Brabantia Lift-O-Matic Rotary Dryer

If I could give this more than 5 starts, I would. I have had my clothesline for about 3 weeks now. Putting the base in the ground wasn't too bad. I put a board on top of the base and used a 10 lb sledge to drive it in, checking regularly to ensure I was keeping it straight. Very important to keep it straight. Once it was in the ground and the pole was in place, I am careful to load the lines up evenly to keep the weight distributed. And I put the heaviest laundry closest to the pole. Putting the pole into the base is easy, all of it is lightweight but sturdy at the same time. When the pole is not in place, the cover for the base works wonderfully. It stays in place and keeps rain and debris out of the base, as designed. I always put the cover on the pole and lines and then remove the pole to my garage when it is not in use. I love the easy of loading this unit up with wet laundry. It spins very easily and I just stand in one spot with my basket while putting the laundry up. The height adjustment is a little misleading since the lines get tighter the higher you go. I want my lines tight so I go as high as I can. The unit spins itself as well when it is breezy. I'm not worried about that though since it seems to not damage the pole in any way. I have no idea about how it will hold up over time but I expect that it will be just fine since I do store it inside.

The one I bought is the 196-foot Lift-O-Matic, the one with the greatest capacity. Very rare for most products, this one actually is as good as the packaging and on-line promotional language says it is. I received mine a week or so ago and have used it twice. It functioned exactly as described, and it was constructed exactly that way as well. I did not purchase this until I had spent hours investigating what appeared to be the leading outdoor clothes dryer devices, including much reading of many reviews on all sorts of sites, both independent and not. This unit is well worth the investment, so far as I can see. One matter, not addressed anywhere that I found in all my site-jumping and reading, deserves attention, which I will give it because it applied to me and surely will apply to others, even if not many. The soil here is infused at its top layer with the heaviest sort of clay-ish deposit, called caliche. It is extremely difficult to dig through, especially when trying to drive the Brabantia hollow heavy-duty anchor spike into it. Using a board between the hammer and spike top as directed (I used a 2 x 4) to keep from deforming the spike, I pounded and pounded until my arm was ready to fall off. I had driven it in maybe three inches at the end of 45 minutes. Next, I resorted to a 5.5-foot, 17-pound steel digging bar with a pointed tip, driving that repeatedly into the ground. After exhaustive (and exhausting) effort, I had gone another few inches, but I still was not halfway deep enough. Now what? Someone long ago had left a very corroded long-shank one-inch wood drill bit---maybe 20 inches in total length---in my garage. It probably had been used decades ago to drill holes through studs for electrical conduit. Somehow, I had not thrown it away, and it occurred to me that perhaps this would help. I attached it to an old manual drill brace and began to drill. Amazingly, it drilled down past the necessary distance within maybe one minute. I drilled another hole right next to it the same way. With those two one-inch holes drilled, the anchor spike was in place at the proper depth within maybe five minutes of vigorous pounding. I immediately put up the dryer to ensure that it was decently plumb, which it was (I had used a level along the way), and soon had the first load of wash fluttering on it. It is a grand piece of machinery very cleverly designed. If you need an outside dryer and don't want to put up T-poles with rope in between for a permanent setup, this or one of its smaller brethren is the one to get.

I love my new clothesline! I can put so many clothes on it and I love the way the clothesline catches the wind and spins to give maximum drying speed. It is ridiculously easy to open and use, and then to fold up and close after use. It has a sturdy, easy to use cover with a big zipper that is almost effortless. I thought I'd have to fight to get the cover on, especially on a windy day but that is not the case. The size works perfectly for my needs, the product is heavy enough to hold up in high winds - including winds last week that produced a local tornado. All of that is great. My only challenge with this product was hammering the stake into the ground. You want a good stake, so that's not a complaint, but I'm a senior and it was difficult for me to get that stake pounded in. I started with a mallet. That didn't work. I switched to a heavier, weighted mallet. That worked better. When I got the first few inches in the ground, I moved to a sledgehammer. It took me four days to get the stake pounded into the ground. We had a good, soaking rain the night before I started and I thought the rain would make it easy. No so. After the second day of pounding, we had another rain. We have heavy, clay soil, so even the second rain didn't help much. Perseverance got the stake in the ground and as I mentioned, it it heavy enough that it withstood a bad night of storms and two tornado warnings. I'm very pleased with the product and highly recommend, but don't underestimate the challenge of getting that stake into the ground!

Bonne qualité, grande capacité. La housse est pratique.

super solide et très pratique conforme a tout

Our rotary clothes line finally gave up the ghost so it was time to buy another. After some searching, the Brabantia - Lift-O-Matic Advance looked really sturdy albeit a lot more expensive than the others. Ideally I wanted it to fit in hole that the old rotary dryer used. I measured up as best I could and it looked like it might fit. Unfortunately, it didn't. The 'Advance' needs a 50mm hole but our existing hole was about 4mm too small. After looking on the Brabantia web site, it turns out that they make similar non 'Advance' rotary dryers which use a 45mm hole - Amazon sell them as well. I wish I had checked that first! I wasn't about to return the 'Advance' so I decided to use the supplied spike and make a new hole (the old hole was in concrete so that wasn't coming out easily). First I made sure that the fully extended dryer had enough room to turn. I would say you want to allow a radius of at least 1.6m from the centre. The spike seems huge - somewhere around 45-50cm, I wasn't sure if was going to be able to push something that big into the ground. I started by giving the area a light watering, then I used a spade to make a cross pattern in the grass. Next I started drilling as deep as I could with a 16mm x400mm drill bit to loosen all the soil in a 20mm radius (don't make it too big) around the centre and also make sure there was nothing really hard 'down there'. Once the soil was loose, I started scooping it out as best I could with a spoon, getting rid of as many stones along the was as possible. I could only get down around 25cm that way but it was a good start. So, next was the spike. I pushed it in as far as possible then put a piece of wood across the top of it and started hitting the wood gently (at first) but firmly with a hammer (I didn't have a mallet). This was a slow process as I also needed to make sure the spike was going in straight. I guess it took between 20-30mins of almost continuous hammering but eventually, the spike was all the way in. Finally it was time to put the actual dryer in the spike. Although the spike was very firmly in the ground, to my surprise, the dryer fit inside the spike was quite loose (maybe by about 2mm) and I needed to put a few small sticks in keep it rigid. It was worth all the effort. The dryer looks very impressive; sturdy and easy to push up & down. We especially like that it comes with a nice looking cover and matching peg bag. it is still very new so there may yet be an issue with something. If there is, I will update this review. But, for the moment, we really like it

It's good. It's made of quality materials and is very sturdy. The grounding stake pounds down easy enough, just use common sense and follow the directions. I left mine up out of the ground about 1 inch to keep sand from sliding into it. The lines are as strong as you want to push up to make them. I did 2 or 3 loads and it held everything. It looks like it can hold a comforter easily... I mean not vertically, but if you aren't speshul you can fold it over a few of the lines and give it more room to dry. Other reviewers are super picky, this thing is a good buy. One thing: I can't seem to put it up or down without it grabbing my neck. I have to crouch under it to raise and lower. Also: it covers a very large area. be prepared with about the size of a shed.

Acquistato 6 anni fa, direi più che consigliato. Ampio, ha veramente una buona caèpienza. Io riesco a stendere due lavatrici. Vale il suo prezzo.