I really encourage you to go and try these two methods out for yourself! I really think you will be amazed. If you could, let me know how well they worked for you here in the comments!
Most people are going to use a hose reel for garden hoses, especially for home use but the figure eight over under methods work well for contractor work. The only problem I see is getting the water out of the hose which you didn’t elaborate on but a hose reel uses simple Archimedes Screw mechanics to remove most of the water from the hose providing you open or remove the nozzle from the male end of the hose. You are going to have to walkout the hose with the hose over your head to get the water out or you’re going to be manhandling a heavy hose full of water. When I was a contractor using air hoses for the pumps, we would lay the hose out straight then whip it in loops to quickly coil it up. Never had any tangle issues and the hose automatically adjusted to its coil diameter and orientation. It only takes less than thirty seconds to coil a hose this way. When I first started working there I was coiling your way but my coworkers showed me their method and I was immediately convinced.
I would use the second method I know it from my guitar cables and are used to do that but since I am not the only one using the hoses on our ship and because it takes ages to learn old dogs new tricks I decided that the easiest way is to simply take up the hose and lay it out on the floor untangled. Never fails and is fairly quick.
oh wow look @JohnFourtyTwo below, also a professional brings up a great point about how worthless your methods are, just like I did. Do yourself a favor and save time debating with people obviously smarter than you, and simply take this video down. Stop embarassing yourself.
I buried telephone cable for years. Since you can't cut fiber, we used the figure 8 method for years. Even had a figure 8 machine. Did miles and miles using this method. Always works great.
An old electrician taught me to use electrical tape, adhesive-side out, to bind coils. But I should have led with thanks for taking all-that-time to coil hoses--a thankless task even when doing only one short one, let alone your repetitions with long ones. So, thanks for taking the time for us.
When I was about 10 (1962) my grandfather showed me how to spool hoses and ropes so they wouldn't tangle. It was a skill he had learned in the _Great War_ trenches in 1914 or 1915. I remember that second technique. He also taught me how to darn socks (a skill I have been delighted to unlearn), cut heavyweight thread by hand, using the thread to cut itself, and many other useful skills. I wish he written all his techniques down, and possibly published them.
I now know a little something about darning a sock thanks to your comment. I'd never heard of that before, at least not the "darn" part. I just always thought it was a word used in frustration, lol. Maybe it still is. P.S. apparently the brilliant spell checker on my phone has never heard of darning either because it kept changing it to "farming" a sock as if that made better sense.
Turns out "common sense" isn't at all! It's useful tips and tricks taught through repetition and need. No one comes out of the womb knowing how to do anything it must be taught or learned then passed on to the next gen.
Wow I was expecting to go to comments and read a bunch of them telling you what a waiste of time you worry about hoses, I've personally just wrap them on a real or an old wheel rim hung on the house, shows how little I know. I've done carpentry for years, I learned from one of my bosses how to weave or thread an electrical cord ...But never even thought of or heard of someone taking the time to role up a garden hose in anyway other than in a circle. And the old school comments are amazing, I don't recall my dad ever having any trouble unwinding his garden hose. We always had a hanger on the house ... And now I have a trolley on wheels it works fine. But if I ever get on a jobsight or in the firehall I'll have a better idea of what to do thanks to you... so thanks at 56 years old I still learning new tricks.👍👍👍
Your 3rd method is what I use for hoses, electrical cords, and microphone cables. My son used to work on a sound rigging crew and showed me how to do it. We’ve traveled in a RV for 10 years and it’s saved me lots of time. Thanks
Learn it the same way for coiling mic cables and power cords. When ready to use, it can be thrown out (holding one end, of course) and it lays dead flat.
With something as large as a hose, there is one HUGE caveat you should note with using cross-coiling (over/under). When you go to pull the hose out, make absolutely certain that you don't pull the wrong end through the loops, because if you do, every loop becomes a knot. It's uncommon, but it does happen, especially to newbies in the cross-coiling technique.
Finally, someone who knows the proper way to coil and uncoil a hose! I learned this method 45 years ago when coiling expensive sound system cables. The teacher nearly blew a gasket when someone started to coil a $300 cable from hand to elbow (the "old wash woman method" No offense intended). The whole class then received a 30 min lesson on why and how to do it. Good job!
Yes! I learned the over/under method for electrical cables from This Old House years ago, and I have also used it for my garden hoses. Works fine, but for use at home where I don't have to worry about transporting it and can just leave it in place, I switched to a hose reel.
@@HowToHomeDIY Every time I wind my hose up now, I thank you. I have the perfect space for doing the figure 8 method, and it works like a charm. So much easier and quicker than either one of the other methods. If you think winding up a hose is a challenge, try removing and winding up over 1,000 feet of 7/8 inch steel hoist cable from a crane. Talk about fun.... Thanks again!
I just struggled to coil up 5 garden hoses, wish I had seen this earlier! They are too neatly piled up in the garage for me to redo them, but I sure will be rewatching your video and coiling them right next year. BTW, your explanation is very clear, I am a dummy when it comes to this type of things and I can still follow. Thank you!
If you keep your hose connected to your hose bib, I find doing the figure 8 method with 2 of those wall mount standard hose holders mounted a short distance apart to be pretty effective.
Great video! If you use over/under, it's convenient to screw the female and male ends into one another. This keeps the hose ends from passing through the center of the coil. If a hose end passes through one loop of coil, you get one knot. If an end passes through two loops, you get two knots, etc. If you don't attach the ends to each other to prevent this, your velcro wrap must be tight enough to keep the ends from passing through the center of the coil.
Professional “grips” in theater or film will also do over/under loops when they’re wrapping wire cables. The theory is that you can just toss the cable bundle in the direction you want to go, and it just unwraps itself naturally. And they use the same types of Velcro wraps. I’m not a professional grip, butn8 have learned from them.
Over under is the best, even shorter charging cables. Pro tip: If you’re using an XLR cable, you can skip the straps and lightly tie off the MALE end of the cable so it doesn’t kink near where it plugs in a mic. Start with the female end pointing away from you.
Grips use rope. Set lighting techs use copper stranded electric cable and until the advent of LED studio lighting, 4/0 was used to lay in higher amperage installs. 2/0 is common, and it is always coiled for storage using a clockwise twist in rolls, never in any french braid b.s. Sound technicians use the over/under (or, clock- counterclock- twist) for their audio cables. I coil my garden hoses and 12/3 120V extensions in a clockwise-twist coil, because I know how to play them out in a straight line with no twist. Just takes practice.
🎉Good to know and good video. My hose is thick,so rolling it tight is difficult at best and rarely conforms to either method. When I'm done using the hose,I lay it in horizontal lines,overlapping,across the back of the garden under the faucet. The scrubs and flowers hide it well,and the hose unwinds without knotting. In the winter, I use a hose reel to store it.
I've used the third method for years and it's great. Just don't let the ends mix in the loops, let it hand down lower or put the ends together. Also when un"coiling" it i just hold both ends and toss the whole loop away and it unravel easy
Your third method, Over and under is my way to go for my garden hose, my 100 foot electrical extention and also for the central vacuum cleaner hose. Works great!
I was the only female abalone diver in California many, many years ago and I used to coil 400 feet of black hose several times a day. My life depended on the hose not tangling or kinking because this is where the air I breathed traveled from the compressor on the boat to my regulator. Some guys used the figure 8 method if they had enough deck space. I used the over under single coil method. I never had a kink in all the years I was a diver. Of course, I still use this method today with my garden hoses and never have those tiresome kinks.😅
I use a 5 gallon bucket for an extension cord with the plug end sticking out long enough to plug in, and can pretty much just put the cord in willy nilly, and it'll pull back out just as it went in, without any kinks. I do the same with the garbage can for garden hoses, and it protects it from the sun when in outside storage. I can then just pull out whatever length is needed. The hose reels are nice too, but this is inexpensive and no worry about winter freeze up damaging the couplings.
Always good information from this channel. 32 years as an engineer in the merchant marines coiling air hoses and extension cord incorrectly. Could have used this method when it came time to string them out. Well, I'll go show these new methods to my wife. I'm sure she'll be enthused;-} Good stuff. Ps.Gotta get back to Amazon, in the middle of ordering your 12 assort Wrap-it straps. Thanks.
Nice! I was immediately reminded of your extension cord wrapping video. These are great techniques, and certainly worth another video to reinforce the idea that there are better ways to manage our cords and hoses. Thank you!
I just redid my extension cords, pressure wash hoses in garage using the last method and tested. Not a single kink/tangle and worked beautifully. Wish I learned of it sooner as it would have saved me lots of headache. Thank you!
I step on the very end of the hose and loop the hose over my head forming a loop the width of my legs. I am essentially standing in the center and loop the hose again and again over my head. It’s simple and quick!
This is good. I stopped rounding my hose by putting the 2 ends together stroking out the hose to find the center and a arms stretch pulling both ends together all the way to the ends. It works every time.
Yeah I didn't mean for it to be there. I bought them to put somewhere else and never did. Now they are in the ground! 🤣. Thanks for the idea Corey! I have a retractable hose reel that I have been meaning to make a video on that I bought last year. Definitely need to get it done. Hope you are doing well!
When I worked in the wood beam (lamination) industry, we learned quickly that rolling up the long electrical cords into a nice circular pile just made them get knotted up. The solution was to just pull them in and leave them in an ugly pile, but it worked!
This was a great demo video. All instructions and not a lot of useless chatter. I appreciate the various methods. Im always fighting with hoses. I want to go right now and practice. 😂 Thank you.
Been doing this for years at home. But, I don't use cheap little kink-hoses, I finally learned and bought big diameter, well built hoses, and have had about 150 feet of big, sturdy hoses for at least 15 years. They stay at home, but I ue them often, even to squirt water in the summer to a rhody that is about 200 feet from the faucet. I drag these 3 joined hoses around on the crushed gravel driveway and parking area, too, when washing cars. Then it gets coiled back in a figure eight pile right behind the house, in the shade, on about a dozen exposed aggregate stepping stones. It is out of the way there, and I don't need to tie it up or anything. Also, it would be asking a lot to lift it all to move it, unless it were drained and separated into 3. Peace, and thanks for getting the word out on the figure-eight wrapping up method.
I was about to describe your second technique - you beat me to it! I have worked in video for decades and we had to be very careful with the cables between the production vehicle and the cameras, when they switched from copper wire, to fiber-optic cables. The manufacturer showed us your second way, coil in front, coil in back, repeat. I have a contractor-style worm-drive saw with a 25 foot power cord. I wind the cord around the saw body in a figure "8" like the first technique using the two ends of the saw to hold it. I'd draw you a picture if the comment would allow it!
Thanks -- this could really help me out. I'll be using both methods in different storage situations around here. Reality creeps into your well-presented video -- a messy green hose shows up on the driveway starting at about 5 minutes!
The figure 8 or ocho as they are referred to is the method of storing power cables for electric drills and shovels used in the open pit mining industry. I was introduced to this at a copper mine in southern Az in the 1960's. Keeping these power cables untangled is important as the cables (large diameter extension cords) range from around 2 1/2 in to 3 1/2 in in diameter.....I've used this for my hoses all my adult life
4:40 Used that method for 30 years running a truck mount carpet cleaning unit.. works great for garden hose too.. no kinks. Called it the under over method. Just flip it under with your pinkie and ring fingers on the under loop.. can wind it with breakneck speed. Leave the very end hang with a long tail as well as the other end of the hose when you get to the end of winding the hose and lay the hose down on wherever with those tails hanging out... it will keep the ends of the hose from going through the center of the roll.. as this will cause the hose to form an actual knot at ever place the hose went through the loops.. if one of those ends goes through the center of the whole roll you will have as many knots as you have loops. Try it if you don't believe me. heh Let the tails hang almost to the ground... or about 2' long
I went back to heavy, traditional garden hoses. For over a decade, I used those light-weight, expandable hoses... but they keep tearing and breaking. The lightweight, metal ones are slightly better, but the links can break, and the water will leak. Of course, people can also buy those wind-up wheels.
The second wrap starting at about 4:00, is what's called a 'roadie wrap'. I learned it long ago from a stage hand, used for wrapping long cables in the theatre!
I found it hilarious you found it necessary to make a video on how to roll up a water hose. After thinking about it today I'm sure there are certain parts of the country that would need that info.
Coiling in the air starts out easy and becomes a workout by the end. I still use the dissed first method but I make sure the hose is first extended out straight so it can rollover with the coiling so no loop wants to spring out of plane. Then 3 ties 120 apart. The smaller the loops the more chances to get tangled. The longer the hose ditto. Cold temperatures will make small coils tangle like a slinky. New hoses are coiled so tight they need to be laid out in the sun until they hopefully loose the memory.
The second one, the over under is a techniques that’s also good for long runs of cabling that roadies use to keep the cabling from getting twisted and breaking inside the insulation. It alleviates a lot of problems.
I kept my eye out for garden hose reels in the trash. Used those to make reels for rope and pressure washer hose etc.. Also feeding lines into a bin with no attempt to make loops works. reaching underneath and twisting works but feeding on to a reel always works for everybody.
My 100 foot garden hose is Figure Eight. I am having trouble getting the wife to coil it back the same way. I like to be able to grab as much hose as I think I will need and toss it out into the yard. It unravels in the air without any tangles. So nice! The second method (over/under) is familiar from wrapping lines on a sailboat. Again, if you need to toss a line it won't tangle. Also they won't get twisted in the winches.
These are great tips that are useful. The only problem at my house is that my wife of 49 years will never be willing to do this. I love her dearly but she only wants to use the garden hose not take care of the garden hose. What would work for her would be a light weight short hose at every location she plants things. That ain’t happening. So I’m working on a hose storage system of two wall hooks that are 20’ apart so one loop is 40’. She only has to make two loops to store the 75’ hose.
Yes, I've been doing the last method for years with my wall-mounted garden hose. It works for extension cords, also. Over-under, just doing it sideways instead of on the ground.
I have an alternate to #2 that works for me...but faster and easier. I just hold the end in my left hand and make a couple loops also held in that hand. Then instead of continuing and getting obnoxious twists, I pass those loops to my right hand and make another two or three loops -- then back to the left hand. The direction of the twists flip when you change hands so the same result of a mix of left and right twists when done allow everything to cancel when you stretch it out. Just like your methods. You could alternate hands with every loop but I don't find that necessary depending on the subtleness of the hose.
My son taught me the over/under method years ago, for coiling up XLR audio cables. I use it for extension cords, hoses, and anything else like that which needs to be coiled up.
This method is called reverse coiling. It’s been used on ships for hundreds plus years I’m a painter. This is the way I wrap up my sprayer hose although you don’t have to separate the two coils you can stack them as your wind, and it will still lay out without any kinks or tangles.
Lay it out and pull arms length as you twist the hose. By the end you should be able to clip the ends together. Perfect wrap. But it's a slow process. I like wrapping it around a bucket of I'm lazy. When i want it, i lift the bucket. 😊
I love the all the advice on hose gathering. You can tell he is pro.......just look at the green hose on the ground behind him at about 5 mins. I guess you can't use his methods all the time! lol
I really encourage you to go and try these two methods out for yourself! I really think you will be amazed. If you could, let me know how well they worked for you here in the comments!
I just tried it. I will never wrap a hose like I used to again! Thank you, it works so well!
Better you offer a free brain with this, very few understand hoses, but you understand ebegging.
Most people are going to use a hose reel for garden hoses, especially for home use but the figure eight over under methods work well for contractor work. The only problem I see is getting the water out of the hose which you didn’t elaborate on but a hose reel uses simple Archimedes Screw mechanics to remove most of the water from the hose providing you open or remove the nozzle from the male end of the hose. You are going to have to walkout the hose with the hose over your head to get the water out or you’re going to be manhandling a heavy hose full of water.
When I was a contractor using air hoses for the pumps, we would lay the hose out straight then whip it in loops to quickly coil it up. Never had any tangle issues and the hose automatically adjusted to its coil diameter and orientation. It only takes less than thirty seconds to coil a hose this way. When I first started working there I was coiling your way but my coworkers showed me their method and I was immediately convinced.
I would use the second method I know it from my guitar cables and are used to do that but since I am not the only one using the hoses on our ship and because it takes ages to learn old dogs new tricks I decided that the easiest way is to simply take up the hose and lay it out on the floor untangled.
Never fails and is fairly quick.
oh wow look @JohnFourtyTwo below, also a professional brings up a great point about how worthless your methods are, just like I did. Do yourself a favor and save time debating with people obviously smarter than you, and simply take this video down. Stop embarassing yourself.
I buried telephone cable for years. Since you can't cut fiber, we used the figure 8 method for years. Even had a figure 8 machine. Did miles and miles using this method. Always works great.
An old electrician taught me to use electrical tape, adhesive-side out, to bind coils. But I should have led with thanks for taking all-that-time to coil hoses--a thankless task even when doing only one short one, let alone your repetitions with long ones. So, thanks for taking the time for us.
When I was about 10 (1962) my grandfather showed me how to spool hoses and ropes so they wouldn't tangle. It was a skill he had learned in the _Great War_ trenches in 1914 or 1915. I remember that second technique. He also taught me how to darn socks (a skill I have been delighted to unlearn), cut heavyweight thread by hand, using the thread to cut itself, and many other useful skills.
I wish he written all his techniques down, and possibly published them.
I now know a little something about darning a sock thanks to your comment. I'd never heard of that before, at least not the "darn" part. I just always thought it was a word used in frustration, lol. Maybe it still is.
P.S. apparently the brilliant spell checker on my phone has never heard of darning either because it kept changing it to "farming" a sock as if that made better sense.
He thought like everyone else in his day that "It's just common sense; how can that go out of style?"
@@duubtuub3071
That's funny how we think things like that. Another one is "I'll never be like my parents." I was dead wrong on that one too, lol.
Turns out "common sense" isn't at all! It's useful tips and tricks taught through repetition and need. No one comes out of the womb knowing how to do anything it must be taught or learned then passed on to the next gen.
Wow I was expecting to go to comments and read a bunch of them telling you what a waiste of time you worry about hoses, I've personally just wrap them on a real or an old wheel rim hung on the house, shows how little I know. I've done carpentry for years, I learned from one of my bosses how to weave or thread an electrical cord ...But never even thought of or heard of someone taking the time to role up a garden hose in anyway other than in a circle. And the old school comments are amazing, I don't recall my dad ever having any trouble unwinding his garden hose. We always had a hanger on the house ... And now I have a trolley on wheels it works fine. But if I ever get on a jobsight or in the firehall I'll have a better idea of what to do thanks to you... so thanks at 56 years old I still learning new tricks.👍👍👍
Your 3rd method is what I use for hoses, electrical cords, and microphone cables. My son used to work on a sound rigging crew and showed me how to do it. We’ve traveled in a RV for 10 years and it’s saved me lots of time. Thanks
Learn it the same way for coiling mic cables and power cords. When ready to use, it can be thrown out (holding one end, of course) and it lays dead flat.
still kinks when used in the yard. this is no good
With something as large as a hose, there is one HUGE caveat you should note with using cross-coiling (over/under). When you go to pull the hose out, make absolutely certain that you don't pull the wrong end through the loops, because if you do, every loop becomes a knot. It's uncommon, but it does happen, especially to newbies in the cross-coiling technique.
I've been using over/under for microphone and instrument cables for years and they get knotted more often than not! I'm clearly doing something wrong.
Finally, someone who knows the proper way to coil and uncoil a hose! I learned this method 45 years ago when coiling expensive sound system cables. The teacher nearly blew a gasket when someone started to coil a $300 cable from hand to elbow (the "old wash woman method" No offense intended). The whole class then received a 30 min lesson on why and how to do it. Good job!
If you always leave the ends a foot long or so out of the coil there's much less chance of picking it out wrong.
@richardknecht492 Yup.
Came here to say this. I actually stopped using over/under to coil cables for this reason. It’s infuriating.
Love the jacked up hose in the back ground! Classic....
🙂 I am really surprised more people have not commented on it. It may or may not have been by design 😂
Yes! I learned the over/under method for electrical cables from This Old House years ago, and I have also used it for my garden hoses. Works fine, but for use at home where I don't have to worry about transporting it and can just leave it in place, I switched to a hose reel.
Thanks!
You are very welcome! Really glad you liked it. Thanks a lot for the feedback and the Super Thanks David!
@@HowToHomeDIY Every time I wind my hose up now, I thank you. I have the perfect space for doing the figure 8 method, and it works like a charm. So much easier and quicker than either one of the other methods. If you think winding up a hose is a challenge, try removing and winding up over 1,000 feet of 7/8 inch steel hoist cable from a crane. Talk about fun....
Thanks again!
I spent 5 years in high school and then 4 years at college. Never was taught this, and it's more useful to daily life than any of that.
I'm not surprised they didn't teach you, unless you went to gardening college.
Good vid btw
How about grade school.
@@boazvanderschaaf or sound engineering school, or shop class, or horse riding.
I just struggled to coil up 5 garden hoses, wish I had seen this earlier! They are too neatly piled up in the garage for me to redo them, but I sure will be rewatching your video and coiling them right next year. BTW, your explanation is very clear, I am a dummy when it comes to this type of things and I can still follow. Thank you!
If you keep your hose connected to your hose bib, I find doing the figure 8 method with 2 of those wall mount standard hose holders mounted a short distance apart to be pretty effective.
Great input! Thanks a lot!
You deserve a medal! Thanks so much. Even
yachties don't know these tricks.
2nd method is like over under method for wrapping audio cables. Neat!
You are absolutely right! Very similar. Works great on the hoses too.
Over/under works like a champ. He makes it harder than it is. Learned this technique 35 years ago on the fire dept.
Ya that last over under with the hose did not look smooth at all.
I used the second method in the fire dept. We called it a half-hitch roll. Can be used with extention cords and 550 cord also. Good video!
Can verify this works with stiff air compressor hoses too.
a.k.a. french loop... good to keep this ancient knowledge alive, thx
Great video! If you use over/under, it's convenient to screw the female and male ends into one another. This keeps the hose ends from passing through the center of the coil. If a hose end passes through one loop of coil, you get one knot. If an end passes through two loops, you get two knots, etc. If you don't attach the ends to each other to prevent this, your velcro wrap must be tight enough to keep the ends from passing through the center of the coil.
😮WOW didn't even know I needed to know this but wow, I'm glad I watched it. You're a genius!
Professional “grips” in theater or film will also do over/under loops when they’re wrapping wire cables. The theory is that you can just toss the cable bundle in the direction you want to go, and it just unwraps itself naturally. And they use the same types of Velcro wraps. I’m not a professional grip, butn8 have learned from them.
Over under is the best, even shorter charging cables. Pro tip: If you’re using an XLR cable, you can skip the straps and lightly tie off the MALE end of the cable so it doesn’t kink near where it plugs in a mic. Start with the female end pointing away from you.
Grips use rope. Set lighting techs use copper stranded electric cable and until the advent of LED studio lighting, 4/0 was used to lay in higher amperage installs. 2/0 is common, and it is always coiled for storage using a clockwise twist in rolls, never in any french braid b.s. Sound technicians use the over/under (or, clock- counterclock- twist) for their audio cables. I coil my garden hoses and 12/3 120V extensions in a clockwise-twist coil, because I know how to play them out in a straight line with no twist. Just takes practice.
🎉Good to know and good video. My hose is thick,so rolling it tight is difficult at best and rarely conforms to either method. When I'm done using the hose,I lay it in horizontal lines,overlapping,across the back of the garden under the faucet. The scrubs and flowers hide it well,and the hose unwinds without knotting. In the winter, I use a hose reel to store it.
I've used the third method for years and it's great.
Just don't let the ends mix in the loops, let it hand down lower or put the ends together.
Also when un"coiling" it i just hold both ends and toss the whole loop away and it unravel easy
excellent! I rushed outside to try this and it really works! I am so happy!
5:00 this is the best tip for over and under I've seen
I did figure it out myself but yeah never seen it put into words
Your third method, Over and under is my way to go for my garden hose, my 100 foot electrical extention and also for the central vacuum cleaner hose. Works great!
I Daisy chain me electric cords.
I was the only female abalone diver in California many, many years ago and I used to coil 400 feet of black hose several times a day. My life depended on the hose not tangling or kinking because this is where the air I breathed traveled from the compressor on the boat to my regulator. Some guys used the figure 8 method if they had enough deck space. I used the over under single coil method. I never had a kink in all the years I was a diver. Of course, I still use this method today with my garden hoses and never have those tiresome kinks.😅
I have a Gardena cart with a reel and a handle to wind a hose. Works like a charm. Stores easily and, as it comes with wheels, is easy to move around.
I use a 5 gallon bucket for an extension cord with the plug end sticking out long enough to plug in, and can pretty much just put the cord in willy nilly, and it'll pull back out just as it went in, without any kinks.
I do the same with the garbage can for garden hoses, and it protects it from the sun when in outside storage. I can then just pull out whatever length is needed. The hose reels are nice too, but this is inexpensive and no worry about winter freeze up damaging the couplings.
Nice, you have answered one of life's' mysteries, thanks.
Haha you are very welcome! Really glad to hear you liked it. Thanks a lot for the feedback!
👍💚 Thank you very much for this excellent video. It makes my life more easy now 😃.....
You are very welcome! Thanks a lot for the feedback!
Always good information from this channel. 32 years as an engineer in the merchant marines coiling air hoses and extension cord incorrectly. Could have used this method when it came time to string them out. Well, I'll go show these new methods to my wife. I'm sure she'll be enthused;-} Good stuff. Ps.Gotta get back to Amazon, in the middle of ordering your 12 assort Wrap-it straps. Thanks.
🤣 You are very welcome! I am sure your wife loved hearing all about it! 😂
@@HowToHomeDIY You Know My Wife; she didn't listen to a word I said.🤔
@joentexas hey, your wife sounds like my wife! 😂
Nice! I was immediately reminded of your extension cord wrapping video. These are great techniques, and certainly worth another video to reinforce the idea that there are better ways to manage our cords and hoses.
Thank you!
Outstanding techniques.
Really glad to hear you liked it. Thanks a lot for the feedback!
Wow, that makes me want to go out and undo my hose and then re-wrap it just to check it out. You can bet that I will be doing this. 👍👍👍👍👍
😂 not going to lie, I just tried it and it actually works so well!
I just redid my extension cords, pressure wash hoses in garage using the last method and tested. Not a single kink/tangle and worked beautifully. Wish I learned of it sooner as it would have saved me lots of headache. Thank you!
Haven't even looked at this, but I always figure eight my garden hose rather than coiling it. Much more efficient for using the hose.
I step on the very end of the hose and loop the hose over my head forming a loop the width of my legs. I am essentially standing in the center and loop the hose again and again over my head. It’s simple and quick!
Somewhere on YT there is a 20 minute video on how to butter a piece of toast.
This is good. I stopped rounding my hose by putting the 2 ends together stroking out the hose to find the center and a arms stretch pulling both ends together all the way to the ends. It works every time.
I've seen the over/under method demonstrated elsewhere, but this was much easier to see how to do it; great presentation skill, thank you.
That viburnum is looking healthy! Video idea for hoses in commonly used areas: hose reels. So many of them are junk.
Yeah I didn't mean for it to be there. I bought them to put somewhere else and never did. Now they are in the ground! 🤣. Thanks for the idea Corey! I have a retractable hose reel that I have been meaning to make a video on that I bought last year. Definitely need to get it done. Hope you are doing well!
When I worked in the wood beam (lamination) industry, we learned quickly that rolling up the long electrical cords into a nice circular pile just made them get knotted up. The solution was to just pull them in and leave them in an ugly pile, but it worked!
I have been wrapping hose & cords in the over & under way for over 60 years, >Joe Morris Dundalk MD.
It is probably the best method! Never had a tangle.
I promise a big scoop of icecream to my grandkids for untangling the gardenhose 😂
I learned to do this wrapping many power cords for AV and film productions.
This was a great demo video. All instructions and not a lot of useless chatter. I appreciate the various methods. Im always fighting with hoses. I want to go right now and practice. 😂 Thank you.
Over and under - the Roadie’s lament. “OVER worked and UNDER paid”. Makes it easy to remember😀
This. Every roadie knows.
Been doing this for years at home. But, I don't use cheap little kink-hoses, I finally learned and bought big diameter, well built hoses, and have had about 150 feet of big, sturdy hoses for at least 15 years. They stay at home, but I ue them often, even to squirt water in the summer to a rhody that is about 200 feet from the faucet. I drag these 3 joined hoses around on the crushed gravel driveway and parking area, too, when washing cars. Then it gets coiled back in a figure eight pile right behind the house, in the shade, on about a dozen exposed aggregate stepping stones. It is out of the way there, and I don't need to tie it up or anything. Also, it would be asking a lot to lift it all to move it, unless it were drained and separated into 3.
Peace, and thanks for getting the word out on the figure-eight wrapping up method.
I was about to describe your second technique - you beat me to it!
I have worked in video for decades and we had to be very careful with the cables between the production vehicle and the cameras, when they switched from copper wire, to fiber-optic cables. The manufacturer showed us your second way, coil in front, coil in back, repeat. I have a contractor-style worm-drive saw with a 25 foot power cord. I wind the cord around the saw body in a figure "8" like the first technique using the two ends of the saw to hold it. I'd draw you a picture if the comment would allow it!
Thanks -- this could really help me out. I'll be using both methods in different storage situations around here. Reality creeps into your well-presented video -- a messy green hose shows up on the driveway starting at about 5 minutes!
Might be there by design 🤫🤣
The figure 8 or ocho as they are referred to is the method of storing power cables for electric drills and shovels used in the open pit mining industry. I was introduced to this at a copper mine in southern Az in the 1960's. Keeping these power cables untangled is important as the cables (large diameter extension cords) range from around 2 1/2 in to 3 1/2 in in diameter.....I've used this for my hoses all my adult life
4:40 Used that method for 30 years running a truck mount carpet cleaning unit.. works great for garden hose too.. no kinks. Called it the under over method. Just flip it under with your pinkie and ring fingers on the under loop.. can wind it with breakneck speed. Leave the very end hang with a long tail as well as the other end of the hose when you get to the end of winding the hose and lay the hose down on wherever with those tails hanging out... it will keep the ends of the hose from going through the center of the roll.. as this will cause the hose to form an actual knot at ever place the hose went through the loops.. if one of those ends goes through the center of the whole roll you will have as many knots as you have loops. Try it if you don't believe me. heh Let the tails hang almost to the ground... or about 2' long
Very helpful. I love the figure 8 method. Thank you!!!🤘👍
We use the over-under technique in the fire service for storing our spreaders’ hydraulic cables
I’m assuming you get similar results? Would make sense to me, you all depend on your equipment to work in those emergency situations.
Been doing the figure 8 for years...😉
I use the second method for air hoses.
Goodness thank you!
I went back to heavy, traditional garden hoses.
For over a decade, I used those light-weight, expandable hoses... but they keep tearing and breaking.
The lightweight, metal ones are slightly better, but the links can break, and the water will leak.
Of course, people can also buy those wind-up wheels.
I'm putting my sneakers on right now to go out to the yard and try this out.
The second wrap starting at about 4:00, is what's called a 'roadie wrap'. I learned it long ago from a stage hand, used for wrapping long cables in the theatre!
I found it hilarious you found it necessary to make a video on how to roll up a water hose. After thinking about it today I'm sure there are certain parts of the country that would need that info.
Editing is a wonderful thing! Lol
It is. Otherwise the video would have been an hour and a half long 🤣
Great method! Large zip ties are cheap and easy to cut.
Coiling in the air starts out easy and becomes a workout by the end. I still use the dissed first method but I make sure the hose is first extended out straight so it can rollover with the coiling so no loop wants to spring out of plane. Then 3 ties 120 apart. The smaller the loops the more chances to get tangled. The longer the hose ditto. Cold temperatures will make small coils tangle like a slinky. New hoses are coiled so tight they need to be laid out in the sun until they hopefully loose the memory.
This one goes out to all my hose.
Kinked Hose? 😂
Cool. I'm going to do this today.
I've been doing wrong for 58 years. Thanks for showing me the right way.
Well-done, sir!
The second one, the over under is a techniques that’s also good for long runs of cabling that roadies use to keep the cabling from getting twisted and breaking inside the insulation. It alleviates a lot of problems.
The figure 8 method also works well for bundling/stacking electrical conductors for wire pulls.
Cool!
Thanks for sharing
I kept my eye out for garden hose reels in the trash. Used those to make reels for rope and pressure washer hose etc.. Also feeding lines into a bin with no attempt to make loops works. reaching underneath and twisting works but feeding on to a reel always works for everybody.
I’m watching this because I’ve mastered everything else on UA-cam 🤣
My 100 foot garden hose is Figure Eight. I am having trouble getting the wife to coil it back the same way. I like to be able to grab as much hose as I think I will need and toss it out into the yard. It unravels in the air without any tangles. So nice!
The second method (over/under) is familiar from wrapping lines on a sailboat. Again, if you need to toss a line it won't tangle. Also they won't get twisted in the winches.
My wife says the 8 is too hard to do LOL
I will try Figure 8 with my hose.
My life is now complete.
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Mine too❤
These are great tips that are useful. The only problem at my house is that my wife of 49 years will never be willing to do this. I love her dearly but she only wants to use the garden hose not take care of the garden hose. What would work for her would be a light weight short hose at every location she plants things. That ain’t happening. So I’m working on a hose storage system of two wall hooks that are 20’ apart so one loop is 40’. She only has to make two loops to store the 75’ hose.
The 2nd-banana guy from Tim Allen's Home Improvement TV show is on TV pitching a flexible hose that should meet her needs.
Nice Thanks ! I got a kick out of tangled green hose on driveway !! Ha Ha !!
That’s the third method. The toss and forget about it 😂
I usually use the over/under. Also works great for extension cords.
Great tips!
THANK YOU!!!!!! 👍
Great video
It took about 2 millions years of evolution to learn how to roll up a garden hose. Subscribed!
Thanks...good stuff!
What about wrapping hose on hose holder mounted on house? Will these work?
Yes, I've been doing the last method for years with my wall-mounted garden hose. It works for extension cords, also. Over-under, just doing it sideways instead of on the ground.
What every new motion picture lighting technician learns on day one.
Ha, ha, ha. This is the funniest damn thing I've seen since the neighbor kids discovered our new electric fence.
How so?
I bought a stainless steel hose, and it's a game-changer. I'll never go back to a regular hose again.
Isn't that a "pipe"?
@@ryanjohnson3615 Haha, it's a flexible hose from Amazon.
Thanks for the tips. My life will be easier.
Another fine YT video with two and a half minutes of info crammed into eight minutes....
'Pro's like us', thanks for including me. I think you have found your calling. Hoses, under and over. Where are these pros?
Definitely didn’t mean to include professional trolls in that.
The figure eight method and the over/under method are both the same method, just implemented in different ways.
I have an alternate to #2 that works for me...but faster and easier. I just hold the end in my left hand and make a couple loops also held in that hand. Then instead of continuing and getting obnoxious twists, I pass those loops to my right hand and make another two or three loops -- then back to the left hand. The direction of the twists flip when you change hands so the same result of a mix of left and right twists when done allow everything to cancel when you stretch it out. Just like your methods. You could alternate hands with every loop but I don't find that necessary depending on the subtleness of the hose.
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My son taught me the over/under method years ago, for coiling up XLR audio cables. I use it for extension cords, hoses, and anything else like that which needs to be coiled up.
Ahhh. I like your way. I gotta remember figure 8
Brilliant....
Thank you
This method is called reverse coiling. It’s been used on ships for hundreds plus years I’m a painter. This is the way I wrap up my sprayer hose although you don’t have to separate the two coils you can stack them as your wind, and it will still lay out without any kinks or tangles.
Brilliant
Lay it out and pull arms length as you twist the hose. By the end you should be able to clip the ends together. Perfect wrap. But it's a slow process. I like wrapping it around a bucket of I'm lazy. When i want it, i lift the bucket. 😊
I love the all the advice on hose gathering. You can tell he is pro.......just look at the green hose on the ground behind him at about 5 mins. I guess you can't use his methods all the time! lol