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Hints, Tips, and Everyday Wisdom

Experience is the best teacher. Learn ways to complete projects faster with these hints and tips.

Tangle-free coils of wire, cord or hose

Use this 'over and under' approach to coiling wire or garden hose, or whatever which allows a length to be extracted in a continuous pull away from the coil. Place the first coil on the ground - direction is unimportant - then while following the first loop, place the incoming line UNDER the coil it forms, the next coil is the same as the first and the next goes the same as the second and so on. We use this on coils up to 2500 feet of camera cable and can do a pull out without any entanglements at all. This method prevents hoses from catching while being paid out on boats, and it enables a line toss of extremely long throw without snags.



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