| You can easily make a home made reel; many reels | | | | one end for transporting. I found it worked great other |
| are made everyday using re-bar and other materials | | | | than every time the reel turned the piece of hose |
| readily available. | | | | sticking out of the spool hit on the frame. |
| Not long ago I come across a carpenter unrolling air | | | | Another unique reel I saw in a mechanic shop was built |
| hose across a road. He had to string both electrical | | | | with a pipe and two disks he rigged it so the hole |
| cord and air hose about 70 yards he built a reel using | | | | travelled through the pipe allowing you to reel or unreel |
| a wooden spool and a tripod re-bar frame with a | | | | and not have to unplug the hose every time you |
| rebar base which was light weight but still super strong. | | | | wanted to roll or unroll. He said it worked good for first |
| He used a piece of flat metal about 8 inches long with | | | | couple of weeks but soon began to leak air at the |
| a shaft and a piece of plastic pipe to act as the crank | | | | fittings causing the air compressor to run the whole |
| to make his home made reel. It also had a 2 inch hole | | | | time. |
| drilled in the side of the wooden spool which he left | | | | I often take pictures as I am interesting in the kinds of |
| about 3 feet of hose stick out the hole so when it was | | | | scraps people can use to create a working home |
| strung out he could plug it into the compressor without | | | | made reel. |
| unrolling all of the hose. It also had two small wheels on | | | | |