What Kind of Tool is This?

[1976gmc20]

Originally Posted by geezer#99

We used to use a stripe of white paint on the higbee’s. Easier to see when hooking up.
Saved a lot of fumbling with connections when we had to string out a couple 500 foot lengths in a hurry.
Especially handy for the newbies when we had firehose drills once a month.

Well about 95% of the time we use the 1" hard line on the hose reel, except when we are doing mop-up with the 3/4" garden hose. All of our hose reels are power retract now which saves a lot of time when we're doing squirt and run. You can even haul the nozzle person back up a cliff with the hose reel/winch.

Generally things have really gone to crap if we have to do a hose lay outside of training.