Pedal Power Washer

[sudsman]

Pedal Power?

Wonder how it would perform with a motor bike!

 

[toggleswitch]

Tank will hold water for two washes? What? No rinse???

50L divided by 8 water changes = 6.25L per fill.
Can you say WIPE-WASH?

12.5 gallons divided by 8 water changes = 1.5625 gallons per fill.

uh no. A bucket (not bouquet!) is 2.0 US gallons.

 

[peterh770]

Well, the hell with Energy Star, you can put as much water into the thing as you want, including hot water from your home!

You can rinse as many times as you want!

Uni-directional tumbling...

You have to petal quite slowly to get the proper wash speed.

You really must have nothing else to do during laundry day, because your butt will be on the bike watching Oprah, Montel, Jerry, and daytime soaps.

Oh, the damage it could inflict if something comes loose or breaks while petaling...

You'd have to stop to drain and stop to fill.

You really only get a workour when spinning.

 

[bongobro]

Pedal Power Washers

Maybe they'll develop a model that has twin drums (sort of like a Dexter twin-tub wringer)...you'd need a tandem bike to power that one (LOL).

By the way, the earliest ad campaigns for Tide, Fab, and Surf claimed you could get the "cleanest clothes in town" whether you rinsed your wash or not, so...maybe they could dust off those campaigns for pedal-powered machines!

 

[askomiele]

Wow how fast should it spin if you are just cycling lik the guy on the video!!!

 

[tolivac]

GEEZ-To heck with the pedal power-how-bout hooking that rig to the rear PTO of your tractor--Shift tractor and PTO gears for wash speed or spin!!With the couplers they show in the film clip-looks like with a few adaptors from Agri-supply you could run the thing from your tractor!Would be different.

 

[rolltideroll]

I once saw an obscure patent that I think was actually accepted by the Patent office about a washing machine for truck drivers that hooked somehow up under the truck and was powered by the axels somehow. Hey, I'm no engineer when it comes to 18 wheelers. but it was very impractical.

 

[tolivac]

If the truck has a PTO from the transmission you could run something from it-Ie trash compactor bodies use the truck PTO to operate the compactor.Some cement trucks use it to rotate the concrete drum.Yes-you probably could run the washer from it-but probably when the truck isn't moving.same Idea as the tractor.You can use the tractor PTO say for that washer but would have to chock the tires to prevent any possiblity of the tractor from moving.In one farm show magazine I had they showed one person who rigged the tractor PTO to run a large commercial sewing machine!He had the wheels chocked while using the sewing machine.You should be able to run most things from truck-tractor PTO's as long as the device doesn't draw too much power and you can couple to it.That washer shouldn't be a problem.

 

[cvillewasherbo]

long haired peddler

WOW--I wish they had more footage of that guy in action.