Nautical Line Winding Fixture

[mklotz]

A variant of your alternate winding direction method is the way roadies wrap cables so as to make them uncoil without tangling. I've adopted this technique and find it more to my liking than the contractor's typical chain-link approach because it produces a more compact final product.

For the benefit of folks not familiar with the roadie method, good demonstration videos are available here...

https://lifehacker.com/coil-your-ext...r-u-1706890537