Many people might not have a clue what this picture is.
To me, it is a clothes dryer.
This heavy grate sits in the middle of our old farm house, above a wood burning furnace.
The furnace provided all the heat for our home. My 88 year old mother still prefers to use it over the oil furnace that was later added. "Nothing warms the house like a wood fire".
As a kid, we would congregate here to warm up after playing outside, or from the school bus. We left our wet mittens to dry here.
On wash day, a folding wooden clothes rack would straddle the grate. Here, we would carefully hang a weeks worth of wash for a family of 6. Larger items like jeans and towels would be draped over the upstairs railing. The wood fire was stoked all day, so the clothes would be dry by evening.
No front loading, large capacity, 99 settings, electric monster. No, this clothes dryer just required a load of fire wood and a little patience.
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