DF was telling me that today while we were breaking camp she saw another camper putting his water hose away. He was pushing the hose back into a 5 gal bucket with a hole in the lid that was slightly larger than the hose diameter. We assume the other end of the hose was coming out of a hole in the side of the bucket near the bottom. This concept has some attraction for me. It is neat, simple, and I think the hose would stay cleaner. But it seems to me that stuffing the hose back in will result in kinks. Is anyone else using this method? I am thinking it might not be all that great an idea or I would have seen someone doing this by now. We have been camping since 2005 and until this morning, haven't run across it before.

In all the years we've been at RV parks, I've never seen this. We coil our water hose up then connect the two ends, using ratcheting clamps to hold it in place before putting it in a lidded plastic tub.

A hose, like rope, has a natural lay. Try to force it by doing the hand around the elbow method will kink & destroy it in no time. If the hose is soft it will coil inside the bucket.Likewise the shorepower cable, especially 50amp & worse when it is cold, is a pain to coil. We use a laundry hamper for our 50amp cable. Enough comes out of the trailer end from the bottom of the hamper to reach the trailer input. The post end is pulled out as needed with the balance staying in the basket.

I also coil and connect ends. Clean and takes up little space.

I think you could coil the hose properly as you stuffed it into the bucket. The main issue I see is that it would be a big waste of space for most of us. You could probably get 200' of hose in a 5 gal bucket, which is a lot more than most people carry. If you just have 50 or 100', that's a lot of wasted space.I just coil them like most others do, and screw the ends together. Never needed more than 2 x 25 footers.

Doubt the bucket had an other hole near bottom....bucket just used to stow hose.Kinda like a garden hose reel without a turn handle......just start feeding hose into bucket via hole in top cover and it will follow the side of bucket coiling up as you push it in.I coil ours up like a lasso, connect ends and then stow

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bpounds
Nomad
Jun 22, 2015
I think you could coil the hose properly as you stuffed it into the bucket. The main issue I see is that it would be a big waste of space for most of us. You could probably get 200' of hose in a 5 gal bucket, which is a lot more than most people carry. If you just have 50 or 100', that's a lot of wasted space.

I just coil them like most others do, and screw the ends together. Never needed more than 2 x 25 footers.
rhagfo
Explorer III
Jun 22, 2015
I also coil and connect ends. Clean and takes up little space.
Veebyes
Explorer II
Jun 22, 2015
A hose, like rope, has a natural lay. Try to force it by doing the hand around the elbow method will kink & destroy it in no time. If the hose is soft it will coil inside the bucket.

Likewise the shorepower cable, especially 50amp & worse when it is cold, is a pain to coil. We use a laundry hamper for our 50amp cable. Enough comes out of the trailer end from the bottom of the hamper to reach the trailer input. The post end is pulled out as needed with the balance staying in the basket.
ReneeG
Explorer
Jun 22, 2015
In all the years we've been at RV parks, I've never seen this. We coil our water hose up then connect the two ends, using ratcheting clamps to hold it in place before putting it in a lidded plastic tub.

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