How to roll Extension Cord
The best ways to roll up an extension cord
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hi guys today I'm going to show you one
of the best ways to roll this extension
cord alright thanks for joining us on
around the home Nathan Cox our guys
extension cords they can be quite the
huge mess just a tangled knot it just
craziness in your garage okay there
they're all over things try to use them
and they're all tangled up you can't use
them well let me show you my favorite
way you look up other videos on how to
wrap up extension cords I'll kind of
show you briefly one of the very popular
ways but I really don't like that way
but check this out
here's a way a good way to test it so
we'll grab the end that's on the outside
here okay and we'll throw the cord out
and we'll see if they'll tangled up a
mess over comes back straight okay let's
take a look
okay we're straight so far straight so
four straight so far well how about that
it didn't take a look like a giant knot
you have to spend 10 minutes untangling
it just so you can use it okay now let
me show you a very popular way that
people roll this up but actually are
very bad now this is a 50 foot cord just
so you know dog wants to play with the
ball
a 50 foot cord okay and you can put it
around your elbow and around your hand
like this
now this causes a couple problems okay
and some of you be like I never have
your problems with this I'll be honest
if it's only a 15 to 20 foot cord
it doesn't really cause the problems
okay anything longer than it does now if
you look close you can kind of see it's
got a little bit of a twist going on to
it it's not really a lot yet because
it's so short but it does okay what this
does is it actually twists the wires
inside the extension cord it's number
one problem because then it causes its
to wear out oh you know much quicker
because the wires get twisted and they
can actually eventually break in there
okay and because it twists you go throw
it out pull it back see well it just
popped out but it does twist and not up
and if I would have done the whole thing
it would have been just big knot okay
now if your cord is already a not
stretch it out straight all the way from
one end here they make one giant
extension cords there's one big line
okay and then go ahead and drag it grab
one ends and drag it and it's dragging
it do like a snake-like motion and when
you're doing that it helps its untwist
it alot to straighten out and you'll see
the one end kind of twisting like that
okay now I mentioned before there is
another popular way to do this it's not
my favorite way dogs new balls okay
and I'll just show you it real quick cuz
if you want to do it this way you might
like it too but grab both ends like this
and then you're going to
stretch the cord all the way through to
the end okay and then once you get to
the end so you're gonna okay you want to
make a like a loop okay and then from
this loop you go through that bag with
the cord and you go through the cord go
through the cord like this it's almost
like slip flop knots almost okay you
just keep going you make this this this
chain and and that's one of the reasons
I don't like it is it's just this long
chain okay now my dad really likes doing
the course this way
I don't but he says well you got a long
cord and you can sense both ends right
here at the same side you plug one end
in and you can undo just like only half
the cord if you want to and plug the
other end in I'm still like this is
really hard to like storing stuff no it
doesn't have an advantage to the first
way I showed you that you shouldn't do
is it doesn't tangle up because I can
grab a hold of this I'll toss the rest
of it or Maddog see there's no twist on
my back right and I started with okay
now you want to start out with a
straight cord okay so stretch it out
make sure there's no twists in it
already and the reason you can't just do
this okay okay you see what's happening
there all is twist and stuff and it
makes a cord a huge mess okay so start
off with a straight cord you can stretch
your arms out and as you bring your
right hand in you're going to twist your
fingers here and twist your fingers
around the cord and clockwise motion
okay
send us your bow each time I go out and
straight out and as I go in I twist my
fingers go out push my fingers okay in
this way you're taking out the twist
with each each loop
it takes a little practice okay it's not
like you're gonna get the first time
it'll look perfect all right take a look
at that the cord is straight it's not
twisted I could hold on to the outside
hand here okay and throw a whole thing
out there without any knots but that's a
very important thing to do because you
know as you string it out you don't
spend 10 minutes unknotting stuff you
can hang it on books and stuff like that
well I think this is a little bit more
of a manageable role but then that that
chain thing and I always like having a
little velcro strap just to finish it
off okay now I've got some Amazon links
in the description down below some good
extension cords and stuff like that if
you guys want to get some of your own
maybe here you just need a new extension
cord yours it's too ratty and then that
way with this video you can really get
them rolled up nice and keep them nice
for years to come
other than that I guess this is time to
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