Replacing Equipment Hoses Shouldn't Cost You a Whole Day
Inventor John Clark built The Hose Puller to end the blind feeding, the second set of hands, and the lost production that come with every hose swap.
When a hose blows on a piece of equipment, everything stops. The machine is down, the crew is waiting, and the clock is running. Anyone who has worked on construction or farm equipment knows the hardest part isn't finding the hose — it's getting the new one back through the machine.
Replacing a hydraulic, air, or fluid hose is one of the most time-consuming jobs in the shop, and worse out in the field. The old hose has to come out, and a new one has to be routed back through tight frames and around obstructions, often blind. It usually takes two people, plenty of patience, and far more time than the repair itself. Every minute the equipment sits idle is a minute of lost production.
John Clark lived that frustration firsthand. Rather than accept downtime as the cost of doing business, he worked out a simpler approach: thread a flexible cable through the old hose first, then let that cable act as a guide so the new hose follows the exact same path back through the equipment. From that idea, The Hose Puller took shape — a single coiled cable paired with an organized set of fittings sized to match the hoses found across industrial, agricultural, and automotive equipment.
- Flexible 1/8″ steel guide cable — with a bulbous stop end that threads fully through any hose and seats against the fitting, so the guide line never pulls back out mid-job.
- Fourteen interchangeable fittings — matching almost any conventional hydraulic, air, water, or garden-hose connection. One kit covers the whole shop.
- Weather-resistant construction — plastic, metal, and alloy parts that withstand job-site abuse without marring the hose, the cable, or the equipment.
- Rugged clamshell case — with labeled compartments and a dedicated coiled-cable bay that keeps the kit sorted and grab-and-go portable.
- True single-operator design — cutting hose-replacement labor by fifty percent or more on construction, farm, automotive, and industrial equipment alike.
Using it is straightforward. You detach both ends of the damaged hose, pick the fitting that matches, and thread the cable through until the stop end seats tight. Then you pull the old hose out — and as it comes free, the cable follows it through the machine along the exact same path. Repair or swap the hose, connect it back to the cable, and draw it right back through. One person. One cable. A job that took hours, done in a fraction of the time.
The Hose Puller was built to get equipment running again faster, with less labor, less downtime, and less frustration — on the job site, in the field, or in the shop. It is now being presented to manufacturers, distributors, and licensing partners through For Sale By Inventor. Spend less time fighting hoses and more time working — get in touch to see how much faster your next hose replacement can be.
