The Lehman’s Workhorse pulley clothesline kit is the heavy-duty, locally Amish-built version of the outdoor clothesline that line-drying households have used for generations. Two cast iron pulleys — one 16-inch and one 12-inch — anchor opposite ends of a span up to 150 feet long. The fixed spacer keeps the upper and lower lines correctly separated, and the pulley system lets you load garments at one end and crank them down the line without walking the full length.
For households where line-drying is a regular routine — large families, off-grid homes, ecologically-minded households cutting dryer use, and farm households where the smell of line-dried sheets is non-negotiable — this is the system that makes hanging a multi-load wash actually fast. Pull line, clip garment, pull line, clip next garment. The pulleys handle the weight of a full clothesline so the user isn’t fighting line tension while clipping.
Built by local Amish craftsmen using traditional cast iron pulley designs that have been refined over a century. The 150-foot maximum span covers nearly any rural property line; for shorter setups the same kit works fine over 20 to 50 foot spans. Lehman’s customers consistently report this is the best clothesline pulley system they’ve owned — worth the investment if line drying is a real part of household routine.
