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Hose drums
I'm fed up with struggling with the hose. I'm sure it kinks to resist my
watering. Do any of you use drums on wheels to store your hoses? If so which ones are best? Hugh -- Hugh Newbury www.evershot-weather.org |
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On 19/08/2013 08:48, Janet wrote:
In article , says... I'm fed up with struggling with the hose. I'm sure it kinks to resist my watering. Do any of you use drums on wheels to store your hoses? If so which ones are best? I've got a hoselock one.. and for years I've been thinking its too much faff and I'd rather have one of those stretchy spring hoses. Janet What about those stretchy blue ones advertised everywhere? |
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In article , david@abacus-
nurseries.co.uk says... On 19/08/2013 08:48, Janet wrote: In article , says... I'm fed up with struggling with the hose. I'm sure it kinks to resist my watering. Do any of you use drums on wheels to store your hoses? If so which ones are best? I've got a hoselock one.. and for years I've been thinking its too much faff and I'd rather have one of those stretchy spring hoses. Janet What about those stretchy blue ones advertised everywhere? Finding one isn't a problem, but we use everything to destruction, so while the hoselock still works (age 15 ish) I am too mean to retire it :-) Janet |
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On 19/08/13 08:48, Janet wrote:
In article , says... I'm fed up with struggling with the hose. I'm sure it kinks to resist my watering. Do any of you use drums on wheels to store your hoses? If so which ones are best? I've got a hoselock one.. and for years I've been thinking its too much faff and I'd rather have one of those stretchy spring hoses. Janet Janet, too expensive surely? Hugh -- Hugh Newbury www.evershot-weather.org |
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On 19/08/13 08:52, Martin wrote:
On Mon, 19 Aug 2013 08:37:31 +0100, Hugh Newbury wrote: I'm fed up with struggling with the hose. I'm sure it kinks to resist my watering. Do any of you use drums on wheels to store your hoses? If so which ones are best? Gardena is the best we have. Martin, no wheels and expensive! Hugh -- Hugh Newbury www.evershot-weather.org |
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On 19/08/2013 08:37, Hugh Newbury wrote:
I'm fed up with struggling with the hose. I'm sure it kinks to resist my watering. Do any of you use drums on wheels to store your hoses? If so which ones are best? I fitted one of these a couple of months ago (I already had a 20m hose): http://www.screwfix.com/p/wall-mount...capacity/78496 Despite the earlier reviews, it seems OK. The main problem I have found is that now and again the hose catches on the nut holding the handle when I pull it to unwind. A domed nut should solve that problem. All plastic hoses will eventually kink unless they have a spring-type liner (like those used on showers). Some are more resistant than others, but they will weaken with use. -- Jeff |
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We have a Hozelock, not portable but fixed on the house wall over the tap
and we just pull out the amount of hose we want, BUT be careful what you buy, we have a very long garden and the 'standard' hose would not be long enough, so we bought 'double length', that 'just' fits on the drum :-)) Had it about 20 years no problems Mike "Hugh Newbury" wrote in message ... I'm fed up with struggling with the hose. I'm sure it kinks to resist my watering. Do any of you use drums on wheels to store your hoses? If so which ones are best? Hugh -- Hugh Newbury www.evershot-weather.org |
Hose drums
On Mon, 19 Aug 2013 08:37:31 +0100, Hugh Newbury wrote:
I'm fed up with struggling with the hose. I'm sure it kinks to resist my watering. Do any of you use drums on wheels to store your hoses? If so which ones are best? How long a hose? Up to 20 m or so just learn how to hand coil it properly. Longer is probably best dealt with by "figure of eighting" it on the ground. Kinks come from embedded twists in the hose, coiled properly or fig of 8'd there are no embedded twists. Couple of cable coiling videos to show the correct way to coil things: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yqbYyaUY5Sk http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lLwwB29uQRg -- Cheers Dave. |
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"Hugh Newbury" wrote in message ... I'm fed up with struggling with the hose. I'm sure it kinks to resist my watering. Do any of you use drums on wheels to store your hoses? If so which ones are best? Hugh I've got one for sale if you or anyone else are interested. Hozelock type, thirty metres long I think. Ragnar. Altrincham |
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On Mon, 19 Aug 2013 08:57:08 +0100, David Hill
wrote: What about those stretchy blue ones advertised everywhere? There was a review in a recent Amateur Gardening. Apparently you need really good water pressure which sort of rules one out for me (anything like a timer is enough to reduce things to a trickle here). I use a thin version of the yellow gas piping as my hose. Found a drum 20 years ago in an end-of-line pile at a wholesaler. Can't kink or twist it however hard I try! Only downside is that if a Hozelock fitting breaks, I end up cutting half an inch of hose off with a hacksaw and then spending half an hour easing the new fitting on without breaking those "claws". -- Cheers, Jake ======================================= Wilting just a little at the east end of Swansea Bay. |
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On Monday 19 August 2013 08:48 Janet wrote in uk.rec.gardening:
In article , says... I'm fed up with struggling with the hose. I'm sure it kinks to resist my watering. Do any of you use drums on wheels to store your hoses? If so which ones are best? I've got a hoselock one.. and for years I've been thinking its too much faff and I'd rather have one of those stretchy spring hoses. Janet I've got a Gardena one and it's pretty solid (wall mounted). I have a hose guide pulley thing on the house corner near the reel and another on a tree nearby. Using both I can pretty much pull the hose to whereever I need without much faff. -- Tim Watts Personal Blog: http://squiddy.blog.dionic.net/ http://www.sensorly.com/ Crowd mapping of 2G/3G/4G mobile signal coverage |
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In article ,
says... On Monday 19 August 2013 08:48 Janet wrote in uk.rec.gardening: In article , says... I'm fed up with struggling with the hose. I'm sure it kinks to resist my watering. Do any of you use drums on wheels to store your hoses? If so which ones are best? I've got a hoselock one.. and for years I've been thinking its too much faff and I'd rather have one of those stretchy spring hoses. Janet I've got a Gardena one and it's pretty solid (wall mounted). I have a hose guide pulley thing on the house corner near the reel and another on a tree nearby. Using both I can pretty much pull the hose to whereever I need without much faff. I don't think I've ever seen/heard of a hose guide pulley thing Janet |
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On Mon, 19 Aug 2013 11:52:16 +0100, Jake
wrote: On Mon, 19 Aug 2013 08:57:08 +0100, David Hill wrote: What about those stretchy blue ones advertised everywhere? There was a review in a recent Amateur Gardening. Apparently you need really good water pressure which sort of rules one out for me (anything like a timer is enough to reduce things to a trickle here). The water pressure in my garden is not very good but the blue XHose works fine. Steve -- EasyNN-plus. Neural Networks plus. http://www.easynn.com SwingNN. Forecast with Neural Networks. http://www.swingnn.com JustNN. Just Neural Networks. http://www.justnn.com |
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Hugh Newbury wrote in news:b7e09sF67bsU1
@mid.individual.net: I'm fed up with struggling with the hose. I'm sure it kinks to resist my watering. Do any of you use drums on wheels to store your hoses? If so which ones are best? Hugh I use rubber hose and it tends not to kink. When it does kink(very, very rarely) it does not crease. A quick shake and it's gone. It NEVER kinks with water running through. http://tinyurl.com/l9gcdp8 Make your own system with a drum and brass fittings of your choice. It works out a bit pricey but you will not get kinks, and the hose itself will last for a very long time. Decades. Baz |
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