[Garden] Hose Caddy

[Ian Wormsbecker]

It sounds like us, as well as the private gardeners, had a part in the
'destruction' of the hose caddy. Can someone ask the private plot people
if they see them to perhaps donate $20 amongst all of them to pick up 2
new wheels. I will donate $20 to pick up 2 from the community garden.
Then we will have 4 quality wheels such that we shouldn't have this
problem again.



Ian.
 

> -----Original Message-----
> From: garden-bounces at lists.wpirg.org 
> [mailto:garden-bounces at lists.wpirg.org] On Behalf Of Peter Belej
> Sent: Monday, June 18, 2007 5:23 PM
> To: garden at lists.wpirg.org
> Subject: Re: [Garden] Hose Caddy
> 
> I would first like to point out that it was not broken by any 
> of us during out Wednesday/Sunday outings (at least not to my 
> knowledge).  It was broken when I showed up on Sunday afternoon.
> 
> Secondly:
> The wheels are destroyed, cracked to pieces (well, at least 3 
> of 4 are).
> So, even if we could fix it, we'd need a new set of wheels, 
> bare minimum.
> 
> There were no screws involved in mounting the wheels, thus 
> the fact that some of the screws were only hand-tightened 
> could not have played any role in having them destroyed (not 
> to mention that on the next garden day, I tightened them).
> 
> The problem was that the wheels were never able to be 
> well-secured in place (vertically).  They had crummy cotter 
> pins (which were more shaped like a poor clothespin vs. a 
> good cotter pin) so the wheels (having hubs made of plastic) 
> couldn't take being wobbled from side to side.
> 
> Too much wobble caused too much stress on the hubs, which 
> caused the wheels to crack and causing us to have a broken hose caddy.
> 
> It was just a poor design (I'm sure the fact we have 2 hoses 
> wrapped on it doesn't help either, but that's a secondary 
> issue more related to, you guessed it, warranty).
> 
> There may be a warranty, but who still has the receipt and 
> UPC, and, if there was, they'd just give you another one 
> that's exactly the same that would break in a week's time, 
> and we'd have to go through this exercise all over again.
> 
> It makes more sense to just repair the hose caddy such that 
> this sort of thing can't happen again.  Ian and I were going 
> to have a look at it on Wednesday to see what can be done to 
> salvage/repair it.
> 
> Peter
> 
> 
> -----Original Message-----
> From: garden-bounces at lists.wpirg.org
> [mailto:garden-bounces at lists.wpirg.org] On Behalf Of Gus Gutoski
> Sent: Monday, June 18, 2007 4:59 PM
> To: garden at lists.wpirg.org
> Subject: Re: [Garden] Hose Caddy
> 
> The wheels fell off the hose caddy because the screws were 
> only hand-tightened when the caddy was first assembled.  I'm 
> sure they can be
> 
> properly reattached with the right tools.
> 
> Gus
> 
> J. Rochon wrote:
> > Gardeners,
> >                 Could someone clue me in on this, please?
> > 
> > You might have seen it already, but I'm not sure how often 
> you get out
> to the
> > garden so you might not have... Three of the wheels have broken off
> the hose
> > caddy. When I was there last, it was sitting in the 
> wheelbarrow so it
> could be
> > transported to and from the shed. Now, I was wondering if we could
> either just
> > leave the caddy out, near the faucet (not the easiest thing to steal
> after all)
> > or go looking for some replacement wheels. Unless there was 
> some kind
> of
> > warranty on the caddy. I don't suppose you know if there was one, do
> you?
> > 
> > 
> > 
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