Anyone tried this hand-powered clothes washer?
 

http://www.laundry-alternative.com/p...onderwash.html

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Yep. Works great and uses not much water or soap. We only test washed. We have a low water and power using, american made, big clothes washer, and bought that in case of total grid outage.

It does not hold much, but more than you might think.

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My brother had one of those in 1972 and he loved it. It cost about 2/3 of a week's wages at that time.

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Those were pretty cool videos. One thing I noticed right off. With that Wonderwasher, you would want to attach it to a table or something, so you don't have to bend over to use it. Also, you would want a "clean" place to do laundry, hopefully someplace dedicated to it, where you wouldn't worry about dropping your freshly rinsed shirt in the dirt.
On the subject of water conservation, a commercial laundry here in town disposes of wash water to sewer, but reuses rinse water as the next wash water. If you have a dedicated water heater (not your pans in which you cook food), then you could do that as well.
Thanks.

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We've got one. Seems to work fine. Just make sure you don't overload the thing or you just end up with a lump of soapy clothes. We've also got the spin dryer they sell and it gets the clothes fairly dry. Dry enough to hang for a little bit or iron and put away. Definitely cheaper to use than a coventional washer and dryer.

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My wife likes the idea of an old-fashioned wringer on a utility sink. Do they still make those?

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They're easy enough to find at estate auctions.

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I use the poor man's method: a clean, UNUSED toilet plunger (as an agitator) and a 5 gallon bucket. It's a bonus if you have a lid that fits and can drill a hole the same size as the plunger handle (splashes less).

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There's always this...

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That reminds me of when my daughter was an exchange student in Ecuador. She got her clothes back from the laundry and her panties had holes in them. So she went to the laundry to complain. She found out that a laundry in Ecuador means a man takes the clothes out in the river and rubs them on a rock until they come clean.

I couldn't tell if she was more horrified by her expensive drawers being ruined or by the discovery that some MAN had been handling them!

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The redneck doing field laundry on youtube lost me when he talked about reducing the g-forces.
It's close to the 4 minute mark. I'm still laughing...