{"id":164,"date":"2026-01-24T10:23:27","date_gmt":"2026-01-24T10:23:27","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blinkbonnie.xyz\/?p=164"},"modified":"2026-01-24T10:23:28","modified_gmt":"2026-01-24T10:23:28","slug":"changing-the-clothesline","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blinkbonnie.xyz\/?p=164","title":{"rendered":"Changing the Clothesline"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

Well, Chris and Mum thought it might be a good idea to get a new clothesline, since the old one was pretty knackered. I finally got around to taking another trailer load of rubbish to the tip and came home with a new clothesline from Bunnings.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Of course the trick was to get the old one out. After trying to loosen it with a pipe wrench that did nothing, I got out the angle grinder and cut it off. Even then, the stump refused to budge.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

I figured that a decent amount of force would lift the post free of the socket, so I drilled through the post, inserted a steel rod and tried levering it up. No luck.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Not wishing to hurt myself, I hauled out the jack that I\u2019d salvaged from the jeep. Surely that would do the job. Well, yes and no. The theory was sound and the timbers were sturdy enough, but what I ended up doing\u2026<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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\u2026was lifting the whole concrete footing out of the ground. Not the complete disaster it could have been but not as easy as if the post had come free. That left me only one option.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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And that was to use the socket supplied with the new clothesline and concrete that in place. I didn\u2019t follow the instructions. Since I had the old clothesline, I squared it up using a length of the old post. That saved me from having to tie it in position with ropes while the concrete set, like the instructions said.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Then I\u2019ll have to figure out what to do with the paving block where the socket is, because the paving stone was cut for the diameter of the post. I\u2019ve lifted the socket up to the height of the paving stones so the cap can be used. I think I might need to fill that space with cracker dust.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

I hope that\u2019s not going to come back and bite me.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Well, Chris and Mum thought it might be a good idea to get a new clothesline, since the old one was pretty knackered. I finally got around to taking another trailer load of rubbish to the tip and came home with a new clothesline from Bunnings. Of course the trick […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-164","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-blog"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blinkbonnie.xyz\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/164","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blinkbonnie.xyz\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blinkbonnie.xyz\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blinkbonnie.xyz\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blinkbonnie.xyz\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=164"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/blinkbonnie.xyz\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/164\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":168,"href":"https:\/\/blinkbonnie.xyz\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/164\/revisions\/168"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blinkbonnie.xyz\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=164"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blinkbonnie.xyz\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=164"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blinkbonnie.xyz\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=164"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}