Hand-Powered Clothes Washer

Hand-Powered Clothes Washer FARM HOME Clothes This new hand-powered portable clothes washer can be used just about anywhere to wash small loads of laundry It can handle everything from socks and underwear to jeans and sweatshirts and can be used indoors or outdoors The company says the unit washes your clothes as well as any big electric washing machine The poly Lavario measures 31 in high by 19 in wide and weighs less than 10 lbs It consists of a 5-gal basket with a large handle on top that holds the clothes and a bucket that you fill 2/3 full with water and detergent The basket has vertical slots in the sides and comes with a lid full of holes You place the clothes in the basket and close the lid then place the basket in the bucket Hold onto the handle and use an up and down motion about 10 times to drive a continuous flow of water through the fabric Let the clothes soak for 5 min then repeat the up and down motion 10 more times A drain cap at the bottom of the bucket is used to drain the water from the bucket To rinse the clothes you partially fill the basket again with water and cycle the handle up and down again then drain the bucket Remove the clothing from the basket and place it in the bucket then press down with the empty basket to wring the water out of the clothes A typical load uses 10 gal of water - 5 to wash and 5 to rinse The company says it takes only about 15 min to wash and rinse a single load and that only minimal arm strength is needed because gravity does the work on the down-stroke and buoyancy makes the up-stroke easy The Lavario portable clothes washer is available at Amazon and Walmart It sells for $129 95 including S&H within the lower 48 states Shipping to Canada is $34 The company is offering a special coupon code for FARM SHOW readers that’s good for $20 off a Lavario order exclusively from www lavariowasher com The coupon code is: FARMSHOW20 Contact: FARM SHOW Followup Lavario Washer Corp 181 S Broad St Unit 102 Pawcatuck Ct 06379 ph 860 599-1300; vanetta@lavariowasher com

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