I love this tutorial! I actually appreciate the imperfections in editing the video. It gives the video a certain charm I miss in my day to day life. I’ve heard the agitator referred to as “the gyrator” but I really like what granddaddy called it: “the dasher.” Thanks for sharing!

@kaycure8629

4 жыл бұрын

There was a washer called a dasher washer.

God bless you for a great tutorial & your assistant helping you. I got tired of buying new washers that last only a few years and have bought a Maytag wringer washer that still works. Always heard my grandma talk about how nothing got clothes cleaner than a wringer washer. Looking forward to learning how to use it and your video was great help. Thank you!

Great video. Brought back a lot of memories. This was a very energy efficient way of washing clothes. Also the wash and rinse water went back in the ground , not down the drain. Yes it was more physical work, but after doing a few loads of wash , you did not need to go to the gym. So no health club expenses.

Apron and everything. Perfect trip back to my childhood. Thanks.

My mom always used the wash water for several loads before draining it out. Start with white and lightly soiled clothes. This saves hot water and detergent.

@ibsoarin

5 жыл бұрын

Drew, Excellent advise. Starting with hot water and detergent the order of loads is clean white clothes, dirty white clothes, light colored clothes, dark colored clothes, and finally dirty soiled overalls and jeans. The same water is used for all of these loads and as the water cooled down, the final load is warm water. Very efficient use of water and detergent.

@rosemaria300

4 жыл бұрын

My mom for the same thing . It wasn't until we moved and couldn't take the wringer washer, we started using the laundromat.

@terrylynn9984

3 жыл бұрын

My mom told me my grandma would always start with the white blouses and such and then left my grandpas work clothes for last cause they were so dirty.... and the manually rinsed out their clothes in the rinse tub, instead of putting it back through into the wringer water like this lady did.

@ipraybecauseitworks

2 жыл бұрын

@@terrylynn9984 my friend manually rinces clothes as well she has a double tub set sideways in front of the washer and the wringer rotates away from the washer to allow the rinced clothes to go to the next wash basin.

@AK-ql8yp

Жыл бұрын

Oh that's horrific lol .. I have to use clean water .. but each to their own

I just got one and its a lot of fun. I recommend everyone get one, as they are actually easy to use and allow you to decide how long you want the clothes to agitate. If anything its a great companion to a modern washer and dryer.

My grandmother still owned and used one of these back in the 1960s. This brought back fond memories.

That was nice love to see the old time stuff.

@SimpleLife333

4 жыл бұрын

yes

Very informative, I just bought a wringer washer in near new condition and being a millennial I had no clue how to use it.

@german2669

7 ай бұрын

Hows it going with the old Maytag?

I had a Maytag. I had it when my kids were growing up. That was the best washer I ever had. They should start making them again.

@user-sn9ig9vl5p

Ай бұрын

I wish so too....I am kind of a wringer washer nerd.

I enjoyed watching this. Thank you for posting.

God bless the person who invented the automatic washers.

@jbooks888

3 жыл бұрын

Yes indeed! LOL. Although this looks like fun to me - I bought a cheap $80 plastic twin tub because I liked the idea of hands on washing process, but it did get old after a few weeks and I went back to my front loader.

@andybub45

3 жыл бұрын

Yes. My grandmother said her family had the same exact one when she was young. She then explained the process, and im now very grateful that the modern washing machine exists 😂

@antoinecarter2749

3 жыл бұрын

A black woman named Ellen Elgin

@geraldscott4302

2 жыл бұрын

I would still be using a wringer washer to this day if you could still buy them. I also do not have a dryer, or a dishwasher, or a garbage disposal. What worked back then still works. Today's generation has gotten fat and lazy.

Mom had a Maytag exactly like the one in the video. When I grew older, I helped with the laundry chores on Mondays. It was my "job" to roll the washing machine over to the basement's floor drain to empty the machine. Then roll it back and refill it with hot water. Mom never rinsed clothes in the washer. We rinsed them in the tubs (large concrete sinks built into the north wall of the basement.) Sometimes I did all the laundry chores. I got my fingers caught in the wringer a couple of times, thank goodness for the safety release bars to hit in a panic if necessary.

@jaycee330

3 жыл бұрын

Mom had this too, but the twin rinse tubs were perpendicular to the washer, so you can wring the clothes into the first tub, and then swing the wringer 90 degrees to wring into the next rinse tub, then move the wringer 45 degrees to wring them into a basket. The washer was in the basement and the drain was right below, so it was easy to dump all the water.

@boop8127

2 жыл бұрын

We had a concrete sink. Very cool

@user-sn9ig9vl5p

Ай бұрын

We never wasted the water and the soap, but washed several loads before draining it. You could use cold, warm, or hot...even boiling water, if you really wanted to. Mom used to do this when washing sickroom linens.

Going through all this to wash clothes was why the invention of automatic washers with spin cycles was so appreciated.

Brings back such memories! Thank you!

One of my favorite videos on youtube.

Brought back a lot of memories of wash day with my grandmother and her wringer washer

This is great! I was looking up information about old washers for a short story I'm writing, and this video really helped me to understand the process.

Found one that is brand new, never used. Used it for two years and loved it... especilly on hot days! Wish my new house was designed to use one of these!!! They are the best.

@ipraybecauseitworks

2 жыл бұрын

Where can you get a new one?

@RockwellAIM65

2 жыл бұрын

@@ipraybecauseitworks A museum, perhaps. I just by chance ran across one that had been put in a garage ~1946, covered up and never used. I bought it from a grandson of the original purchaser.

I remember those days. My MOM had one like that. I think MOM'S was round, but was the same thing. Wash / wringer and rinse / wringer. Yes water into the ground - sure brought up earth worms. I was going to 2nd grade at the time. Great memories of the days gones past. Lots of hard work in doing a wash back then - even today. Thank you for the memories when life was simple and a lot slower. GOD Bless

My mom had one of these and she taught me me when I was around 11 or 12 do wash and how to use it. My Mom never liked the automatic. Thought they never washed well. But we had stationary tubs in our basement and used them to rinse them. Does this bring back memories! Thanks!😊

I remember my mom washing clothes on a wringer washer. However, the wringers stopped working. She would wring the clothes out by hand as much possible but would still often have to hang sopping wet clothes out on the clothes line. I still can remember water dripping from the clothes she would hang out there. Thanks for posting this video. It reminds me of an early part of my childhood.

This does a better job than the modern day HE washing machines

Salute to homemakers back then. So much work just to do a load of laundry!

Good tip there about not getting your fingers or hair caught in the rollers! My mom liked old school things like this. When I was about 6 yrs old in the 70s, she got a brand new one which my sister and I thought it was cool. Mom was napping on the couch one day so we decided to help with the laundry. Things were going well until my arm went through clear past my elbow. Mom ran in and unplugged it but she didn't know there was an emergency release so she reversed it back through and my father had to come home from work to take me to the hospital. They made me wear a sling for a few weeks and I couldn't do any school work because it was my writing arm but I did live and my arm recovered...and no it's not flat! Thank God!

I hope tide sponsored this great video!

What a great video! W had no idea that the wringer went two directions! Thank you!!!!

Thanks for the demonstration it was very well done. As a kid we had one and I got my self in real trouble putting on the wringer rollers and pushing the tip of my right hand fingers and pulling it back just as I felt it holding but after a few tries it grabbed my fingers and pulled it up to the wrist bone and so I bawled out and my mom came running and pulled out the electric cord and released the wringer rollers. The skin was gone and I to the hospital. Luckily no broken bones. Now I laugh but that was playing with real trouble. Luckily the rollers were rubber coated .

I just bought one of these today thank you so much I needed this video I’m 18 yrs old and had no idea what todo…. 😂🙏

Cant wait to use mine. The year right now is 2022 and I just got a washer machine from a family machine. Cant wait to start using it!

Thank you for this video. Ot was awesome to show my daughter how my mom washed clothes when I was growing up

My mom had the same Maytag model. In 1955 dad bought mom a Kenmore automatic washer and dryer and gave the Maytag to my grandmother who used it well into the 1970s.

Thank you! I just bought one and wanted to restore. now I know how to use it!!!!!

I used to have one. Loved it.

My Grandmother's wringer arm swung around so she could wring from the rinse water into the dry basket

The kind grandmother isn't apparently old enough nor experienced enough to know how to wash clothes. You set the tubs perpendicular to the machine. You wash, then wring into rinse tub #1. Rinse by plunging up and down and then swing wringer around to rinse in tub #2. YOu then swing the wringer around to where you wring the clothes out into a basket. The way this granny does it she is wasting water and the tub set up makes absolutely no sense. The purpose of a wringer washer was so you could wash all your clothes in the same water and save soap and water. My mama has been washing on her wringer for sixty years.

@swabby429

4 жыл бұрын

Exactly the way mom and I did it back in the 1960s.

@jacobanderson1135

3 жыл бұрын

Good point, eh. But we live up in the land of 10,000 lakes where "wasting water" ain't no thang, being that there is water literally everywhere. So long as the clothes come out cleaner than they were beforehand, then hey, they have been "properly" washed.

@terrylynn9984

3 жыл бұрын

Exactly water was not to be wasted and my grandma would do several loads with the same water, white blouses went in first and the dirtiest clothes went in last, clothes were manually rinsed by hand like kneading dough up and down and then, put through the wringer and it went straight to the laundry basket to be hung up.

@mark-wn5ek

2 жыл бұрын

It wasn't about wasting water...it was about carrying water to the washer...that you had to heat. It was the labor that got saved not the danged water! You make it sound like everybody back in the day was a stingy tree hugging save the last drop and don't drown the fleas and ticks...hardly! If you didn't have electricity, the washer ran with a gas motor and you pulled the water up out of the well by hand, in a 2 gallon bucket. This got poured into a #3 wash tub and heated on a wood fired cook stove...or into an old time cast iron wash pot hung over a fire. That hot water came dear....and THAT'S why you didn't waste it. Soap was cheap....but you often made it too. Laundry day...if there was a big family of 12 or more...took all day...it seemed..and there were no cinderellas that changed clothes 3 or 4 times a day! Each family member was lucky to own 2 changes of clothes plus their Sunday best. You wore your work clothes for several days and yup....they were filthy by time you changed out of them. I was just a boy back in the early 60s when I watched all this take place and we had electricity...we filled the water tub with a hose from the well and heated water on a cook stove in the wash house. I can still smell those fresh clean clothes...and grandma would sometimes put a little ammonia in the wash water. She said bleach ate your clothes up!

@annette9747

Жыл бұрын

@@mark-wn5ek Well said!

My mom had one of these. Good memories!

@HiHi-xk5mb

4 жыл бұрын

My mother also had one of those... and there was a clothesline in the basement, and a clothesline in the backyard.

Very nice old unit to have... thanks ...

Our house started with what was called The Copper in New Zealand. My mother lit a fire underneath a copper coloured vessel and the washing was done in that and there were some old wringers outside. later we had a machine similar to this. Even when I left home as a student the houses we rented had these . So I never used a digital machine til I was about 35 year old.

I really want one of these!

Thanks for sharing! Really interesting washing machine. :D

That was wonderful! I would love one of those. It's impossible to find one that works. Thanks for this video.

@ibsoarin

5 жыл бұрын

Crazycatlady, I agree you would really appreciate a Maytag wringer washer. It is difficult to find a good working wringer washer but not impossible. They are being thrown away and discarded on a daily basis in the US in spite of years of service still in them. "Throw out the good and buy new" seems to be the modern way.

@DRedd-lk8zo

4 жыл бұрын

I have 1 for sale

That maytag was a good one.

My mother used one of those back in the 70s. I believe it was her mother's first. She would always tell me to keep my hands away from it when she was using it, then we'd go outside and hang everything out on the clothes line.

Good times, I have two Maytag wringer washers, one wash and the other wash rinse. Does not get any better yes 👍

A new rubber ring on the bottom of that drive shaft will keep the agitator from floating off the drive shaft. You can get them still on eBay.

I have a vague memory from my early childhood in the late 1950s of being cautioned to never touch the wringer on the washing machine.

To keep the agitator from floating up in the water. I use a round weight that goes on a baseball bat. Slide it over the top of the agitator. Works great

The thing on the inside is the agitator not the wringer. The wringer is the thing u use after the clothes are washed to wring out the water

My grandmother had one along the side of a modern washer and she always said the wringer washer did a better job of cleaning clothes.

@TheItsmegp46

6 жыл бұрын

No disrespect to your grandmother, but I seriously doubt her claim.

@petman515

5 жыл бұрын

@@TheItsmegp46 I'm useing one now and they do in fact get cloths cleaner partly be cause they have a much higher amount of turbulance then a modern automatic machine. Interestingly i also find they are easyer on cloths.

Good video

Thank you 👏

Great demonstration. I’m picking up my wringer washer today and I’m a little nervous 🤣

I have posted videos of me using my wringer. It was fun watching this.

My Grandmother had a single tub washing machine with a hand wringer. When she said "Don't get you tits caught in the wringer", she meant it.

Very nice job I actually have the same washer but I'm trying to find a ringer for it. Any suggestions

Ummm...I grew up washing clothes this way and hanging them to dry, either outside or in the basement of the house. Mom had three washtubs for rinsing, and used them all, one at a time, until the clothes were completely clean...if it was linen day, the last tub had bluing in it... The wringer head swivels so that you don't have to drain and reverse wringer. I absolutely love doing laundry in a wringer washer, because you can put exceptionally dirty laundry in and let it was all day if you want to. Nothing but nothing gets clothes cleaner, and it's a great way to spend a beautiful day outside, washing and hanging clothes on the line to dry in the fresh clean air. You might think that it takes forever to do your washing, but it's not true--you can have a load in washing, while you are rinsing at least two more loads. Saves time. As for me, I also use all biodegradeable soap--there are many different formulas out there on the Internet, some made with Fels Naptha or Zote.

We had one of these in a rental house when I was a child. The washing machine might have already been there when we moved in. I don’t recall it as being as complicated as what was shown in the video. The water drained into a laundry washtub, which was part of the basement. I don’t recall any removable tubs.

the cover make the best pan for putting on a grill cooking on i can fry anything in it (square ones) try it works great and cleans up great with out any trouble ( hash browns, bacon, eggs, fish ,pancakes , and any thing you want cook

They made these until 1984. That is the newest model I have ever seen.

And GOD Bless y'all to!!!😇

this is how you wash the clothes you want to last a lifetime

Had one on the rigs in camp later ,we were allowed to use it for our own clothes if we asked the camp attendent and he was done with the camptowels and linnen. He said yes as long as you clean it out good once finished. Having one at home iwent right ahead washed everything including my felt linners and washed it out clean (spotless). I was happy to have clean clothes, and next day after work he came rushing into my room "you didn't clean out the machine all my towels are ruined and greassy" I said yes I did thinking it was some sort of rig joke and someone poured in smething or threw in a rig itemwith his wash. He said "did you you clen this out"showing me the screan under the agitator. I said yes then he twisted it and showed me underneath were the dirt and lint accumulates. Isaid i didnt know it came off and didnt know even though we had one at home, that didnt come with a manual or i never read it. After that i couldn't believe how much dirt accumulated under it. (Was lucky i didn't get skidded for that one either)

Apparently no one ever told you that the thing in the middle of the tub in the middle of the blue thing that you pointed to it’s not called the ringer it’s called an agitator

I am wondering where you can purchase a maytag wringer washer like this? I know of one other person who has one.

My mom washed several loads of clothes in same water. And thr rinse tub was the only rinse. The arm of the wringer could be repositioned so it could wring rinse to empty tub. I hated wash day becuz i had to take a bath in 1 of the tubs. Got my arm in the wringer too. M 67 and still hav scar on my arm.

It really get the clothes clean.

God bless you to

Nice .

Do you still have this?? I need one

You can save water for watering plants

My grandmother had one. Use to help wash clothes in it.

To keep from my agitator floating up in the water I use a round baseball bat weight. Is slips over top of the agitator

Awesome,,,I really miss my ole wringer washer

The good old days

So you didn't cover how to fill the washer. Is it with a garden hose or what other method? Thank You

How do you get the water in?

Beautiful Maytag with the baby blue GYRATOR agitator square tubes which gives a great rollover and in the corners massive water waves..if fully full which the Agitator is marked at the top where the vanes stop for full performance. The only thing about seeing these machines people discover is that many of the videos in this model which varies in color on the wringer part and knobs some are in red... Is they all use the wringer pretty much wrong for full compression IS THE LONG OVAL KNOB SWING WHICH IS SUPPOSED TO TWIST IN and the knob points to the person for true water EXTRACTION ! Most all of the videos with wringers unless the true washer Boys give the people a true way to use the wringer properly . Unless if it's shirts with buttons. All other regular Cotton's should have the top twist knob on top of the wringer turn in to point at you for again pressure for full water EXTRACTION.

@jordanshyadow8817

5 жыл бұрын

Darren Keck you could use the wringer on buttoned shirts without destroying the bottoms right ?

How did you start the wringer part

Do you know the power load on these? How many kWH?

Is that New and Improved Tide?

How does it clean everything in only 5 mins? And new washers take like 30?

I wonder if this requires very little electricity and could be a better option if you live only on solar power?

@milestogotilisleep

6 жыл бұрын

Yes. I have this same washer. It uses much less power and can run outside with a lawn mower engine. We have not used a mower engine, I just saw one on youtube, I think the guy said that the Awmish use it like that...

How does the lawn handle the Tide wash water?

@CavemanCBB

6 жыл бұрын

No problem I bet . You could save it and use it to water your garden. Back in the old days laundry soap had phosphorus in it and was bad for things. But, that was long ago.

@jdollinter

6 жыл бұрын

Thanks for the info. JD

My grandma took the final rinse into a bucket and mopped her back porch. Just sayin'

@ibsoarin

5 жыл бұрын

happy nanny, Your Grandma was a smart lady!

@karolinesmail489

5 жыл бұрын

My mom too all was recycle yes!

What about the bluing rinse?

Found one of these in my basement. How do I find the value of it? Looks like this one.

@thecatxx

4 жыл бұрын

Nick Minick if it looks good and works and doesn’t leak ~$100

didn't show the emergency release if some kid (me) places his finger in the lower roller and then gets pulled in...

She added a step she’s thinking to modern day washer

Quiero una lavadora de esas!! 😭😭

Thanks but, Good Lord how long would it take to do a more than 6 pieces of clothing? I think its great that people like these old machines; but I have better things to do with my time. I'll take the automatic.

Please tell me where I csn buy this exact washer?

@avinashs.m3213

4 жыл бұрын

Don't worry. Today washer are much more efficient in cleaning and water usage.

@bonriver9420

3 жыл бұрын

@@avinashs.m3213 The old wringer washers actually clean clothes way better than any new machine.

she wrongly calls the agitator the wringer in the beginning

@jacobanderson1135

6 жыл бұрын

Stephen Burkhart Yes, I did notice that, but thanks for noticing.

@mwilliamshs

6 жыл бұрын

It's actually called a gyrator on this machine, not an agitator. She refers to it as a wringer again about 3:51

@Kettenhund75

5 жыл бұрын

Really... got nothing better to do?

hello brazil i love

NEXT TIME 1. Wash clothes in Wringer washing machine. 2. If you drain the washer hose and leave them in the tub before you ring them out the first time then ring them out into a dry tub put them back in the machine and fill it up and save yourself a lot of water log and it looks like you had like three tubs of water there when you started washing and then you had the additional two to rents with on the rims too 3. We were fortunate and we had the small one like you have plus we had the big one with a completely removable square cover and we also had the big round one with the removable cover and we used to wash and ring into one rents and ring into the second one in Renzo for the second time especially for breached items

@dannyweatherbee7157

3 жыл бұрын

Oops bleached items.

@dannyweatherbee7157

3 жыл бұрын

My aunt used to do hers with her to Maytag washing machines the way you’re suggesting when she died her arms were almost 3 inches longer than normal because she looked so much extra water that she didn’t need to

@dannyweatherbee7157

3 жыл бұрын

Lugged

@dannyweatherbee7157

3 жыл бұрын

Wringer washers Are famous for pulling hair and God for bid I don’t get the top of your pinafore apron in there because believe me this will give you a mammogram like you’ve never had and it has been known to happen to women

How do you empty it if you're using it in the house?

@silvermystic2001

5 жыл бұрын

@@laguanazinkula1603 oh cool, thank you!

@AugustMeteors

5 жыл бұрын

Some old laundry rooms had big drains in the floor, and you could send the water out that way. And some of the old washers had pumps that would send the water up to your rinse sink, letting you empty it down the sink drain. Very handy either way if your laundry room was in a basement without a walk-out. If you had neither floor drain nor a machine with the pump, you could still drain the water by bucket loads and empty the _bucket_ down the rinse sink. That would take awhile, but these machines for the time represented state of the art for convenience.

@-oiiio-3993

4 жыл бұрын

Use a longer hose.

@lindawolffkashmir2768

Ай бұрын

My mom either let it run into the toilet (not recommended for hot) or into the bathtub.

We have had 1 4 a long time you have to watch putting bibs an jeans in the washer because it will tear therm up

See how the agitator kept floating up? Your "agitator stop ring" is worn out. A new one is just a couple bucks

m personally I let them shake with the soap for 25min and save water and electricity by rinsing them by hand

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