Hose pipes on wheels

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Anyone got a hose pipe on a trolley/reel with handle thing that has wheels?

If so do you pull the wheeled bit along and the hose unwinds out the back or do you pull the hose out the front and the trolley/reel thing stays where it is or are they a combination of both?
I want one that sits all wound in by the tap, then I wheel it round the front to do the car then pull off about 5 metres to wash the car. Does such a thing exist?
How do you get the hose back on when wheeling the thing back towards the tap? Do you have to wind and push at the same time?

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I've always pulled the hose out (much easier with 2 people).

You normally need an additional length of hose to connect the trolley to the tap.

There is no reason why you couldn't do as you suggest with the additional length being what you use for the washing (there tends to be no water direction control). I would be worried about exerting that pressure on the tape whilst unwinding though. You'd also have to disconnect, wind up and wheel back around.

It doesn't seem like a terribly difficult technology to have a trolley that winds/unwinds as you wheel it using the turning motion of the wheels to turn the drum.
 
The easy solution to that challenge would be to use two reels. One has the short connection to the outside tap with say only a 5m hose. Then the other you connect to the rolled out hose of the first and you can continue from where you are.

It's basically what I do in order to reach our climbing frame except my first reel is 50m and the second 40m. Then connect the pressure washer to the latter.
 
The bit that fails on these hoses is the rotating connection to the reel (i.e. from the tap to the hub). I suspect that what you describe would avoid this and so would prevent hose pipes breaking. I bet they don't make them for that reason :D
 
EdinDevon said:
I've always pulled the hose out (much easier with 2 people).

You normally need an additional length of hose to connect the trolley to the tap.

There is no reason why you couldn't do as you suggest with the additional length being what you use for the washing (there tends to be no water direction control). I would be worried about exerting that pressure on the tape whilst unwinding though. You'd also have to disconnect, wind up and wheel back around.

It doesn't seem like a terribly difficult technology to have a trolley that winds/unwinds as you wheel it using the turning motion of the wheels to turn the drum.
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Some problems I can see with that, first hoses don't like winding up neatly so you'd be having to stop, bend over or pick up the reel to straighten it out often. You'd need to carry the extra length of hose for the business end so you can spray what needs spraying which defeats the purpose of the reel plus having to drag the weight of the reel everywhere.
 
we got the hozelock one that fixes to the wall super idea and far better with a larger capacity than the wheely ones
 
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