@rowlandscastle444 on a positive note regarding tilting rotary airers, my missus can reach the top line if she works at the lowest point. If it was level I think she would be 2 or 3 rows in. Not so much a 'first world' problem as a short ar*e problem.
Ours has sunk an inch or two, so my wife can reach the top lines, despite being a little vertically challenged.
Our rotary drier belonged to my parents, and Mum was about my height - so they chose one which was a little lower than the current 4-arm versions, so I can reach the top lines ok.
We didn't like the idea of stuffing concrete into the lawn, but it's very wet in this part of Ireland and we reckoned if we just hammered the spike in, it would very soon start to lean...
Since 2019 I've lived in east Clare, in the west of Ireland.
When we had a Brabantia it came with a socket that was permanently cemented into the ground then the whirligig big just slotted in. We only had a tiny back yard so we had the socket fixed in the middle of a round piece of stone paving so when the line wasn’t being used we put it in the shed and had a round patio. 😊
Gardening in Central Norfolk on improved gritty moraine over chalk ... free-draining.
Oh, forgot to say that ours is on a (slight) slope - no alternative in this garden (unless we put it on the front lawn, which the neighbours might not approve of). Not such a slope that the bath towels scrape the lawn though.
Since 2019 I've lived in east Clare, in the west of Ireland.
We had a socket for a rotary line so stored the line in the shed over winter. Could we find the hole next time we needed to hang the washing out? It had vanished completely and 7 years later has still never been found.
We had a socket for a rotary line so stored the line in the shed over winter. Could we find the hole next time we needed to hang the washing out? It had vanished completely and 7 years later has still never been found.
I keep a short bamboo cane in our rotary line hole. The number of times I've dashed across the lawn - and tripped over it, breaking it in the process!!
We had a bright red cap for the socket of ours. At least we stood a fighting chance of finding that. It would still have been a battle this year as we couldn't cut the grass for the first time until about the middle of May because the ground was so wet.
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We didn't like the idea of stuffing concrete into the lawn, but it's very wet in this part of Ireland and we reckoned if we just hammered the spike in, it would very soon start to lean...
Gardening in Central Norfolk on improved gritty moraine over chalk ... free-draining.