A Heavy Duty Hose Reel Cart

Sometimes a hose reel is just not big or strong enough to hold the size hose you require. That leaves your only alternative as a hose reel cart. These are made, usually for businesses like landscapers, who need to move large hoses from site to site. They are often made of aluminum, with stainless steel fittings. They are also rust proofed and weatherproof. Depending on how wide the hose is they can carry anywhere from one hundred and seventy five feet to three hundred feet of hose.

The hose reel cart is made with a special handle to make it easier to steer the cart. It is set at a comfortable height above the wheels of just over three feet. The wheels are heavy duty, eight to ten inches high with extra traction features that will make it steerable through dry earth, mud, and sand or on concrete. The hose wheel cart also comes with a self-winding system to make it even easier to handle this big load.

This is no small-scale device. It is heavy duty from top to bottom, weighing in the neighborhood of fifty pounds. You’ll have to be prepared to pay a reasonable price for such a useful tool. One of these can cost from one hundred and forty to one hundred and ninety dollars. Then you still have to buy a good quality hose to use with it. The hose reel cart is designed to ensure that the hose does not get damaged; it prevents kinks as it rolls the hose in.

Back in the late eighteen hundreds it was similar things that were used by the volunteer fire departments to move around the water hoses when they were putting out fires. In those days, horses pulled the hose reel cart, but it still served the same purpose as it does today. These early volunteer fire departments were a collection of gamblers and businessmen, ruffians and storeowners. They used a hose two and a half inches wide and needed a strongly made hose reel cart because the six hundred foot hose was too heavy to move otherwise.