Sock dryer

[paleolithical]

This is a home-made version of the crappy plastic ones you sometimes see in Sweden. You get 16 clothespins, that can be suspended in some suitable spot (in my case over a woodstove) to dry socks, wet mittens, cloth sanitary pads, underwear, etc. And it breaks down for storage!

How to make
Not very complex to make in its basic form, but could be

Comments

[ragnvaeig]

That looks very practical. I'd seen said crappy plastic versions while I was in Ireland, and they'd turned me off the idea, but this is much, much nicer.

[paleolithical]

And quite easy to make; anyone with a decent saw, a knife and a drill can make one. I'm currently working on a pole lathe, so there might be a nicely turned version made just to try things out (but one still would need the rectangular middle section to make the joinery work).

For an ultra quickie version find a spruce with a few nicely distributed branches near the top, cut off, peel the bark and attach clothes-pins with string. If one uses a pegged scarf joint for attaching a top hook one could even have version that had no metal hardware (apart from the clothes-pin springs, of course). But not a take down version.