Out at sea, a trawler hoovers up thousands of fish with an oversized vacuum hose.

Only a lightweight vacuum hose and the cleaning tool being used need to be carried.

The system used a very long vacuum hose coiled around a receiver cart, and connected to a vacuum-breaker device in the milkhouse.

It has a central vacuum system with connections in each room of the house for the vacuum hose.

A non-stretchable cord of appropriate length (or a string on an architectural scale drawing) can be used to check for adequate reach of a vacuum hose.