Cornutt, he says that what he's using for the blanket is the 3rd speed, the "programmer" he personally made LOL has 7 speed, so guess it would be like a /delicatePerma press cycle, even though is a wool blanket and kints cycle would have been more appropriate...LOL
Allen, the water comes from the Una River, he calls the "washer" Una as if it were the river, infact is actually the river doing everythung here....
It must be a kind of Mill-house nearby an embankment, all those water streams nearby I suppose should serve for water mills or something...
I see many ancient water mills incorporated to homes around here also, some of them still works though nobody grind grains with them....my father was also about buying an house with a mill time ago, but he renounced...
Yes the water was of course cold, and the man wearing a coat suggest that weather was not even warm, and no, the man says you don't need soap ...LOL
You could not use soap here anyway as it would be flushed away in seconds...
This device was developped many years ago, and survived the war, and suppose these folks were so poor that didn't even had enough soap to use in it anyway...and washing in Hot water was a lux as wood was precious and was needed to cook and heating..still today many areas of Bosnia are extremely poor, infact in this village they just have 1 washer.
This device had only sense in those years...in Bosnia.....Even though it relies on a water stream/jet to move the clothes I don't consider it much different than what some pulsator machines did, and if you try to think what happens in the wash tub (clothes mostly moves along with the water current) it's not great IMO actually...
But I have to say that it surely looks anyway a better action than what many machines have nowadays....
That's my views on this...
Surely fascinating though, and caratheristic, something you just cannot see everywhere, it have to be considered according to history and social-economic of where it is.....
Who knows if throughout the world or in old days in Europe there were washing machines using river power, most laundry-houses were near the rivers....just like for mills... so who kows if in some remote places someone developped agitating or tumbling devices using the same river power...on a larger scale...
After all mills both wind and water were an important source of energy-power since middle ages, from grains mills to the press for olive oil, a power source that IMO should be re-discovered, even though not easy to mantain...
We have also seen in the past kinds of machines using the water power to wash, it was the case of those table top wooden machines in the US that moved thanks to the pressure of your tap, a water mill just do the same thing on a larger scale...
A back and forth action is also reachable both ways as long as you have power of a drive shaft and a wig wag or a pump driven mechanism...so who knows that it was made somehwere such a thing....
I recall the old Meisterstuck machines that would use this kind of pressure -pump mechanism:
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