Outside Tumble Dryer

Hanging clothes of the line on a warm summer day is undoubtedly the most cost-effective and environmentally sensitive manner to dry ones clothes. However, I find pegging each individual item on the line as a fiddly, time-consuming process which I'm often likely to forgo for the convenience of tossing the entire mass of wet laundry into the tumble dryer and getting on with other things.

The solution proffered is the best of both worlds. It's a large mesh barrel mounted horizontally on a rotating frame with a large access hatch on the side. Simply toss the sodden mass into the access hatch, latch it shut and turn on the tumbling action. It will still use some electricity (although you can use wind-power to rotate the drum if you wish) but draws much less electricity than the conventional tumble dryer inside with all it's vents and heating elements. On a hot, windy Aussie day the clothes will dry faster than conventional mechanical methods and other days will be slower - but cheaper. You will reap the added benefit of having no creases in your dried clothes caused by pegs and clotheslines.