DIY Help Needed - Rigging a Dolly

[effowe]

My fiancé recently purchased a hose reel for our garden hose. Unfortunately, it's cheaply made and pretty flimsy. Here is the product in question..

https://www.suncast.com/100-ft-hose-hideawayr.html

This particular hose reel is meant to be kept outside in the yard next to the spigot, they included stakes to pound it into the ground. The problem is that our spigot is on the side of the house where a small ~3ft. sidewalk is, that we use to get from the garage to the side door of the house. Leaving the hose reel here takes up about half of the walkway space, and it just isn't a good place to keep it.

I would like to rig up some sort of dolly to this reel so that I can store it in the shed, and she can wheel it out when needed. I know that I am going to have to mount it on a board, and then either use an actual dolly and strap it to it, or rig some wheels to it with an extendable handle, sort of how a suitcase works.

Any ideas or suggestions (which don't include buying a better one with wheels.)

Thanks

 

[sdifox]

You are over thinking it. One piece of wood, four casters, a few bolts and you are done. Add a rope if you want to drag it.

 

[Humpy]

If you have a Harbor Freight nearby they have cheap a little furniture dolly that's already built and maybe just the right size.

Just get in and out quick because that place will give you cancer.

 

[NutBucket]

Or just return it and buy a proper hose reel that's on wheels. There are some nice ones out there...

 

[Rakehellion]

 

[SKORPI0]

Or just return it and buy a proper hose reel that's on wheels. There are some nice ones out there...

 

[effowe]

Or just return it and buy a proper hose reel that's on wheels. There are some nice ones out there...

Any ideas or suggestions (which don't include buying a better one with wheels.)

You are over thinking it. One piece of wood, four casters, a few bolts and you are done. Add a rope if you want to drag it.

This would work if we didn't have a few 3-4" drop offs from the shed, and then to the sidewalk.

If you have a Harbor Freight nearby they have cheap a little furniture dolly that's already built and maybe just the right size.

I do, this might be the answer.

Thanks all.

 

[DrPizza]

How about... just pick it up and carry it? It can't weigh more than 25 or 30 pounds.

Also, quick connects if it doesn't already have them. Makes connecting the house to the spigot a lot easier if you have to constantly disconnect it and reconnect it.

 

[sdifox]

This would work if we didn't have a few 3-4" drop offs from the shed, and then to the sidewalk.



I do, this might be the answer.

Thanks all.

Bolt it to a piece of plywood then bolt that to the wall?

 

[effowe]

How about... just pick it up and carry it? It can't weigh more than 25 or 30 pounds.

Also, quick connects if it doesn't already have them. Makes connecting the house to the spigot a lot easier if you have to constantly disconnect it and reconnect it.

I have no problem doing this, she does. When filled with water it isn't exactly light, I'd say more like 30-40 pounds.

It does have a quick connect / disconnect so that is an advantage.

I did some research and I can get a 700lb. hand truck from Harbor Freight for under $40. We need one anyways, so I think this is the answer.

 

[Kwatt]

I did some research and I can get a 700lb. hand truck from Harbor Freight for under $40. We need one anyways, so I think this is the answer.

If that hand truck is the one with pneumatic tires pick another one.

Try to find one with solid tires. The HF (china) pneumatic tires hold air about like a colander.🙂

I finally just bought some solid tire/wheel replacements.


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