On Jul 13, 7:23*pm, "SteveB" wrote:
"Zootal" wrote in message

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"Pete C." wrote in message
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SteveB wrote:

A coil method of
one coil one way, and the next reversed works great, but few can master
it.

By far the best method to use.

One note though is that once a cable / hose / wire has been abused and
kinked, it won't coil well no matter what technique you use.

Problem with the el-cheapo Wal-Mart/Home-Depot/Costco hoses (yes, even
Costco sells these piece of crap hoses) is that it is so very easy to kink
them. And as many here have pointed out, once it kinks, it will keep
kinking in the same place. I have several of them that I keep on the
ground in my garden - I don't coil them up when done, they stay in place
where I need them and I just drag them around as needed. And the !@#$
things kink so easly I'm ready to throw the whole lot of them in the trash
and go buy an industrial quality hose that I can use without kinking.....

My epiphany came when I had a driveway put in. *The company crushed my hose
in front of the house. *They bought me another. *A Goodyear 1" black 75
footer with nice cast brass fittings. *I tell you what, that hose was
probably $50 or more. *More than I would have ever spent. *It's still going
strong after five years, and doesn't look used. *I've bought a couple since
then, and there's just no comparison. *With the money I've spent for shitty
hoses, I could have good ones everywhere I have hoses. *The end sprayers
thread on so much better, and the hose bibb connectors don't leak, too.

Steve

I, too, bought a Goodyear 5/8" rubber hose at (sob!) Home Despot.

(Wish I'd thought of Sears!)

It has a much better brass fitting than the ? brand which I returned
to H.D.
because it leaked at the faucet connection. But to my surprise, the
new
rubber hose kinks much more than the no-name hose that I returned.

Downside of this Goodyear hose is that to use the warranty, you have
to send the whole (*&&^%^ hose back, not just both end connectors, as
with Gilmore
and maybe other brands. Who the hell is going to pay a fortune
to ship a ton of hose to wherever? Again, wish I'd thought of Sears
where I could just walk it in.

Other downside of Goodyear hose is that it kinks a lot. I may have
to try Steve's
figure -8 solution, though the storage area doesn't lend itself,
and I'd have to retrain the gardener.

Sigh!

Pers.