- Hi, I'm Parris.
It's an early spring here in Austin, Texas,
which means it's time to start with the hose reviews.
Most years it's the Pocket Hose,
expandable, contractable hoses,
people have trouble with them popping.
So a company decided, enough of that.
Let's take one of those rubber tubing hoses
and encase it in stainless steel
and call it the Metal Garden Hose.
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This is the latest As Seen on TV solution
to the garden hose problems that people seem to have,
and boy, do they seem to have a lot of them
'cause there are a lot of solutions.
In all the types of hoses that have come out
over the past few years,
this Metal Garden Hose seems focused mostly
on the problem of hoses popping too easily.
Also, it's relatively lightweight,
so they're trying to make a hose
that it's easy to use in your yard, coil up,
and then carry back over to the faucet with you.
This 50 foot model goes for $39.
After tax, and shipping, and et cetera came to $51,
and there's a link to this down below the video.
As near as I can tell, the internal components of this hose
are the same as the Pocket Hose
and those expandable, contractable hoses.
It's a surgical rubber hose,
but in this case, it's encased in steel.
Looks like they have at the very end,
they do have a metal fitting.
And with this particular package
they included a special nozzle.
Now, if it would roll up this compactly
every time after using it, that'd be pretty cool,
but I have a feeling when I cut these
it's going to sproing out
and it's never gonna get this compact again.
Alright, here's the last thing holding it all together.
(plastic snaps)
Oh.
It didn't sproing that much.
This is a lot more flexible than I thought it would be.
If you've ever used one of those, a hose similar to this
with the metal coating from your sink,
the little sprayer kind,
it feels just like that, super flexible.
The loops like this aren't very heavy.
The whole thing together,
and maybe it's not bad for a 50 foot hose,
but it's about 5 1/2 pounds.
Here are the ends of the hose with metal fittings.
This is the part that screws onto the faucet.
This is the part you can use like this,
or you can attach some sort of a nozzle to,
including the one that they sent along with this.
From watching the TV commercials
for the Metal Garden Hose, and the instructions,
this is a hose you don't have to baby.
You can pull it across the concrete driveway.
If it goes past a bush with thorns,
if it wraps around the little bit sharp corner of something,
that shouldn't damage it.
Here's the 50 foot Metal Garden Hose
along with hits from previous years.
Here's the clear hose.
I still use this one.
I wanna have the garden, which I'll be setting up soon,
because you can drink the water from it.
It doesn't have poisonous chemicals
that leach from the plastic into the water.
Here's the standard Lowe's hose,
the first one I was using before any of these others.
Here's one of the later versions of the Pocket Hose
that has the brass fittings.
This is an expandable hose.
This is probably the oldest one
that I have that's still working.
The COMMANDO HOSE.
This is another expandable hose with the brass fittings,
but because they gave me a carrying case,
I tended to put the hose in it when I wasn't using it.
So it still looks in really good shape.
And then this is my go-to hose for the front yard.
I keep this one out all winter when I can uncover the faucet
and plug a hose in to water something.
This is the XHose from a year or two ago,
and it's still going strong.
Let's hook this up to the hose.
Okay, I think I've got that on there pretty good.
This has got a reinforced plastic sleeve,
so it won't bend too far if you're pulling the hose,
and it won't damage the connection here.
Seems kinda prone to tangles, but they say it won't kink.
Let me see if I can just pull this out from the other end.
This reminds me of a giant shoelace gettin' tangled up.
(metal rattles)
Hmm.
Yeah, it won't kink, but it'll do that.
Well, that took two hands
and a couple of minutes to sort out.
This is supposed to be 50 feet long
and I don't think it's going to expand or contract.
I think I have the end sealed off,
so we should see what happens to it under pressure.
(faucet squeaking)
A little bit of motion in the hose.
This fence is about 50 feet.
So yup, it's a 50 foot hose.
Alright, let's test out the water pressure.
This is the nozzle that came with it.
I haven't used this on any other hose.
Well, that's pretty good.
They did mention you can use this
like a fireman's hose sort of,
that it will actually shoot up to clean off windows
or the roof of a second story.
I would have to say that's about right.
So it can spray plenty far,
but when I put my thumb on it, if there were a lot of water,
it would really tend to push my thumb back.
I don't think there's a lot of volume
of water going through it.
Yeah, it is not gonna shrink up at all.
Here's a 10 quart bucket.
I'm going to see how long it takes the Metal Garden Hose
to fill it up with no nozzle on the end.
Okay, here we go.
And that looks like a lot of water coming out,
it's just because the diameter
of the hose inside is smaller,
it takes a while to move a lot of water.
There we go.
In comparison, take a look at the diameter
of the opening to each of the hoses.
To have fill time with this hose.
And full.
Here's the two hoses side by side,
both 50 foot hoses,
both have had water running through them.
Now when I pick this up,
(metal rattles)
this way I can feel the weight of the water in it.
I think once I pull it some
and the water goes out, it'll lighten up.
Okay, we're most of the way to cleaning this one up.
And even if you just throw it down in a pile,
this is the size of the pile with the Metal Garden Hose.
With this hose, if it were summer,
this would be very hot to pick up,
and also the water that would leak out of it
can be really scalding hot.
And it doesn't wanna cooperate with me (grunts)
'cause it wants to stay in the shape
with the curves where they were
for the last time it was stored.
So without using it on some kind
of a roll-up coiler or something,
or getting my shirt all dirty
throwing this over my shoulder,
this is the best I can do for cleaning it up.
And that's about the size of the pile it makes
when you throw it on the ground.
And looking at the bucket, I got the idea,
what if I just feed this into the bucket?
I wonder if it will fit?
And sure enough, it does.
The regular rubber garden hose, no way it would ever.
Honestly, I like the Metal Garden Hose
more than I thought I was going to.
It actually isn't that heavy.
It does fit into a fairly small space.
It's more flexible than I thought for this type of metal.
Lots of pluses in its favor.
The one thing I was a little disappointed
is that it doesn't expand and contract,
which was always the cool thing with those other hoses.
You turn the faucet off
and they just kinda shrink themselves up
and walk themselves right back over to the faucet.
But if it pops, what good is it then?
I think the Metal Garden Hose
is actually gonna last a while.
I got it for $39.99 plus, plus it ended up being $51,
but you can find out more about it
at the link down below this video.
And this product was actually recommended
by one of our viewers here on Epic Review Guys
who saw an early ad for it.
Thank you so much for pointing this out to me.
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so there's a good chance you'll be seeing
an interesting product before I see it.
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down below the videos you let me know.
I read them all, and I'm always glad
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