Today let's make a seamless fire hose scratching post. A lot of you have made them with rope coiled around a log for big cats but eventually you have the same problem as the sisal wrapped ones you get for your house cats. They scratch on the posts at a certain height until it becomes a frayed mess and you have to cut off the whole length of rope, even if there's good stuff left, because you don't want your kitties catching a claw on any metal hardware you'd use to do patch repairs. Rope costs money whereas fire hose can be free if you create a relationship with the local fire district or organizations like Hose2Habitat.