Please help identify this tool.

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Re: Please help identify this tool.

#11 Post by zipgun » Mon Oct 08, 2012 8:42 pm

By Christ ,I'd forgotten those wooden tongs , are we all over 50 ? Don't recall a mangle in our household ,but we did have a "tin bath", and an outdoor bog..We was poor.. :)

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Re: Please help identify this tool.

#12 Post by Mitsuru » Mon Oct 08, 2012 9:56 pm

Zipgun, I got one of those washers from a charity shop for my first
house. The charity shop said "we don't know how to work it" so I
got it for a fiver!

I am not over 50, I'm 36. My second washing machine was a twintub,
and the first modern washing machine I had before moving back into
my parents, mother broke with her horse blankets :evil:

As for those woodern tongs, well they still get used to pick up dirty
laundry and push them around in a bucket of hot soapy water if they
are that bad! (remember my dads a plumber)
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Re: Please help identify this tool.

#13 Post by mach1rob » Mon Oct 08, 2012 11:25 pm

zipgun wrote:By Christ ,I'd forgotten those wooden tongs , are we all over 50 ? Don't recall a mangle in our household ,but we did have a "tin bath", and an outdoor bog..We was poor.. :)
There was an old dear who lived across the road from my aunt up in the Midlands back in the 70s, who used to wring out her washing using a mangle, fascinated me as a kid!

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Re: Please help identify this tool.

#14 Post by OneCarefulOwner » Tue Oct 09, 2012 10:04 am

zipgun wrote:By Christ ,I'd forgotten those wooden tongs , are we all over 50 ?
According to some advertising blurb I received the other week, the average PC reader is 46!
…that's why Allegro will look as good 5 years from now as it does today.
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Re: Please help identify this tool.

#15 Post by Mitsuru » Tue Oct 09, 2012 12:39 pm

OneCarefulOwner wrote:
zipgun wrote:By Christ ,I'd forgotten those wooden tongs , are we all over 50 ?
According to some advertising blurb I received the other week, the average PC reader is 46!
I must be dragging that down from what it might be!
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Re: Please help identify this tool.

#16 Post by rich. » Tue Oct 09, 2012 4:16 pm

zipgun wrote:By Christ ,I'd forgotten those wooden tongs , are we all over 50 ? Don't recall a mangle in our household ,but we did have a "tin bath", and an outdoor bog..We was poor.. :)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8EI7p2p1QJI

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