I want to install a clothesline from my deck to the yard. The deck is 12' in the air and the yard drops off

Question

about another 10'. All my trees are young, except at the back of the property, which is about 200' and near the creek. I would like to string a clothesline from the deck to about 25' into the yard. Anyone know a reliable, safe and inexpensive way to solve my problem? The laundry room is right off the deck and easy to access, I have one rusty pole installed in the yard that I am growing jasmine on and a set new in the box in the basement, but I really don't want to walk down all the stairs on the deck with full loads of wet and dry laundry. Any ideas? All will be greatly appreciated! I've had a clothesline everywhere I have lived, even once stringing it up between two upstairs apartments, with the permission of the landlords. But I stripped the yard of all the overgrown weed trees and am left with a clean and pretty yard, but dragging laundry up and down stairs isn't what I had in mind. Thanks for any help all!

Answer 1

Install a 4X4 post in the ground with concrete put a pulley on the top of the post and one on the deck, run a clothesline through both pulleys and tie the ends together. Hang and remove clothes without leaving the deck by just pulling the rope as you hang or un-hang. I suggest a 16 foot 4X4 pressure treated post with at least 3 foot planted in the ground.

Answer 2

Get a 4 x 4 post 10 or 12 feet long and install a pully on one side of the top of the post.  I would sink it in cement to be sure it remains securely upright.  Attach a pully to the side of your house accessible from the deck and run clothesline between the 2 pullies.  Voila! A clothesline!

Answer 3

Sounds like your only options are a sturdy 20 or 30 ft flag pole reinforced with guy wires, or a really long sturdy rope up in the tree at the back of the property, You could tie your cloths line rope pulley to the end of the long sturdy rope, throw it over a high limb and pull it up into the tree , then tie off the end of the rope.