extension cord storage

[larryboy]

spotted this when i was searching for creepers. looks like it would work pretty good for a home garage. any other cheap options out there?



http://www.eastwoodco.com/shopping/p...ProductID=2216

[scramblejim]

get an old bucket, cut a hole in the side near the bottom of it to run a couple feet of the male end out, then coil up the rest of your extension cord inside the bucket. when youre not using it, you just dump the 3 feet or what of the male end into the bucket, and move it out of the way.

[preach]

I'm planning on going manual garden hose reel. Same for my air hose.

I'd love to drop the short $ for a retractable extension but I can't seem to do it as I have at least 250' of extension already.

[pmurf1]

I use the "cable cuffs" they have at Home Depot for mine on my work van and house. It's an orange basicly reusable large zip tie kind of thing. It adjusts for different stuff and keeps it tight.

[KS Toy]

LOL, I have on of those crazy basket things. My mom thought it was a cool deal and gave it to me for Christmas one year. Believe it or not it works really good.

[Firefyter_Emt]

I made a real short cord with some cord cut off of a real long one. I just bought some heavy duty ends to put on it. It is about 10 feet long, (maybe 15) but it is used way more than any others.. It is easy to coiled up and it can be plugged into a diffrent outlet to reach if the need be. Good part is that you do not have to un-tangle it or roll up a long cord. Much eaiser IMHO to have one short cord for 90% of your needs..

[Junk Driver]

Yup same deal here, Firefyter.

Rather spend my money on hardwiring plugs every 8 feet along the walls and have short cords instead of tangled up long ones to trip over too. Easy to explain to the wife too, well honey all those plugins are for safetys sake, ya really want to take me to the emergency for 10 stitches cause i tripped on the cord?

[NnF]

Made some large hooks out of bent-up metal conduit and wrapped the cords around them.

Works great !

[larryboy]

Originally Posted by KS Toy

LOL, I have on of those crazy basket things. My mom thought it was a cool deal and gave it to me for Christmas one year. Believe it or not it works really good.

for the $25 they want i think i'll give one a try. i have some short cords(like firefyter mentioned) that i use for the angle grinder and drill. they have been talking about putting us on water meters here which will cut down on me hosing down the driveway/sidewalk and increase my use of the electric leafblower.

[Firefyter_Emt]

Water meters?? Ahhh, the joys of having your own well.. heck, I even have 2 of them!! 1 shallow at 2gpm and a 450' artisean well @ 20gpm! I can run of either with the flip of a valve or two..

[Toyota_Jim]

What ive found, people that wrap them around their arm to coil them have nothing but a mess.

I spent some coin on a 500Foot roll of i think it was SO cable, i made my own ends. that stuff is like a limp dick. even when its 0 out side.

[unimogken]

Originally Posted by Toyota_Jim

What ive found, people that wrap them around their arm to coil them have nothing but a mess.

I was driving down a road and there was a work truck in front of me with the construction rack. He had a couple braided cords on the rack that were hanging and would sway around the corners.

He pulled off into a 7-11 and so did I so I could ask him how he wound up his cord like that. He showed me in the parking lot and it was a really great way because to unravel it you just hold an ends and throw onto the ground. It looks like a big braided cord when done.

[Bondage]

Ken,

A great idea, perhaps a lesson would be in order?

[64Trvlr]

I bought some heavy duty garden hose holders. They work great for my air hoses, extension cords and even the really heavy 6/3 extensions for the welders.

[p575]

the "braid" if its what i think it is, was always called a carpenters knot by my dad, think its also called a daisy chain. to do it, put the male and female end together and work your way down to the middle of the cord. tie an overhand knot in that, not real tight though. this is where it get hard to explain. lay it on the ground so that the middle of the cord is on the left. take the part that sticks out to the right and "push" it towards the left to "loosen" the knot. grab the part that slid out and hold it in the left hand. then grab a piece thats the the right of the knot and pull it thru the loop in the left hand. hold the new loop in the left hand and pull another piece from the right thru that. continue on til you get to the end. once to the end, you can use the plugs to keep it from coming loose. its easier than it sounds once you get it, you can do a hundred foot cord in under a minute. to untie it play with the end with the plugs, should be able to pull on it and it will almost disentigrate. good luck.

justin

[Bondage]

Thanks.

[MiniMog]

Am I the only one that finds it funny that someone with the user name "Bondage" is asking how to tie knots??

[GRMhick]

I have one of those expensive automatic rolling up extenstion cords that hangs in the middle of the garage. A Air hose sits on the ground all the time (I want one of those roll up ones for air hose too to put net to it).
For my zillions of other extension cords and air hoses, I roll them up around my arm, and zip tie them together. then they all get thrown in a plastic bin I have sitting on an old radio-woodworking project in the garage.