand washing is easy. ... but multiply for a family you get the picture.

 

Interesting set up @reinkefj. Thanks for sharing. I always figured I would be doing washing using the below:

• Two 5-gallon buckets with one lid
• Toilet plunger (make sure it’s a newly purchased one)
• Liquid detergent (optional: stain stick)
• Vinegar
• Rope or clothesline
  
  Clothes Washing in a Grid-Down World
  

 

Facedesk.... diapers are dirty just saying

 

It looks like an economical low tech device that reduces some of the hard labour of hand washing, and enables the laundry person to do other tasks concurrently. No electricity required....add a dynamo and capacitor and you could probably charge a cell phone while doing the family dobhi wallah work.

 

The only change here will be hanging the clothesline back up...washer and well are on solar So simple, even a monkey can do it

 

This is the setup I am going to build one cold day this winter, using plastic tubs. I remember seeing my grandmother literally washing clothes in a black cast-iron wash tub over a wood fire with lye soap. Hardest working woman I have ever known. This is a vast improvement over that.

 

As a side note, I was in that slum in Lima about five years ago. The poverty was absolutely staggering.

 

You are correct, for a large part of this world's population SHTF would be a non event, it started at birth for them.