Hooking up a garden hose- how we are all different

[HemiBenny]

This is what I consider a flex-hose. They shrink up to nothing after turning the water off and letting them drain out.
I’ve had this for 3 years now. This is 50 feet of water hose stored in a 12 pack-Samuel Adams box. (2-25’ hoses)
I use these all the time and have yet to have a problem with them. It’s easy to lay them out and hook up since they’re so short when dry. They also sort themselves out pretty well once the water is turned on.

 

[JeffKeryk]

@GON I married up, but I'm pretty sure you all already knew that...

 

[GON]

I highly doubt that every one of your neighbors is gone at the same time. There has to be someone within crawling distance who can help....if you were friends with them.

It was meant to be humor.........

This is a bit of clairfication:

 

[greenjp]

Flexzilla is a good hose. Not great but good. If you want a great hose get an Eley. Same for those splitters, every single one I ever encountered was terrible crap until I bit the bullet and got an Eley.

jeff

 

[ripcord]

She just sent me this picture and said she can’t get the kinks out, she says she can’t get them out and it’s like fighting a snake.

She is angry at me.


Ugghhh

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Just tell her to calm down, that works every time.

 

[facility1]

There is advantages of being single.

 

[doitmyself]

In the mean time, your turf is looking mighty parched as it waits for irrigation.

@GON :
"she can’t get the kinks out" Hilarious irony. Meaning: To remove or fix any small problems that are present in something,

"Just for clarification, I am not laughing at the Wife. Not at all." WAY TOO LATE, BUB. The Karma is set. You are doomed.

 

[SC Maintenance]

Flexzilla is a good hose. Not great but good. If you want a great hose get an Eley. Same for those splitters, every single one I ever encountered was terrible crap until I bit the bullet and got an Eley.

jeff

Your not wrong - I have 2 Eley reels and one Eley hose. I need to get another as my Goodyear hose is about wore out, but I don't want to pay the $200 for a 100 feet of hose. Seems like they were half that 10 years ago.

 

[4wd]

Your not wrong - I have 2 Eley reels and one Eley hose. I need to get another as my Goodyear hose is about wore out, but I don't want to pay the $200 for a 100 feet of hose. Seems like they were half that 10 years ago.

Been using this hose for about a year now - it’s clearly going to last. As mentioned - have a 10’ pig-tail of the flexilla swivel hose - but wanted a valve there anyway …

https://www.walmart.com/ip/Flexon-3...ose/3563438133?classType=VARIANT&athbdg=L1105

 

[97prizm]

She just sent me this picture and said she can’t get the kinks out, she says she can’t get them out and it’s like fighting a snake.

She is angry at me.


Ugghhh

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Walk the hose out and twist as you go. Always worked for me.

 

[burbguy82]

She just sent me this picture and said she can’t get the kinks out, she says she can’t get them out and it’s like fighting a snake.

She is angry at me.


Ugghhh

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yall just need to learn how to roll out a hose, ****!

 

[Astro14]

yall just need to learn how to roll out a hose, ****!

Why don’t you call her up and explain that?

Let me know how that goes.

I’ll wait…

 

[burbguy82]

Why don’t you call her up and explain that?

Let me know how that goes.

I’ll wait…

oh man........I play with that fire on a weekly basis in the summer!

hose stowage and deployment is a lost art.

 

[Arc]

Just for clarification, I am not laughing at the Wife. Not at all. Simply sharing we all bring different things to the table, and things that may be overwhelming to one person, may be as easy as eating a pancake to another. My Wife does things I can never do/ figure out, and that is the way life rolls.

Times like this let us swoop in and rescue them. I get it though, my wife is pretty awesome too.

 

[frankbee3]

Why don’t you call her up and explain that?

Let me know how that goes.

I’ll wait…

I think we should all listen in on that call..

 

[AZjeff]

Yes, that is our exact setup.

If she has trouble connecting the hose it could be the Y connector. Yesterday my boss couldn't get the hose connected and I had a bit of trouble as well, the Y is a casting and the hose fitting has to be exactly in plane to get the threads to start. Much fussier than connecting to the hose bib. Just what you need.

 

[doitmyself]

Why don’t you call her up and explain that?

Let me know how that goes.

I’ll wait…

Couples married over 4 decades have free license to make fun of selves.

 

[Snagglefoot]

I bought a hose at home depot that had 2 male ends on it

Subliminal message?

 

[GON]

Update- Wife was able to get the hose working this morning.

Kindly she reported that I ask so little from her, she needed to have the patience to work the challenge.

A few funny notes, she says the backyard is now flooding. I asked to run the water at a trickle. She said there is no setting for trickle....... She did the hose early morning in her robe, as she goes to church on Sunday morning and didn't want to get dressed twice. Somehow she locked the slider door behind her, so after getting the hose issue worked out, she discovered she couldn't get back into the house. We have a gate to the back yard that is hard to open (on purpose), but I hadn't place the gate in its hard to open position when I was home last week. She knows of my gate hard to open scheme and she was really worried. Being "locked" in the back yard on a Sunday morning in her robe.

She was able to open the gate, and use the garage door keypad to open the garage and enter the home. I have a new task to install a keypad on one of three outside doors that one can enter the home from the backyard.

 

[burbguy82]

I think we should all listen in on that call..

i'm down, send me the number......ill record