# I love my Hills Hoist. **URL:** \ **Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\ **Created:** [February 23, 2008, 9:08am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-love-my-hills-hoist/438834 "2008-02-23T09:08:01Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 5\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![kambuckta](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/53a042/32.png) [@kambuckta](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/kambuckta)\ **Post date:** [February 23, 2008, 9:08am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-love-my-hills-hoist/438834/1 "2008-02-23T09:08:01Z")
If you don’t know what a [Hilla Clothesline](http://www.hills.com.au/) is, I’m sorry for your deprivation. I’ve got one of the ancient Hoists (with a bung lifter and a mangled mangle), but it is still _sooooo_ good to be able to bung FOUR wash loads on the line. What is more entertaining is watching the clothes dance around like maniacs when the southerly wind blows in. I love my Hills Hoist. No other clothes line does it for me like Hills does. 😛 How do you dry your clothes?? ---
**Author:** ![Ice\_Wolf](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/i/dfb087/32.png) [@Ice\_Wolf](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ice_Wolf)\ **Post date:** [February 23, 2008, 10:47am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-love-my-hills-hoist/438834/2 "2008-02-23T10:47:59Z")
A four-line T-bar clothesline at present, which sucks (and sags) and will be replaced by a Hills as soon as I reach that part of the budget priorities. ---
**Author:** ![Cunctator](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/43a26b/32.png) [@Cunctator](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Cunctator)\ **Post date:** [February 23, 2008, 11:42am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-love-my-hills-hoist/438834/3 "2008-02-23T11:42:22Z")
On a line similar to **Ice Wolf’s**. I don’t have space for a full-blown Hills - more’s the pity. But my washing still dries quite nicely. I have a dryer, but it only gets used when it’s very wet, or during the six weeks around July-August when I get very little sun in my backyard. ---
**Author:** ![phall0106](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/phall0106/32/5934_2.png) [@phall0106](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/phall0106)\ **Post date:** [February 23, 2008, 11:54am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-love-my-hills-hoist/438834/4 "2008-02-23T11:54:49Z")
In the summer, I use this [handy drying rack](http://www.ikea.com/us/en/catalog/categories/rooms/laundry/10463/) which I have set up in the basement (where my washer is located). In the winter, though, I use the gas dryer. ---
**Author:** ![Tabithina](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/f04885/32.png) [@Tabithina](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Tabithina)\ **Post date:** [February 23, 2008, 12:04pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-love-my-hills-hoist/438834/5 "2008-02-23T12:04:01Z")
Ah, this thread is really making me wish spring would hurry up and get here! I had heard of Hill Hoists before, but I don’t think we can buy them here, but I found this: [http://www.amazon.com/Lehigh-Capacity-Parallel-Clothes-LA84P-1/dp/B0009WG6O8/ref=pd\_bbs\_sr\_1?ie=UTF8&s=hi&qid=1203766327&sr=8-1](http://www.amazon.com/Lehigh-Capacity-Parallel-Clothes-LA84P-1/dp/B0009WG6O8/ref=pd_bbs_sr_1?ie=UTF8&s=hi&qid=1203766327&sr=8-1) I keep wishing I had one of these, so I may treat myself in time for spring. I put it in my Amazon cart for now. Right now I’d have to chip through ice to set it up. Stupid winter! To answer the question-- I use an electric dryer, or hang clothes on drip-dry hangers and hang them off of the shower curtain rod. I have been dyeing lots of wool yarn lately, often using Kool Aid drink mix for the brighter colors, so it’ll be good to send that “fruity petting zoo” smell outside. For now, I hang my wool over hangers on the shower rod. The yarn does not smell fruity anymore once it is dry, but while it is drying—blech! I think my family will be glad once I get a laundry hoist! 😛