Dynamic E002 Commercial Manual Salad Spinner, 5 Gallon Capacity, SD92, Orange, 17 x 17 x 16 inches

So, I’ve seen a lot of people asking about using these big salad spinners to “spin cycle” water out of hand washed clothes. Here’s my experience with that using this product. I like to take a lot of road trips, I like going to a camp in Tennessee for a few weeks a year, and I often take care of a relatives house with no washer or dryer. What I don’t like is public laundromats. After much experimenting with different setups, I’ve got the hand washing part down pretty good. I have lots of different buckets and washboards and whatnot, (two Red Gorilla tubs, large green plastic washboards, Fan Bee and Flower Laundry soap, a Wonder Wash plunger with a full length mop handle on it, Rubbermaid mop bucket and wringer, two five gallon buckets, a collapsible laundry tub, a small blue washboard basin, collapsible drying rack and a huge towel). I just bring along what’s best for the job.Getting the water out of the clothes so they don’t take days to dry is the next step in the process. The Rubbermaid mop bucket and wringer works pretty good, but it’s awkward to carry around, especially into hotels.I have one solid five gallon bucket along with a second five gallon bucket with many holes drilled in it. After washing/rinsing the clothes in the solid bucket, I drop them into the hole-y bucket to drain, then put the solid bucket on top of the clothes and sit on it so most of the water presses out. Works ok. I sometimes hang the bucket full of holes from a tree or jungle gym and spin it around. The rope tightens up one way, and spins again when the bucket comes down. Works so-so, more water comes flying out from the centrifugal force than you might think, but the clothes are still pretty soggy. Sometimes I just wring things out by hand and roll them up in the towel to get most of the water out, but my carpal tunnel doesn’t love doing that. So I figured I’d give this salad spinner a shot to see if it was an option.First off, there is nothing wrong with the product. It’s built like a tank, it was easy to put together, and it’s nice to know that I can get replacement parts for the gears. I don’t personally want the permanent drain hole in the bottom as I’d like to be able to fill it with water for use on the road, but I should be able to find a secure enough rubber plug for that.But is it good for spinning water out of clothes? Well, it depends how you go about it. If you want to stand up and lean down to turn the crank, then the answer is this. Nope. After washing, I put in a pair of jeans, two t shirts, a bra and three pairs of underwear. The clothes fit fine, space isn’t a problem. Started turning the crank and the spinner started wobbling so powerfully I couldn’t get up to any kind of speed and it was impossible to hold onto. I took out the jeans and tried again. Nope. Tried spinning just the three pairs of underwear. Nope. Tried spinning just one t shirt. Nope. Wet clothes are too awkwardly weighted and heavy to spin in this if you use it standing up or even kneeling over it. It just unbalances immediately. Fair play, since it’s not what it’s designed for. If you have someone else around to hold it in a bear hug, or if you sit with your legs wrapped around it you can manage to hold onto it. I ended up putting it on the floor on a folded up towel to catch the water and sitting with it, wrapping my arm and legs around it and switching hands to crank it. I had already used the mop bucket wringer and still got a fair amount of water out with the spinner, but it was a workout. I’m also a large person with some weight behind me. If you don’t have a lot of strength it’s going to be harder. It’s also better to get some of the water out of the clothes first, not just throw them in sopping wet.However - I’ll tell you what it is also good for. Tumbling. After clothes air dry on a rack in a room, they are often uncomfortably stiff and stale. I put the dry clothes in the salad spinner with a couple of tennis balls, then sit on the floor with it in my lap so it’s sitting almost sideways, and crank the clothes around like a tumble dryer. They get once more nice and soft and no wrinkles. Much more pleasant to wear.That’s my take on it - feel free to give it a try for wet laundry, but prepare to be challenged or disappointed. I like it, I don’t regret it, I’ll keep using it, but I definitely wouldn’t say it’s better or easier than other methods, especially for an elderly person. On the bright side, I can’t wait to try it for spinning vegetables after the next big shopping trip. I bet it works great!

I love this spinner so much! I sell at my local Farmers Market and I am saving so much time processing my greens now that I have this spinner. I use to do it all by hand and it would take me all day to do what the spinner does for me in a quarter of the time. I use it for lettuce, spinach, chard and beet greens. If you process as many bags of greens as I do in a week, you have to get this product! Love it!

This seems to be a fine unit, but i wish i had looked a bit harder and gotten a bigger one. This is really not that big for commercial use (market farm).

I belong to a local organic CSA & every week I get a lot of fruits & vegetables that I need to rinse & spin. Last year I was using my small kitchen salad spinner which works great, but it was very time consuming. And I could not put whole heads of lettuce in my small salad spinner.So I decided to purchase this 5 gallon Dynamic International spinner and I am so pleased that I did. I purchased this particular brand as it was highly rated & made in France (oo la la!). It is very high quality. However I do recommend purchasing the stand that goes with this as the whole drum wants to spin when I am washing my veggies (I purchased the stand & am pleased with is).I can fit 4 heads of loose leaf lettuce in it. I actually with take different kinds of vegetables - and fill the bin with that & rinse & spin those at once. Really speeds the process.Now I have not been able to spin this fast enough to get as much water off of the vegetables as my smaller OXO salad spinner (my sink is just a bit too small for the stand to sit perfectly on the bottom with the suction cups holding it in place. So I just let my lettuce air dry on my dish rack. And if I need to get smaller portions of vegetables spun dry I will use my OXO salad spinner afterward for a quick spin. I find this combination works great!I am so pleased with my purchase & I highly recommend this 5 gallon spinner!