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Tips For Your Hose Reeling Chore
By admin | July 6, 2006
After last weekends gardening conference, I though i’d share my perfect tip for that ultimate tortuous garden chore : winding back the garden hose reel.
The topic was hot debate at the conference in Paris, with profesionals and amatuers alike debating the various Tricks and Techniques…. From the simple (provided below) to the technical (automatic hose reel)
The tip for your hose reeling chore
When you’ve finished your watering chore and your ready to clean up, as you walk back toward your auto rewind hose reel.
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. 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.
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.
Or you can simply avoid all the trouble and treat youself to an automatic self winding hose reel!
This gardening tip was brought to you by an amatuer gardener who himself uses a compact hideaway hosereel
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