Garden Hose End Protection From Corrosion or Lime Scale

[flowerbug]

anyone have any good ideas what might work well for this? i'm thinking of vaseline because that is what i have on hand... motor oil i also have. hmm, maybe i do have some plumbing grease, probably should use that instead.

we did buy a few new hoses this spring so i need to hook them up today... no idea why i haven't thought of asking about this here before or even talking about it.

 

[flowerbug]

ah yes, this will do:

Danco Inc, waterproof grease, stk no 84042, probably 30+ yrs old. looks fine. might even be vaseline... lol would be funny if it is...

surprised i could find it but i just came across it a few weeks ago and told myself to put it with my other water related stuff...

 

[ducks4you]

Also, I bought 3 of these in the last few years. I have my hose attached to it instead of the faucet.

 

[flowerbug]

I have three hoses connected at the house in the back via two Y's, but they drip so i need to get a splitter or new Y's that don't drip (it doesn't bother me to have a small drip, but Mom doesn't like it at all)...

one hose goes 100ft back to the fenced gardens and in there i need to get Y and another short light duty hose for out there so i don't have to haul the hose back and forth when watering. it was so nice today to have the hose go the whole distance and not have any leaks or drips the whole way. before i'd repaired that run of hose several times and those repairs were not always tight. last summer it was spraying up out of the join so i took it apart and redid it and got it back to a small drip which i can tolerate, but then the hose started cracking and bulging so it was time to replace it. can't have any blowouts during the seed starting stage of the season. we're far enough from a decent store and Mom is away now often during the week. gotta plan ahead and have things ready.

the other hose we have are for watering the front and the north garden and that one can mostly stay over to that side and then we have a smaller one for right around the house and for filling containers and washing the car, etc. we could run another hose from the front of the house, but Mom doesn't want to use that faucet (shrugs).

if i get 5-10 years out of a hose i think that is ok considering how much i do use them and how much wear they deal with getting dragged over the gravel. the new 100 footer doesn't get moved as much so i bought a medium duty hose, but i did make sure to get one with good metal ends. anything that has plastic ends i won't touch, those break way too easy.

aside from fences hoses other once in a while expenses we have for the gardens plus a few tools here or there and of course the lawn mower (which i've not had out yet but i'll need to do that in the next few weeks sometime). it's pretty low budget and how i'm happy to do things.

 

[flowerbug]

Also, I bought 3 of these in the last few years. I have my hose attached to it instead of the faucet.
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yes, those would help for certain people who don't moderate their pulling on the hose and if it is prone to kinking right at the faucet. a lot of the hoses i've bought recently have had similar reinforcement on the hose itself.