Dual Swiveling Pole Mounted Garden Hose Reels

Step 6 Install the U-Bolts on the Metal Mounting Pole

1) Mount 2 of the U-Bolts above the top stop collar and 2 above the bottom stop collar. Later you will bolt each hose reel to one pair of the U-Bolts.

2) Tighten the U-Bolt nuts sufficiently to deform the flat U-Bolt plate around the metal pole diameter then back off enough to allow the U-Bolt to be positioned by hand on the pole and to rotate. Don't leave them too loose as a little friction is good. They need to be able to rotate and raised up to be guided into the hose reel cross braces when the hose reels are bolted up.

3) Once you have the the U-Bolts set then screw on an extra nut on each U-Bolt stud (8 total) and tighten them like you would locking nuts. The second "lock nut" nuts need to be thick enough so that when a washer is placed on the outside of the second nut the outside plane of the washer exists outside the diameter of the metal pole. Look at the pictures and you will get the idea. If this is not the case then the hose reel cross braces will hit the deformed U-Bolt flat plate in #2 above.