Handy Hose Reel

Handy Hose Reel FARM HOME Miscellaneous 33-4-31 "It provides a nice, wide surface that keeps the hose from ever kinking up," says Chris Yingling, Bigelow, Arkansas, who screwed a 5-gal. bucket to the side of his barn to use as a hose reel. The bucket is located next to a frost-free faucet at the corner of Yingling's barn. He uses the hose to wash his vehicles and also to irrigate a nearby garden. "It's handy because I can leave the hose on the faucet all the time," says Yingling. To attach the bucket to the barn, he placed a 1 by 6 board inside the bucket at the bottom and then ran screws through both the board and bucket. "Without the board, the weight of the hose would rip the screws out of the bucket," says Yingling. The bucket also makes a handy storage area for nozzles, sprinklers and other tools. "I keep the lid on the bucket in order to keep birds and wasps out."

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