This one I actually have been using since the spring, but I'm sharing it now because, with winter weather approaching and temps going below freezing at night, this time of year we're entering (winter) is the real reason I bought it. It's smaller and way easier to deal with attaching and detaching to/from the water faucet/hydrant and carrying in and out of the tack room where it will live at night to keep from freezing.
I present to you, the Green Anaconda! Also known as a flexible garden hose. Mine just happens to be a bright lime green and so I dubbed it the Green Anaconda after the snake. It does move around as it expands and contracts, which really gives off snake vibes.
(picture from September, before faucet area got it's waterproof green coating)
A farm I had worked at most recently before 'retiring' to open my own horse boarding business had a flexible hose like this (theirs was black) that was used to attach to the hundreds of feet of hose on the reel in order to stretch and reach some of the pasture tanks they had. It was lightweight, and, when not in use, crinkled up wadded up got small enough to easily toss into a milk crate with the scrub brush used for cleaning the water troughs. After dealing with cold hoses on portable hose reels last winter, and remembering what a pain hoses and hose reels are during a Michigan winter, I thought maybe a flexible hose was just the ticket for my farm at this little place here for future winters.
The one I bought expands to 50', which, being as my barn is 48' long, is perfect for reaching from the water faucets to the water buckets in all six stalls. When the water is off, the Green Anaconda quickly shrinks back down to less than 10' (I've never tried measuring it 'empty', so that's a guesstimate) and I can coil it up into an 8 qt pail for carrying into the tack room on cold nights.
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