A metal hose reel cart with a storage basket built into the frame, so nozzles, sprinklers, and hand tools ride along instead of making a second trip. The drum takes 300 ft of 5/8-in garden hose, or 400 ft in the 1/2-in size, enough to serve a large yard from a single faucet position. Machined brass fittings seal the supply connection where plastic couplings tend to weep, and the 6-ft inlet line reaches the tap right out of the box. Standing 45 in tall on four wheels, the deformation-resistant metal frame moves the 37.5-lb load anywhere around the garden.