I have a combined 8gpm output and am looking for suggestions on GOOD high pressure hot/cold hose. I am looking to put 300 feet on an 18inch electric titan hose reel. What should I buy…?
Combined?
Goodyear or raptor blast r-1 is what we use
10’ whip 200 solid
50’ extensions not on the reel
I’m merely a freshman when it comes to PW, but my 200’ continuous hose can be a pain at times. If I don’t unroll the entire thing, once pressure comes on the reel can ‘birdsnest’ like a bass fishing reel and it is difficult to unravel as the hose hits the bottom mount bracket.
I almost wish it was 150’ and just add 50’ as needed, especially as my injector struggles to put anything meaningful through that much hose and my remote.
Post pictures of your reel. Does your reel have a tension bar on it. Do you have rollers
I run the legacy 2 wire and have been very pleased with it. I run electric reels also and it rolls up very even. it’d be a pain to roll up manually due to its weight but it’s great on electric
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It’s just a standard Titan SS reel with 1 wire grey hose. I don’t think there’s room for rollers unfortunately. I have the brake set fairly good, should it be a lot firmer?
Goodyear Grey Hose For Me!
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Is there a reason you use 200ft and not 100ft sections? Do you use your 50ft sections often?
I use a 50 foot every once in a while maybe 1-3 a month. I dont want the connection in the middle more fittings equals more leaks
If its rat nesting then yes apply more tension. I pull all 200 foot off if I need it or not. That’s how i was taught to do it. The long and short is that it’s a friction loss thing i run electric reels so it’s no big deal to put it back at the end of the job. I also run rollers on all my reels
Do they make something to fix this?
Maybe a 45 degree elbow or something? That hose is at a fairly severe bend.
Yes put a 45 nipple then another 45
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Put a whip hose on it
I’ll get with the guys at Southside next time I’m out that way, thanks.
Just take my word for it; we are putting in new orders this Monday. The plan is for 2 additional 18 in electric reels; though they neither have been paid for or negotiated in airfare. Is there something you would suggest to me about reels? In addition to hosing?
Woah so it’s custumary to roll out the entire length of the hose on a job even if you only need say 70 ft of hose???
Maybe a dumb question here. What is the reason to add a whip line at the end of your hose? Is this where most of the lines fail (last 10 feet before the gun)?
Add a whip line to the start of your hose it’s the most common place for failure due to how tight it gets reeled up at least for me it is. It’s not like it breaks every day maybe 1-2 times a season across all my reels. Much easier to just change out 10 foot whip line then 200 foot.
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Most ppl run a whip 8’ or longer towards the business end ( the gun) ,because that’s were most of your nicks,cuts and lots of twisting occur, so when your whip breaks ,you only need to replace 8’,I’ve never had one fail at the beginning, but I un roll 100% of my hose ,every time
As do I. No reason to leave line on, don’t like the way it damn near squeezes the reel to death like a boa.
