How well does the garden hose rewind without a track?
1318003
Hello Jeffrey. The reel winds the the hose okay but I have to guide it myself. I have 100 ft. of their hose on my reel and that may be a little too much hose. I am am going to add their expander option. I think that will help. I hope that helps.
1318004
I would recommend this hose reel to anyone. It is extremely high quality and I am very happy with it. To answer you question, when I wind up the hose I use my hand to guide the hose to evenly on the spool. This winds very quickly this way. I have had some of the mechnical tracking/winding mechnisms and I don't miss them.
1318005
By ,generally, holding a rag in one hand guiding the hose and at the same time cleaning off the hose while winding the drum with the other hand.
1318006
It rewinds OK if the winder pays attention. Garden gloves help my wife rewind properly. The overall quality and expected long life greatly outweigh a mechanical track device. I have 2 and they work perfectly.
360218
The track is made to reverse ! You cannot make any circles. When the trolley reaches the end, it reverses automatically!
248105
The spout does swivel. The spout is not threaded on the outside for a garden hose.
719615
I really like my Suncast autowind hose reel. I would recommend not using a hose that is too heavy duty or too large. After a year the rewind engagement handle broke and I found it was poorly designed. I contacted Suncast and they are shipping me a new handle. Be real carefully when engaging this handle or you could experience the same dilemma. I hope my replacement handle has been re-engineered. Good Luck.
1485814
Ours works very well and makes it easy to put hose away. It seems to unwind easier with water pressure turned off.
1026087
No, it has a pause function, but no forward/rewind function or track control.
963504
The soaker hose is about as flexible as a garden hose. It will handle curves without trouble, but something like a sharp 90 degree bend may cause it to kink.
249136
no it does not rewind automatically. the instructions tell you to rewind around the bottom of the vac, which I find not to handy, so I just coil it up and put it through the handle, not the best solution ....
366663
The spring on the outside of the hose holds it close to where it latches. If you pull it down, the spring will pull it back up into it's original position.
38825
It has never happened in 3 years. Note that there is ample pressure that even the low setting is generally too much, and a notch or two below it is sufficient. As such, I don't think the hose itself faces much back pressure that would cause it to slip off.
2166768
You move it back and forth by hand while you reel the hose in. I used to have one where it moved automatically while I was reeling. I found that I liked this system better because it gave me more control. The automatic had a tendency to break.
1033949
The unit has a gear drive that is powered by the water going through it. I travels along the hose that you lay out and set the unit on. The coverage is controlled by the position of the sprinkler arms and the water pressure, which also controls the rate of travel. The unit has two speeds, and can be taken out of gear and set in one location. It can be used in any area that has clearance for the arms to be able to rotate, about 30 inches. By positioning the arms you can adjust the coverage areas from about ten feet to twenty feet from the unit On bare ground I would say that it can only go about 50ft before the weight of the hose will cause it to dig into the dirt, and stop the unit. On grass it can pull enough hose to move about 100ft. Effectively you would be dragging about half of that length of hose. It can follow curves that have a 10ft radius or greater. I would not think it would be too good in a flower bed where the hose bend would be moving along behind the unit, unless there was sufficient room between the plantings. I have a large back yard with a bare area that has trees on both sides, it is about a 140ft run. By laying out a 100ft hose I can water the whole area and the trees, but I do have to go pull the hose up when it is about half the way through.
1289093
This is a heaver hose than the cheep plastic hoses. I love the fact that it stands up to heavy traffic. I don't recommend using it for traveling sprinklers though, its too heavy for them to pull and the gears wear out quick so to answer your question, yes its hard to drag across the yard.
1485812
With the water on, simply move the lever forward. When the hose is rewound, move the lever back to original position to stop it. It works best if you assist the winder by feeding the hose by hand.
427097
This is a manual reel. You can use the hose without unrolling it from the reel.
1485815
There is a lever on the side of the rewind that you move towards the back [ with the water still on ] the hose automatically starts to rewind with a guide going side to side so the hose rewinds evenly. This is all done by water power with a discharge hose letting water escape. When the hose totally rewinds just move the lever forward and turn off the water. Its a very simple operation.
1035997
This one is all manual; you have to rewind by hand. I gave up on the aquawind hose reels after owning several. Although they do great in the beginning, they don't seem to last too long. This one is super easy to rewind.