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20 of 20 found the following review helpful:
 find a kid to help you... Mar 14, 2010
By Catherine
They can sit on top of the box when you reel/unreel the hose. Otherwise, there are anchor points on the housing if you want to secure it to the ground. Like others, the coupling leaked when I connected my 75' garden hose to spindle the first time...On the second attempt,I used teflon tape on the coupling and screwed it very tightly and no leaks! The crank is low to the ground, so you may need to kneel in order to to reel the hose in.I sympathize with all the reviewers here, it may be easier to buy a heavy duty version. However, if you are on a budget (and got kids) you can get this at your local home depot for twenty greenbacks.It is made in the USA.
7 of 7 found the following review helpful:
Light duty Dec 14, 2008
By A. Litt
"MrMoo"
Would not fit my regular 100' green garden hose. The unit is pretty light and just moves all around too easily when trying to wind up and unwind. Probably would work ok with a real small hose.
6 of 6 found the following review helpful:
 It wouldnt even make a good anchor!!!!!!! Jun 02, 2011
By Rumspringa
This has to be the biggest piece of crap I have ever purchased. How anyone can thread the hose onto the reel inside of the box is beyond me. I know 2 other people who bought this thing and all 3 of us never got to use it because as soon as you try to secure the hose onto the reel inside it crossthreads and is immediately ruined because the threads are plastic. I am saying this in the most literal meaning...
THIS IS THE BIGGEST PIECE OF CRAP EVER TO BE MADE IN AMERICA!!!!!!
If that is where it was really made. It says so on the sticker but who knows. Dont waste your time with this thing. It wouldnt even make a good anchor for a canoe because it weighs like .003 lbs.
CRAP!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
12 of 15 found the following review helpful:
 So Glad I Purchased! Jun 09, 2010
By Kelly L. Creighton
"The Raptor"
I bought three products in tandem, all three of which will be reviewed here: Suncast PHJ100M Garden Hose Reel Hideaway with 100-Foot Hose Capacity, Apex 8690-50 NeverKink Landscaper 5/8-Inch-by-50-Foot Professional Duty Hose, and Suncast 8-Inch Metal Garden Stakes, Silver. I have a vegetable garden which I expand twice per year. I tend this garden every single day, so it is important that the tools I use work well. I have owned a couple of the cheapest hoses which can be purchased at Walmart. My thought was: "I don't care if it pops a hole, I can just replace it for $15. I don't want to spend $35-50 on a hose and have it be just the same." I have learned - it's not just the same. I don't care if the cheap hose explodes from pressure. What it has cost me dearly is TIME and FRUSTRATION. I can spend 20 minutes laying the cheap hose out straight, and have it kink even when in a straight line. A slight curve closes off the hose, so I spent more time trying to un-kink the hose and regulate water flow than I spent watering my vegetables. What took me 45 minutes or more with a cheap hose took me 25-35 minutes with a five gallon carboy, filling it four gallons at a time and carrying it around my garden. And it takes me a mere 15 minutes with Apex's never kink hose, and Suncast's hose hideaway. Instead of fighting with the hose to get it to lay straight, Apex's hose just lays there, like a hose should. I spool it out of the hideaway, it lays straight. I spool it onto the hideaway, it coils straight. It doesn't fight me, it doesn't kink, I water my garden at the maximum flow of my nozzle without having to go back and try to fix the hose. The hideaway definitely requires the stakes - otherwise the hose itself is heavier than the hideaway and the motion of my pulling would move the hideaway itself. The steaks can be pulled out of the ground if I tug *up* on the hideaway.. but my motion is normally lateral as I pull out the hose. Granted, I can't crank the handle to put away the hose as if I were playing a game on the Price Is Right - you do have to guide the hose onto the spool in a tidy manner, but now that I have a hose that just behaves as a hose should, this isn't a problem and takes only a couple of minutes at most. Buying these three items has literally cut the time I spend watering my garden in half. I was worried by all the reviews of how "cheap" the hideaway is - it works just fine with the stakes. It keeps the sun off my hose so UV rays can't degrade the plastic, it coils the hose faster and more efficiently than I could around a regular/stationary garden hose "butler" or stand, and since I took care to thread the hoses on without stripping the plastic I have experienced no leaks at all. The no-kink hose is truly a wonder, it NEVER fights me, resists movement, or kinks. I highly recommend all three of these products; as long as you take very basic care with their use they work wonderfully.
6 of 7 found the following review helpful:
Garbage Jun 13, 2010
By Coronet Blue
There are so many things wrong with this (admittedly cheap) hose reel its hard to know where to start. Yes, it tips over as soon as you pull on the hose, but you have to get that far. Your journey begins with trying to thread your hose onto the reel. Everything here is plastic, of course. I tried 2 different hoses and each time it took a half dozen tries to attach the hose without cross threading onto the brittle plastic fitting in the reel. If you get that far, the next challenge is winding the hose. As you can see, the more expensive reels have something that's essential--a guide that guides the hose onto the reel. On this unit, you are the guide and you'd better be precise or you will never get 100 feet of hose on the reel. But the fun is just beginning. While you are hand-wrapping the hose around the reel, the entire unit is dancing around. So, with one hand you guide the hose, with your other hand you hold the box steady and with your third hand, you turn the crank. And by the way, if you're thinking of weighting the unit so it doesn't move and tip over, you can't because they were careful not to allow any extra space so there's no place to put a brick or something heavy. I think I'll stop here but you get the idea. I'm not sure if I want to spend over $100 to get a hose reel that works so I may just go back to dropping the hose on the ground and walking away.
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