Originally Posted by jemma
what was the length of wood with a notch used to raise and tighten the line----our first line went from our house eves to a branch on our red river gum tree--40 years ago that branch is now 2 meters higher than the house
We called ours the clothes prop. It was an extending one, i.e. in two pieces that overlapped, and one could be pushed up to make it longer so that it lifted up the line to keep the washing off the ground.