 Clothes were agitated within the copper with a washing dolly, a vertical stick with either a metal cone or short wooden legs on it.After washing, the laundry was lifted out of the boiling water using the washing dolly or a similar device, and placed on a strainer resting on a laundry tub or similar container to capture the wash water and begin the drying and cooling process.The laundry was then dried with a mangle and then line-dried.