WHAT THE HECK IS THAT Puzzle

@ Monte, Girl - .. My mother used to have a similar washing machine when we first came to Australia.

I remember the wringer used to break buttons and sometimes the clothing got tangled in the wringer.... there was also a large 'copper pot' in the corner of the laundry that needed a wood fire lit under it to heat the water....

Mum had a 1 metre long flat stick that she used to move boiling hot (white) sheets from the pot to the concrete sink, she used the same stick to threaten us if we got out of line..... Mum has long passed away but I still have that stick as a momento....

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@ Monte, Girl - Yuk, at least my mum used fresh water for each load.... ... she also had a ripple board and always used Sunlight soap for the washing, the pegs were the 'dolly' type used on a washing line that consisted of two poles in the ground about 20 feet apart, each one had a 'T' section of timber across the top with a twisted wire line running from each end to the 'T' section ontop of the other pole.

Clothing material was a lot more heavy-duty back then, synthetic clothes these days would fall apart on a ripple board in three washes.....