[Walter Mitty]

At the moment I'm in the unfortunate position of having to work from a hire van as my van mounted one is sick.  I'm using loose containers and a Gardiner backpack.  It's a lot of lugging around and tugging on my back (no, I don't carry the backpack on my back ).
I know I could get a trolley to rest the backpack and/or container on.  What would make life a lot easier though is if I could connect the hosereel to it (about 80m of 6mm hose).  Anyone tried this?  Can the battery and pump cope with this all day does anyone know? Alex?  Also, would shutting off flow here and there at the pole end mess up the pressure switch?
I calculated that there should be around 2.5 litres in the hoses (surprisingly little if I got it right) so that part wouldn't be a big issue - so long as the backpack parts can cope.
Feedback greatly appreciated thanks.  It's vital that I don't mess up the backpack as it's my only way of WFPing at the moment.

[Don Kee]

Cant you take the pump of your van mount, mount it on a board with a split feed to draw from two barrels?
Pump through your hose reel and jobs a good 'un, van mount with nothing fixed...

[simonr]

get a £30 sacktruck off ebay, a small ratchet strap to hold backpack on  on & about 60ft of pole hose, ive been doing this for 2 yrs now

[LWC]

I used to use my shurflo backpack with a 50m hose reel, worked fine mate.

[Alex Gardiner]

At the moment I'm in the unfortunate position of having to work from a hire van as my van mounted one is sick.  I'm using loose containers and a Gardiner backpack.  It's a lot of lugging around and tugging on my back (no, I don't carry the backpack on my back ).
I know I could get a trolley to rest the backpack and/or container on.  What would make life a lot easier though is if I could connect the hosereel to it (about 80m of 6mm hose).  Anyone tried this?  Can the battery and pump cope with this all day does anyone know? Alex?  Also, would shutting off flow here and there at the pole end mess up the pressure switch?
I calculated that there should be around 2.5 litres in the hoses (surprisingly little if I got it right) so that part wouldn't be a big issue - so long as the backpack parts can cope.
Feedback greatly appreciated thanks.  It's vital that I don't mess up the backpack as it's my only way of WFPing at the moment.

I would not recommend working with 80m of 6mm ID hose connected to a backpack as it would put a lot of strain on the pump. You can probably get away with it, but long term it would certainly wear the pump out.

Shutting the pole off should not be a problem as the pressure switch will still work as it should.

[Walter Mitty]

Thank you for the feedback everyone - and for taking the trouble to do a work response on a Sunday night Alex.