Portable Fire Hose Storage Reel

Portable Fire Hose Storage Reel FARM SHOP Miscellaneous 23-6-35 Our homemade, portable fire hose storage reel holds five 70-ft. lengths of hose that can be hooked together in any combination. It keeps the hose off the ground so it stays clean and can be quickly moved anywhere around our farm. We have a lot of different buildings around the farm so we installed three fire hydrants around the property. The hoses hook up to the hydrants. The two-wheeled reel is divided into five compartments by 1/4-in. thick plastic dividers spaced 3 in. apart. The dividers mount on a pipe that has a handle at one end. Turning the handle rotates the reel, allowing the operator to pull off any or all of the hoses. Each hose has a coupler at one end and a nozzle at the other end. One of the middle dividers has a prong that comes half way out to keep the "starter hose" in place. The unit rides on 16-in. high rubber tires and has a handle made from 1-in. sq. tubing. (Joel Waldner, 67 Tudor Crescent, Lethbridge, Alberta, Canada T1K 5C7)

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