Hose reel tips

Here's a tip regarding your hose reel that will hopefully save you a lot of effort in the long run.  I now have several hose reels (3) in use around our home, reeling up hundreds of feet of low cost garden hose I've accumulated over the years.  Low cost hose lasts a long time and is easy to repair so why not?

One of the problems I run into with all this hose is actually reeling the hose up.  If you've got 150 feet of hose on one reel, the force required to drag all that hose through the grass can be excessive.  It's a lot of work for you and you take the chance of damaging your hose reel as well.

The tips for your hose reeling chore

When you've finished your watering chore and your ready to clean up, as you walk back toward your hose reel grab the end of your hose and carry it with you!

In fact as you continue to walk, after about 30 feet, grab onto the hose again and pick up a loop.

Continue this process while walking back to your hose reel.  Dragging these loops of hose in your hand is really quite easy.  

When you're about 10 feet from your reel just drop all the loops you collected and dragged back.  You want to drag the hoses so the loops when dropped form a straight line to your hose reel.  In this case I was a little sloppy and my car was in the way!

If you drop the loops so they are perpendicular to your reel, the hose will not reel in as easily, you want them in a line pointing toward the reel.

Why is this a hose reel tip?

Now try to wind up your hose onto your reel.  You'll find the job is much easier!  Now you're only dragging 20 or 30 feet of hose through the grass, even though you might have 150 feet of hose to reel in.  It makes the chore much easier, and it gave you something to do while walking back from your watering chore to your hose reel.  Isn't this exciting?

Anyway that's the tip for your reel full of hose!

Now go have that beer!

Hope this helped,
Bob

Topic: Tips for reels with hose.