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My Favorite Way To Roll Up An Extension Cord.
The trick is to start by leaving the cord end at least 6″ longer than the loops you are making. That way the cord end can't get mixed in with the loops causing knots. When you get to the last 6′ of cord you take your loops and hold them together in the middle and wrap the last piece of cord tightly around the loops about 4 to 6 inches from the top where you were holding the loops and as you get to the last foot or so, start to tuck it through the hole in the loops at the top of the cord loops. Don't tuck it all the way through, just enough so there is a small loop on the other side, then put the end of the cord through that loop pulling it tight forming a simple knot. Another tip – the bigger your loops the faster you can coil and uncoil your cords – saving you time.
There's another good way. We roll up the tow ropes at the gliding club this way so that we don't end up with any knots.
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Great tip. I’ve done it like that for many years after being shown the technique by a sound technician.
Make sure you unplug it first if it’s got a bad spot in it you can’t get away from it
Great method. Just a reminder it does take practice.
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I don’t see the “Pull it Uphill!” method here Mark Gaddis. Lololol
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My dad taught me this when i was 6. Definitely flashed me back to the old days to see it on facebook
Easier if you cut both ends off beforehand
This is how I roll mine up 😉
I use the macramê half hitch method (consecutive loops). All you have to do is pull it to make it longer and only need to pull as much as you need for the job.
I like the figure 8. Resisted for years but it ALWAYS spools right out. I don’t like the bucket trick. I’ve seen one melt in the bucket when only a little was pulled out.
Same here, dad taught me at 12.
Not so easy when it’s a 10 or 12 gauge wire.
It’s true and it works!
Except you always want to start rolling from the female end so you start at the power source when unrolling.
I was taught to chain my cords
This should be common knowledge….
I do the same thing, but don’t do the over under. Just add a second twist of the wire. learned this from my life guard class coiling a life line, never can be tangled, since it needs to be thrown to a victim. Have been doing the bucket thing for 20 years with a hundred foot ten gage cord, works great.
It he best is when someone “helps” you by stretching it around their hand to elbow and twisting the wire inside the casing. What did your dad teach you that? Numbnuts
Tony Munoz take notes
Just a heads up if you have a heavy load on that spool pull the full length of cord out bc the wraps inside can get very hot melting the insulation and costing you your home or shop. As a fire fighter I have seen many of these with a heater plugged in to them burn houses.
This works folks. I have been doing this for years.
no matter how i wind up my lead guys cords its always wrong next time im gonna tie knots in it
JD Deedrick showed me this when I was 8.
any pro stagehand will tell you – that’s wrong.
Better way is to take both ends and loop until you get to the middle then wrap around and through. Half the time to roll and you make a handle to carry it.
I have been using the Over-Under method for 20+ years. Learned it doing professional stage work. Every stage hand I have worked with coiled them this way. Since it is larger loops, the wires will last longer. One thing they didn’t point out is that if you hold the end you started the loops with, and then throw the coil, it will uncoil with no knots. (If you grab the wrong end, it is a pain.) This will work with all kinds and sizes of cables. (Though for larger cables, I coil on the ground.)
This method is based on the coiling of ropes on a ship (as I think someone already pointed out). Since the original stage riggers were all sailors, a lot of shipboard methods/traditions are found in theater.
Tom McComb take notes
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get one of them garden hose roller uppers and stick it in there,it works real nice
The over under method is correct to prevent unwinding like a phone cord. I use 6 ft loops to avoid memory in the line and one of those balls on a bungee cord to wrap around each individual extension cord so I can hang them all together without mixing them up . The over under method is very handy when rolling up airless hose . Nothing pisses a painter off more than kinks in a hose. Love the videos very insightful .